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Competitive Strategy
Beginner English Professional CertificateFREE
What you'll learn
Analyse situations where strategic decisions are interdependent
Apply basic game theory to business strategy
Understand how firms gain competitive advantage
Reason about pricing, entry, and signalling
Anticipate competitors' likely moves
Build a structured strategic-thinking toolkit
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Instructor
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Tobias Kretschmer
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Tobias Kretschmer is a professor at LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) specialising in strategy and organisation. His teaching is known for making game-theory-based strategy accessible and even entertaining through clear examples.
Requirements
- No prior experience required
Who this course is for
- Professionals wanting sharper strategic thinking
- Management and business students
- Non-business learners curious about strategy
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Frequently asked questions
No — it's designed to be accessible, including to non-business learners. It uses basic game-theory ideas but explains them through clear, often humorous examples.
It's well-reviewed for being engaging and giving a genuinely useful strategic overview, with learners praising the faculty and the approachable style.
You can audit the full course free on Coursera. A certificate is available with a subscription.
This is the foundational course; Advanced Competitive Strategy (also from LMU) goes deeper. Start here, then take the advanced course if you want more.
It's concept-led — built on strategic frameworks and game theory — but the examples make it applicable to real competitive situations.