The course will share cutting edge best practices of building high performing innovative companies. It will help students to understand how to strategically arrange innovation activities to ensure a company’s robust short-term performance and healthy long-term growth, how to design proper funding and accountability structures to nurture and discipline various innovation and growth projects, how to initiate and execute innovation programs to deliver expected results and how to build holistic innovative engines to sustain long-term development. Graded P or F.