Get the tools you need to analyze, evaluate and recommend specific actions organizations can take to grow their value and avoid common growth pitfalls. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, you will learn to determine how best to build value, whether by scaling existing markets, entering established markets or creating new markets through innovation and acquisitions.
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About this Course
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How to identify and evaluate opportunities to scale an organization
How to enter new markets and apply game theory to analyze, assess, and respond to competitors
How to assess the impact of a potential merger and acquisition and avoid common pitfalls of this type of growth
How to unlock the keys to innovation, from building an innovative capability to adding value from innovation to determining an innovation strategy
Skills you will gain
- Mergers And Acquisitions (M&A)
- innovation strategy
- Strategic Thinking
- Business Strategy
- growth strategy
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Growth through Scaling
Growth through Entry
Growth through Acquisition
Growth through Innovation
Reviews
- 5 stars78.66%
- 4 stars18.15%
- 3 stars2.22%
- 2 stars0.15%
- 1 star0.79%
TOP REVIEWS FROM BUSINESS GROWTH STRATEGY
Real life case studies, conceptual learning and rigorous project work - all of these make this course a unique one in the field of strategy.
learned about how to manage innovation and how to appropriate gains from innovation. most importantly learnt about how to incentivize innovation as a leader in the firm
Essential Business Concepts and Growth Strategies provides an enhanced vision for the learners to look for a strategic growth opportunity of any firm in the competitive and non-competitive market.
Very good followup course .. Doing this course provides an order and clarity to the thought process towards growth
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