Home Page BPS 451. This course is intended to be a comprehensive and integrative capstone course for the undergraduate business student. Emphasis is on strategy formulation and implementation. To study management of the business in relationship to its external environment.
Emphasis is on strategic analysis, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation.
Credit not given for both BPS 535 and BPS 680 . Effective managers are able to develop organizational architectures, strategies, cross-functional competencies, and linking systems that produce innovations, and manage organizational changes that accompany innovation. This course will examine how core competencies, career patterns, culture, power and organization structure all interact jointly to determine whether the organization can achieve and maintain a high degree of fit with a fast changing environment. Students will learn, through theoretical readings, practical examples, and extensive case analysis and research, how top managers manage innovation and strategic change and how effective leadership nurtures, sustains and exploits innovation to build an adaptive organization. Credit not given for both BPS 585 and BP 681 .