BUS 506 - Advanced Topics in Strategy of Healthcare Sector  This
course is designed to cover a number of complex challenges that
leaders confront in trying to achieve a competitive advantage.
The primary focus of this course is understanding, crafting and
implementing strategies within the healthcare and other
industries. Health care is the largest industry in the United
States, is an extraordinarily complex sector, and is a wonderful
context to understand business strategies in the service sector.
A sample of the advanced topics in strategy covered include:
external analysis (industry, competitor and institutional
environments), organizational structure and its affect on
performance, designing organizations for efficiency and improved
outcomes, multidimensional performance measurement, acquisitions
and alliances, vertical integration, leading strategic change,
competitive intelligence and network design.