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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

At least 9 credits selected from the following:

• MGPO 365 Business-Government Relations (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  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 2021-2022 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2021-2022 academic year.

  • Restriction(s): U2 & U3 students only

• MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  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 2021, Winter 2022

  Instructors: Nason, Robert; Nowak, Anita; Savaria, Julie (Fall) Billou, Niels; Nowak, Anita (Winter)

  • Restriction(s): Open to U2 and U3 students.

• MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  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 2021, Winter 2022

  Instructors: Robitaille, Jad; Khoury, Rabih (Fall) Khoury, Rabih (Winter)

  • Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only

• MGPO 450 Ethics in Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  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 2021

  Instructors: Nowak, Anita (Fall)

  • Restriction: U2 and U3 students only

• MGPO 475 Strategies for Developing Countries (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  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 2021

  Instructors: Ferretti, Tommaso (Fall)

  • Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only

The remaining credits, if any, to be chosen from the following:
(Note: no more than 3 credits may be taken at the 200 level)

• AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits)

  Offered by: Animal Science (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)

  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 2022

  Instructors: Machado Dallago, Gabriel (Winter)

  • Winter

  • Two 2-hour conferences

• ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (3 credits)

  Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2022

  Instructors: Moreira, Andrea (Winter)

  • Winter

• ECON 313 Economic Development 1 (3 credits)

  Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Economics (Arts) : Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.

  Terms: Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Summer 2022

  Instructors: Amodio, Francesco; Chemin, Matthieu (Fall) Laszlo, Sonia (Winter) Sen Choudhury, Eesha (Summer)

  • Prerequisite: ECON 208 and either ECON 209 or one development course.

• ECON 314 Economic Development 2 (3 credits)

  Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2021, Winter 2022

  Instructors: Sen Choudhury, Eesha (Fall) Grimard, Franque (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: ECON 313

• INTD 200 Introduction to International Development (3 credits)

  Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)

  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 2021, Winter 2022

  Instructors: Takamura, Kazue (Fall) Takamura, Kazue (Winter)

• MGPO 430 Practicum in Not for Profit Consulting (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  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 2022

  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.

• MGPO 433 Topics in Social Business and Enterprise (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  Overview

  Management Policy : Specialized advanced topic in social business and enterprise.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2021-2022 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2021-2022 academic year.

  • Restriction (s): Open only to U2 and U3 students.

• MGPO 435 The Origins of Capitalism (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  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 2022

  Instructors: Mantere, Saku (Winter)

  • Restriction: Restricted to U2 and U3 students

• MGPO 460 Managing Innovation (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)

  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: Fall 2021, Winter 2022

  Instructors: Taherizadeh, Amir (Fall) Taherizadeh, Amir (Winter)

  • Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only