Business and Corporate Strategy

Course Objective

“Business and Corporate Strategy” course is designed to equip managers with the concepts, frameworks, and techniques towards making better strategic decisions. The participants through the completion of the course are expected to learn why and how some organizations exist and outperform the others in a specific business landscape and continue to derive competitive advantage? The participants of the course are expected to take leadership charge of the organization and to take responsibility for the performance of the organization. We have restricted the primary objective of the organization is to be profitability throughout the course though organizations with other than profit-objectives are out of the scope of the course. As the title of the course mentions, the course is divided into two broad modules, i.e., Business Strategy: dealing with how organizations derive competitive advantage and Corporate Strategy: dealing with what business(s) the organization should be in. The question of “how” and “what” of the business is not independent rather circular in nature. The course, nevertheless, follows a sequential approach for delivering Business Strategy (how) followed by Corporate Strategy (what). The course focuses on diagnosing the problem(s) of an organization in a complex management situation and searching and acting towards a solution. The course will demand drawing upon various functional theories and integrating towards a “holistic” management perspective towards problems and solutions.

Mandatory 2.5 Credits

Course Faculty

Prof. Anshuman Tripathy

Prof. Anshuman Tripathy works as an Associate Professor of General Management and Strategy group in the Business Management School at Xavier Institute of Management University, India along with being a visiting faculty across various IIMs of the country. He has close to 20 years of professional experience in seven organizations along with 5 years of research experience in the management field. He completed his Doctoral studies at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta in India and studied management at Instituto de Empresa in Spain. Prior to his current engagement at XIM University with the strategy group, he had the opportunity to work at M.H. Alshaya (a retail conglomerate with operations in 16 countries spread across the Middle East, North Africa, East Europe, and Russia region) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (a leading consultancy company). He also had the opportunity to be actively involved with a few start-ups such as Cornet Solutions, Mantra Labs, the Distance education wing of Utkal University, and Orissa Engineering College