HTE406
Business Strategy

Faculty
Gregory LaBlanc
Lecturer at Berkeley, Stanford, HEC, & Host @ UNSILOED podcast
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Total hours
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Course type
Fee for single course
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Skills you’ll learn
Overview
This course focuses on the basics of strategy, in particular, how they are relevant for startups. Entrepreneurial Strategy requires frameworks for evaluating basic tradeoffs between learning and execution and architecting a process for the discovery of competitive advantage..
Learning highlights
- Students will learn a framework that will help them identify opportunities, choose customers, choose technologies, choose organizational form and choose the form of competition and market entry.
Course outline
15 classes
Session 1
Snow Summit
Session 2
Snow Summit
Session 3
Introduction to Strategy
Session 4
What is Competitive Advantage
Session 5
Looking Forward and Reasoning Back
Session 6
Ecosystems
Session 7
Choosing Your Customer
Session 8
Choosing Your Tech
Session 9
Choosing Your Organization
Session 10
IP Strategy
Session 11
Disruptive Strategy
Session 12
Value Chain Strategy
Session 13
Architectural Strategy
Session 14
Putting It all Together
Session 15
Final Debrief
Prerequisites
No prerequisites
Methodology
This class will combine lecture, discussion, readings, and case writeups.
Grading
At Berkeley Haas, Greg LaBlanc teaches primarily in the areas of finance and strategy in the MBA and Masters of Financial Engineering programs and in Executive Education. LaBlanc has also worked in competitive intelligence and litigation consulting and has advised consulting teams in finance, marketing, and strategy. His research interests lie at the intersection of law, finance, and psychology, in the area of business strategy and risk management. LaBlanc is the recipient of teaching awards including the Earl F. Cheit Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Berkeley EWMBA Graduate Instructor of the year.
LaBlanc received a BA (History, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics) and a BS Economics (Business Administration) from the University of Pennsylvania, where he continued his education as a University Scholar and graduate fellow, studying in the schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, and Law. He later pursued a JD at the George Mason University and an LLM at UC Berkeley Law School. LaBlanc has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in all areas of business. Prior to arriving at Berkeley Haas in 2005, LaBlanc taught at Wharton, Duke, and the University of Virginia.
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Business Strategy
by Gregory LaBlanc
Total hours
39 Hours
Dates
Jan 31 - Feb 16, 2024
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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FAQ
Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
Do I need a visa?
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Can I get a discount?
Yes. The easiest way to enroll in a course at a discounted price is to register for multiple courses. Registering for multiple courses will reduce the cost per individual course. Please ask the Admissions Office for more information about the other kinds of discounts we offer and what you can do to receive one.