Schulich School of Business

Kellogg Electives*

Students in the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program have the opportunity to take elective courses at the Kellogg School during their second year. These expand your range of curriculum options and allow you to focus more specifically on one key area of business such as finance or strategy. You will be integrated into classes with Kellogg’s own EMBA students, resulting in a powerful business network drawn from across North America. Listed below are examples of courses that have been offered recently.

Advanced Negotiations

Highlights a number of traps experienced negotiators encounter and teaches the strategies to overcome these traps and to maximize success in complex negotiations. Traps such as negotiating the wrong issues, failing to effectively capitalize on your power in the negotiation, getting pulled into issue by issue conversations, and incorrectly analyzing the context around the negotiation will be discussed.

Advertising Strategy

Provides a balanced analysis of advertising strategy and execution. Brand position, media, creative strategies and the effectiveness of advertising are examined.

Analytical Decision Modeling

Teaches students how to st ructure, analyze, and solve business decision problems. The course will address problems involving optimal resource allocation (how to best utilize the available resources), risk analysis (how to incorporate uncertainty in problem parameters), and decision analysis (how to make sequential decisions under uncertainty with information). The main emphasis of the course will be on systematic, logical thinking, and problem solving and the approach involves a hands-on, in-class learning experience. Requires a good working knowledge of Excel.

Designing and Managing Marketing Channels

Focuses on major strategic issues which companies must confront as they evaluate the adequacy of their existing routes to the marketplace.

Game Theory

Introduces the subject of game theory and strategic thinking with some illustrations from management and related subjects. While the mathematical background required is minimal, the course does assume the ability to go through rigorous analytical reasoning.

Innovation Strategy & Management

Applies a theoretical and applied approach to understanding Innovation Strategy & Management from the perspective of the senior corporate manager. The course will focus on innovation within business entities, from the typical technology and product innovation programs, to broader, process, marketing and other forms of innovation. The course will address innovation as a holistic strategic management imperative not limited to Research & Development or New Product Development. While the course will provide a theoretical foundation, the focus will be on real world issues, products and systems.

Intellectual Capital Management

In the contemporary economic environment, intellectual assets like know-how, inventions, explicit content, brands, trademarks (forms of intellectual property), contractual agreements etc. are the largest proportion of a firm's total wealth. This course covers the specific agenda of using intellectual capital in general and properties in particular for competitive advantage in multiple market contexts.

International Finance

Seeks to provide you with a working knowledge of international financial instruments, markets and institutions.

Leading High Impact Teams

Integrates the art and science of teamwork to help managers and leaders design and lead high impact teams in their organizations. The course challenges students with engaging exercises and real-world problems and provides opportunities for meaningful and timely feedback on leadership and team performance. This course will focus on managers both as team players and as team leaders.

Private Equity and VentureCapital

Examines the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors from a finance perspective. The main goal of this course is to gain a broad understanding of the concepts and institutions involved in PE and VC markets, primarily through case studies that consider investment decisions from the perspective of PE and VC professionals.

Social Dynamics and Networks

Explores cutting edge research on social networks, social media, tipping points, contagion, herd behavior, the wisdom of crowds, and prediction markets. The course employs simple yet powerful interactive models and hands-on exercises to develop understanding of both the theory and applications of social dynamics and network science.

* Course offerings are subject to change.