MGMT 682 Strategic Management and Consulting
This course is a capstone seminar in strategic management incorporating elements of organization/consulting and design thinking. It examines the roles and responsibilities of top managers in developing, implementing, and managing an effective organization-wide strategy. Students learn current, new, and future perspectives and concepts as well as integrate learning from previous coursework to solve complex and challenging business problems. Specifically, this course provides the student with an overview of the "world" of strategic consulting, and of consulting as a career. Students will develop the basic conceptual and skill-based understanding required to practice consulting or hire and work with an outside consultant. A case-study method is used to develop an integrative enterprise perspective. Being the capstone course, it must be taken within 6 units of graduation and after the completion of all PMBA course requirements.