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M4010028 College of Management, National Sun Yat-Sen University Chinese Course Title English Course Title Class Format Instructor Course Objective Many well-known business schools in the west, such as Harvard University and Columbia University, have long been providing Sun Zi’s strategic thinking courses in their MBA programs. Just as their purposes, our objective in this course is thus to bring about Sun Zi’s strategic principles in military wars and learns how to adopt them for the competitions in the business landscape. Course Outline The course can be outlined as follows: 1. To go literally over the content of the book---The Art of War--- and bring about the strategic principles in Sun Zi’s ever-lasting thinking 2. To view Sun Zi’s strategic principles from the perspective of the contemporary business strategic management 3. To explore the success and failure lessons in real-world business cases by adopting Sun Zi’s strategic principles 4. In the midst of the exploration of Sun Zi’s Art of War, the course also addresses the difference between the East and West strategic perspectives. 5. To uncover Sun Zi’s insights in building competitive advantage Teaching Format Lectures, assignment, class discussion Grading Standard 1. Class discussion: 30% 2.Group presentation(Mid-term)：30% 3.Group presentation(Final-term)：40% Reference/Text 1. Sun Zi, 500B.C., The Art of War, Zhou Dynasty, China. 2. Department of Business Management of the National Sun Yat-Sen University at Kaohsiung TAIWAN, Management Cases: Analysis and Application, Taipei: Chien-Chen Book Co. Cases Reading 1. Businessweek 2. Harvard Business Review 孙子兵法中的策略原理 Strategic Principles in the Art of War Course Number Lecture Feng-Lee Lin Requirement Elective Department Credit MBA 3 Course content/ Progress / Documents The course plans to progress as follows: Week Course content (1) Chapter 1 of the Art of War: Initial Estimations (2) Chapter 2 of the Art of War: Waging War (3) Chapter 3 of the Art of War: Planning Offensives (4) Real-world business cases reading and exploration I (5) Chapter 4 of the Art of War: Military Disposition (6) Chapter 5 of the Art of War: Strategic Military Power (7) Chapter 6 of the Art of War: Vacuity and Substance (8) Real-world business cases reading and exploration II (9) Chapter 7 of the Art of War: Military Combat (10) Chapter 8 of the Art of War: Nine Changes (11) Chapter 9 of the Art of War: Maneuvering the Army (12) Real-world business cases reading and exploration III (13) Chapter 10 of the Art of War: Configurations of Terrain (14) Chapter 11 of the Art of War: Nine Terrains (15) Chapter 12 of the Art of War: Incendiary Attacks (16) Chapter 13 of the Art of War: Employing Spies (17) Real-world business cases reading and exploration IV (18) Term Project Presentation Office Hours Monday 14：10-16：00 Thursday14：10-16：00 Location: Room 4110