Contents of This Page
Overview
D31 Course Information
Download D31 Course Files
Key D31 Dates for Sections 65 & 67
How to Download TreePlan Decision Tree Software
Section 65 & 67 Homepage
Section 65 Newsgroup
Section 67 Newsgroup
Links to Course Files of Other Section 65 & 67 Professors
Section 65 D31 Teams 
Section 67 D31 Teams
Section 65 & 67 Team Consultants (not yet constructed)
Some Other Useful Links
Links to Some of My Hobbies
Northwestern University's Fight Song
Overview
- Welcome! This page is primarily for students in Sections 65 and 67 enrolled in my M&S D31 class, but it was written to be relevant for students in all sections of the course. The page offers course-related information and some information about myself as well. All members of the Kellogg community are welcome to look at and use this page.
Information about M&S D31
Course Syllabus
- Click on this link to download a copy of the Fall 1998 syllabus for my sections of M&S D31 in Microsoft Word format.
Course Description
- M&S D31 is Kellogg's introductory course on strategic management. The subject of the course is the evaluation and formulation of business strategy. Some of the topics covered by the course are: choosing the scope of the firm; evaluating market economics and the firm's competitive environment; strategically positioning the firm within that environment; creating, exploiting, and sustaining competitive advantage; and understanding the relationships between strategy and functional area decisions. Besides exploring many examples of strategic-management decisions through cases, we will also develop a formal analytic framework for thinking about strategic-management decisions based on recent developments in the fields of economics and strategy. This framework will form the foundation for generating principles of strategic management that can be applied to more general business environments.
Key D31 Dates for Sections 65 & 67
Optional Microeconomics Primer: Saturday, September 26, 3:30 - 5:00 PM, Room G40.
Midterm Exam Review Session: Sunday, November 1, 7:30 - 9:00 PM, Room G40.
Midterm Exam, Tuesday, November 3, regular class time.
Final Exam Case Due, Monday, December 7 by 12:00 noon.
How to Download TreePlan Software
- You may want to use TreePlan software to create a decision tree for the Nucleon case. Click here to go to the page that provides information and instructions for downloading
TreePlan, an Excel Add-In that allows you to construct decision trees in Excel 4.0, 5.0, 7.0, and Excel 97.
Links to Course Files of Other Section 65 & 67 Professors
These are links to the home pages or directories of course files of other core professors for Sections 65 and 67.
- Professor Sudhakar Deshmukh
- Professor Ramu Thiagarajan
- Professor Victoria Medvec
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Some Other Useful Links
Management and Strategy Department's Web Page
World Wide Web Resource Page
Northwestern Library's Business Information Page
Yahoo's Links to Other Business Schools
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Links to Some of My Hobbies and Interests
- Golf
- Model Railroading
- Diamond Mind Baseball
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Northwestern's Fight Song
- If you are late to my class, I will make you stand up in class and sing the
Northwestern Fight Song! So that there are no possible excuses, click here for the words.
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at: d-besanko@northwestern.edu. Last Modified: 09/15/98 by David Besanko, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University