MBA5090 - Strategy and policy

Leader: Professor Owen Hughes

Offered

Caulfield Second semester 2007 (On-campus)

Synopsis

Strategy began as a field of study with the military use of the term and by analogy later with business. The military use persists in strategic studies and the contrast between strategy and tactics. Both strategy in this sense and in the business strategy sense draw on early theorists such as Sun Tze, Thucydides, Machiavelli and Clausewitz. The aim of this unit is to link scholarship of the classic thinkers with practical experience. This unit is based on case studies with the focus on real world strategic situations.

Objectives

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

• understand the derivation of ideas about strategy
• demonstrate a knowledge and awareness of key thinkers about strategy in different historical and locational contexts
• critically evaluate how these different theories can be applicable to the contemporary setting
• further enhance communication, inter-personal, problem solving and critical thinking capabilities.

Assessment

Major essay (3000 words): 60%, Minor essay (1500 words): 30%, Class presentation (1000 words): 10%

Contact hours

39