Strategy Electives STR 8150 STR 8870 STR 8970

Strategy Electives STR 8150 STR 8870 STR 8970 STR 8044 STR 8305 STR 8310 STR 8459 STR 8468 DBP 895 A STR 8484 Corporate Strategy and Post-Merger Integration (2 sections) Strategy Seminar (3 sections) Investigations into the Nature of Strategy (2 sections) The Consulting Process Strategic Thinking: Integrating East and West Competitive Dynamics Corporate Innovation and Design Experience (semester long) Organic Growth: A Challenge for Public Companies DBP: Consulting Creativity and Design Thinking

GBUS 8150: Post-Merger Integration Role of acquisitions in corporate Jay Bourgeois strategy Achievement of merger objectives after the “deal is done” Integrating different types of mergers: In-market (industry consolidation) Product/market extensions Diversification

GBUS 8870 A and 8870 B: Strategy Seminar Jared Harris This course helps students become conversant with contemporary issues in the field of strategic management both in theory and practice. It covers selected strategy topics in depth that are chosen from three areas: First Year Strategy, current practice and issues, and current research in strategy and related fields of economics and organizational sociology. Four streams of literature will be discussed: organizational economics, resource-based/dynamiccapabilities view of the firm, business psychology, and business sociology. The course will allow students to become more conversant with relevant current issues in strategic thinking and the practice of strategy and to treat ideas in greater depth and rigor than possible in a traditional case course. The economics of strategy Competing on capabilities Strategy as options Strategy as a process Genesis and origin of a strategy: analysis, insight, intuition, or Zen?

GBUS 8870 C: Strategy Seminar Jared Harris During the 2014 -2015 academic year, the 8870 C section of Strategy Seminar will focus on the topic of corporate governance from the standpoint of strategic management and business ethics. Readings and cases will touch on key issues for firm governance as it impacts strategy, ethics, and organizational performance – including behavioral issues, research insights, and current/contemporary challenges in governance. The students will gain expertise in the subject matter, and as such, work together to help develop materials for an entirely new course intended to complement Darden’s existing GEN 8090 Corporate Governance elective. Grading will be based on class participation and written deliverables (cases, caselets, technical notes) intended to be used in the new course, going forward. Strategic importance of corporate governance practices Associated strategic and ethical challenges raised by governance issues Behavioral/process view of governance that complements GEN 8090 structural view

GBUS 897: Investigations into the Nature of Strategy Q 2 and Q 4 Purpose is to give students confidence in creating novel strategies Exploration of wide variety of metaphors for strategy from nonbusiness disciplines: Tiha von Ghyczy Biology Anthropology Military history Experimental game theory Neuroscience Others

GBUS 8310: Competitive Dynamics Seminar Overview: This advanced strategy seminar provides Ming-Jer Chen class participants with an integrative framework and specific analytical tools for understanding how firms interact in the marketplace—within an industry, across industries, and beyond national borders. The seminar intends to engage participants on two fronts: bridging application and scholarship, and maximizing the student-centered learning experience. Topics: Analysis of a competitive attack, Prediction of competitive reactions, Dynamic global competition, Competitor analysis, Competition-cooperation Audience: especially useful to those interested in highlevel business-strategy consulting, advanced strategic planning and marketing, and industry security analysis, as well as anyone seeking to develop sophisticated competitive thinking

GBUS 8305: Strategic Thinking: Integrating East and West Overview: This seminar intends to help participants 1) Ming-Jer Chen develop a deep understanding of the strategic concepts and business models underlying foreign (in this case, Chinese) business, based on a thorough knowledge of cultural and institutional differences; 2) use this understanding to think broadly about global enterprise; 3) develop a globally integrative perspective that enables them to conduct business in any part of the world. Topics: China’s re-emergence and its global implications, competition-cooperation, a globally integrative business perspective, a new enterprise framework. Audience: especially useful to those interested in pursuing managerial careers with responsibilities involving international operations or high-level strategic components, and to those interested in strategy consulting, international business, or business opportunities in Asia.

GBUS 8468: Organic Growth: A Challenge of Public Companies Overview: examines the challenges of creating Ed Hess consistent organic growth in public companies. Students will use their knowledge of strategy, operations, finance, marketing, and human resources to focus on growth from a growth manager, an organizational design, and strategy and execution perspectives. Topics: Building A Growth System; Who Are Growth Leaders? ; A Growth Experimental Pipeline; Growth Resiliency; Managing The Risks of Growth Audience: designed for those who will 1) 2) 3) 4) either manage, lead, or execute growth inside public companies be consultants creating growth strategies be involved in finding and investing in growth companies be involved as investment bankers in financing growth

GBUS 8459: Corporate Innovation and Design Experience Q 2 & Q 34 Overview: semester long course meeting Tuesday af Jeanne Liedtka in Quarters 2 & 3, focused on exploring and using design thinking and innovation principles and tools to accelerate business model innovation. Students will form teams to do a hands-on innovation project aimed at providing user insights, deep concept thinking, and prototypes for specific innovation opportunities to client organizations Topics: Design thinking; business model innovation; user-driven design; visualization techniques; hypothesis generating and testing; prototyping; storytelling Audience: any student interested in developing his or her capacity for innovative thinking in any field or career: especially of interest to those interested in strategy consulting, product management, business development

GBUS 8484: Creativity and Design Thinking Q 3 Overview: This course covers much of the same Rachel Brozenske material as 8459, with a greater emphasis on the topic of creativity and without the field project. It is focused on exploring and using design thinking and innovation principles and tools to identify and accelerate innovation opportunities Topics: Design thinking; business model innovation; user-driven design; visualization techniques; hypothesis generating and testing; prototyping; storytelling Audience: any student interested in developing his or her capacity for innovative thinking in any field or career: especially of interest to those interested in strategy consulting, product management, business development