Taught In English

There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.

Advised previous requirements: Introductory stategic management and Introductory business economics.

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT II

Objective:

This course aims to familiarize students with the tasks that every General Manager and his team have to master in order to achieve a successful implementation of the company's strategy. These tasks include the following:

Designing effective organizations.
Managing the strategic planning and control process.
Interpreting insightfully the environmental change and its organizational impact.
Understanding how power and influence issues affect organization's key decisions and how executives build their own intra- and interorganizational networks.

Week 1
1. Introduction
2. The structuring of organizations. Analysis
3. Case - Citibank

Week 2
4. The structuring of organizations. Synthesis.
5. Planning and Strategic Planning.
6. Strategic Planning. Limitations.

Week 3
7. Strategic Planning in Telefónica in 2002.
8. Strategic Planning in Telefónica in 2002 (II).
9. Strategic Control.

Week 4
10. Case Amgen Inc.: Planning the Unplannable
11. Corporate Governance. Mission and Vision.
12. Corporate Governance. Recent developments.

Week 5
13. Environmental Change and the Organization.
14. Organizational Dynamics.
15. Case Harvey Golub: Recharging American Express.

Week 6
16. Power and Influence in Organizations.
17. Case Eric Peterson.
18. Case Eric Peterson II.

Week 7
19. Power and Influence in Organizations II.
20. Case Blackmore.
21. Thought and Action in organizations.

Week 8
22. Quiz
23. Building effective networks.
24. Building effective networks (II).

Week 9
25. Group Presentations I
26. Group Presentations II
27. Case Nahmex

Week 10
28. Case Nahmex
29. Bounded rationality in management.
30. Review session.