Academic Director: S. Ahmed, Email: mgmtss@utsc.utoronto.ca
At its most fundamental level, effective strategic management is about understanding and successfully managing strategic interactions with other firms and individuals. Strategic interactions take place whenever our fortunes depend not only on our own actions, but also on the actions of our rivals (and vice versa). In these instances, our optimal actions and those of our partners and competitors are inextricably connected. How should we think about these interactions and formulate an action plan?
The Specialist Program in Strategic Management, which includes a Management Strategy Stream and an Entrepreneurship Stream, will give students the skills to address this essential question. Integrating tools from economics and other management disciplines, you will gain a profound understanding of business and corporate strategy and their sub-disciplines, and/or entrepreneurship.
Overall, as a Strategic Management specialist, students will develop an ability to identify, simplify, and analyze highly complex business problems, to strategize implementable solutions, and to articulate the key elements of their strategic reasoning in a simple, compelling and engaging way to a non-expert audience. Indeed, the strategic mindset that students will gain from this specialty will help them successfully navigate the stormy waters of business, whether they plan a career as a management consultant, economic consultant, manager in private-sector, public sector and non-profit organizations, investment banker, or entrepreneur.
Both streams have a non-co-op and a co-op component. Co-op students should see the section regarding work term requirements for specific details on courses required before each work term.
Enrolment Requirements
Enrolment in this Program is limited.
1. Students enrolling directly from high school are admitted on the basis of academic performance. They must have completed Grade 12 English and Grade 12 Calculus.
Course Guidelines for Students Admitted to B.B.A. Programs Directly from High School Students must complete the following courses in their first year of study: MGEA02H3, MGEA06H3, MATA34H3, MGAB01H3, MGAB02H3, MGHA12H3, MGMA01H3 and MGTA38H3.
2. Students requesting admission after first year must request ONLY ONE Management Subject POSt on ACORN. Students may apply at the end of the Winter semester and/or at the end of the Summer semester. Application for admission will be considered only for the round during which the student has made the Subject POSt request.
The minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) for Program admission is calculated for each application period, and is based on University of Toronto courses only. Decisions are made when all grades have been received.
Students must have completed the following courses (or their equivalent): MGEA02H3, MGEA06H3, and MATA34H3. However, [[MATA29H3 or MATA30H3 or MATA31H3 or (MATA32H3)] and [(MATA33H3) or MATA35H3 or MATA36H3 or MATA37H3]] may also be used to satisfy the calculus requirement. None of the courses listed above (or their equivalent) can be designated as CR/NCR. Of the total credits that students have completed when they apply, at least 4.0 credits just in University of Toronto courses that have been graded (i.e., not designated as CR/NCR). Students may apply until they have completed up to 10.0 credits. Students who have completed more than 10.0 credits will not be considered for admission to the Program.
In order to remain in the Program, students must maintain a CGPA of 2.0 or higher after having attempted at least 4.0 credits. Students whose CGPA falls below 2.0 will be removed from the Program. Students removed from the program for this reason may request reinstatement if they complete at least 2.0 credits (none of which can be designated as CR/NCR) in the following session and raise their CGPA to at least 2.0. This opportunity will be provided only once.
To complete the program, a student must meet the course requirements described below. The program requirements comprise a core 10.5 credits, and an additional 3.5 credits for the Management Strategy stream (14.0 credits total.)
Note: A single course may only be used once to fulfill one of the following program requirements.
Core (10.5 credits):
1. (7.0 credits):
MGMA01H3 Principles of Marketing
MGTA38H3 Management Communications
MGAB01H3 Introductory Financial Accounting I
MGAB02H3 Introductory Financial Accounting II
MGAB03H3 Introductory Management Accounting
MGFB10H3 Principles of Finance
MGHA12H3 Human Resource Management
MGHB02H3 Managing People and Groups in Organizations
MGMB01H3 Marketing Management
MGFC10H3 Intermediate Finance
MGHC02H3 Management Skills
MGOC10H3 Analytics for Decision Making
MGOC20H3 Operations Management
and
0.5 credit at the D-level in either Management or Economics for Management Studies courses
2. (0.5 credit):
MATA34H3
or
[[MATA29H3/MATA30H3/MATA31H3/(MATA32H3)] and [(MATA33H3)/MATA35H3/MATA36H3/MATA37H3]]
3. (3.0 credits):
MGEA02H3 Introduction to Microeconomics: A Mathematical Approach
MGEA06H3 Introduction to Macroeconomics: A Mathematical Approach
MGEB02H3 Price Theory: A Mathematical Approach
MGEB06H3 Macroeconomic Theory and Policy: A Mathematical Approach
MGEB11H3 Quantitative Methods in Economics I
MGEB12H3 Quantitative Methods in Economics II
Management Strategy Stream (3.5 credits):
4. Foundation Courses - 1.0 credit:
MGSB01H3 Introduction to Strategy
MGSC01H3 Strategic Management I
5. Concentration Courses – 1.5 credits from:
MGSC05H3 The Changing World of Business-Government Relations
MGSC10H3 Business Strategy in the Digital Age
MGSC14H3 Management Ethics
MGSC35H3 Innovation
MGSD05H3 Strategic Management II
MGSD40H3 Corporate Social Responsibility
MGEC11H3 Introduction to Regression Analysis
Based on courses selected, students can obtain the following concentrations within the Management Strategy stream:
Quantitative Strategy and Analysis:
MGSC10H3, MGEC11H3 and MGSD55H3
Technology Strategy:
MGSC35H3, MGSC10H3 and [MGSD55H3 or MGSD15H3]
Strategy, Government and Society:
MGSC05H3, MGSC15H3 and MGSD40H3
General Strategic Management:
MGSD05H3 and 1.0 credit from list of concentration courses from requirement 5
6. Advanced Course – 0.5 credit:
MGSD01H3 Senior Seminar in Strategic Management
7. Elective Courses – 0.5 credit from:
Either the concentration courses listed in requirement 5, provided it has not been used for any other requirement, or:
MGSB22H3 Entrepreneurship
MGSC03H3 Public Management
MGSC12H3 Narrative and Management
MGSC20H3 Consulting and Contracting: New Ways of Work
MGSC30H3 The Legal Environment of Business I
MGSD24H3 New Venture Creation and Planning
MGSD30H3 Intellectual Property Law
MGEC11H3 Introduction to Regression Analysis
MGEC41H3 Industrial Organization
MGED43H3 Organization Strategies
Note: In selecting options and electives, students should refer to the guidelines for program breadth and depth found in the Degree Requirements section of the UTSC Calendar.
