SCOTT
WALKER 

Professor of Practice
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BUSN418

BUSN 418 is the Capstone course for a major in business management.  As such, the purpose is to integrate the student’s disciplinary studies and experiences into an inter-disciplinary understanding of the business environment and how to manage an enterprise.

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Course Description
Strategic Management entails making long-range plans for organizations. This course utilizes business case studies to examine corporate strategies. Students are taught the strategic management process and apply that process using a sophisticated multi-period simulation throughout the term. Decisions are made from the perspective of top management. The course is designed to integrate and apply skills acquired throughout the business core curriculum. Global strategic management and corporate ethics are also explored.

Why take this course?

• This is the Capstone course for the Luter School of Business
• Future business leaders need to understand a systems thinking approach
• Future business leaders need to understand how the organization functions together
• Future business leaders need to communicate and work in teams.

Pedagogy

• Limited, Engaging Lectures
• Notes and Slides tailored to the class and the required knowledge
• Different sources of engagement
• Multiple sources of material
• Practical business simulations
• Real world examples from 30 years in the corporate world
• Case studies

Assignments

• In-class discussions about current topics and their impact on business strategy
• Business analysis of a Fortune 500 Company
• Business decision practice through a team based simulation
• Case Analysis

Feedback

• "I have had to work in teams for Marketing classes so it was interesting to work in a group with non marketing majors. Seeing how the combination of majors, along with the experience level of Professor Walker, how everybody interacted and brought different thoughts to the conversation."

• "There were a lot of real world/real business applications in all the lectures and assignments. I really appreciate how we use real businesses (whether they excelled or failed) to analyze management strategies."

• "Applying what was happening in the real world (i.e. business news) to what we were learning every week. I was able to use a lot of what we learned each week to the company I work for now, in order to make positive changes at work. It was invaluable."

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