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2019/2020  BA-BINBO1901U  Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipate and Avoid Startup Pitfalls

English Title
Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipate and Avoid Startup Pitfalls

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Bachelor
Duration One Quarter
Start time of the course Second Quarter, Autumn
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for BSc in International Business
Course coordinator
  • Christina Lubinski - Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy (MPP)
Main academic disciplines
  • Globalisation and international business
Teaching methods
  • Face-to-face teaching
Last updated on 27-06-2019

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Learning objectives
After having completed the course the students should be able to:
  • synthesize the development of different capitalist societies based on the required reading
  • explain and compare different theoretical frameworks and apply them to cases
  • analyze case studies by breaking up the sum of information into constituent parts, identify relevant aspects of the situation and study the relationship of the parts to the whole; formulate questions applying relevant theory
  • compare different ways how businesses and entrepreneurs interact with their political and cultural context
  • evaluate dilemma situations of entrepreneurs, hypothesize about different courses of action and their outcome
Prerequisites for registering for the exam (activities during the teaching period)
Number of compulsory activities which must be approved: 1
Compulsory home assignments
At least one of the two assignments should be approved to be able to take the final examination
Examination
Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipate and Avoid Startup Pitfalls:
Exam ECTS 7,5
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Max. 10 pages
Assignment type Case based assignment
Duration 48 hours to prepare
Grading scale 7-point grading scale
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Autumn and Winter
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
if a student did not pass the mandatory assignment or was ill for the mandatory assignments, he/she will not be able to take the ordinary examination. To be able to take the retake, the student will need to hand in a max 10 pages paper graded pass/fail
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

to be announced
Description of the teaching methods
The course is based on a combination of lectures, case-based discussions in smaller groups and exercises.
Feedback during the teaching period
Office hours.
Feedback on case discussions in video format.
Exam feedback: expectation horizon, best practice answer and frequent mistakes.
Student workload
Lecture hours 20 hours
Workshop/exercises 22 hours
Preparation Lectures 70 hours
Preparation Case-Study Exercises 90 hours
Examination 4 hours
Expected literature

Compulsory reading:

Compendium
Harvard Business School cases
 
Recommended further reading:

 

Jones, G. 2005. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Ghemawat, P. 2017. The Laws of Globalization and Business Applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Last updated on 27-06-2019