2024/2025
KAN-CMIAO1007U Business Project
English Title |
Business Project |
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Language |
English |
Course ECTS |
7.5 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 cand.merc. and MIB
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Course
coordinator |
- Christoph Grimpe - Department of Strategy and Innovation
(SI)
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Main academic
disciplines |
- Entrepreneurship
- Innovation
- Strategy
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Teaching
methods |
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Last updated on
14-05-2024
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Learning objectives |
In the business 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 analyzing a business development problem in a
company
- An ability to view a business development problem from
different theoretical, analytical and managerial perspectives
covered by the first and second semester courses
- An ability to understand fundamental presumptions, validity and
possible synergies between these theories, perspectives and
tools
- An ability to identify and analyze a relevant business
development problem, apply relevant methods in an empirical study
and write a consistent project report
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Examination |
Business
Project:
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Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
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, see also the rules about
examination forms in the programme regulations. |
Individual or group exam |
Oral group exam based on written group
product |
Number of people in the group |
4-5 |
Size of written product |
Max. 30 pages |
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Max. 30 pages (groups of 5 students), max. 24
pages (groups of 4 students) |
Assignment type |
Project |
Release of assignment |
Subject chosen by students themselves, see
guidelines if any |
Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date and
time.
15 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade,
and informing plus explaining the grade |
Grading scale |
7-point grading 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 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.
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Description of the exam
procedure
Students have to form groups of four or five and choose a
business development case for analysis. The groups will be
allocated a supervisor and will receive supervision. The number of
supervision hours will be announced at the beginning of the course.
Students must only bring the written project to the oral exam in a
version identical to the one handed in as well as notes for a short
initial presentation.
The oral exam is structured as follows: The students may choose
to open the exam by a short presentation of what they consider
a particularly important and interesting theme in the project
report. Alternatively, the examination will start with questions
from the examiner. After the initial presentation, the students and
the examiners will engage in a dialogue based on questions related
to the project report. The examination will take its point of
departure in the theme presented by the students or the central
theme of the project report. Thereafter, the examination may
address all parts of the project report. The examination may also
involve questions of how other relevant theories and frameworks
discussed in the courses than those applied in the project could
have been applied to the
case.
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Course content, structure and pedagogical
approach |
The purpose of this second semester project is to train students
to analyze 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 includes an
empirical case study of an innovative company.
The project work is carried out in groups. Each group writes a
report analyzing a particular business development problem in a
case company. The groups’ task is to demonstrate that they are able
to analyze a business development problem by applying theories,
frameworks and tools covered in both the first and second semester
courses.
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Description of the teaching methods |
The course includes lectures on research methods.
Moreover, a practice session will be offered that clarifies the
practicalities of writing a business project, practice the
formulation of research questions, the choice of theoretical
frameworks, and the case analysis. After these introductory
classes, the groups will receive supervision by faculty
members. |
Feedback during the teaching period |
Students will receive feedback on their work
during the supervision period.
An additional practice session will be offered. The practice
session will clarify the practicalities of writing a business
project, practice the formulation of research questions, the choice
of theoretical frameworks, and the case analysis. |
Student workload |
Teaching |
6 hours |
Preparation and exam project |
200 hours |
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Last updated on
14-05-2024