This course develops one's ability to address situations faced by managers. This involves collecting information, analyzing that information to determine what decision or action is required and then selling the recommended decision or action to the management team. Selling this is done using one's persuasive skills in both telling a story and illustrating that story.

STRT 22000 Making The Business Case

Making The Business Case

An examination and study, for management students, of the nature and place of law in our society, both national and international, the social and moral bases of law enactment, regulation of business, legal liability, enforcement procedures, and the legal environment for managers.

STRT 25400 Legal Foundations Of Business I

Legal Foundations Of Business I

STRT 25400 Legal Found Business-Honors

Legal Found Business-Honors

This course has four objectives: (1) To Increase self-awareness and understand its value in managing careers; (2) To learn how gender culture and implicit bias may affect workplace experiences; (3) To develop strategies to deal with gender related challenges; and (4) To develop competencies in leading effective, gender-aware teams. By exploring these areas, students will develop new insights for managing their careers, and they will learn new leadership strategies to help their teams achieve higher levels of performance.

STRT 29400 Navigating Gender In The Workplace

Navigating Gender In The Workplace

Venture creation drives progress by solving complex challenges, addressing pressing problems, and unlocking new opportunities. It begins with a deep understanding of stakeholder needs, customer pain points, and systemic challenges through rigorous observation and direct engagement. This course helps students lay that foundation by identifying a problem space they care about and embarking on a discovery journey. By the end, they will define their Challenge X - a clear, high-impact problem or opportunity that could inspire a new venture. Permission from Instructor is required.

STRT 31200 Venture X1-Honors

Venture X1-Honors

Once a validated problem is identified, how do we transform deep insights into impactful solutions? Building on Venture X1, this course focuses on designing, testing, and refining the right solution through rapid prototyping, business model innovation, and stakeholder engagement. Students will explore multiple solutions, iterate based on real-world feedback, and prioritize those that leverage existing technologies for maximum impact. By the end, they will have their Solution X - a validated prototype and model ready for further development and eventual venture creation. Permission of instructor required.

STRT 31300 Solution X - Designing And Building The Product To Address Challenge X

Solution X - Designing And Building The Product To Address Challenge X

The course focuses on understanding competitive forces and how organizations strive to build sustainable competitive advantages through business- and corporate-level strategies. It integrates and builds upon previous training in functional areas and presents new analytical tools for developing an understanding of the strategic decisions that determine future directions and effectiveness of the organization.

STRT 35200 Strategic Management

Strategic Management

This novel course will provide an opportunity for motivated students to gain exposure to the skills and tools necessary to succeed in the consulting industry. There will be a chance to work in small teams to define client problems, collect and analyze data, develop solution proposals, and implement recommendations. Students will also be given an insider's look into the history of consulting, common types of consulting, and professional standards in this specialized area of management. Honing skills in project management, presentation delivery, storytelling, and stakeholder engagement will form the foundation of the tools used to solve client challenges.

STRT 35500 Consulting Tools And Skills

Consulting Tools And Skills

Investigation into a specific topic area of Strategic Management. Permission of instructor required.

STRT 39000 Principled Bus Leadership

Principled Bus Leadership

STRT 39000 The Road To Character In Bus

The Road To Character In Bus

In this course you learn why organizations struggle to innovate, how to successfully analyze and implement an innovation strategy, and you learn to manage the innovation process. The course consists of two pillars (or 'walls') that enable a company to become innovative (Innovation Strategy and Organization Design) and the innovation process itself. The innovation process contains how to generate, select, implement, protect, experiment, scale, and diffuse ideas. Consequently, this course will provide you the skills and knowledge to manage innovations. Permission of department required.

STRT 44630 Innovation Management

Innovation Management

This course focuses on the dynamics between a firm and the marketplace including interaction with competition. Strategy implementation occurs over multiple periods and is highly dependent on choices and behavior of competition. The course material covers how these dynamics and expectations of competitor response will shape the decisions of managers. This is inclusive of signaling intent to competitors and mutual forbearance to avoid negative sum gain competition.

STRT 44710 Competitive Strategy

Competitive Strategy

In today's business environment, success is driven by a firm's ability to create and capture value through innovation. This course seeks to develop tools for understanding how firms and industries evolve through new technology. This award-winning course uses an experiential team-based approach. Student teams pick a firm early in the semester and become experts in it by understanding how each framework we learn impacts its performance. The class is very interactive and there are various presentations throughout the semester. Ultimately students gain a deep understanding of the processes used by firms to develop new technologies, the choices they make regarding how to commercialize their knowledge, and the strategies they use to position and build a dominant competitive position.

STRT 44810 Technology Strategy

Technology Strategy

This course examines the management challenges posed by the growth in worldwide manufacturing capabilities, markets, and competition and by rapid advances in technology and the concomitant decline in product life cycles. The manufacturing function is considered within a broader context encompassing design, engineering, purchasing, marketing, and customer service in an effort to assess the degree to which existing management structures successfully meet the challenges arising from the changing manufacturing environment.

STRT 45200 Manufacturing Strategy And Process Innovation

Manufacturing Strategy And Process Innovation

The nature and place of law in our society, national and international, social and moral bases of law enactment, regulation of business, legal liability, and enforcement procedures. Special emphasis on torts, contracts, and agency. No credit to students in the School of Management.

STRT 45500 Legal Background For Business I

Legal Background For Business I

A study of commercial law as prescribed by the Uniform Commercial Code, including the law of sales, documents of title, negotiable instruments, and the law relating to security interests. Additional material is presented covering the legal aspects of real estate transactions and personal property transfer.

STRT 45600 Legal Foundations For Business II

Legal Foundations For Business II

This course focuses on the challenges top managers face in developing strategies and management policies in multinational corporations (MNCs). Major topics usually covered include foreign market entry strategies, motivations and organizational challenges of internationalization, analyzing global industries, managing MNC/host government relations, building competitive advantage in global industries, international alliances and acquisitions, structuring and controlling MNCs, risk management, and the country manager role.

STRT 45900 International Management

International Management

This course teaches skills required to become an entrepreneur, succeed in a start-up venture, work in venture capital, join a family business, or develop a franchise operation. Students will learn about how to identify and shape emerging market opportunities, innovate new business models, prepare and evaluate business plans, raise capital, build a skilled founding team, network for resources, and grow an initial market.

STRT 48400 Management Of Entrepreneurial Ventures

Management Of Entrepreneurial Ventures

Intellectual property (IP) has become a strategic opportunity for creating value for the firm. Firms are tasked with understanding how to utilize intellectual property as a competitive advantage in multiple market contexts. In the current economic environment, intellectual assets can be the largest portion of a firm's total wealth. Strategic management of these assets is very critical. Managing intellectual property is about transforming a firm's ideas, know-how, etc., into learning, products, and ultimately cash flow. In Managing Intellectual Property, we examine this topic by viewing intellectual property as both a legal asset (property ownership) and business asset (value-adding). The focus of Managing Intellectual Property is on the integration of IP generation, IP protection, and strategizing functions of the firm in creating value with an IP portfolio. Concepts and frameworks discussed/developed in lecture are exercised in case studies from multiple contexts.

STRT 49200 Intellectual Property Management

Intellectual Property Management

Management Consulting Practicum is an elective course consisting of consulting engagements with clients and projects from the Purdue Foundry and other sources. This course uses class time for students working in teams to receive timely guidance on applying a wide range of consulting skills and tools to supplement the client engagements.

STRT 49600 Management Consulting Practicum

Management Consulting Practicum

This course is open to all Purdue undergraduate and graduate students. Students first meet with early-stage investors to learn about their approaches to deal sourcing, investment strategies, and portfolio management. Then, as VC analysts, teams assess multiple pitch decks from companies actively seeking funding. Finally, students undertake a detailed assessment of the most attractive companies from the pitch deck assessment and recommend whether to make an investment from the SMVF Investment Fund. SMVF is a unique hands-on opportunity to become immersed in the process of funding early-stage companies from both the investor and founder's perspective.

STRT 51010 Student Managed Venture Fund

Student Managed Venture Fund

Managers, regardless of your industry, will routinely face HR and employment issues that collide with the law. In this course, we will examine many laws and the practical ways you can stay on the right side of the law. Don't worry, you aren't in a law school class and I don't expect you to become employment attorneys. However, I will help you gain a working knowledge of employment laws including: The Civil Rights Act, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, FLSA, and a host of alphabet soup. We will also apply these laws from posting a job description to recruiting to hiring to employee reviews to terminating an employee. While I can't guarantee you will never be sued by a disgruntled current or former employee, I can help you put yourself and your company in the best possible position to defend that suit. And don't worry: we will look at lots of quick case studies (less than a page) to give you context you can easily remember.

STRT 53600 Employment & Diversity Law For Managers

Employment & Diversity Law For Managers

The graduate-level course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the key principles and practices of digital transformation (DT) in the context of the modern industrial enterprise. We will explore the factors driving DT, the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing digital strategies, and the key technologies and tools involved in DT. The primary focus is on DT in the supply chain & operations of an enterprise through smart manufacturing, digital twins, and Industry 4.0. Students should note that DT is still a developing area and class participants will be expected to research and present topics where a definite answer is still emerging.

STRT 58000 Digital Transformation In Industrial Businesses

Digital Transformation In Industrial Businesses

This course builds on the foundations of strategic management to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping competitive advantage, business models, and industry structures. This course focuses on business strategy and business model outcomes enabled by AI - not on the programming or technical build-out of AI systems. We will examine how organizations use AI to: Reinvent value propositions and customer engagement; Create platform-based and data-driven ecosystems; Achieve operational advantages and new revenue streams; Respond to disruptive competitors and shifting industry dynamics. Students will also analyze the challenges associated with implementing AI in strategic contexts, including the non-deterministic nature of neural networks, model drift, governance, bias, and cultural adoption barriers. Key Questions We Will Address: How can AI drive new business model innovation? What strategies enable incumbents to leverage AI without losing strategic focus? How does AI adoption alter competitive dynamics within and across industries? What governance, ethical, and organizational factors determine AI's long-term value?

STRT 58200 AI In Business Transformation

AI In Business Transformation

Graduate-level variable-title course focusing on strategic leadership and decision-making. Emphasis is placed on synthesis of theory and practice in dynamic environments. Permission of instructor required.

STRT 59000 Sports Law

Sports Law

STRT 59000 Technology Landscape

Technology Landscape

STRT 59000 Management Consulting Pract

Management Consulting Pract

Purpose of the course is to provide the student with an understanding of the contract legal environment as it pertains to profit and non-profit organizations and of the ethical considerations and social and political influences that affect such organizations. Students will examine a wide range of substantive rules of public law, which will provide a framework for a discussion of the ways in which managerial decision making affects and is affected by the legal environment.

STRT 59200 Contracts For Managers

Contracts For Managers

This is a graduate course for students in the PhD program to learn about the field of Strategic Management before taking their Prelim Exams. Students learn about fundamental theory and research methods associated with research in the field.

STRT 62610 Doctoral Seminar In Strategic Management

Doctoral Seminar In Strategic Management

An examination of the nature of the legal environment from the viewpoint of the social and moral bases of law. Emphasis is given to the operation of our legal system and its significance in decision functions of management. Prerequisite: Master's student standing and Management majors only.

STRT 63000 Legal And Social Foundations Of Management

Legal And Social Foundations Of Management

This course is designed to help prepare students for their professional careers by familiarizing them with aspects of the law that are directly relevant to the practice of accounting. These topics are not only at work every day in business but are also tested on professional examinations such as the Uniform Certified Public Accounting (CPA) Exam. Specific topics include, but are not limited to, contract law, relevant provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, bankruptcy, and the legal liability of accountants. The course will be taught through a mixture of lectures and class discussions. Students are expected to come to class having completed the assigned readings and ready to participate in class discussions.

STRT 63400 Business Law For Accountants

Business Law For Accountants

Concepts and methods that integrate previous training in functional areas of management. The perspective is that of the general manager charged with directing the total enterprise. Emphasis is given to formulation and implementation of strategy. Prerequisite: MGMT 61000, 62000, Master's student standing and Management majors only.

STRT 65000 Strategic Management I

Strategic Management I

Examines entrepreneurship with a focus on the start-up process for high growth new ventures. Cases will be used, and students will conduct a feasibility analysis of a new venture concept.

STRT 65200 Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

Examines how firms obtain and sustain superior returns through the development and implementation of a competitive strategy at the business-unit level. Focus is on strategies that develop and exploit two sources of superior returns: unique value-creating resources (e.g., patents, brand equity, operational capabilities), and powerful positions in markets and supply chains. Participants are expected to be familiar with basic competitive strategy concepts and tools, such as "five-forces analysis", the value chain, and generic strategies. Presents a more analytical perspective of strategy, drawing from game theory.

STRT 65500 Competitive Strategy

In recent years many firms have rediscovered manufacturing and operations as a potential source of strategic advantage. In general, these firms have sought to develop capabilities in operations which provide a sustainable advantage in the marketplace. In addition, successful firms have developed processes for understanding the cross-functional implications of product and process choices. In this course, we will seek to understand the circumstances under which particular operating capabilities are most beneficial and how such capabilities can be developed so that operations can be exploited for competitive advantage.

STRT 65700 Manufacturing Strategy And Process Innovation

In today's business environment, it is increasingly apparent that business success is driven by a firm's ability to create and capture value through technology and innovation. Thus, the processes used by firms to develop new technologies, the choices they make regarding how to commercialize their technical knowledge, and the strategies they used to position and build a dominate competitive position all are important issues facing the firm. This course seeks to develop tools for understanding industry evolution with respect to new technology, forecast technological change, and understand the basis for technology in competitive advantage. We take an in-depth look at how technological innovation affects the competitive dynamics of markets, how firms can strategically manage these dynamics, and how firms can create and implement strategies to maximize their likelihood of success. The course introduces tools, concepts, and analytical frameworks that will enhance your ability to define and analyze strategic problems that stem from innovation and technological change, and to identify sources of competitive advantage from both an industry and firm-level perspective. Permission of department required.

STRT 65730 Technology Strategy

This course is an engagement with an external firm to solve challenges within the business. Students work together on project teams that require a cross-functional and interdisciplinary perspective. Student mix is determined by project needs and qualifications. Projects are typically sponsored at a senior level of the organization and address enterprise-level issues and challenges of strategic importance. Permission of instructor required.

STRT 65810 Corporate Consulting Experiential Learning

Corporate Consulting Experiential Learning

Provides an introduction regarding the business and strategy challenges faced by managers in our global economy, regardless of whether the firm is a small domestic company or a large multi-national. Major topics for the course include motivations and challenges of internationalization, international business fundamentals, foreign market entry strategies, organizing across countries, analyzing global industries, building competitive advantage in global industries, and the influence of culture and institutions.

STRT 68800 Developing A Global Business Strategy

Developing A Global Business Strategy

Advanced graduate-level variable-title course emphasizing research-informed strategy and organizational analysis. Topics may include emerging strategic issues or advanced theoretical perspectives. Permission of instructor required.

STRT 69000 Doctoral Sem In Strat Mgmt

Doctoral Sem In Strat Mgmt

STRT 69000 Strategic Management Wrkshp

Strategic Management Wrkshp

Students learn current research concepts and agendas from outside and inside speakers. It is an essential opportunity to learn research by example and is also a chance for students to learn by their presenting their ideas to a research audience. Permission of instructor is required.

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