Overview

Among the critical tasks facing senior managers is the creation, implementation and evaluation of a business unit’s strategy. This course seeks to provide the management student with tools and frameworks essential to carrying out these tasks. Many of these tools and frameworks will be based on recent advances in game theory, industrial organization, and organization theory, although the course will also draw from the older business policy tradition as well

Course Objectives:

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to analyse industries, identify areas of strategic advantage and disadvantage, and to devise strategies that exploit advantages and remedy disadvantages.

Evaluation Criteria:

1. Class participation
2. Assignments
3. Assigned readings and case studies
4. midterm examination
5. final examination

Text:

1. COMPETITIVE STRATEGY , Michael Porter
2. The Strategy Process, Mintzberg, Quinn and Ghoshal, Prentice Hall 1998
3. strategy, Montgomery and Porter
4. Fundamental issues in strategy, Rumelt, Schendel and Teece

Game Theory

Thinking Strategically, Dixit, Nalebuff, Norton 1991

Global Strategy

1. Modern competitive analysis, 3rd edition, S.M. Oster 1999
2. co petition, Brandenburger and Nalebuff
 

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