This course serves as a capstone to the concentrated core for the Professional Evening MBA program. The course draws on findings from a number of academic disciplines, especially economics, organization theory, sociology, accounting, and management policy to build a comprehensive understanding of how and why some firms achieve and sustain superior performance. The primary objectives of the course are to: 1) build upon students' foundational understanding of factors that affect organizations' long-run economic performance, 2) refresh students' use of strategy frameworks and analytical tools used for making recommendations to organizations on how they can work towards achieving superior performance, and 3) extend students' knowledge into advanced strategy topics and contemporary issues. The course is designed to develop an integrative view of the firm and its environment, along with appropriate analytical skills. Issues associated with professional ethics and corporate social responsibility are pervasive throughout the curriculum and students are encouraged to incorporate these perspectives in case analysis and classroom discussion. Global strategic management is an important a theme of the course: many of the cases are global companies, students will be challenged to extend the conceptual frameworks and apply any lessons learned to an international context.