EL 709 - Business Strategy

(3.00 cr.)

Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. This capstone to the ELMBA program focuses on getting students to think like the organization's leaders by exposing them to a variety of perspectives on, approaches to, and tools for the conduct of strategic management. Students gain an understanding of comparative business history in order to provide evolutionary perspective on business developments. They learn to identify key stakeholders and trends in the economic, sociopolitical, and technological environments; analyze how firms create and sustain value; formulate strategies; and appreciate the complexities of strategy implementation. (Summer only)