BU 741

Corporate Strategy examines the strategic issues and decisions critical to the success of multi-business enterprise. The course consists of four parts. The first part deals with foundational concepts (e.g., corporate advantage, synergies and governance). The second part examines increasing portfolio composition scope (e.g., diversification and organic or inorganic growth). Part 3 deals with to decreasing the scope of corporate portfolio composition (e.g., divestiture, and outsourcing). The last part of the course will look at portfolio decision making (e.g., designing the multi-business corporation, managing the M&A and the alliance processes). <br>