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Concordia University
John Molson School of Business
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd West, GM 903-25
Montreal, Quebec H3G2P5
Canada
Department: Strategy
Course Name: Strategy and Social Responsibility in Action (MBA 625)
Core Course
Instructor(s)
I. Dostaler
W. Taylor
This course explores the process by which strategic intent and strategy are linked to managerial action. The course focuses on both the development of strategic action in response to issues emanating in the broader external environment as well as issues concerned with the implementation of action programs in contemporary organizations. Specific topics concerned with the external environment include managing social responsibility, economic and social regulations and technological change. Using major organizational theory concepts as a framework, the course also examines how strategic intent can be linked to organizational structure, performance evaluation, and management systems. A principal objective of the course is to enhance the student’s ability to make decisions though case studies, student presentation, and lectures.
Department: Strategy
Course Name: Business Policy and Strategy (MBA 622)
Core Course
Instructor(s)
Kamal Argheyd
Howard Campbell
This course integrates the core functional disciplines of business within a strategic perspective. The course introduces several strategic management concepts including industry analysis and dynamics, the organizational resource audit, strategic typologies, the role of the general manager, and the management of strategic transformations. Many aspects of social responsibility and ethics, on both the organizational and personal level are covered.
Most of the cases discussed each class cover such topics: green products (Ford case), cultural considerations in global companies (Sunlife Financial, McDonalds, Wal-Mart). Two of the cases focus entirely on ethics and CSR. "The Case of the Skeleton in the Corporate Closet" deals with the issue of a CEO finding that the company's founder may have used somebody else's invention as his own. The CEO's dilemma is what should he do now? "Nike's Dispute with the University of Oregon" deals with the alleged use of child labor and possibly unsafe work conditions by Nike's sub-contractors in developing countries such as Vietnam and China.
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