STRT 1990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
STRT 2990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
STRT 3301. Multinational Corporations and Global Sustainability: Complexities, Strategies, and Societal Impact. (4 Hours)
Explores the role of multinational corporations and their leaders in addressing key sustainability challenges including climate change, wealth inequality, and human rights concerns. Examines how multinationals, with their vast resources and global influence, are uniquely positioned to address global sustainability issues through management practices and actionable strategies. Investigates how national rules, norms, and cultural beliefs shape the responses of multinationals and influence their ability to drive positive change in society.
STRT 3990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
STRT 4301. Strategic Analysis and Decision Making. (4 Hours)
Examines key components of strategic decision making in-depth. Strategic decision making involves solving complex business problems to achieve company objectives within a competitive context. Topics covered include understanding the competitive environment, managing uncertainty, identifying and evaluating resource allocation alternatives, and creating action plans to implement strategic decisions. Emphasizes critical thinking and making decisions with incomplete information in a competitive environment.
STRT 4501. Strategy in Action. (4 Hours)
Introduces and describes the tools necessary to analyze, formulate, and implement business strategy in today’s uncertain and volatile world. Provides a dynamic, global, cross-functional perspective across traditional, platform, digital, and other cutting-edge businesses. Offers students an opportunity to sharpen their ability to think strategically at multiple levels, including overall strategies, major firm activities, and specific actions. Examines the drivers of sustained superior performance in the face of rapidly changing markets, technologies, societies, and geopolitics. Offers a capstone experience that translates into real-world strategic situations.
Attribute(s): NUpath Capstone Experience, NUpath Writing Intensive
STRT 4509. Strategic Management. (4 Hours)
Presents a general management perspective on business strategy, the "big picture." Illustrates how a well-thought-out strategy can lead to sustained, superior performance by firms in a dynamic business environment. Offers students an opportunity to obtain a broad understanding of the importance and complexity of strategic decisions from a practical and problem-oriented approach. Applies concepts, analytic frameworks, and intuition to the strategic issues that real-world companies face.
STRT 4990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
STRT 4992. Directed Study. (1-4 Hours)
Offers independent work under the direction of faculty members of the department on a chosen topic. Course content depends on instructor. May be repeated up to three times for a maximum of 8 semester hours.
STRT 6200. Strategic Decision Making in a Changing Environment. (3 Hours)
Focuses on strategy development and implementation for a line of business and for the corporation as a whole by adopting a top management perspective. Beginning with developing a mission statement and goals for the firm, focuses on environmental scanning, incorporating economic, technological, sociopolitical, and legal trends in conducting industry analysis, thus assessing opportunities and threats and the firm’s capabilities before formulating strategy that represents a fit between the environment and the firm. Discusses how to develop competitive advantage and assess competitive positioning, and studies how organizational structure and systems contribute to implementing strategy. Stresses the role of leadership and motivation before moving on to feedback mechanisms to assess success in strategy implementation, leading to revision of strategic plans as needed.
STRT 6410. Workforce Metrics and Analytics. (4 Hours)
Explores the importance of effectively managing and measuring workforce investments to enhance strategic success. Exposes students to how human capital can become a critical source of competitive advantage, uncovering the limits of traditional accounting metrics for capturing its value. Offers opportunities to identify high-impact roles, employ strategic workforce measurement frameworks, and develop specialized scorecards to align HR decisions with business strategy. Provides tools for formulating analytics questions, gathering relevant data, and applying advanced techniques such as regression, network analysis, and machine learning. Students construct strategy maps and causal models, establishing clear destination metrics that guide performance improvements. Examines how to refine decision-making, foster accountability, uphold ethical and legal standards, ensure data privacy in workforce analytics, and drive strategic impact.
STRT 6418. Strategic Planning for the Future. (2 Hours)
Presents the fundamental concepts for understanding and managing strategy in a competitive context. Focuses on analysis, critical thinking, and making strategic decisions. Discusses the analytical tools to understand the industry and firm context. Explores the design and execution of strategies to compete successfully. Investigates the strategic changes involved as firms grow and expand into new businesses and geographic markets.
STRT 6422. Strategy for Sustainable Transformation: Leading Organizational Change. (4 Hours)
Examines strategic frameworks for integrating sustainability into organizational strategy and operations. Addresses the business case for sustainability, strategic prioritization of ESG initiatives, and methods for embedding sustainability into organizational culture. Analyzes strategic leadership and change management approaches necessary for executing sustainability transformations, including managing resistance and navigating implementation challenges. Emphasizes systems thinking and strategic diagnosis of organizational readiness through an action learning project with a real organization and a sustainability simulation. Offers students an opportunity to develop strategic visions for sustainable futures using scenario planning and change strategy architecture as they apply strategic concepts to real-world sustainability challenges. Topics include strategic stakeholder mapping, materiality assessment methodologies, scenario planning, strategic visioning, and designing multilevel intervention strategies for sustainable transformation.
STRT 6424. Managing the Sustainable Global Enterprise. (4 Hours)
Explores the nature of the challenges and expectations around the role of corporations in society. Covers best management practices for addressing sustainability issues in a global context and how different national rules, norms, and beliefs contribute to shape multinational companies’ ability and willingness to take on the role of positive change agents in society.
STRT 6440. Strategic Management for Healthcare Organizations. (4 Hours)
Provides a conceptual foundation for formulating and implementing business strategy within the healthcare industry. Focuses on market opportunities and challenges as they apply to healthcare organizations such as hospitals, physician organizations, nursing homes, and pharmaceutical/biotech companies. Incorporates analytic frameworks from economics, management, law, and psychology. Examines several types of business models for organizing and delivering healthcare services such as management service organizations, independent practice associations, and physician-hospital organizations. Key strategic topics covered include mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and alliances. Implementation topics feature organizational design and performance evaluation systems.
STRT 6962. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
STRT 7976. Directed Study. (1-4 Hours)
Offers independent work under the direction of members of the department on chosen topics. May be repeated once.