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Management Courses
(Tuck School of Business)
The following Tuck electives are available to M.E.M. students. All courses require
permission from the instructor and prior approval of the M.E.M. program director.
For a complete listing of Tuck management courses, see:
tuck.dartmouth.edu/mba/academics/
Corporate Valuation
Offered: W11
Students will have an opportunity to estimate cash flows and discount rates in order
to establish values for projects and firms. In addition to traditional discounted cash
flow (DCF) analysis, the course explores alternative valuation methods, such as real
option valuation and comparable company analysis. The contribution of corporate
financial decisions regarding capital structure, cash distribution policies, and performance
evaluation schemes to value creation and destruction are also investigated.
The course will use a mixture of lectures, cases, projects, and guest speakers.
Prerequisite: ENGM 180
Instructor: Sundaram
Advanced Competitive Strategy
Offered: F10
This course is designed to analyze the strategic lessons learned from the fields of
military science, political science, international relations, and history, especially of
the history of world empires from Ancient Rome to the British and even modern
America. Applying these lessons to business, this course examines when and where
to use guerilla versus traditional war fighting strategies, defensive versus offensive
strategic postures, brinkmanship versus cooperative strategies, and revolutionary
versus counterrevolutionary strategies. Part of the course is devoted to the use of
portfolio strategy as a competitive weapon to create mutual assured destruction, to
shift the balance of market power between competitors, and to create the conditions
for profitability and stability by guiding the evolution of industry structure. To apply
these concepts to business, the course develops visual tools such as price-quality
analysis, stronghold analysis, know-how and smart-bombing analysis, as well as
competitive pressure mapping and sphere-of-influence analysis. The course is
designed to provide an alternative to traditional economic and strategic planning
frameworks, sometimes presenting a contradictory viewpoint.
Instructor: D’Aveni
Medical Care and the Corporation
Offered: F10
Employer-sponsored healthcare plays a significant role in the US health system. From
the standpoint of business leaders, healthcare plays a critical role in the viability and
success of a business. This course will focus on the structure and dynamics of the
healthcare system from the perspective of corporate leaders as both payors of care
and trustees of healthcare organizations. Through the course, students will understand
the importance of business executive's role in improving healthcare as a business
and social imperative. The course is intended to 1) demonstrate how all corporate
leaders can exercise judgment and control over expenditures for healthcare benefits
while protecting the health of their employees 2) enhance the ability of all Tuck
graduates to serve as Trustees of healthcare organizations, e.g., hospitals, physician
group networks, insurers and purchasing collaboratives and 3) reinforce the applicability
of core management concepts and techniques when serving in either of these
capacities: employer/payor or healthcare organization trustee.
Instructors: Zubkoff, Gardent