EMBA Course
COMPETITIVE STRATEGY

This course focuses on the fundamental strategic questions that all general managers, and other members of any company’s leadership team, face: What business(es) to be in, and how to compete in each of the businesses that you choose to be in. With the goal of understanding the key concepts and logic that should guide managers in making these decisions wisely, we will focus on the following more specific topics: What is strategy? How to analyze industry structure and industry dynamics? What are the dynamics of competition? How do companies create or lose competitive advantage? How should companies develop growth strategies? And, how do you manage the diversified firm?

Course outline, Competitive Strategy

EMBA Course
GLOBAL STRATEGY

This course focuses on the "strategic" and "organizational" challenges facing the multinational firm. The types of questions that we address are: Why do firms go abroad? What differentiates a "global" from a "multidomestic" industry? What are the sources of competitive advantage in a global context? How does a multinational company play the global chess game? Why and when do/should companies engage in cross-border strategic alliances? What are the associated risks and how to guard against them? What potential roles can foreign subsidiaries play in an MNC's global strategy? How do companies choose an optimal global structure? How do companies ensure coordination between the center and the subsidiaries and among subsidiaries? How do companies manage strategic change from one type of global strategy to another?

Course outline, Global Strategy