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Fall 2023 | MGMT 6085 Section 001: Corporate Strategy (22600)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Online Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- MBA or Mgmt Science MBA
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 01:45PM - 03:25PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 5
- Enrollment Status:
Open (21 of 65 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Case for/against insourcing vs outsourcing, and corporate diversification. Managing a multi-business firm. Role of acquisitions/mergers in corporate diversification. Contrasting mergers with strategic alliances. Corporate restructuring and divestitures. prereq: MBA or Mgmt Sci MBA student
- Class Description:
- This course examines issues of corporate strategy, including the choice of business portfolio and the various means available to a firm to grow or renew its scope. The first half of the course explores the sources of value from operating in multiple businesses, including the advantages and disadvantages of vertical integration, the costs and benefits of horizontal diversification and the challenges of managing a diversified firm. The second half of the course focuses on the means that firms use to grow or renew their business portfolio, studying the benefits and challenges associated with alliances, acquisitions and divestitures.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This course is reserved for MBA students. If you are a non-MBA student seeking to take this course, fill out the petition form found at goo.gl/9Y9PR5. Additional information, including petition deadlines, can be found at http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/degrees/master-business-administration/part-time-mba/admissions/mba-course-petition-form
- Learning Objectives:
We explore the following topics:
The notion of added value
How firms add value through their resources and the incentives to develop resources
Why companies exist
Why a company would participate in more than one line of business
How to evaluate and manage ‘hybrid' business forms such as franchises- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/22600/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 February 2017
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