Program Requirements
The Strategic Management Major combines traditional topics in strategic management, such as competition and globalization, with attention to pressing social, and environmental challenges. Since the activities of contemporary businesses can no longer be considered separately from these challenges, the Major is intended to foster a holistic view of management practice. Students will be encouraged to consider strategy formation and change for large corporations, small businesses, and social enterprises within their economic, social and environmental contexts. Because Strategic Management is a broad subject area, students are given flexibility to tailor this Major to their interests. Anticipated career trajectories are diverse, and include positions in management consulting, business development in new start-ups and small businesses; and strategic planning and analysis in large multinationals, NGOs, international organizations, and government agencies.
Complementary Courses (30 credits)
at least 9 credits from the following group:
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MGPO 383 International Business Policy (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Development and application of conceptual approaches to general management policy and strategy formulation in multinational business involvement (exporting, licensing, contractual arrangements, turnkey projects, joint ventures, consortia); technology transfer, location and ownership strategies: competitive multinational relationships. Emphasis on pragmatic analysis, using case studies.
Terms: Winter 2016
Instructors: Toulan, Omar Nohad (Winter)
Prerequisites: MGCR 382
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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MGPO 445 Industry Analysis & Competitive Strategy (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Analysis of industry structure, macro-environment, and evolution. Evaluation of strategic position, behaviour, and intent of organizations within industry context. Development of strategic recommendations for these firms.
Terms: Winter 2016
Instructors: David, Robert James (Winter)
Restriction: Open to U3 students only
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MGPO 460 Managing Innovation (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Firms face difficulties in developing new products. This course examines the new product development process to understand why problems occur and what managers can do. Topics include the creative synthesis of market and technology; the coordination of functions; and the strategic connection between the project and the strategy.
Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016
Instructors: Vit, Gregory Bryan (Fall) Struben, Jeroen (Winter)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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MGPO 469 Managing Globalization (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : This course explores economic and social consequences of globalization, focusing on the most pertinent issues at the time. Topics include the existing global imbalances; the opportunities and risks presented by large cross border capital flows; and the role of institutions, and organizational and policy responses in crisis hit countries.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Matziorinis, Nicholas (Fall)
Recommended: MGCR 423
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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MGPO 470 Strategy and Organization (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : This course explores how strategic change affects the organization and how the organization can be designed to realize its strategy more effectively. It will examine how strategic choices affect organizational structures, processes, culture, human resource policies, leadership styles, etc. and how the organization can be aligned with the organizational mission.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Moore, Karl James (Fall)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
at least 9 credits from the following group:
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MGPO 365 Business-Government Relations (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : The political environment in which business organizations operate: how governments control, regulate, promote, and compete with the private sector and how corporate policy responds to, and seeks to influence, these activities.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Perez-Aleman, Paola (Fall)
Restriction(s): U2 & U3 students only
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MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation 鈥� the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value.
Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016
Instructors: Nowak, Anita (Fall) Nowak, Anita (Winter)
Restriction(s): Open to U2, U3 students only. Students cannot receive credits if they already received credits for MGPO 434.
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MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : This course explores the relationship between economic activity, management, and the natural environment. Using readings, discussions and cases, the course will explore the challenges that the goal of sustainable development poses for our existing notions of economic goals, production and consumption practices and the management of organizations.
Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016
Instructors: Etzion, Dror (Fall) Khoury, Joseph (Winter)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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MGPO 450 Ethics in Management (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : An examination of the economic, legal and ethical responsibilities of managers in both private and public organizations. Through readings, case studies, discussions and projects the class evaluates alternative ethical systems and norms of behaviour and draws conclusions as to the right, proper and just decisions and actions in the face of moral dilemmas. The focus of this course is on the decision process, values and consistency of values of the individual and on the impact of systems control and incentives on managerial morality.
Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016
Instructors: Girard, Diane (Fall) Girard, Diane (Winter)
Restriction: U2 and U3 students only
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MGPO 475 Strategies for Developing Countries (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Strategic management challenges in developing and emerging economies. Focus on strategies that foster both firm competitiveness and economic development, including: technological capabilities, new forms of organization, small and large firms, global production, social impact, global standards and governance.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Perez-Aleman, Paola (Fall)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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MGPO 567 Business in Society (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Examines different ideologies; business ethics and values; the corporation and its constituencies; the social impact of corporate decisions. The focus of this course is on the interaction between business organizations and society and on incorporating social impact analysis into strategic management.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Chauvin, Louis Rom茅o (Fall)
Restriction: U2 and U3 students only
the remaining credits, if any, to be chosen from:
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AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits)
Overview
Agriculture : International development and world food security and challenges in developing countries. Soil and water management, climate change, demographic issues, plant and animal resources conservation, bio-products and biofuels, economic and environmental issues specially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Globalization, sustainable development, technology transfer and human resources needs for rural development.
Terms: Winter 2016
Instructors: Monardes, Humberto (Winter)
Winter
Two 2-hour conferences
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ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.
Terms: Winter 2016, Summer 2016
Instructors: McAllister, Karen Elisabeth (Winter) McAllister, Karen Elisabeth (Summer)
Winter
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BUSA 391 International Business Law (3 credits)
Overview
Business Admin : Introduction to the legal aspects of foreign trade and investment transactions. Forms and documentation of types of foreign trade contracts. Conflict avoidance, arbitration, and litigation arising from international transactions. Government regulation of foreign trade. Legal aspects of the international transfer of investments and technology. Conventions and institutions of international economic cooperation (e.g. GATT, ICC, IMF, etc.).
Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016
Instructors: Beck, Leslie A (Fall) Beck, Leslie A (Winter)
Corequisite: MGCR 382
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BUSA 402 Independent Studies in Social Business and Enterprise (3 credits)
Overview
Business Admin : An independent study in social business and enterprise under the supervision of a faculty member.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Only open to U3 students within the BCom; Major in Strategic Management, BCom; Major in General Management; or Concentration in Strategic Management - Social Business & Enterprise.
CGPA of at least 3.00 and approval of BCom Director required.
Projects to be arranged individually with instructors. Application required, consisting of a proposal of project, approval of faculty member, approval of Area Coordinator, and final approval of BCom Director, before the end of the add/drop period.
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ECON 305 Industrial Organization (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : The course analyzes the structure, conduct, and performance of industries, particularly but not exclusively in Canada. Topics include effects of mergers, barriers to entry, product line and promotion policies, vertical integration, and R & D policies of firms.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Lasio, Laura (Fall)
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ECON 313 Economic Development 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Summer 2016
Instructors: Sen Choudhury, Eesha (Fall) Kurien, John C (Winter) Sen Choudhury, Eesha (Summer)
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ECON 314 Economic Development 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Macroeconomic development issues, including theories of growth, public finance, debt, currency crises, corruption, structural adjustment, democracy and global economic organization.
Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016
Instructors: Sen Choudhury, Eesha (Fall) Sen Choudhury, Eesha; Kurien, John C (Winter)
Prerequisite: ECON 313
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-313D
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INTD 200 Introduction to International Development (3 credits)
Overview
International Development : An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of International Development Studies focusing on the theory and practice of development. It examines various approaches to international development, including past and present relationships between developed and underdeveloped societies, and pays particular attention to power and resource distribution globally and within nations.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Takamura, Kazue; Butera, Eloge (Fall)
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MGPO 362 Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Study of the key aspects involved in starting and managing a new venture: identifying opportunities and analyzing new venture ideas, identifying common causes of failure and strategies for success, understanding intellectual property systems, comparison of multiple modes of funding. Applies to for-profit and not-for-profit start-ups.
Terms: Fall 2015
Instructors: Younkin, Peter (Fall)
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MGPO 430 Practicum in Not for Profit Consulting (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : This course is designed around a pro bono consulting experience. It is meant to connect students to both the NGO community as well as the consulting world. The students go through the entire process of researching potential NGOs, writing and getting a Letter of Proposal Signed off, undertaking the first hand research and analysis, presenting the project results to the Board of the NGO, and finally presenting it to both the professor and the office of the partnering consulting firm. Students are put into teams whose structure is meant to mimic that of a real consulting team.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken MGPO 434 when topic course was 鈥淣ot for Profit Consulting鈥�
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MGPO 433 Topics in Social Business and Enterprise (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Specialized advanced topic in social business and enterprise.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Restriction (s): Open only to U2 and U3 students.
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MGPO 434 Topics in Policy 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : This is a specialized course covering an advanced topic in strategy and organization.
Terms: Winter 2016
Instructors: Okhmatovskiy, Ilya; Toulan, Omar Nohad (Winter)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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MGPO 435 The Origins of Capitalism (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : This course covers the evolution of modern business institutions from their roots in the early middle ages to the modern era. Covering economic issues in the context of arts and culture, it offers a "distant mirror on globalization."
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Restriction: Restricted to U2 and U3 students
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MGPO 468 Managing Organizational Politics (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Power and politics can be mechanisms of control that maintain the status quo or they can be used as a force for change. Students learn how to recognize politics and use power. There is also a strong focus on the ethical implications.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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MGSC 402 Operations Strategy (3 credits)
Overview
Management Science : Effective management at the operating unit level, including the concept of "operations strategy", action-oriented tools and frameworks for designing and managing operations innovation, effective use of operations-related technologies and supply chain strategy.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Restriction: Not open to U0 and U1 students
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ORGB 380 Cross Cultural Management (3 credits)
Overview
Organizational Behaviour : Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning.
Terms: Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Summer 2016
Instructors: Westgate, Chantal (Fall) Hollister, Matissa (Winter) Jaeger, Alfred M (Summer)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
This optional course is part of the Brazil Study Abroad Program which has a fee of $2650 which includes a 12 day trip to Brazil for company visits and classes. A small portion of the fee is eligible for a tax receipt on the T2202A, and includes accommodation in Brazil, breakfasts, local course related transportation, as well as instructor costs.