Your Course of Study
Corporate Level Strategy helps you design, communicate, and execute winning strategies for your multibusiness organization. Through a series of faculty presentations and case discussions, you will explore the similarities and differences between corporate and sector strategy. In turn, you will learn how to blend these two approaches to maximize advantage for your corporation and its business units.
The program curriculum addresses a broad range of industries, business stages, and strategic goals. Topics include:
Corporate Position and Advantage
- Developing a corporate advantage analogous to competitive advantage at the business unit level
- Exploring the core competencies of a firm or unit—where they help or hinder, and what lies beyond
Corporate Structure, Scope, and Portfolio Choice
- Examining the meaning of “related” in the context of corporate strategy
- Making and revisiting decisions on the overall scope of the firm
- Identifying businesses to which the company can add value
- Understanding value creation strategy—from private equity to conglomerates to traditional corporate structures
Optimization, Coordination, and Control
- Establishing an optimal organizational structure
- Determining appropriate control spans for corporate executives
- Achieving coordination benefits, while retaining business unit autonomy
- Building capabilities that span business units
- Understanding the role of control-and-reward systems in corporate strategy
- Measuring and maximizing the value corporate functions add to business units
- Managing internal units versus external partners
- Assessing and developing leadership capacity
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Partnerships
- Understanding how acquisitions create value
- Choosing an acquisition, partnership, or contract
- Structuring the best deal for all parties
- Optimizing post-merger integration
- Achieving vertical and horizontal integration
Entrepreneurship in the Multibusiness Corporation
- Managing maturing business lines and growing new enterprises
- Ensuring ongoing strategic renewal of the organization
- Creating an organization that facilitates entrepreneurship
- Leading transformation throughout your organization