MBA 5480 HY: Capstone
The capstone is the culminating experience of the MBA program. It facilitates students’ integration of key functional area expertise as well as leadership, global and sustainable business knowledge and skills acquired throughout the MBA curriculum. This course focuses on business unit and corporate strategy. It explores the macro environment, and industry and competitor environments, and equips managers with frameworks and tools to help them analyze complex business situations and create strategic decisions and outcomes that optimize organizational performance. Topics covered include competitive advantage, competitive strategies, diversification, outsourcing, strategic alliances, and acquisitions. Students work in teams to engage in strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation using a competitive strategy simulation. This course is only available for graduate students enrolled in the Barowsky School of Business or 4+1 business majors with Program Director approval.