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As a professor of strategy and multinational management, Lite has developed and taught courses at the undergraduate, MBA, and Executive Levels. Key topics, concepts and tools are highlighted below.

Multi-stakeholder engagement, management and governance

Formulating strategies for stakeholder engagement and management.

Building organizational structures for stakeholder governance.

Key concepts and tools:

  • Analyzing stakeholder networks and influence
  • Crafting stakeholder management strategies
  • Orchestrating stakeholder governance
  • Balancing divergent stakeholder values, creating and capturing synergies, and managing trade-offs
  • Analyzing diverse stakeholders and managing communication and engagement

Melding sustainable development and firm strategic gains

Incorporating impacts of sustainable development in organization strategy.

Sustained creation and equitable capture and dissemination of both economic and societal value.

Key concepts and tools:

  • Analyzing stakeholder value preferences
  • Crafting business models for markets at the bottom of the pyramid
  • Incorporating sustainable development goals in business processes
  • Capturing value and delivering impact through sustainable development strategies

Strategic wins in complex institutional environments

Building and scaling businesses in complex institutional environments.

Key concepts and tools:

  • Integrating cross-cultural and business practices
  • Leveraging informal institutions for strategic growth
  • Navigating institutional voids
  • Managing public-private engagement and stakeholder collaborations
  • Innovating to capture fragmented markets
  • Navigating the informal business economy

ESG, inclusive growth and financial inclusion

Developing organization-specific Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria.

Crafting strategies for inclusive growth.

Creating financially inclusive markets.

Key concepts and tools:

  • Developing ESG strategies and measuring ESG criteria
  • Identifying factors hindering and advancing inclusive growth
  • Capturing value through financial inclusion

Corporate and competitive strategy

Crafting corporate and business level strategy.

Analyzing market entry and competitive dynamics.

Tailoring business models for sustainable value creation.

Key concepts and tools:

  • Strategic thinking
  • Market analysis and new market entry
  • Industry and value chain structure
  • Business models and value analysis
  • Ecosystem development

Global strategy

Managing multinational businesses and leveraging global value chains.

Key concepts and tools:

  • Where to enter: Analyzing strengths and weaknesses of different markets
  • When to enter: Developing a path and timing of global expansion
  • How to enter: Leveraging strategic alliances and M&A for global expansion
  • Managing external social and political dynamics affecting entry
  • Managing internal subsidiary-headquarter relationships