Program Requirements
There are two options offered in the Strategic Management Concentration: Global Strategy and Social Business & Enterprise.
The concentration in Strategic Management - Social Business & Enterprise Option is intended for students interested in harnessing the not-for-profit, civil, and for-profit sectors to tackle social issues. Students will be challenged to reconceptualise strategy formation and implementation with an emphasis on economic development, the environment, corporate social responsibility, and social impact. The concentration will impart a comprehensive set of management skills, encompassing cross-sectoral collaboration and social entrepreneurship. It encourages students to complement their courses in Management with an array of course offerings from outside the Faculty. The concentration complements concentrations and majors in other Management areas, adding a holistic and integrated perspective. Anticipated career trajectories include positions in NGOs; international organizations such as those affiliated with the UN; social enterprise; government agencies; as well as in the fields of consulting and corporate social responsibility.
Complementary Courses (15 credits)
9-15 credits selected from the following:
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MGPO 365 Business-Government Relations (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : The political environment in which business organizations operate: how governments control, regulate, promote, and compete with the private sector and how corporate policy responds to, and seeks to influence, these activities.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction(s): U2 & U3 students only
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MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation 鈥� the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Perez-Aleman, Paola; Jalan, Rohini (Fall) Billou, Niels (Winter)
Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students.
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MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : This course explores the relationship between economic activity, management, and the natural environment. Using readings, discussions and cases, the course will explore the challenges that the goal of sustainable development poses for our existing notions of economic goals, production and consumption practices and the management of organizations.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Melville, Donald (Fall)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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MGPO 450 Ethics in Management (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : An examination of the economic, legal and ethical responsibilities of managers in both private and public organizations. Through readings, case studies, discussions and projects the class evaluates alternative ethical systems and norms of behaviour and draws conclusions as to the right, proper and just decisions and actions in the face of moral dilemmas. The focus of this course is on the decision process, values and consistency of values of the individual and on the impact of systems control and incentives on managerial morality.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Holmgren, Lindsay (Fall)
Restriction: U2 and U3 students only
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MGPO 475 Strategies for Developing Countries (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Strategic management challenges in developing and emerging economies. Focus on strategies that foster both firm competitiveness and economic development, including: technological capabilities, new forms of organization, small and large firms, global production, social impact, global standards and governance.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Perez-Aleman, Paola (Fall)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
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MGPO 485 Emerging Technologies: Organizing and Societal Stakes (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : An examination of emerging technologies and their impacton decision-making, coordination, control, and innovationin management. Broader societal implications of thesetechnologies and how to develop strategic responses. Focus on an experiential consulting project.
Terms: Fall 2024
Instructors: Faraj, Samer (Fall)
Restrictions: Open to U2 and U3 students. Not open to students who have taken MGPO 434 when the topic was "Emerging Technologies: Organizing and Societal Stakes".
0-6 credits chosen from the following:
(Note: no more than 3 credits may be taken at the 200 level)
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AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits)
Overview
Agriculture : International development and world food security and challenges in developing countries. Soil and water management, climate change, demographic issues, plant and animal resources conservation, bio-products and biofuels, economic and environmental issues specially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Globalization, sustainable development, technology transfer and human resources needs for rural development.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Vasseur, Elsa (Winter)
Winter
Two 2-hour conferences
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ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Kraichati, Cyntia (Winter)
Winter
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BUSA 300 Case Analysis and Presentation.
(3 credits)
Overview
Business Admin : Integration of core knowledge and practice for preparing and presenting case studies, including professor coaching, preparation and presentation feedback, presentation skills, leadership skills, team building skills, analytical skills, logical thinking, debating, persuasive communications and cross discipline work.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Billou, Niels (Fall) Jung, HJ (Winter)
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor for non-Management students.
Not open to students who have taken BUSA 499. Open to U2 and U3 students.
Non-management students should have some background in Management related courses with a minimum GPA of B.
Management students should have a minimum GPA of B in their Core courses to register in the course.
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ECON 313 Economic Development 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Summer 2025
Instructors: Grimard, Franque (Fall) Ajzenman, Nicolas (Winter)
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ECON 314 Economic Development 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Macroeconomic development issues, including theories of growth, public finance, debt, currency crises, corruption, structural adjustment, democracy and global economic organization.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Chemin, Matthieu (Fall) Grimard, Franque (Winter)
Prerequisite: ECON 313
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INTD 200 Introduction to International Development (3 credits)
Overview
International Development : An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of International Development Studies focusing on the theory and practice of development. It examines various approaches to international development, including past and present relationships between developed and underdeveloped societies, and pays particular attention to power and resource distribution globally and within nations.
Terms: Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Instructors: Takamura, Kazue (Fall) Takamura, Kazue (Winter)
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MGPO 430 Practicum in Not for Profit Consulting (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : This course is designed around a pro bono consulting experience. It is meant to connect students to both the NGO community as well as the consulting world. The students go through the entire process of researching potential NGOs, writing and getting a Letter of Proposal Signed off, undertaking the first hand research and analysis, presenting the project results to the Board of the NGO, and finally presenting it to both the professor and the office of the partnering consulting firm. Students are put into teams whose structure is meant to mimic that of a real consulting team.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Melville, Donald (Winter)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken MGPO 434 when topic course was 鈥淣ot for Profit Consulting鈥� . Permission of instructor.
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MGPO 433 Topics in Social Business and Enterprise (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Specialized advanced topic in social business and enterprise.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Restriction (s): Open only to U2 and U3 students.
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MGPO 435 The Origins of Capitalism (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : This course covers the evolution of modern business institutions from their roots in the early middle ages to the modern era. Covering economic issues in the context of arts and culture, it offers a "distant mirror on globalization."
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Mantere, Saku (Winter)
Restriction: Restricted to U2 and U3 students
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MGPO 460 Managing Innovation (3 credits)
Overview
Management Policy : Firms face difficulties in developing new products. This course examines the new product development process to understand why problems occur and what managers can do. Topics include the creative synthesis of market and technology; the coordination of functions; and the strategic connection between the project and the strategy.
Terms: Winter 2025
Instructors: Chai, Sen (Winter)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
