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Spring 2025 | MGMT 6085 Section 090: Corporate Strategy (65094)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- 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:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (0 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 focuses on the strategic management of the multi-business firm. It provides understanding about strategic choices such as outsourcing or internalizing activates and entering or leaving lines of business. Students will see how firms can create and sustain competitive advantage through the development and deployment of firm resources, and the strategic choice of what activities to keep within the firm. This class is designed so as to spend the first month introducing different tools and ideas. The remainder of the class then integrates these ideas to provide students with a systematic and comprehensive way to look at companies. This final stage is augmented by a term project, which culminates with a presentation and report.
- 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/65094/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 February 2017
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