Corporate & Business Strategy

Understand how the strategic analysis process helps decision makers perform in-depth analyses and identify optimal strategic alternatives

Differentiate between the three levels of strategy (corporate, business, and functional)

Perform external analysis by looking at the supply chain, mapping out strategic groups, building competitive forces model and analyzing PEST factors

Perform internal analysis by understanding a company's core competencies, competitive advantage, value chain activities and ways to sustain competitive advantages

Assess a company's current corporate-level, business-level and functional-level strategies

Learn how to generate, evaluate and select optimal strategic alternatives through methods such as SWOT analysis, DCF analysis and multi-criteria analysis

Tie strategic alternatives to a company's mission, vision and goals

Apply all theories taught in the lectures into a case study and generate the appropriate strategies using the provided information

This strategy course is designed specifically for financial analysts While it's open to students from any background (consulting, sales, HR, etc)