Programme overview

Strategic Management

The MSc in Strategic Management from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University focuses on three activities: analysis, formulation and implementation of business strategy and direction.

Curriculum

Core courses:

  • Managing Business Strategically
  • Changing Business Strategically
  • Corporate Strategy and Growth
  • Corporate Ownership and Governance
  • Your Future Career
  • Research Clinic
  • Qualitative or Quantitative Research in SM & SE
  • Thesis

Electives:

  • Strategic Decision Making
  • Strategic Implementation and Measurement: Evaluating Strategic Success
  • Strategic Formulation, Entrepreneurship and the Political Environment
  • Organizing for Technological Transformation
  • Creating Societal Impact through Business
  • Sustainable Finance
  • Doing Business Strategically with China
  • A Managerial Perspective on Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Managing Innovation Strategically
  • Programming Fundamentals Using Python
  • Strategic Leadership and Corporate Governance
  • Managing Technology Alliances and Acquisitions
  • Non-market Strategy: CSR and Corporate Political Activities
  • Irrational Lab
  • Getting Things Done Without Resources: Entrepreneurial Bootstrapping
  • Negotiation and Conflict Management
  • International Law and the Firm

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Mode of education

In addition to lectures, you will work in small groups on business cases and assignments. Many of the exercises are carried out in teams. Skills training, presentations, visiting lecturers and practitioners are all part of the curriculum. In order to graduate you will be trained in analytical and research skills and must write an individual thesis on a topic of your choice.

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