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2016/2017  KAN-CMIBO1032U  Business Project

English Title
Business Project

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 15 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Semester
Start time of the course Spring
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business Administration
Course coordinator
  • Keld Laursen - Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics (INO)
Main academic disciplines
  • Globalization and international business
  • Economics
Last updated on 06-02-2017
Learning objectives
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or errors: In the integrated project and in its associated oral exam the student should demonstrate:
  • An ability to apply theories, analytical perspectives and managerial tools from both the first and the second semester courses in analysing a business development problem in a company.
  • An ability to view a business problem from drifferent theoretical, analytical and managerial perspectives covered in the first and second semester courses.
  • An ability to understand possible synergies between these theories, perspectives and tools.
  • An ability to understand the fundamental presumptions, validity and possible synergies between theories covered in the first and second semester courses
  • An ability to identify and analyse an increasing business development problem, apply relevant methods in an empirical study and write a consistent and relevant project.
Examination
Business Project:
Exam ECTS 15
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 Individual oral exam based on written group product
Number of people in the group 4-5
Size of written product Max. 60 pages
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
Preparation time No preparation
Grading scale 7-step scale
Examiner(s) Internal examiner and external examiner
Exam period Summer
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If a student do not pass the regular exam, a new or a revised project, cf. advice from the examiner of the ordinary exam, must be handed in by the new deadline.
If a student is absent from the oral exam due to documented illness but has handed in the written group product she/he does not have to submit a new product for the re-take. However the group product must be uploaded once again on Digital Exam.
If a whole group fails the oral exam they must hand in a revised product for the re-take.
If one student in the group fails the oral exam the course coordinator chooses whether the student will have the oral exam on the basis of the same product or if he/she has to hand in a revised product for the re- take.
Description of the exam procedure

All groups will be allocated a supervisor and will receive supervision. The number of supervision hours will be announced in the beginning of the course.

 

To the oral exam the student must bring only the written project, in a version identical with the one handed in, and notes for a short initial presentation.

 

Each oral exam is structured as follows:

1) Each student will open the exam by a short (maximum 3 minutes) presentation of what she or he considers a particularly important and interesting theme in the project report.

2) Dialogue based on questions related to the project report. The examination will take as its point of departure the theme presented by the student. Thereafter, the examination may address all parts of the project report. The examination may also involve questions of how other relevant theories and frameworks in the first year courses than those applied in the project, could have been applied
Course content and structure

The purpose of this second semester project is to train students to analyse a business development problem in a company by applying relevant theories, analytical perspectives and tools covered in both the first and second semester courses. The project will typically include an empirical case study of an innovative company.

The project work is carried out in groups. Each group writes a report analysing a particular business development problem in a case company. Emphasis in the project work is on the ability of students to analyse a business development problem by applying theories, frameworks and tools covered in both the first- and second-semester courses.
Teaching methods
Supervised group work.
Student workload
Teaching 12 hours
Preparation 300 hours
Exam 100 hours
Last updated on 06-02-2017