BU481
Business Policy I: Strategic Management
Winter 2025, sections P, N, Q
Topics
- Industry and resource analysis
- competitive advantage
- Diamond-E framework
- managerial preferences
- organizational design
- strategy selection and implementation
- corporate strategy.
Readings
- Michael Porter, How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy (1979); What Is Strategy? (1996); From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy (1987).
- David Collis and Cynthia Montgomery, Competing on Resources (2008).
- Case coursepack; textbook chapters assigned, but textbook title is not visible in the accessible preview.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Selected assigned articles. Original document names Laurier’s Lazaridis School, Waterloo and Winter 2025; the host incorrectly categorizes it under Glendale Community College and 2018/19.