Master's Degree - Merchandising

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Course Information
Strategic Planning

Course Description
This course is an examination of the executive planning process used to develop successful corporate strategies with emphasis on the importance of a market orientation for building customer value and sustaining a competitive advantage. Prerequisite: Instructor's permission.
Contacts
Instructor

Melody L. A. LeHew
Office: 785-532-6993
lehew@ksu.edu

Campus Coordinator

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
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Disability Support Services

To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.


Textbooks

Crafting & Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases
Thompson, A., Peteraf, M., Gamble, J., and Strickland, A.
Edition: 23rd
ISBN: 1260735176
Publisher: McGraw Hill


Course Access
 
Approximately 2-3 weeks before the first day of class at K-State, the K-State campus coordinator, Ashley Schultz, will email course access instructions to visiting students for courses taught by K-State. These instructions are also available on the Visiting Students webpage at K-State. By following the course access instructions, visiting students create their K-State eID and complete the K-State Course Access Form. Students meeting all deadlines for eID creation and submission will have access to Canvas by the first day of class.

Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

Faculty
University Members
Members of the Great Plains IDEA are universities accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Member universities recruit, admit and graduate students, teach in an academic program and contribute to the leadership and maintenance of the alliance. Membership in the alliance is a selective process that engages institutional leadership at all levels.

Huang_Shaojun_Headshot_for_Website1.pngHaving an integrated financial strategy for families has become increasingly important for families to stabilize their finances, especially during the pandemic. Acquiring professional knowledge on how to well manage family wealth has motivated me to pursue a master’s degree program in family financial planning and become a professional financial planner. The Great Plains IDEA program offers me a great path to this academic field and to gain the skills to help people protect financial resources.

– – Shaojun Huang, Family Financial Planning Graduate,
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