2024/2025 KAN-CSIEO2004U Organizing Growth
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Organizing Growth |
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Language | English |
Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
Type | Mandatory (also offered as elective) |
Level | Full Degree Master |
Duration | One Quarter |
Start time of the course | Third Quarter |
Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
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Study Board for MSc in Social Sciences
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Last updated on 15-01-2024 |
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To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the
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Organizing Growth
Organizing Growth explore the later stages of the life cycle of entrepreneurial ventures and intrapreneurial activities. It expands on the idea of “entrepreneurial processes” by thinking through the challenges of (i) orchestrating people for growth, (ii) designing partnerships to facilitate growth strategies and (iii) striking deals with resource providers. The “POCD”-framework (People, Opportunity, Context and Deals) provides students a big-picture analytical tool to both manage and analyze startups at different stages in their life cycle.
Among the topics covered are managing founding teams through different growth challenges, working with resource providers, in particular venture capitalists, designing and iterating founder agreements, and evaluating opportunities for exit.
We emphasize the skills, capabilities, and judgment needed to effectively manage entrepreneurial ventures. The course is interdisciplinary in its approach to entrepreneurship, integrating entrepreneurial history, strategy, sociology and finance. It teaches students how to orchestrate resources, legitimize new stages of development, and explore opportunities for exits. It will involve both quantitative and qualitative modes of reasoning about entrepreneurial decision making.
Students will learn through a combination of studio exercises, lectures, case discussions, and real-world applications. |
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The pedagogy for the class is, primarily, studio-based learning. Using knowledge from assigned readings, short (video and in-class) lectures and cases, students engage in experimental exercises, simulations, role plays and group assignments. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In-class feedback on compulsory assignment.
Video feedback on selected case discussion. Office hours |
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