45-770 Corporate Strategy

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course focuses on strategy as the search for value among opportunities that are entrepreneurial, dynamic, and evolutionary. Competitive strategy in the new economy reflects a mix of traditional strategies, designed to sustain advantage through physical assets and traditional economies of scale, as well as newer strategies, designed to gain advantage through information assets and network effects. The approach used in this course to tie old and new approaches together is Sustainability Analysis, a method that formulates business strategies according to the profit half-life of a company?s products and services. Here the goal of strategy is not only to sustain advantage, but to maximize value, to manage the ebb and flow of economic progress with the continual goal of recapitalizing assets.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025

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