MBA Elective Courses that I Teach

Strategy Implementation (MORS 455)
Course Syllabus
This course focuses on the behavioral aspects of implementing a firm's strategies. It addresses issues related to the environment and the content of a firm's strategies as they interact with specific implementation tools and approaches. Particular attention is given to issues of strategic change, strategic control, and the relationship between implementation and performance. Topics include creating and changing corporate culture, managing growth and decline, corporate restructuring, creating innovation and entrepreneurship, and leading the transition from an entrepreneurial start-up organization to an organization that can manage scale and scope and sustain competitive advantage over time.

Managing Organizations in Dynamic Markets (TECH 923)
Course Syllabus
Entrepreneurial opportunities often arise when industries are either created or transformed by emerging new technologies. Advances in information technologies such as the Internet, broadband, and wireless telecommunications have fundamentally altered how business is conducted and have spawned several new products and services. While such technologies will feature prominently in the course, the focus is broader and addresses the challenges surrounding building high technology entrepreneurial firms both as independent entities and also within incumbent organizations. The perspective is integrative, and combines theory and insights from strategy, technology, organization, and entrepreneurship. This course is being offered in collaboration with McKinsey and Company and will use both lectures and cases based on real life examples to discuss the salient issues involved in building businesses.

In the latter half of each class we will have a senior leader from McKinsey discuss a case that illustrates the concept being discussed. Further, student groups will be assigned to real life early-stage companies and will work with a "coach" from McKinsey in advising the company on issues related to business building. This course focuses on both the strategic and managerial issues associated with building a new economy business. These include not only strategies for acquiring resources for establishing the business, but also strategies for creating a viable organization, introducing new products into the market and, for growing the business. It will provide students with conceptual frameworks and analytical tools for managerial and strategic decision-making in a rapidly changing environment. This course focuses on both the strategic and managerial issues associated with building a new economy business. These include not only strategies for acquiring resources for establishing the business, but also strategies for creating a viable organization, introducing new products into the market and, for growing the business. It will provide students with conceptual frameworks and analytical tools for managerial and strategic decision-making in a rapidly changing environment.