2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

BUSN 455 Strategic Management

This is a capstone course that is designed to integrate and apply knowledge from the various business functional areas for the purpose of formulating and implementing corporate strategy at the upper levels of management. 

Credits

3

Prerequisites

BUSN 320; BUSN 221 or BUSN 380; BUSN 351; BUSN 370; graduating senior

Offered

Spring

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Understand Strategic Management and its business applications
  2. Provide a clear strategic vision for an organization
  3. Develop strategic objectives and tracking performance of those objectives
  4. Understand competitive strategies used to provide distinctive industry positioning and competitive advantage in the marketplace
  5. Leverage resources and capabilities in a global market
  6. Craft an organizational strategy that matches an organization's strengths and competitive capabilities
  7. Identify tools and techniques and organization can use to promote excellence
  8. Recognize conditions that give rise to unethical business strategies and behavior
  9. Explain the concepts of corporation social responsibility, corporate citizenship, and corporate sustainability
  10. Understand the mans in which to implement corporate-level strategy
  11. Identify fundamental cross-country differences that shape strategy choices in international markets
  12. Through case studies, analyze business successes and failures, and apply what you have learned