Course Overview
Section outline
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Strategic Management
By Professor Matthew Earnhardt
This course focuses on an overview of strategic management frameworks and tools that make an organization successful. Special emphasis is placed on understanding organizational analysis tools to develop a business strategy, the global context and how it impacts business strategy, the elements of the competitive environment, and organizational practices that make people successful in the organization. The course is an overview of many major strategic management principles and discusses major theories of strategic management in a practical way.
Learning Objectives
At the completion of the course, students will:
- Understand the essentials of business management in the global context including social corporate responsibility, decision making, and obtaining organizational efficiency to develop a framework for organizational priorities
- Identify and understand the elements of the competitive environment and how it impacts the organization
- Use organizational analysis tools to identify business strategy
- Develop frameworks for executing change management initiatives
Resources
All content for this course is found in the lectures and reading materials.Assignments
View all online lecture videos and read the assigned materials. After viewing everything for the unit, take the quiz based on the lectures (100% of grade).Grading Scale
A 95-100% A- 90-94% B+ 87-89% B 83-86% B- 80-82% C+ 77-79% C 73-76% C- 70-72% D+ 67-69% D 63-66% D- 60-62% F 0-59%
Your average for the course must be at least 60%. Otherwise, you will fail the class and will receive no credit.Deadline
You have 180 days to finish the course. Complete all assignments before the final deadline, or you will be automatically unenrolled, and all coursework will be removed. You will have to start over and take the class again to receive credit.