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Overview
Management Policy : Exploring how different environments enable some competitive modes and maneuvers while constraining others. Students will learn to analyze industry structure and competitive dynamics and how they evolve; the strategic positioning of firms; how opportunities get constructed and how firm capabilities get linked to them; how competitive advantage is developed and sustained. Theories and frameworks will be introduced but also critiqued in light of empirical evidence and practitioner experience.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Lifson, Elliot (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken BUSA 690 (when topic was Strategy in Context)