Annual Report Art of Leadership Business Library Business Plan Comp. Explores the impact of the Internet on the way companies operate in today's business environment, including how pricing decisions are made and how supplier relations are managed. Combines functional expertise in the fields of finance and strategy to address current business concerns about organizational form. Such restructuring affects the asset, liability and governance structures of the firm, affecting its competitive position and value. This course applies the strategy literature to identify difference organizational forms as appropriate responses for specific U.S. firms and uses valuation principles from finance to assess the likely impact on firm value.
Participants choose the type of restructuring and firms to be studied.
Drawing upon international finance for a discussion of the foreign exchange market, macroeconomics for trade issues and international business for topics such a capital budgeting, human resources and marketing, this course integrates a diverse body of knowledge to address the issues faced by the multinational firm. Outside experts are called upon to discuss the cultural, political, governmental and other regional issues. The class chooses regional, industry or specific firms for an in-depth analysis, which includes the expertise of executives from multinational firms. The objective of this course is to enable the student to identify and analyze the relevant environmental forces that will affect the strategy of the organization. A second portion addresses the population of potential buyers in greater detail, analyzing markets, market segmentation, target marketing, competitive positioning, core competence and differential advantage.