Spring 2027

Strategic Management

Strategic Management synthesizes accounting, economics, finance, and other fields to examine corporate and business-level strategy, top management problems, and actual business cases.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Florence HonoreJingya You

Summary

1 / 6

Past student reviews · Florence Honoré

Weekly quizzes were described as easy, and case studies were graded pass/fail. One student found getting an A manageable without excessive work.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Conduct an external analysis of the firm, focusing on the industry, competitors, and the general environment.

  • Analyze alternative strategic positions within an industry, differentiating between cost and differentiation strategies, and their implications for competitive advantage.

  • Assess firm diversification and internationalization, considering mergers, acquisitions, and alliances as potential means.

  • Develop and communicate strategic analyses and recommendations both individually and as part of a team.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing. Not open to graduate/professional students

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Professors

Spring 2027

Past student reviews · Florence Honoré

Professor Florence Honore taught MHR 423 using case studies and weekly quizzes, with a schedule alternating between lectures and discussions. Students found the material engaging and noted that getting an A was manageable, while one reviewer emphasized the importance of choosing a strong group for the projects.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.53 GPA, 73.6% A/AB (n=72 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.54 GPA, 85.0% A/AB (n=40 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.44 GPA, 74.4% A/AB (n=39 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.64 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=28 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Past student reviews · Philip Greenwood

Past students described Philip Greenwood as laid-back and unorganized, noting that exams were easy to pass but he minimized their importance. Another student called him the best teacher in their business school. One student found Greenwood’s late afternoon course chill, featuring a midterm with a cheat sheet and a 20-page strategic group project.

FLORENCE HONORE is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

JINGYA YOU is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

PHILIP GREENWOOD is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

RICK MAROLT is recorded teaching in Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ZHI CAO is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Spring 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 250
LEC 100Online Only0 / 500

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Florence Honoré

Professor Honoré structures the course with alternating lecture and discussion days, using engaging case studies and fun games to keep students interested.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.81 GPA, 91.0% A/AB (n=122 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.69 GPA, 87.2% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 87.2% A/AB (n=94 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Florence Honoré

Weekly quizzes were described as easy, and case studies were graded pass/fail. One student found getting an A manageable without excessive work.

Past student reviews · Florence Honoré

Group projects required choosing teammates early, which one student flagged as a potential risk if the group dynamic was poor.

Topics

  • Corporate and business-level strategy
  • Top management problems
  • Actual business cases
  • Cost and differentiation strategies and competitive advantage
  • Firm diversification, internationalization, mergers, acquisitions, and alliances

Skills

  • Conduct external analysis of the firm, industry, competitors, and general environment.
  • Analyze strategic positions and differentiate between cost and differentiation strategies.
  • Assess firm diversification and internationalization via mergers, acquisitions, and alliances.
  • Develop and communicate strategic analyses and recommendations individually and in teams.

Grades

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.13 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
MHR 423 · Spring 2027

Strategic Management

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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