To encourage you to be precise and specific in your thinking and to help you separate the important from the incidental. To develop a set of analytical tools to enable you to evaluate complex situations. To improve your presentation skills and to give you confidence in expressing yourself in front of others. You will be challenged to use all of the knowledge that you have acquired in other Business and Economics course work to develop effective strategies for different organizations. Your primary responsibility in the course is to make objective and reasoned strategic decisions and to justify them through oral and written communication.
Special attention is given to the integration of business concepts and strategies.
The remainder of the course consists of a series of case studies, described separately , in which teams of students take turns analyzing real business situations using the tools developed in the class. Teams for this purpose will be assigned early in the course as will the case assignments. An online Reading and Assignment list is the official syllabus for this course . It will be updated frequently, so you should visit it at least once per week for the latest information. For the first part of the course, the syllabus contains reading assignments and exercises.