Course: MBA 8107 Strategic Management

Topic outline

MBA 8107 Strategic Management
- News forum
- Course Outline File
Introduction to Business Strategy: Elements of Strategic Thinking and the Strategy Stool
- Introduction to Strategy File
Growth Strategies: Mergers and Acquisitions
- Growth strategies - Mergers and Acquisitions - The Rationale of M&As File
Growth Strategies: Mergers and Acqisitions
- Growth Strategies - Mergers and Acquisitions - Managing M&As File
Understanding Strategy Development
Environmental, market, customer and competitor analysis

Case Reading: Harlequin Enterprises LTD: The Mira
Decision
- Understanding Strategy Development File
Strategic options (Corporate level and business Level strategies): Competitive Strategies
HBS Reading: Corporate Strategy, Module Note Bharat N.
Anand Product number
- Strategic Choices and Levels of Strategy Session 1 File
- Strategic Choices and Levels of Strategy Session 2 File
Needs, Challenges and Opporunities analysis of a market
Case: Unilever In India- Giving a new life to Lifebuoy
- Challenges and Opportunities analysis of a market File
Strategic Capability
Value chain analysis Core Competences

Reading: Putting Your Finger on Capability

HBS Case: The Wine Industry :Andrew C Inkpen ,Rod Philips
- Turning Great Strategy into great performance File
The stakeholder concept
Different Models of stakeholder theories, Power,
Legitimacy and Urgency perspectives

Reading: The Brent Spar Incident: "A Shell of a Mess",

Study week (assignment preparation work)
- Stakeholder Concept and Models of the firm File
Corporate Responsibility (CR) and Strategy
Different Models of Corporate Citizenship

Reading: Ogola, F. O. and Mungai, E. Corporate Social
Innovation in East African Breweries Ltd (EABL) B: The
Launch of Senator. European
- Strategy and CSR File
Managing strategic change
Organizational structure and control

Live Case: CIT (to be issued in class)
- External Environmental Assessment- Law, Economics, Demographics, Technology File
Challenges of Strategy Execution : Building a Capable Organization:
HBR Reading:Turning Great Strategy into Great
Performance
- Challenges of Strategy Execution File
Strategy Execution:
Analogizing Strategy Implementation in the context of the Military.
Project presentations
Guest Speaker
- Strathmore Business School - M&A Presentation File
Recapitulation of the course
Past Papers