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.
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Corporate Strategy
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Approx. 11 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
3 hours to complete
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.
3 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 48 min), 7 readings, 1 quiz
3 hours to complete
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.
3 hours to complete
11 videos (Total 59 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes
2 hours to complete
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.
2 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 36 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
3 hours to complete
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.)
3 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 49 min), 5 readings, 2 quizzes
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TOP REVIEWS FROM CORPORATE STRATEGY
by MIApr 16, 2020
This was a great refresher and explained the basics of Corporate Strategy in very easy to understand and enjoyable manner. In nutshell,the course in very logical and serving its purpose fully.
by ABJul 26, 2020
Very useful course to understand corporate strategy, identify portfolio and its diversification, divestiture. Learnt good theories with real examples. This would be very useful for my career.
by JJJul 15, 2019
Really interesting subject. Easy to apply to small businesses too. Bart Vanneste provides clear, in-depth explanations using good slides that helps you keep motivated throughout the course.
by KKMay 16, 2018
Great explanations, really clear with excellent examples. Would be good to get a few more practice situations and scenarios played out. More sample quizzes and things would be useful.
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