Whether you plan a career as a management consultant, corporate manager, entrepreneur, or investment banker, a strategic management MBA concentration from Chicago Booth will give you the analytical skills and entrepreneurial mind-set to create and achieve goals for your business.
We take a discipline-based approach to strategic management, with a focus on basic and applied research.
Course content extends across functional boundaries, integrating tools from economics, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines. Studying everything from game theory to the techniques of strategic thinking, you’ll explore competitive strategy, corporate strategy, and implementation and strategic planning. And you’ll build the skills you need to solve highly complex and ambiguous business problems.
Customize your MBA education with a concentration in strategic management by choosing four courses in this discipline. Here are just a few of the options.
This course applies tools from microeconomics and industrial organization to competitive decision-making. First, you will learn to understand industry economics and the individual position of a particular firm, taking the industry economics as given. Next, you will study issues related to both the vertical and horizontal scopes of firms. Then, you'll be introduced to basic game theory, which is used to analyze issues such as bargaining power, price competition, entry and exit decisions, standard setting, and technological competition.
This course focuses on strategic decision-making in technology-intensive industries. You will learn about a set of conceptual models that help determine which technologies to invest in, when to make the investments, how to capture value from the technology investment, and how to anticipate and respond to competitors and customers. Particular emphasis will be placed on building models for making strategic decisions in the context of significant technology, demand, and competitive uncertainty.
To see more strategic management courses, visit our course catalog and search by concentration area for your program of interest.
Our strategic management faculty includes award-winning scholars who have influenced exchange design proposals, provided expert commentary on business strategy in the national press, and won research grants from the National Science Foundation.
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Faculty members at Booth are connected to some of the most important leaders across industry. Our faculty regularly invite these leading practitioners and influencers to speak to students in the Booth classroom, providing you with greater access to learn, network, and grow.
Learn from Industry ExpertsDevelop your skills, meet new people, and build a dynamic global network. As an MBA student in strategic management at Booth, you’ll have many opportunities to get involved in student groups, competitions, and other activities.
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