Corporate Advantage-Welcome
Welcome to Corporate Strategy!
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Corporate Advantage-Introduction
Examples of Multi-Business Firms
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Defining Corporate Strategy
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How to Use Discussion Forums
Get to Know Your Classmates
Corporate Advantage-Differences between Business and Corporate Strategy
Understanding Difference 1: Number of Businesses
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Understanding Difference 2: Corporate Advantage
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Understanding Difference 3: Competition
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Corporate Advantage-Sum-of-the-parts Analysis
Conducting a Sum-of-the-parts Analysis
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Optional: Example of a Sum-of-the-Parts Analysis
Why We Cannot Infer Corporate Advantage from a Sum-of-the-Parts Analysis
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Corporate Advantage-Review
Lecture slides
Chapter Corporate Advantage
Glossary
Assessment
Diversification-Introduction
Examples of Diversification
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Diversification-Foundations of Diversification
Understanding the Basic Modes of Diversification
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Understanding the Diversification Test
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Understanding Synergies
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4Cs Synergies Framework
Diversification-A Five-step Approach to the Diversification Decision
A Five-step Approach to the Diversification Decision
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Step 1: Finding Synergies
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Step 2: Identifying Resource Gaps
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Step 3: Identifying Candidates
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Step 4: Evaluating Ally or Acquire
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Step 5: Evaluating Organic or Inorganic Growth
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Concluding the Five-step Approach to the Diversification Decision
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Diversification-Review
Lecture slides
Chapter Diversification
Diversification-Quiz on Microsoft-Linkedin acquisition
Introduction to quiz on Microsoft-Linkedin acquisition
Divestiture-Introduction
Examples of Divestiture
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Divestiture-Foundations of Divestiture
Understanding the Basic Modes of Divestiture
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Understanding the Divestiture Test
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Understanding the Regional Perspective
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Divestiture-A Three-step Approach to the Divestiture Decision
A Three-step Approach to the Divestiture Decision
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Step 1: Finding Synergies
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Step 2: Identifying Better Parents
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Step 3: Choosing Divestiture Mode
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Concluding the Three-step Approach to the Divestiture Decision
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Divestiture-Review
Lecture slides
Chapter Divestiture: Stay or Exit
Corporate Headquarters-Introduction
Example of Corporate Headquarters
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Corporate Headquarters-Foundations of Corporate Headquarters
Who Controls Corporate Headquarters?
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How to Control More than You Own
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Understanding HQ Influence Models
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Corporate Headquarters-Resource Allocation
Understanding the Financial Perspective
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Understanding the Uncertainty Perspective
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Understanding the Synergy Perspective
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Understanding the Social Perspective
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Using the Synergistic Portfolio Framework
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Corporate Headquarters-Review
Course review
Lecture slides
Chapter Designing the Corporate HQ
Further readings
Corporate Headquarters-Quiz on resource allocation
Introduction to quiz on resource allocation