BUSINESS B716 / Strategic Organizational Change

3 unit(s)

Prerequisite(s): BUSINESS H600 OR BUSINESS B650 OR enrollment in the Blended Learning Part-time MBA Program OR enrollment in the graduate Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization Program.

This course will enable students to cultivate the multiple capabilities required for ongoing, longrun strategic change. Leading change perspectives will be integrated and extended by utilizing a strategic organizational change framework. This systematic and multidimensional approach will provide students with a roadmap for developing change capabilities in themselves, as well as their current and future organizations. Illustrations and applications of organizational change principles will be demonstrated through a transformative learning experience, skill development exercises, experiential exercises, cases analyses, and an actual strategic organizational change project, all embedded within the body of the course. Weekly speakers from the community will be incorporated to provide actual practitioner change examples.