This course explores different approaches to strategic cognition. Where do good strategic ideas come from? How can we cultivate innovative strategic thinking, in different ways and through different approaches? What is the role of analytical approaches to strategy? What is the role of strategic intuition and creativity? How can you increase your capacity as a strategic leader and a strategic thinker?

In this course, students will examine many behavioral anomalies and, more important, explore some frames that explain these apparently irrational behaviors. The emphasis of the course is on solving practical business problems.

Eastern philosophies such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism, and Confucianism focus on how to clear one's mind. This course will explore how military, political, and religious philosophies from India, Japan, China, and Thailand inform Western strategic thinking with the goal of learning how to apply these philosophies to the making of business strategy.

The United States and many other countries face a trio of inequalities: income, wealth, and opportunity. While income inequality is a well-accepted result of a capitalist economy, the degree of inequality has been steadily increasing since 1979. Many including Nobel Prize winning economists Robert Schiller and Joseph Stiglitz state that economic inequality is the defining challenge of our time.

Seasoned leaders will tell you that there were defining moments - those particular instances in which their values and judgment were tested in an inescapable way - that played a disproportionate role in how they and others thought about their success. Navigating these defining moments well usually requires strong communication. Economists Robert Schiller and Joseph Stiglitz state that economic inequality is the defining challenge of our time.

This course seeks to equip students with basic economic and development concepts and tools in order to enhance their problem-solving skills, and to deepen their understanding of socioeconomic issues and how business, entrepreneurs, and markets can promote human development and transform societies across the world. We will tackle issues in the social sector, sustainability challenges, problems of the underserved, and other urgent issues.

To prepare business students for engagement with China, this course explores the fundamental forces that shape its business environments. We start with an analysis of China's economic and political systems and then move to investigate the unique features of its labor, financial, and real estate markets. The course will also examine how foreign businesses succeed and fail in the world's most dynamic economy.

Strategy execution has become a critical differentiator among firms seeking breakthrough financial performance. In this course, we develop an analytic approach that combines four domains (alignment, architecture, activation, and ability) into an integrated approach to firm performance. Throughout this course we use cases and applications to translate concepts and frameworks into real-time action learning projects with sponsoring companies.

Increases awareness of the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, provides practical experiences that give opportunity to improve their interpersonal effectiveness. Topics Communication, Feedback, Performance Appraisal, Active Listening, Working with diversity, confronting problems in working relationships. Emphasis on future management contexts, learn how others perceive you & what behaviors enhance or detract from interpersonal effectiveness.

Every corporation must grapple with a host of strategic issues and the development of a strategy-the integrated set of actions required to achieve the vision of the company-is a complex exercise that is more than a set answer at a given moment in time. As setting and developing strategy is an on-going process, there are opportunities to approach it from many different approaches or with new conceptual tools.