MGMT4032

This course examines issues of corporate strategy, i.e., issues associated with creating and managing a firm that operates in multiple businesses. Some of the key questions we shall seek to address through this course are:

• What are the drivers of corporate scope? How should a firm choose the activities/businesses it participates in?
• What are the sources of value for a firm from being diversified across multiple businesses?
• What are the challenges associated with managing across multiple businesses and markets?
• How are these challenges best dealt with? What structures and processes enable successful corporate diversification over time?

The learning objective of this course is to help you learn to identify and define successful corporate strategies and offer solutions for the common problems that diversified firms face. The course not only introduces you to core concepts around corporate strategy, but it also seeks to develop your ability to critically evaluate the strategies of multi-business firms, through the extensive use of case discussions.

prereq: MGMT 3001 or MGMT 3004

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