About Department of Organization Strategy and Leadership (OSL): Strategy and leadership excellence are two critical components in today’s increasingly complex, integrated and interrelated global business environment. Future strategists, business leaders and aspiring entrepreneurs need to acquire and sharpen their skills relating to these two critical areas in realizing their individual and organizational goals. Established in June 30, 2016, the Department of Organization Strategy and Leadership (OSL) of the University of Dhaka will provide quality education and training to develop a pool of future strategists, business leaders and entrepreneurs. These pool of human resources with their enhanced knowledge and expertise on strategy and leadership will explore various business opportunities, analyze and lead to exploit those opportunities in developing products and services, effectively implement those opportunities through innovative solutions and achieve organizational sustainability and growth.
The OSL department, with its holistic & interdisciplinary education, rigorous & practical training approach, in-depth & impact oriented research & advocacy, and strong collaboration with different stakeholders including the private sector, government, development organizations etc. plans to prepare the students to provide strategic direction of their respective organizations, and help the organizations to attain strategic advantage in a complex & competitive environment.
Mission: Be a thought leader in the creation and dissemination of knowledge and expertise on strategy & leadership to foster organizational sustainability and growth.
Vision: Be a center of excellence for education, research and advocacy on Strategy, Organizational Leadership, Innovation, Entrepreneurship Development and Change Management in Asia.
Objective: The programs of the department include key components designed to help the students to develop skills and expertise to lead an organization, from motivating people and mobilizing teams to making strategic decisions and developing and implementing short & long-term strategies.
Focus Areas: The major areas of focus of OSL’s academic programs include:
Strategic Management
Organizational Leadership
Innovation
Entrepreneurship Development
Change Management
Negotiation
Employment Opportunity: Given the backdrop of competitiveness and complexity, there is a significant gap in strategic & leadership orientation in our organizations. But appropriate strategy can make a difference between extremely high growth organizations and crises ridden losing organizations. For example, only in the RMG sector, expatriate top executives remit around 4.5 to 6 billion USD per year. This provides an indication of the potential of OSL graduates’ employment market.
The graduates of OSL, with emphasis on the focus areas, are likely to have a holistic edge in entering into any sector. Besides, at the entry level (in organizations with strategic orientation) OSL graduates shall contribute in the strategy development and implementation process; at the mid level, they shall lead & drive the development, implementation and change management process; and finally, at the top level, they shall formulate strategy and lead the organization to new heights of sustainability and growth. In this complex and competitive environment organizations must adopt a strategic orientation.
Student Composition for the BBA Program: A total of 55 students of which 35 students from business, 15 students from science, and 5 students from liberal arts discipline will be taught under the four years BBA program at the department.
Course List : BBA Program
First Year
First Term
Second Term
OSL 101 Understanding Business
OSL 106 Business Anthropology
OSL 102 Management Fundamentals
OSL 107 Business Finance
OSL 103 Marketing Fundamentals
OSL 108 Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business
OSL 104 Accounting Fundamentals
OSL 109 General Science and Environment
OSL 105 Bangladesh Studies
OSL 110 Mathematics for Business and Economics
Second Year
First Term
Second Term
OSL 201 Strategy Fundamentals
OSL 206 Leadership Fundamentals
OSL 202 Organizational Behavior
OSL 207 Managerial Economics
OSL 203 Business Statistics
OSL 208 Financial Analysis
OSL 204 Cost and Management Accounting
OSL 209 Business Software Packages
OSL 205 Entrepreneurship Development
OSL 210 Business Analytics, Game Theory and Simulation
Third Year
First Term
Second Term
OSL 301 Design Thinking & the Art of Innovation
OSL 306 Leadership & Governance
OSL 302 Calculus for Management Science
OSL 307 Business Negotiation: Strategy and Practice
OSL 303 Policy Studies: Economic Sectors of Bangladesh
OSL 308 Marketing Strategy
OSL 304 Project Management
OSL 309 Management Information System
OSL 305 Leadership Biographies
OSL 310 Business Project: New Venture Creation and Management
Fourth Year
First Term
Second Term
OSL 401 Microeconomics of Competitiveness
OSL 406 International Business
OSL 402 Management of Supply Chain
OSL 407 Lean Management
OSL 403 Strategic Human Resource Management
OSL 408 Management of Change
OSL 404 Alternative Research Paradigms
OSL 409 Econometrics
OSL 405 Project: Leadership Development
OSL 410 Business Project: Strategy Design and Implementation
Non Credit Courses*:
[Foundational Skill Development (FSD)]
FSD 1 Effective Business Communication: Level 1
FSD 5 Statistical Software Package
FSD 2 Effective Business Communication: Level 2
FSD 6 Third Language: Level 1
FSD 3 Effective Business Communication: Level 3
FSD 7 Third Language: Level 2
FSD 4 Public Speaking
FSD 8 Third Language: Level 3
* In each semester, students have to take one non-credit course to be guided by one faculty of the department.
Students may need to enroll into a certification program with a third party (selected by the department), specialized as a training provider to improve their skills.
* For all the non-credit courses, a satisfactory performance is necessary. OSL department in partnership with third party (if applicable) will organize tests to measure the performance of the students.
Course List : MBA Program
First Term
OSL 501 Emotional Intelligence
OSL 502 Export Strategy Framework: Regional & Multi-lateral Trade Regime
OSL 503 Family Business: Governance & Sustainability
OSL 504 Balanced Scorecard: Strategic Management System
OSL 505 Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Seminar, Case Development and Business Project
Second Term
OSL 506 Strategy & Corporate Governance
OSL 507 Contemporary Leadership Theories
OSL 508 Non-profit Organization: Governance & Sustainability
OSL 509 Big Data, Innovation & Technology Management
OSL 510 Strategy and Leadership: Seminar, Case Development and Business project
Course List : MBA (Evening) Program
Code Foundation
OSL E101 Accounting Fundamentals
OSL E102 Business Communications
OSL E103 Business Finance & Financial Analysis
OSL E104 Business Management
OSL E105 Business Statistics
OSL E106 Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business
OSL E107 Marketing Fundamentals
OSL E108 Mathematics for Business and Economics
OSL E109 Managerial Economics
OSL E110 Organizational Behavior
Code Core
OSL E111 Strategy Fundamentals
OSL E112 Leadership Fundamentals
OSL E113 Business Negotiation: Strategy and Practice
OSL E114 Strategic Marketing
OSL E115 Balanced Scorecard: Strategic Management System
OSL E116 Strategy and Leadership: Seminar, Case Development and Business Project
Code Specialization (Any Five ++)
OSL E117 Contemporary Leadership Theories
OSL E118 Strategic Human Resource Management
OSL E119 Big Data, Innovation & Technology Management
OSL E120 Business Analytics, Game Theory and Simulation
OSL E121 Design Thinking & The Art of Innovation
OSL E122 Leadership & Governance
OSL E123 Leadership Biographies
OSL E124 Management of Change
OSL E125 Management of Supply Chain
OSL E126 Microeconomics of Competitiveness
OSL E127 New Venture Creation and Management
OSL E128 Export Strategy Framework: Regional & Multi-lateral Trade Regime
OSL E129 Policy Studies: Economic Sectors of Bangladesh
OSL E130 Strategy & Corporate Governance
OSL E131 Non-profit Organization: Governance & Sustainability
OSL E132 Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Seminar, Case Development and Business Project
OSL E133 International Business
OSL E134 Strategy Design and Implementation
OSL E135 Business Research
OSL E136 Emotional Intelligence
OSL E137 Family Business: Governance & Sustainability
OSL E138 Project Management
Non Credit Courses : [Foundational Skill Development (FSD)]
FSD E1 Effective Business Communication: Elementary
FSD E2 Effective Business Communication: Intermediate
FSD E3 Business Software Packages