By the end of the first-year group
project students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate an ability to describe and build a case of
organizational innovation and entrepreneurship.
2. Mobilize relevant theories and concepts included in previous
courses throghout the first year of the OIE program to discuss
organizational innovation and entrepreneurship.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the theoretical perspectives
discussed in the LCO course as a means of deciding questions and
giving strategic recommendations concerning specific problem of
innovation, entrepreneurship and organizational creativity.
4. Select appropriate scientific methodology for building up a case
study, and defend the choice of methodology.
5. Integrate empirical case descriptions with theoretical
perspectives and concepts in the analysis of specific cases.
6. Present (both in written and oral form) in a structured and
convincing manner a particular case.
7. Persuasively explain and defend a position on issues concerning
innovation and entrepreneurship.
Learningobjectíves for Laederhsip in the Creative Organizations,
please se under exam.
By the end of Leadership in Creative Organizations student should
be able to:
- Apply theoretical ideas and materials to resolve problems and
develop opportunities in practical settings.
- Initiate in forming actionable frameworks in areas where theory
is not yet complete, or where the contingency that underlies the
relevance of a theory to a particular real situation is
unclear.
- Persuasively critique available theory in terms of its
relevance to a given applied situation.
- State and defend the student’s own frameworks and formulations,
by referencing, as appropriate, the theoretical and conceptual
materials in the Innovation and Entrepre-neurship litterature
studied during the OIE-program.
- Demonstrate an ability to identify which facts in a case are
relvant to a decision facing the subject company.
- To use appropriate analytical tools and relevant theory to
analyze the above mentioned facts, and to arrive at clearly stated
recommendations justified by sound logic and which take into
account the factors important to the organization’s circumstances,
such as strategy, competitive situation, operational risk, and
organizational capabilities.
- Defend the use of scientific methodology.
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The exam is a
joint exam for Leadership in the Creative Organization and 1st Year
Projetc:
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| Examination form |
Oral exam based on written product
In order to participate in the oral exam, the written product
must be handed in before the oral exam; by the set deadline. The
grade is based on an overall assessment of the written product and
the individual oral performance. |
| Individual or group exam |
Group exam, max. 5 students in the
group |
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The oral exam is individual. If the project is
written individually it must be of max. 20 pages. |
| Size of written product |
Max. 50 pages |
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Each group will be given 5 hours of supervision
and if the project is written individually, 1 hour of supervison is
given. |
| Assignment type |
Project |
| Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date and
time.
20 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade,
and informing plus explaining the grade |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and external examiner |
| Exam period |
Spring Term |
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If a student is ill during the
regular oral exam, he/she will be able to re-use the project at the
make-up exam. If the student was ill during the writing of the
project and did not contribute to the project, the make-up exam can
be written individually or in groups (provided that other students
are taking the make-up exam). If the student did not pass the
regular exam, he/she must revise the project (confer advice from
the examiner) and hand it in on a new deadline specified by the
secretariat
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Leadership in the Creative Organizations:
This final course of the first year provides students with an
opportunity to synthesize the ideas and concepts they have
encountered throughout the year into a coherent, if tentative and
evolving, set of theories of practice, and to refine these in the
crucible of practical application. To accomplish this, we will
proceed pedagogically using an inductive approach, the “case
method” (sometimes called “the Socratic method”). Conceptual and
theoretical material will be introduced during class discussion of
a series of applied cases, each centered on a problem facing a real
creative organization. Theory development and critique will happen
in class, not in the literature assigned as reading for the course,
and students will be encouraged to take and defend positions, based
on their mastery of conceptual material from this and other
courses. Because of this pedagogical approach, class attendance
will be particularly important. Reading will not be an alternative
way of acquiring understanding of the content that is the subject
of the course, which will emerge, instead, in class discussion.
Students will be evaluated not according to their adherence to a
uniform set of ideas, but rather according to the quality of their
arguments in defense of their own personal theories as they apply
to practical situation.
1st Year Project:
The purpose of the project is to improve students’ ability to
describe, analyze, and diagnose real life cases of organizational
innovation and entrepreneurship.
The focus of the project is set on the combination of theoretical
perspectives and issues faced in everyday organizational life.
Accordingly, the project aims at integrating theoretical concepts
with practical questions concerning organizational innovation and
entrepreneurship.
Further, an important aim of the first-year group project is to
train students in suggesting a recommendation and defending a
position in an academic as well as business-like manner.
The group project runs in parallel and is closely connected to the
course Leadership in the Creative Organizations (LCO). Both, the
first-year group project and LCO, have thus a combined exam.
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Please note that the litterature is guiding
Leadership in the Creative Organizations:
The Prince, by
NiccolòMachiavelli
(http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince00.htmor
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1232)
The Secret Sharer, by
Joseph Conrad
(http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/220or
http://manybooks.net/titles/conradjoetext95sshar11.html).
In addition, we will make various
articles and excerpts from books accessible to you on SiteScape or
in the CBS Library. Some other materials you will need to access
directly and purchase from the Harvard Business School Publishing
website. Instructions for how to do this follow.
1st Year Project:
Suggested reading:
Eisenhardt, Kathleen. 1989. “Building theories from case study
research”.Academy of Management Review,
14(4):532-550.
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