Required Courses at Schulich

SGMT 6000.03 - Strategic Management
This course examines business and corporate strategy with the focus on strategic management, the process of choosing and defining purposes and objectives, formulating and implementing a viable strategy and monitoring strategic performance. It deals with the organization in its totality and demonstrates how and why the various functions of business are interdependent and need to be coordinated if the organization is to perform effectively. The course elaborates on the applicability of the strategic management discipline to a variety of sizes and types of organizations.

MGMT 6100.03 - Strategy Field Study
Directed by a panel of three faculty advisors (of whom one is the Chair of any group project), this course takes the form of a six-month study of an actual organization by a group of six to eight students. It requires the comprehensive description and evaluation of a large or small, profit-seeking or nonprofit, entrepreneurial or mature, service or manufacturing, domestic or international organization, together with appropriate recommendations for improved performance. The main purpose of the strategy study is to provide an opportunity to develop a thorough understanding of the environment, markets, technology and operations of a real organization. Students apply and integrate knowledge and skills acquired throughout the curriculum and further develop their skills in working productively in a team. At the conclusion of the study, students must make a final report to the organization's senior management team which includes appropriate recommendations for improved performance.