12512 - Business Strategy

Academic Year 2010/2011

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Management and Marketing (cod. 8406)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will have the theoretic knowledge to understand business management techniques. In particular, he/she will be able to analyze a business  and it's fundamentals and basic  relationships with the environment, in the areas of finance and investment, and also in those relative to the description of financial and monetary dynamics and economical earnings of the business.

Course contents

The company as an economic subject

The manager as a problem solver

Chain value model

Market borders of the company

Processes and organization structure

Balance sheet Cost management and break even analysis

Readings/Bibliography

  1. "Come redigere un Business Plan. Manuale operativo", of Paolo Di Marco e Daniele Rimini, Editor Martina Bologna
  2. Text abstract pdf on web site www.pdfor.it
  3. Lesson slide on web site  www.pdfor.it

Teaching methods

  1. Interactive lessons
  2. Business Case
  3. Incident
  4. Excercises by teamwork

Assessment methods

Final exame (writing form) with

  1. Multiple choice
  2. Questions
  3. Economics business case

Teaching tools

Computer science Laboratory

Teaching Tools in web-link

Links to further information

http://www.pdfor.it mail: mail@paolodimarco.it; paolo.dimarco@unibo.it;

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Di Marco