Corporate strategy is the strategy a firm uses to compete across multiple businesses. Many small firms want to grow by entering new businesses. Many large firms already are in multiple businesses, e.g. a photo camera producer selling also sunglasses.
We developed this course to help you make good corporate strategy decisions. Of the many decisions a firm has to make, corporate strategy decisions are among the most consequential. We will look at these key corporate strategy decisions:
- Diversification: How and which businesses should your firm enter?
- Divestiture: How and from which businesses should your firm exit?
- Corporate HQ: How should we organize corporate headquarters to create value across the different businesses?
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UCL School of Management
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Lehrplan - Was Sie in diesem Kurs lernen werden
Woche
13 Stunden zum Abschließen
Corporate Advantage
Welcome to week 1! This week, we introduce corporate strategy and its main goal: corporate advantage. To deepen our understanding of corporate strategy, we compare it with business strategy. We also cover sum-of-the-parts analysis, an often used technique to value multi-business firms, and we discuss how it relates to corporate advantage.
8 Videos (Gesamt 48 min), 7 Lektüren, 1 Quiz
8 Videos
Examples of Multi-Business Firms4m
Defining Corporate Strategy2m
Understanding Difference 1: Number of Businesses4m
Understanding Difference 2: Corporate Advantage7m
Understanding Difference 3: Competition7m
Conducting a Sum-of-the-parts Analysis12m
Why We Cannot Infer Corporate Advantage from a Sum-of-the-Parts Analysis4m
7 Lektüren
How to Use Discussion Forums10m
Get to Know Your Classmates10m
Optional: Example of a Sum-of-the-Parts Analysis10m
Lecture slides10m
Chapter Corporate Advantage45m
Glossary10m
Assessment2m
1 praktische Übung
Corporate Advantage20m
Woche
23 Stunden zum Abschließen
Diversification
Welcome to week 2! A key decision in corporate strategy is determining which businesses a firm should be active in. This week we look at the diversification decision: entering a new business.
If you get stuck on the quiz or assignment, you should post on the Discussions to ask for help. (And if you finish early, I hope you'll go there to help your fellow classmates as well.)
11 Videos (Gesamt 59 min), 4 Lektüren, 2 Quiz
11 Videos
Understanding the Basic Modes of Diversification7m
Understanding the Diversification Test5m
Understanding Synergies8m
A Five-step Approach to the Diversification Decision2m
Step 1: Finding Synergies6m
Step 2: Identifying Resource Gaps4m
Step 3: Identifying Candidates3m
Step 4: Evaluating Ally or Acquire7m
Step 5: Evaluating Organic or Inorganic Growth6m
Concluding the Five-step Approach to the Diversification Decision1m
4 Lektüren
4Cs Synergies Framework10m
Lecture slides10m
Chapter Diversification25m
Introduction to quiz on Microsoft-Linkedin acquisition10m
2 praktische Übungen
Diversification12m
Microsoft-Linkedin acquisition30m
Woche
33 Stunden zum Abschließen
Divestiture
Welcome to week 3! A key decision in corporate strategy is determining which businesses a firm should be active in. This week we look at the divestiture decision: exiting from a business.
If you get stuck on the quiz or assignment, you should post on the Discussions to ask for help. (And if you finish early, I hope you'll go there to help your fellow classmates as well.)
9 Videos (Gesamt 36 min), 2 Lektüren, 2 Quiz
9 Videos
Understanding the Basic Modes of Divestiture4m
Understanding the Divestiture Test7m
Understanding the Regional Perspective3m
A Three-step Approach to the Divestiture Decision1m
Step 1: Finding Synergies5m
Step 2: Identifying Better Parents5m
Step 3: Choosing Divestiture Mode2m
Concluding the Three-step Approach to the Divestiture Decision1m
2 Lektüren
Lecture slides10m
Chapter Divestiture: Stay or Exit10m
1 praktische Übung
Divestiture8m
Woche
42 Stunden zum Abschließen
Corporate Headquarters
Welcome to week 4! A key decision in corporate strategy is determining how to organize to create value across businesses. This week we look at corporate headquarters and how they can influence the different businesses. If you get stuck on the quiz or assignment, you should post on the Discussions to ask for help. (And if you finish early, I hope you'll go there to help your fellow classmates as well.)
9 Videos (Gesamt 49 min), 5 Lektüren, 2 Quiz
9 Videos
Who Controls Corporate Headquarters?6m
How to Control More than You Own6m
Understanding HQ Influence Models5m
Understanding the Financial Perspective3m
Understanding the Uncertainty Perspective4m
Understanding the Synergy Perspective9m
Understanding the Social Perspective3m
Using the Synergistic Portfolio Framework6m
5 Lektüren
Course review2m
Lecture slides10m
Chapter Designing the Corporate HQ10m
Further readings10m
Introduction to quiz on resource allocation10m
2 praktische Übungen
Corporate Headquarters10m
Resource allocation30m
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Top-Bewertungen
Studied Corporate Strategy on my MBA at London Business School many years ago under Phanish Puranam. This course was a great refresher on motives of Corporate Strategy. Can recommend.
Great course, very clear explanations. Would highly recommend! The textbook is also very informative and anyone taking a strategy course would benefit from reading it.
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Bart Vanneste
Associate ProfessorUCL School of Management
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