Jim Seethram
Contact
Assistant Executive Professor, Alberta School of Business - Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management
- jseethra@ualberta.ca
Courses
SEM 441 - Strategy and Innovation
This course examines top management decisions and emphasizes the development of business and corporate strategy. It integrates the management principles studied in the business core using a series of business cases. The course will have a special focus on innovation and innovative ways of competing and creating value. Guest Faculty members and executives will participate. Prerequisites: FIN 301; MARK 301; and SEM 201, 301 or 310. Open only to students in the Faculty of Business.
SEM 641 - Business Strategy
This course examines top management decisions and emphasizes the development of business and corporate strategy. It integrates the management principles studied in the business core using a series of business cases. Guest Faculty members and executives will participate. Prerequisite: All required Year one MBA core courses.
SEM 690 - Entrepreneurial Strategizing
Entrepreneurial skills are increasingly needed across all domains of the economy and society. While conventional entrepreneurial imagery invokes a Silicon Valley high-technology start-up, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial behavior are prevalent in many large corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and community settings. This includes varied forms of cultural and social entrepreneurship. This course aims to provide a broad overview of general entrepreneurial skills that are vital for any successful career and organizational situation. Our focus will be on providing students with the strategic tools needed to think and act entrepreneurially and innovatively. Entrepreneurial strategizing emphases include framing, resource assembling, opportunity sensing and developing, value-creating, designing, networking, effectual reasoning, and iterative validating and learning.