MNGT 490 Strategic Management Capstone (3 credits)

2. Evaluate the financial, operational, and stakeholder impacts of proposed and alternative strategies using both qualitative and quantitative analysis.

3. Assess risk, trade-offs, and mitigation plans to support sound decision-making and long-term organizational sustainability.

4. Reflect critically on the effectiveness of the chosen solution and communicate key insights, outcomes, and lessons learned through professional reporting and presentation formats

Degree Outcomes
Core Abilities
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions,
and creations.

Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Program Outcomes:
Critical Thinking: Use systems theory to understand and analyze trends and organizational problems, as well as to construct and evaluate evidence-based solution options.

Sustainable Business Model: Use systems theory, business principles, and an adaptive mindset to analyze and make short- and long-term business decisions in the context of the greater environment and society.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

Potential Methods
The below instructional methods may be online or in-person: Online and/or in-person discussions to critically examine business concepts, applications, and implications Adaptive and interactive learning devices to support content retention and comprehension Multiple-choice exams to encourage content coverage Case studies to examine organizational structures and business models in context Self-reflections and essays to evaluate experiences, consider ethical impacts, and systemic implications across contexts Project-based learning against learning outcomes Business research and analysis to gather and examine data and draw criteria-based solutions Scenario and solution testing to examine systemic behaviors, organizational risks, and overall value of solution options.