Practicing Strategy
Registration in Fall Semester 2024:
To ensure quality and due to didactic reasons, the number of participants is limited to 20. Please register through myStudies to enroll for the course. Slots are assigned based on a first-come first-serve policy (in the order of the registration date on myStudies) with a waiting list. In the past, we could accommodate all students.
For any further questions, please contact Rudolf Maculan.
This lecture is a special course for MAS students which supplements the Strategic Management course. Participants work on real-life strategy problems in a two-day workshop and apply concepts & methods from the Strategic Management course to develop suitable solutions.
Successful registration and participation (either parallel enrollment or successful completion in a previous semester) in the course "Strategic Management" is required.
Instructors:
Assistant:
Goal of the course
The course aims to provide participants with tools to transfer and use the concepts and methods from the Strategic Management lecture to develop solutions for strategic issues in real-life business contexts.
Format and Schedule
The course is an interactive two-day workshop and two metoring sessions with collaborative exercises and a group work.
Schedule Day 1 (25.10.2024)
WEV F 109-111
10:15-18:00
Schedule Day 2 (22.11.2024)
WEV F 109-111
10:00-15:30
Assignments and Mentoring Sessions
You will submit a one-page assignment containing your firm's current strategic problem before the course start.
During the lecture, your group will choose one case. You will build a strategy to solve the case with your group.
There are two mentoring sessions between the lectures. Chan Hyung Park will mentor you on problem formulation and framing shortly after the first course day. Thomas Gersdorf will mentor you on strategizing before the second course day.
You will be well equipped for your presentation on course day two.
Literature
Practitioner Articles on Strategy and AI
- external page Camillus, J. C. (2008). Strategy as a wicked problem. Harvard business review, 86(5), 98-101.
- external page Felin, T., & Zenger, T. (2018). What sets breakthrough strategies apart. MIT Sloan Management Review, 59(2), 86-88.
- external page Kolbjørnsrud, V., Amico, R., & Thomas, R. J. (2016). How artificial intelligence will redefine management. Harvard Business Review, 2(1), 3-10.
- external page Rumelt, R. P. (2022). Getting strategy wrong—and how to do it right instead. The McKinsey Quarterly.
- external page Shrestha, Y. R., Ben-Menahem, S., & von Krogh, G. (2019). Organizational Decision-Making Structures in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. California Management Review, 1-18.
- external page Tinsley, C. H., Dillon, R. L., & Madsen, P. M. (2011). How to avoid catastrophe. Harvard Business Review, 89(4), 90-97.
- external page von Krogh, G., Ben-Menahem, S., & Shrestha, Y., (2022). Artificial Intelligence in Strategizing: Prospects and Challenges, In I. Duhaime, M. Hitt & M. Lyles (Eds.), Strategic Management: State of the Field and Its Future, Cambridge University Press.