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10 hours

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Difficulty level

Beginner

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Advanced Business Strategy
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  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Course 2 of 5 in the Business Strategy Specialization
  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
  • Beginner Level Some familiarity with business is helpful, but not required.
  • Approx. 10 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, English, Spanish
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  • Advance your strategic analysis skills in this follow-up to Foundations of Business Strategy. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, you'll learn the tools to analyze strategy across time (competitive dynamics), industries (corporate strategy), geographies (international strategy), and institutions (non-market strategy). Top-ranked faculty will introduce the tools you need to complete a comprehensive evaluation and understand the strategy dynamics of an industry: Competitive Lifecycle, Internationalization and Stakeholder Analyses, and Diversification Matrices.

Advanced Business Strategy
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Curriculum

Dynamic Strategy

Introduction to Strategy Over Time

The Dynamic Capabilities Perspective

Introduction to the Competitive Life Cycle

Competitive Life Cycle: Common Patterns

Why Incumbent Firms Fail or Survive

Competitive Life Cycle Analysis

Module Lessons

Strategist's Toolkit: Competitive Life Cycle Analysis

Course Overview

Course Requirements

Get to Know Your Classmates

Using the Discussion Forums

Dynamic Strategy

International Strategy

Introduction to International Strategy

Patterns of Internationalization

Where to Compete

Entering Foreign Markets: Exporting

Entering Foreign Markets: Licensing and Alliances

Entering Foreign Markets: Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign Direct Investment: Entry Mode

Module Lessons

Strategist's Toolkit: Internationalization Analysis

International Strategy

Diversification Strategy

Introduction to Competing across Industries

Financial Reasons to Diversify

Operational Reasons to Diversify

Strategic Reasons to Diversify

Why Firms Exist: Theory of the Firm

Limits on Firm Scope

The Right Degree of Diversification

Module Lessons

Strategist's Toolkit: Diversification Matrices

Diversification Strategy

Stakeholder Strategy

Introduction to Stakeholder Strategy

Creating Value for Stakeholders

Aligning Key Stakeholders

Aligning Secondary Stakeholders

Sources of Institutional Pressure

Value Creation and Your Values

Module Lessons

Strategist's Toolkit: Stakeholder Analysis

Assignment Overview

Stakeholder Strategy

Practice Reviewing an Assignment

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    May 25, 2024
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    Learning Experience: The content was about strategies used in businesses like fdi, international strategy.
    Faculty: Faculty teaches through recorded video and teaches with very good understanding and the name is jared harris and also has peer group where we can share opinions and doubts with some learners The course is taken by university of Virginia through coursera and the assignment is given to analyze a business pricing strategies and five forces analysis and assessment is 15 mcq questions and has some reading resources
    Course Support: No it doesn't have any job assistance but very good to understand business
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    Learning Experience: Learning experience was good
    Faculty: Instructors taught well Curriculum was relevant and comprehensive
    Course Support: No career support provided
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    Other: Very good program
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