Strategy for MMHC

2 credits · Owen Graduate School of Management

This course is designed to introduce you to central strategic challenges facing senior managers and CEOs in a variety of organizations. Through the use of lectures, readings and case studies, the course aims to make you proficient identifying roots of competitive advantage, evaluating the limits of that advantage, and developing decisions that create strategies that are sustainable over time. A firm's strategy can be defined by five basic elements: where it competes, how it implements its strategy, what distinguishes its products or services from the competition and creates value for its customers, its profit model and it plans for growing its business. We will look at each of these elements of strategy and utilize a business simulation to integrate the functional areas of businesses with strategy. [2]