Business · Advanced
EMBA Leadership & Strategy
Strategy frameworks, leading change, negotiation and governance.
What you will learn
The 8 topics inside EMBA Leadership & Strategy
Each topic has its own goal, its own questions and its own mastery score, so you always know which part is still weak.
Corporate governance
Explain who is accountable to whom, and for what.
Crisis and risk leadership
Lead through crisis with a real risk framework.
Executive decisions
Make defensible calls under real uncertainty.
Global strategy
Decide what to standardise and what to adapt.
Leading change
Diagnose why a change effort is stalling.
Negotiation
Prepare a negotiation on interests, not positions.
Organisational design
Align structure, incentives and reporting lines with strategy.
Strategic frameworks
Apply Five Forces, VRIO and value innovation to a real case.
Example questions
Real questions from this course
These are taken straight from the course. Pick an answer, then open the explanation to see why it is right.
Sample 01
What is value innovation in blue ocean terms?
Show the answer and why
Answer: Simultaneously pursuing differentiation and low cost to achieve value innovation.
Pursuing differentiation and low cost at once by raising and creating the factors buyers value while reducing and eliminating those the industry competes on out of habit. Key term: value innovation.
Pursuing differentiation and low cost at once by raising and creating the factors buyers value while reducing and eliminating those the industry competes on out of habit. Key term: value innovation.
Sample 02
Why is holding a resource that is valuable, rare, and inimitable insufficient on its own to guarantee a long-term competitive edge?
Show the answer and why
Answer: Because capturing value requires proper firm organization alongside favourable external market forces.
Defends against the misconception that VRIO alone guarantees sustained advantage. A firm must also be organized to capture value, and external forces can still alter resource value.
A firm requires proper firm organization to exploit its resources effectively, and external industry structure can still erode advantage over time. Without organizational readiness and external alignment, internal resources fail to yield superior performance.
Sample 03
Under standard corporate governance frameworks, what core principle guides directors in fulfilling their fiduciary duty to the corporation?
Show the answer and why
Answer: Focusing on sustainable long-term value creation for the firm
This item clarifies fiduciary obligations, countering the misconception that fiduciary duty requires maximising short-term share prices at all costs. Fiduciary responsibility focuses on sustainable growth and strategic stability over time.
Directors are bound by fiduciary duties of care and loyalty to act in the best interests of the corporation and its shareholders. This requires focusing on sustainable long-term value creation rather than chasing short-term share price increases.
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