Teaching
Strategic Management
This course has been primarily designed to study the firm from the perspective of its managers. A principal concern of managers is to conceive, develop, and implement strategies that will allow their firm to perform better than its competitors. As such, the course focuses on the conceptual tools and analytical models that can assist managers at various levels within the organization to raise its performance to a level that is above all others within its industry. The development of such high-performance strategies requires managers to develop a better understanding of the shifting situational factors both outside and inside their firm. A thorough analysis of such factors can therefore assist managers in making and evaluating their strategic decisions. This course will introduce and illustrate various frameworks that can be used by managers to carry out such comprehensive situational analysis. Towards this end, we will also rely on several case studies to provide rich descriptions of a wide variety of situations that are faced by managers in real companies
MBA Consulting Practicum
This course requires MBA candidates to conduct a team-based meaningful, strategic study for a client organization, under faculty supervision. The study leads to a set of powerful recommendations that will allow the client to achieve its desired outcomes. The report should be expressed in qualitatively and quantitatively. It should have a clearly expressed narrative and set of quantitate analyses and projections that are internally consistent. The intent is to provide MBA candidates the opportunity to integrate and apply MBA knowledge -- as well as to gain knowledge and experience from the perspective of a 'consulting team'. Whether in an internal or external function, MBAs often find themselves working in teams in consultive capacities