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This course presents the fundamentals of business strategy to a legal audience. The class sessions include traditional lectures and business-school case discussions. The lecture topics and analytical frameworks are drawn from MBA curriculums at leading business schools. The cases are selected for both their business strategy content and their legal interest.The course is designed to introduce a wide variety of modern strategy frameworks and methodologies, including methods for assessing the strength of competition, for understandingrelative bargaining power, for anticipating competitors' actions, for analyzing cost and value structures and their relevance to competition, and for assessing potential changes in the scope of the firm (diversification and vertical integration). Basic mastery of these tools has relevance to everyone seeking a career in business or those advising business managers or executives.Students taking this course should have completed a course (or its equivalent) in introduction to microeconomics as an undergraduate and be comfortable with use of graphs.The prerequisite for Business Strategy is either a) Analytical Methods OR b) an undergraduate course in economics. Students that currently hold an MBA or enrolled in the JD-MBA program may not take this course. THIS IS A FAST TRACK COURSE. Please note: 1) the last day of class is October 22; 2) the final exam will be held the week of October 26; and 3) an extra required class session will be held on Tuesday, September 8, at 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm.

Special Notes:

FAST TRACK Course: Class meets for the 1st eight weeks of the semester. Aug 27 - October 22. There will be an additional class meeting on Tuesday, September 8th from 6-8:30 pm.

The final exam will be a take-home the week of November 2nd.

Enrollment Pre-/Co- Requisite Information

Analytical Methods

Fall 2015

Course Number	Course Credits	Evaluation Method	Instructor
203.01	Course Credits 3		John M. de Figueiredo
Sakai site: https://sakai.duke.edu/portal/site/LAW.203.01.F15
Email list: LAW.203.01.F15@sakai.duke.edu