Curriculum

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The overall objectives of the course are to enable participants to develop a fundamental, structured and disciplined framework for understanding how a business grows and operates.

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This course adopts a strategic perspective on how to best attract, organize, develop, and manage talent to achieve organization objectives. We draw on knowledge from organizational behaviour and human resource management to understand how the intentional management of people supports the execution of strategy and overall success of an organization. Assignments are practical opportunities to assess and improve learners’ personal management skills and human capital management practices.

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This course will introduce you to transformational and charismatic leadership, and passive and unethical leadership (sometimes referred to as "pseudo-transformational leadership"). The goals of this course are (a) to provide a conceptual understanding of these different forms of leadership, their antecedents and consequences, and (b) to take the opportunity to provide an understanding of how you can use charismatic and transformational leadership in your personal work situations.

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Essential to survival in the digital age is an organization’s ability to meet customer and employee demands by effectively executing on initiatives that leverage digital technology to improve business operations (i.e., digitalization). The challenge is the fusion of the digital and physical worlds is transforming existing business models and ushering in an unprecedented convergence of people, business, technologies, and things. This course covers a range of topics to demonstrate modern thinking related to transforming to a digital business.

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This interactive and experiential course will help participants build an authentic and influential presence that will enhance their ability to lead, communicate, and inspire. Leadership presence encompasses more than technical knowledge or analytical skill. It combines self-awareness, confident communication, emotional intelligence, and storytelling to build trust and motivate others towards achieving shared goals.

Through practical concepts and interactive exercises, participants will develop a better understanding of their personal leadership style and how to communicate with clarity, credibility, and impact. Key topics include confidence building, empathetic listening, and purposeful speaking.

Participants will acquire a set of tools they can apply to enhance their leadership effectiveness in both formal settings and informal conversations.

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Negotiation involves resolving differences, reaching agreements, and managing conflict between individuals, groups, organizations, and even nations. These are obviously important activities in the world of management. Indeed, such expertise is now considered a core competency for managers and leaders.

This course is designed to provide you with the opportunity to develop your own negotiation style and skills in the safe environment of a classroom, and to place negotiation behaviour into a broader theoretical context to allow you to analyze your past behaviours and future negotiating strategies more systematically.

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As analytics and AI increasingly shape high-stakes organizational decisions, leaders face growing responsibility not only for outcomes, but for how those outcomes are produced. This elective focuses on the governance, risk, and accountability of analytics and AI systems, treating responsible use as a strategic leadership function rather than a compliance exercise.

The course examines where analytics and AI can fail—through bias, opacity, misuse, model drift, automation bias, and misaligned incentives—and how executives can design governance structures that ensure trust, fairness, and resilience. Participants will explore regulatory expectations, ethical frameworks, and organizational controls, while learning how to oversee analytics teams, vendors, and AI-enabled decision processes.

Using executive-level cases, simulations, and failure analyses from finance, healthcare, technology, public services, and sustainability, the course emphasizes board-level oversight, human-in-the-loop decision-making, escalation protocols, and model risk management. The objective is to equip leaders to proactively govern analytics and AI in ways that protect organizations while enabling innovation.

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This course will provide students a grounding in the fundamental concepts and principles of corporate governance.  Students will learn to the key differences and operational boundaries between the roles of management and that of governance.  They will also learn what the expectations of board members are, how boards of directors are constructed, and how they operate.  Key topics will include board composition, the board’s relationship with the CEO, board committee structure and composition, and individual board membership roles and responsibilities.

Additional topics may include recruiting and retention of board members, best practice of evaluating board performance, and common challenges of board operation.  The focus will be primarily on corporate governance, though some course material will also cover the key differences between corporate and non-profit governance.

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The Global Strategy course is designed to foster an appreciation for how multinational enterprises approach strategic decision-making. Through a combination of readings, theory-based lectures and case study-based analyses and discussions, the course will explore: why corporations engage in the process of internationalization; the nature of the internal and external factors that influence the analysis, development and implementation of global strategies; and the issues, opportunities and problems faced by managers tasked with the responsibility of formulating and executing global strategies for multinational enterprises.

It will also explore various market entry strategies through which corporations engage in foreign expansion (as well as reflecting on considerations pertaining to the choice of target foreign markets); the benefits and risks of embarking upon collaborative corporate relationships in an international context; and, the strategic, operational, organizational, structural and legal decisions and challenges encountered by multinational enterprises.

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A vibrant new venture ecosystem is a vital to part of any economy. This course covers the entrepreneurial thinking and know-how required to create and sustain a thriving new venture ecosystem, and allows students, through its experiential learning format, to ‘walk a mile in an entrepreneur’ shoes’.

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This immersive, for-credit experiential learning course allows participants to gain first-hand exposure to different cultures, business practices, and social norms, helping them better understand how decisions are shaped in a global context. Participants return with a deeper appreciation for diverse perspectives, sharper critical thinking, and a more informed approach to complex global challenges.

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Participants in the program are required to complete two major projects: the team-based global Business Project and one of two individual projects – either the New Venture Project or the Management Consulting Project. A Project advisor will be assigned for both major projects.

See the 'Major Projects' section below for project details.

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This course will provide students with a fundamental understanding of what geopolitics is and how it affects business activity both domestically and internationally. They will learn why and how countries compete economically, and how countries shape their national business systems according to their perceived geopolitical interests.

Students will also learn to anticipate potential major shifts in the geopolitical environment in key economic areas such as international trade, international finance, international supply chains, energy and critical minerals, and the geopolitics of high-technology industries. Students will also learn tools and techniques for not only defending against geopolitical shifts but also how to identify potential economic opportunities for their organizations that those shifts provide.