MBE 554: Managing Growth & Value Creation

The objective of this course is to provide students with insights into the problems and opportunities involved in managing growth and value creation. The course is designed to introduce a series of concepts, frameworks, and heuristics that enable people to manage growth in organizations of all sizes and types.  The course focuses on the decisions and actions managers take in recognizing and choosing opportunities, obtaining and allocating resources, challenging, and directing personnel, and adapting personal goals and corporate strategies to changing personal and business conditions. Students learn strategic methods, working through operational decision-making processes, and learn how to identify opportunities for value creation, testing and improve value creation opportunities, develop a strategic plan for successful value creation, and structure operations to facilitate its execution