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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UCL School of Management
Corporate Strategy
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Resultados profesionales del estudiante
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100 % en línea
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Fechas límite flexibles
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Nivel principiante
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Inglés (English)
Subtítulos: Inglés (English)
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Programa - Qué aprenderás en este curso
3 horas para completar
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 horas para completar
8 videos (Total 48 minutos), 7 lecturas, 1 cuestionario
8 videos
Examples of Multi-Business Firms4m
Defining Corporate Strategy2m
Understanding Difference 1: Number of Businesses4m
Understanding Difference 2: Corporate Advantage7m
Understanding Difference 3: Competition7m
Conducting a Sum-of-the-parts Analysis12m
Why We Cannot Infer Corporate Advantage from a Sum-of-the-Parts Analysis4m
7 lecturas
How to Use Discussion Forums10m
Get to Know Your Classmates10m
Optional: Example of a Sum-of-the-Parts Analysis10m
Lecture slides10m
Chapter Corporate Advantage45m
Glossary10m
Assessment2m
1 ejercicio de práctica
Corporate Advantage20m
3 horas para completar
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 horas para completar
11 videos (Total 59 minutos), 4 lecturas, 2 cuestionarios
11 videos
Understanding the Basic Modes of Diversification7m
Understanding the Diversification Test5m
Understanding Synergies8m
A Five-step Approach to the Diversification Decision2m
Step 1: Finding Synergies6m
Step 2: Identifying Resource Gaps4m
Step 3: Identifying Candidates3m
Step 4: Evaluating Ally or Acquire7m
Step 5: Evaluating Organic or Inorganic Growth6m
Concluding the Five-step Approach to the Diversification Decision1m
4 lecturas
4Cs Synergies Framework10m
Lecture slides10m
Chapter Diversification25m
Introduction to quiz on Microsoft-Linkedin acquisition10m
2 ejercicios de práctica
Diversification30m
Microsoft-Linkedin acquisition30m
2 horas para completar
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 horas para completar
9 videos (Total 36 minutos), 2 lecturas, 2 cuestionarios
9 videos
Understanding the Basic Modes of Divestiture4m
Understanding the Divestiture Test7m
Understanding the Regional Perspective3m
A Three-step Approach to the Divestiture Decision1m
Step 1: Finding Synergies5m
Step 2: Identifying Better Parents5m
Step 3: Choosing Divestiture Mode2m
Concluding the Three-step Approach to the Divestiture Decision1m
2 lecturas
Lecture slides10m
Chapter Divestiture: Stay or Exit10m
1 ejercicio de práctica
Divestiture30m
3 horas para completar
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 horas para completar
9 videos (Total 49 minutos), 5 lecturas, 2 cuestionarios
9 videos
Who Controls Corporate Headquarters?6m
How to Control More than You Own6m
Understanding HQ Influence Models5m
Understanding the Financial Perspective3m
Understanding the Uncertainty Perspective4m
Understanding the Synergy Perspective9m
Understanding the Social Perspective3m
Using the Synergistic Portfolio Framework6m
5 lecturas
Course review2m
Lecture slides10m
Chapter Designing the Corporate HQ10m
Further readings10m
Introduction to quiz on resource allocation10m
2 ejercicios de práctica
Corporate Headquarters30m
Resource allocation30m
Reseñas
Principales reseñas sobre CORPORATE STRATEGY
por MI16 de abr. de 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.
por AB26 de jul. de 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.
por JJ15 de jul. de 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.
por KK16 de may. de 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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