Executive Development Programs

New programs offered in Strategic Management

A recently expanded strategic management research group within the Broad School’s Management Department has resulted in the creation of new executive development programs and a new strategy concentration in the Full-Time MBA Program.

According to Robert B. Duncan, the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Dean, the school’s emphasis on strategy will add significant value to its curriculum at every level. “What this school is about is educating business leaders to drive strategic change in their organizations,” he says. “The Broad School is certainly well-known for being able to prepare students and business leaders with excellent operational knowledge. This new emphasis on strategic management will enhance our students’ ability to be effective strategic change leaders.”

Executive development
The faculty members in the new research group actively publish in the leading management journals on a broad range of issues centered on processoriented aspects of organizational strategy, drawing on theoretical perspectives from the management literature as well as from disciplinary fields, such as economics, psychology and sociology, to study the strategic actions and positioning of organizations. Along with their Management Department colleagues, the strategy faculty group offers related executive development programs for business leaders as part of the Broad School’s “Business Strategy, Leadership and Change Management” open enrollment series. This fall’s offerings include:

  • Adaptive Leadership: Enhancing Individual and Team Performance, Nov. 1-2, 2006
  • Strategic Analysis: Improving the Competitive Position of Your Organization, Oct. 5-6, 2006
  • Successful Negotiation: Creating Value through Collaboration, Oct. 12-13, 2006
  • The Broad Executive Seminar, Oct. 22-28, 2006

For more information on Executive Development Programs, visit www.bus.msu/execed or call (800) 356-5705.

MBA concentration
Beginning in fall 2006, students in the Full-Time MBA Program will have the opportunity to add a new strategy concentration to their degree program. “The new concentration will help solidify our students’ understanding of the link between operations and leadership,” explains Duncan. The combination of courses in the strategy concentration is designed to allow students to develop and practice market analysis and assessment of business and corporate capabilities, which should enhance students’ ability to make effective choices on behalf of their organizations. In addition, the concentration will familiarize students with the process of strategy formulation and how individual and organizational factors can bias this process and lead to sub-optimal decisions. For more information on the Broad School’s Full- Time MBA Program, visit http://mba.msu.edu/.


Several faculty members involved in developing new programs include, from left to right, Kent D. Miller, Kimberly Ellis, Gerry McNamara, Yuri Mishina and Robert M. Wiseman.

Strategic Management Faculty

The Broad School’s strategy group includes:

Kimberly Ellis
Assistant Professor
PhD: Florida State University, Strategic Management
Research: Issues in mergers and acquisitions, including prior experience, integration of acquired firms and the impact of mergers and acquisitions on corporate social performance.

Gerry McNamara
Associate Professor
PhD: University of Minnesota, Strategic Management
Research: Strategic risk-taking, decision-making, and the determinants and durability of firm performance.

Kent D. Miller
Professor
PhD: University of Minnesota, Business Administration
Research: Organizational learning, rationality and knowledge in organizations and the determinants of firms’ search intensity.

Yuri Mishina
Assistant Professor
PhD: University of Illinois, Organizational Theory
Research: Strategic change processes, firm reputation, corporate governance structures, and corporate illegality.

William D. Roering
Professor of Practice
PhD: University of Minnesota, Strategic Management and Organization
Research: Strategic thinking and decisionmaking by top managers; cooperative and competitive relationships between individuals, units, and firms; and managing new ventures in emerging industries.

Jamal Shamsie
Assistant Professor
PhD: McGill University, Business Policy and Strategy
Research: The contribution of resources and capabilities to competitive advantage, the growing use of creativity for strategic advantage and organizational learning and decision-making uncertainty.

Robert M. Wiseman
Eli Broad Legacy Fellow of Management
PhD: University of Minnesota, Strategic Management
Research: Strategic risk management, executive compensation and the mitigation of moral hazard in principal-agent relations.