Course - BUSINESS 4622A 001

Course Information

This course is designed for students who intend to work for multi‑business enterprises (as product and general managers or as professional staff) or with multi‑business enterprises (as consultants, accountants, investment bankers, analysts, etc.). Multi‑business organizations are those enterprises that have, under the active management of a corporate head office, more than one business unit or division. Most of the companies featured in the cases used in this course are examples of this type of entity, although we do have some cases at the extremes to illustrate the full spectrum of corporate level issues. The definition of a multi‑business enterprise does not include the pure holding company form – companies that hold passive positions (generally partial ownership) in multiple businesses but are not involved in the active management of those underlying business – they are portfolio investors. As such they are closer to mutual funds and may ha...