Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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NBA 5290 - Executing Successful Corporate Strategy


Spring. 1.5 credits.

Prerequisite: NCC 5090 .

O. Khessina.

Firms evolve, grow, and change through mergers and acquisitions, as well as through the internal creation of new divisions or subsidiaries. As promising as these pathways can sound, as most people know, the success rate of these efforts is quite poor. In fact, most mergers and acquisitions fail to recover their costs. This course explores the central and critical challenge in corporate strategy, which is to create corporate advantage through investments in a set of businesses that are better off for being commonly owned. It also focuses on features of the firm that interfere with or support these efforts, including the role of culture, organizational capabilities, and existing social, communication, and power networks, among others. By the end of the course, you should be able to examine a firm and offer answers to three main questions: (1) What factors should inform the firm’s decision to diversify? (2) What is the right portfolio of businesses for the firm? (3) How can diverse businesses be integrated to achieve strategic advantage for a corporation? The course is relevant for students who plan to pursue a managerial career in large corporations, intend to start and sell a new business, or plan to work in the investment or consulting industries. Students interested in the managerial aspects of mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and internal development will find the course especially useful.



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