Sustaining Value Creation Through Corporate Strategy

3 units

Some of the most visible - and critically important - strategic decisions for an organization's performance reside at the corporate level: acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs, vertical integration, and diversification into new business areas. This course focuses on these critical decisions that confront the senior-most managers in multi-business corporations as they deal with continuous pressure to grow. Finding ways to add rather than destroy value at the corporate level is a difficult task. In this course, we will examine the challenges faced by corporate managers in sustaining value creation across the portfolio of businesses and the tools that they can use to do so. We will focus on topics of leveraging resources and competencies, drawing horizontal and vertical boundaries, diversification, corporate organization, portfolio planning, and corporate governance.