Advance your strategic analysis skills in this follow-up to Foundations of Business Strategy. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, you'll learn the tools to analyze strategy across time (competitive dynamics), industries (corporate strategy), geographies (international strategy), and institutions (non-market strategy). Top-ranked faculty will introduce the tools you need to complete a comprehensive evaluation and understand the strategy dynamics of an industry: Competitive Lifecycle, Internationalization and Stakeholder Analyses, and Diversification Matrices.
This course is part of the Business Strategy Specialization
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About this Course
Some familiarity with business is helpful, but not required.
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Try Coursera for BusinessWhat you will learn
The dynamics of competition, the competitive life cycle, and strategies to survive and thrive through industry disruption
Internationalization strategies, how, where, and when to enter foreign markets, and foreign direct investment
How businesses compete across industries, the value of being in different markets, and the right degree of diversification
Stakeholder management and how engaging with non-capital stakeholders can create value
Skills you will gain
- Strategic Management
- Strategic Thinking
- Business Strategy
- business competition
Some familiarity with business is helpful, but not required.
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Dynamic Strategy
International Strategy
Diversification Strategy
Stakeholder Strategy
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- 5 stars80.96%
- 4 stars15.70%
- 3 stars2.25%
- 2 stars0.58%
- 1 star0.49%
TOP REVIEWS FROM ADVANCED BUSINESS STRATEGY
Very good. The various real-life examples given by both the instructors were instrumental to this course being a very well rounded course in business strategy
Very helpful course for understanding the advanced strategy and tools which we can use to analyse the business strategy. Simply explanied and undestandable for each and every people around the world.
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The course lessons are practical, with case studies that helps you to internalize the concepts and visualize ways that you can apply it realistic examples.
Very good. The course give you more contents and tools for a deep analysis about diversification, internationalization and stakeholders firms' strategy
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