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HEC Intra - Corporate Strategy


HEC
Enrollment in this course is by invitation only

About the course

Objectives:

After having examined the sources of competitive advantage and value creation in a given industry or business, we now turn to Corporate Strategy to answer the following question: how can a firm achieve profitable growth? Vertical integration, diversification and geographic expansion are different options for growth. Alliances, mergers and acquisitions, or organic development, are different modes through which to pursue these moves.

The teacher:

Pierre Dussauge - Faculty Dean, Professor, Strategy

Pierre Dussauge is a Professor of Strategic Management at HEC Paris. He holds a Masters in Management degree from HEC and earned a Ph.D. in Management Science from Paris-Dauphine University. He was a visiting professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the Ross Business School of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) from 1991 to 2003; he has also had teaching assignments at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), at IESE (Barcelona, Spain), at INCAE (Costa Rica), at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad), at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), etc.

Pierre Dussauge is the author or co-author of several books in the field of strategic management, including Strategor (Dunod, 2016, 7th edition), the leading French language strategy textbook. He is also the author of many articles published in academic or practitioner-oriented journals. For the last few years, his research has focused on the topic of global strategic alliances.

In addition to his academic work, Pierre Dussauge has been a consultant or a management educator with a number of firms in Europe and in the US.

Content

Program:

Introduction - What is Corporate Strategy?

Value Creation and Governance

Vertical Integration and Outsourcing

Global Competition and International Strategies

Diversification and Refocusing

Mergers and Acquisitions

Strategic Alliances and Inter-firm Cooperation


The MOOC course is made of:

  • Videos
  • Quizzes
  • Live sessions
  • Specific topics to discuss with fellow learners and the faculty on a discussion forum
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