Address strategic visioning for both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations
Define the strategic task in the face of rapidly evolving markets and a wide variety of industries and organizations
Review key strategic concepts including competitive advantage, industry structure, competitive intelligence, critical success factors and positional advantages
View the role of the strategist in major strategic decision-making tasks such as building and leveraging human, intellectual, social and
financial capital
Strategically leverage information assets and knowledge management
Link vision to strategic outcomes and value creation for shareholders and stakeholders

MBUS 804 – Strategy II: Strategic Transformation

Address the implementation and execution of major strategic decisions
Explore the notions of strategic planning as the “game plan” for change
Apply frameworks and concepts from the book Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days by Queen's School of Business faculty Elspeth Murray and Peter Richardson
Understand the role of guidance, speed and momentum in creating winning conditions for successful strategic change
Apply strategic concepts to turnaround, new acquisition and cultural change situations
Address the specific challenge of successful implementation and how leaders implement transformational strategies quickly and effectively

MBUS 805 – Strategy III: Integration and Implementation/Capstone Project

Integrate the key concepts from previous courses to identify, analyze and propose recommendations for important strategic issues facing companies
Understand the manager's role in improving performance along a number of quantitative and qualitative dimensions
View the strategist as an analyst and integrator, implementing value chain revisions, as well as successful implementation in growth, stable and declining industries
Undertake a “live” consulting project designed to focus on understanding the human, cross-disciplinary problems of achieving the implementation of a new strategic initiative in a for-profit enterprise
Choose a project that exemplifies circumstances such as entry into or exit from a market, post-merger integration, or responding to the emergence of a new technology

Leadership

Creating High-Performance Teams

Build the skill set necessary to function in effective and supportive teams
Learn how to lead high-performance teams in an organizational setting
Develop methods to build consensus, lead through example and manage disparate views
Engage in a five-step team building model that outlines the key elements for high-performance team development
Benefit from effective coaching and facilitation techniques
Apply techniques in experiential exercises, case discussions and briefings

MBUS 843 – Leadership and Interpersonal Skills for Managers

Consider, discuss and reflect on the nature of leadership
Understand the role, importance and function of leadership
Examine your assumptions about yourself and your future growth development
Develop your own views on effective and ineffective leadership
Examine your assumptions about others and how they lead/follow
Investigate leadership issues related to diversity, global business management and ethics
Develop an understanding of how you can enhance your leadership effectiveness through communications skills

MBUS 844 – Ethical Leadership and Decision Making

Establish ethical leadership as a critical management task
Address the increased scrutiny from external stakeholders (e.g., clients, shareholders,
politicians, citizen groups and the media)
Understand the importance of moral leadership in the development of an ethical corporate culture
Incorporate ethical thought and social responsibility into managerial decision making
Apply the tools of ethical leadership and diversity-sensitive management to a range of ethical challenges in both national and international contexts

Finance, Accounting and Corporate Governance

MBUS 813 – Advanced Managerial Finance

Understand why the success or failure of today's complex and networked enterprises hinges
upon developing access to capital markets, deploying resources to value-enhancing projects and managing risk strategically
Study leading-edge topics in investment management including asset allocation and fixed income analysis
Learn valuation methods for old and new economy stocks
Explore corporate finance aspects such as real options analysis, mergers and acquisitions
and corporate governance
Understand risk management, the role of derivatives and market and credit risk exposure measurement

MBUS 834 – Financial Accounting: Valuation and Analysis

Learn how accounting information derived from financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) can best be used in valuing an entity's equity securities
Translate knowledge of a business and assessments of such factors as technological advantage and strategic position into forecasted accounting income, balance sheet and cash flow
Incorporate accounting knowledge into a rigorous valuation model, known as the residual income model, pioneered by Ohlson (1995) and Feltham and Ohlson (1995)
Practice leading-edge valuation methodologies on par with those used by the most sophisticated US analysts

MBUS 833 – Governance and Control Systems

Develop competencies that allow the understanding and application of corporate governance and control frameworks
Address the risks arising from performance measurement systems, including production of traditional financial statements
Learn about the role and value of corporate governance approaches and control frameworks from the perspective of a business manager
Decide the nature and amount of investment in control and assurance activities in order to manage the risks that are an integral part of any entity's operations
Understand the strong association between weak governance and control systems and corporate failure
Explore from a managerial perspective how performance measurement and control systems can be evaluated, modified and/or developed to deal with the challenges facing the organization

Global Business and Economics

MBUS 873 – Managing in the Global Business Environment

Address globalization trends in the world economy and the political-economic climate of global business
Study the role of international institutions and the impact of effective management in a multinational corporation
Learn skills in interpersonal management to deal with the complex issues arising in cross-cultural settings
Understand the visible and subtle dynamics of power in a distributed global enterprise
Apply theory and best practices to complex global management situations

MBUS 864 – Advanced Managerial Economics

Understand the complexity of national and international business environments
Develop the ability to monitor and understand the economic environment
Understand the role of the economic environment in the success of today's for-profit and not-for-profit organizations
Apply economics of demand and forecasting, theory of the firm, production and cost, competition, pricing strategies and market structures
Recognize the role of government in a modern market economy

Strategic Marketing

MBUS 823 – Strategic Marketing I: Building Customer Value

Address critical issues in the development of marketing strategies
Apply Mission Critical Marketing to reviewing and developing marketing programs as well as identifying alternative strategies
Focus on internal organizational issues including building a market-driven organization
Understand the external issues that affect how marketers reach customers
Recognize the changing power dynamics among channel of distribution members
Address the impact of technology on building customer and business relationships

MBUS 825 – Strategic Marketing II: The Brand Driven Organization

Understand the importance of branding in business strategy and its role as the pivotal point in maintaining competitive advantage, creating customer value and building lasting customer relationships
Examine the strategic building of brands using a mix of product attributes, consumer experiences and symbolic and iconic cultural meaning
Integrate all elements of the marketing mix: product policy and service delivery, packaging, integrated communications, channels and retail policy
Explore the role of branding, co-branding and marketing alliances in existing products, new products and product line extensions
Address methods of gaining power in existing channels and building new channels of distribution
Study how the firm's appropriation of cultural meaning in brand symbols potentially exposes the firm to sensitive corporate social responsibility issues

Operations

MBUS 807 – Strategic Operations Management

Discuss the role of Project Management in the implementation of an organization’s strategy
Review supply chain management and the implications for management of off-shore suppliers
Understand the relationship between employee loyalty and customer retention and their collective impact on profit
Leading and supporting product and service innovation in a lean environment

Information Technology

MBUS 853 – Maximizing Return from the IT Investment

View capability of information technology (IT) to generate substantial value when used strategically
Address the challenge of deploying IT to guarantee business value
Understand the tools and concepts essential to maximize the return on investment in strategically important technologies
Become familiar with IT infrastructure and emerging technologies, IT strategy and alignment with corporate strategy
Identify how to establish a flexible IT organization and how to adopt and implement new technologies
Evaluate IT performance (linking IT investments to business performance)

Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

MBUS 806 – Strategic Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Study the characteristics, attributes and personal qualities of successful entrepreneurs
Explore innovation strategy and management with a view to creativity, culture, motivation and commercialization
Undertake new venture feasibility analysis and identify sources of funding and methods of valuation
Learn how to develop effective business plans
Become familiar with the legal aspects of launching and managing a venture
Address start-up and growth strategies

MBUS 824 – Strategic Creativity for Product and Service Development

Establish the link between creativity and successful new product and service innovation in a wide variety of domains including technology and science, the arts, entertainment, health care and consumer products
View creativity as the foundation of successful innovations in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations
Recognize the crucial role of creativity in times of increasing competition, rapidly evolving technologies, decreasing market share and economic downturns
Apply exercises, applied projects, readings and cases to the formation of an integrated view of the role of creativity
Foster and implement creativity in improving productivity, morale and organizational performance