Foundations of Business Strategy

for beginner of Business Strategy, it's understandable.

It really helped me review the business strategy concepts.

learnt a lot of great concepts in business strategy and various tools to access and device strategies to maintain company's competitiveness.

Great introductory course to business strategy.

it is an interesting course Great introduction of business strategy !

Great introduction to the world of Business Strategy: both instructors are really engaging and passionate about the course concepts.

I learned basic and useful knowledge about business strategy.

Excellent course to learn about business strategy.

Is this a fabulous course, complete, that covers many areas of business strategy.

I recommend As an entry level strategic consultant I've found this course to be a very useful introduction to the core principles of business strategy.

In this short course, you can learn few important key topics of business strategy.

This Course is the perfect starter for any novice like me, who wants to get the basic fundamentals on business strategy.

I will highly recommended to everyone who desire to build a fundamental knowledge and skills regarding strategic analysis for business organizations.

Would highly recommend!

Highly recommended!

Highly recommend for anyone planning a career in business.

I highly recommend this for a fruitful business career.

I hardly spent any time on discussion forums (other than posting my analysis of case studies) which would take additional time and so I may have lost my chances to learn from peers.

Very well presented lectures, uses same case studies as on campus and good use of discussion forum to simulate a case-study MBA course.

Nice case studies to train practice.

Excellent teaching and content This course puts our thoughts to work, simply explained and excellent case studies!

Generally that isn't an issue but can be a little challenging when the case studies and assignments are based on dated information.

We'll apply these tools in case studies of industry leaders Google, Redhook, Piaggio and Apple.

I particularly liked how the validity of theories was proven by their applications to specific case studies.

Dry Material and the second professor was this course is provide basic understanding for the market analysis in scope of how to position your self in the market in a competitive way and earn an economic rent , i strongly recommend this course to the professionals and the beginners, this course will sharpen your skills.thanks A good course for future MBA students especially the ones interested to pursue a MBA degree in Strategy Management This is an excellent course.

I would highly recommend this course to anyone who needs to do an analysis of a business that does not understand the steps needed to accomplish that particular task.

I highly recommend this course!

Amazing professors and amazing course Excellent introduction to business strategy Great class.

This course was prepared and organized well Excellent introduction to business strategy... Really great course aimed at learning the fundamental building blocks of strategy.

The is nothing abstract about the work you need to do to complete the final project.

All in all this is a great course and I enjoyed doing the final project as well.

Practical final project that has you perform a fundamental analysis of an existing firm's strategy.

I really liked having the opportunity to work on the final project to tie up all the concepts I learned.

I found the final project particularly worthwhile, and had fun using Coursera as my case study.

The instructor took time to explain the major questions each week as brought up in the forums which was very helpful.

The peer review has some issues, but overall the course is great.

The course content is very good and well presented BUT the course requirement of submitting 3 peer reviews is not practicable at all.

And on top of that, reading an entire plagiarized project and then flagging it doesn't count as a peer review and I still had to read another one to make up for it.

I actually had to read through seven projects before I could actually get three peer reviews done because the other four were plagiarized (so more than half given to me were plagiarized!).

It just felt unfair and I wish Coursera has some mechanism to flag the plagiarized ones like universities do before giving them out for peer review and thus wasting others' time.

My experience is with the original format,which covered analysis of industry structure, firm capabilities, competitive dynamics, and determining competitive positioning and firm scope.

This is truly valuable because concepts such as SWOT and Five Forces analyses can easily become arbitrary exercises in speculation unless you see how they're used in practical decisionmaking.

Prof. Lenox is especially good at tying abstract concepts to real cases, and each week's case study further focuses the material on historical business situations.