Moodle

Strategic Management is an integrative capstone course that seeks to provide a comprehensive look at organizations. Although it will draw upon many of the business courses that you have been exposed to, it does go beyond merely tying together the various functional courses you have had. Using the fundamentals in various areas such as accounting, marketing, finance and management, operations, and management information systems, several contemporary theories and practices of organizations will be explored.

Students learn about the financial-monetary-economic environment of international business. Topics include balance of payment, foreign exchange markets and risk, trade finance, direct foreign investment, capital budgeting in the multinationals firma and the international money and capital markets. 

This course examines common internal operational issues regarding business firms and explores emerging external social influences that impact their operations. Major course themes include: human resources; organizational behavior; leadership and team building; ethics; negotiation; accounting and finance; international, national, and local economics; marketing, strategy, and competitive analysis; advertising and promotion; communications and presentations; project management; management information systems; e-commerce and uses of the World Wide Web; and quality management systems. Additionally, recurring themes of the course include sustainability and social responsibility along with the emergence of social media and other tools that encourage transparency.

The process of solving management problems by economic analysis is explored. Classifications of the economic basis for business policies and key economic concepts that can serve as a framework for business decisions are covered.