Applied Strategic Management - Design, Risks and Ethics BUSA 7900

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Analyze business problems using a structured decision model.
• Assess the competitive global economy and relate the conclusions to various business situations.
• Identify and analyze government impacts on business situations.
• Evaluate and apply ethical principles, including utilitarian, rights, justice, and care approaches to ethics, stakeholder management, and corporate social responsibility to modern business problems.
• Evaluate and assess the role of government in society, the main elements of government structure and the government public policy process, and the main ways business and government interact with one another.
• Apply strategic management techniques to specific public and private sector organizations, thus effecting desired changes within a comprehensive, responsive management assessment system.
• Adapt various decision tools and academic theories to case studies and projects (including: external environment analysis, value chain analysis, standard financial statement analysis, ethical and risk management analysis).
• Recommend and critically defend solutions to business problems.
• Identify implementation issues when developing a solution to a business problem.
• Apply the principles of Sustainable Competitive Advantage to business situations.

Effective as of Fall 2021