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Introduction Link: Canvas Module Link: LU Zoom meeting |
October 18 09:15 - 12:00 |
Introduction to the strategy module Strategy and the strategic process |
Grant chapter 1-4 | |
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Lecture 2 Link: Canvas Module Link: LU Zoom meeting |
October 19 09:15 - 12:00 |
Industry analysis & industry attractiveness Resources, capabilities and competitive advantage |
Porter, 2008 Grant chapter 5, 7-8 |
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Workshop Link: Canvas Module Link: LU Zoom meeting |
October 22 09:15 - 12:00 |
Workshop on strategy |
Porter, 2008 Grant chapters 1-5, 7-8 intensively Grant chapters 12, 14 and 15 extensively |
Have the literature available Read extensive chapters with focus on the overall message (not details) |
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Workshop Link: Canvas Module Link: LU Zoom meeting |
October 25 09:15 - 12:00 |
Case Workshop |
Have case info available |
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Workshop Link: Canvas Module Link: LU Zoom meeting |
October 27 09:15 - 12:00 |
Workshop Competitive advantage |
Sign up for the simulation before class |
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Case seminar Link: Canvas Module Link: LU Zoom meeting |
October 29 09:15 - 12:30 |
Case discussion Instructions before the seminar are to be found here |
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Quiz Link: Canvas Module |
Opens October 29 |
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Introduction Link: Canvas Module Link: LU Zoom meeting |
October 21 14:15 - 16:00 |
Introduction to the organisation module |
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Workshop 1 EC1:131 Link: Canvas Module |
November 3 Base teams 1-6: 09:15 - 12:00 Base teams 7-12: 13:15 - 16:00 |
Experiencing Organization/ Organizing |
Read Part I "Making Sense of Organizations" in Bolman & Deal (2013), pp. 1-43 & chapter 17, pp. 325-359 Write down one significant experience you had working in organizations or dealing with organizations and bring it to the workshop |
Base teams will work together on a task that will be announced during the seminar |
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Workshop 2 EC1:131 Link: Canvas Module |
November 4 Base teams 1-6: 09:15 - 12:00 Base teams 7-12: 13:15 - 16:00 |
Theorizing Organization/ Organizing |
Read the assigned chapters in Part II-V "Reframing Organization" in Bolman & Deal (2013), pp. 43-295:
Your presentation should be held so that an audience, who has not read the book, can understand it |
Each base team will present its assigned chapters and we will discuss it. In the second part the plenum will discuss the "frames" further with the aim to analyze some of the experiences from Workshop 1. |
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Workshop 3 EC1:131 Link: Canvas Module |
November 5 Base teams 1-6: 09:15 - 12:00 Base teams 7-12: 13:15 - 16:00 |
Practicing Organization/ Organizing |
Read HBR case study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People? Each base team will discuss a specific case study. In your case analysis you need to: • Identify the problem • Justify and apply frame from the book • Propose a solution |
Each base team will present their case analysis during the workshop and we will discuss it. |
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Study day Link: Canvas Module |
November 8 |
Take this day to reflect on the contents of this module in your base teams |
Read Part VI in Bolman & Deal (2013) |
Structure your reflections with regard to three questions: • What are the most important take-aways? • What will be helpful in managerial practice? • What are issues you have not understood fully? Write your answers into the discussion thread |
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Quiz Link: Canvas Module |
Opens November 8 |
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Introduction Link: Canvas Module |
November 9 09:15 - 14:00 |
Introduction to management accounting and control |
Read Chapter 1 of Collier, Paul M (2015), Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision Making 5th Edition. Wiley |
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Lesson 1 EC1:131, EC1:135 Link: Canvas Module |
November 10 Base teams 1-6: 09:15 - 14:00 Base teams 7-12: 11:15 - 16:00 |
How to construct financial statements; why, to whom, and when |
Read Chapter 6 of Collier (2015) |
Note: The sections ”International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)”, pp 98-99, and ”Specific IFRS accounting treatments”, pp 112-116 are not covered |
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Lesson 2 Link: Canvas Module |
November 11 09:15 - 14:00 |
Operating decisions - how business people think about cost, resources and capacity utilization |
Read Chapter 11 of Collier (2015) and read the section on cost-volume-profit analysis in Chapter 10 (pp. 201-207) |
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Lesson 3 EC1:131, EC1:135 Link: Canvas Module |
November 15 Base teams 1-6: 09:15 - 14:00 Base teams 7-12: 11:15 - 16:00 |
Strategic Investment Decisions and the value (opportunity cost) of money |
Read Chapter 14 of Collier (2015) |
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Lesson 4 EC1:131, EC1:135 Link: Canvas Module |
November 18 Base teams 1-6: 09:15 - 14:00 Base teams 7-12: 11:15 - 16:00 |
Performance evaluation of business units: budgets, profitability and return on capital |
Read Chapter 15 of Collier (2015) Budgeting and budgetary control Read Chapters 16-17 of Collier (2015) |
Note: The section in chapter 17 on variance analysis will not be covered. |
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Quiz Link: Canvas Module |
Opens November 19 09:15 - |
Quiz questions on Collier (2015) |
Covering key concepts from chapters 1, 6, 11, 10, 14, 15, 16 & 17, all addressed in the lectures and exercises. |
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Lecture 1 EC3:207 Link: Canvas Module |
November 22 10:00 - 12:00 |
Introducing basics on marketing The purpose of this lecture is to introduce the main topics for the marketing section, including the core marketing decisions. |
No preparation is required |
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Workshop 1 EC1:131 Link: Canvas Module |
November 24 Base teams 2, 6, 9, 12: 09:00 - 10:00 Base teams 3, 4, 8, 11: 10:15 - 11:15 Base teams 1, 5, 7, 10: 11:30 - 12:30 |
Reflecting on marketing cases The purpose of this workshop is to identify the different marketing decisions and their different outcomes in two cases |
Cases |
You will work on both cases in your base teams and you will present and discuss their reflections in three separated sessions |
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Workshop 2 EC1:131 Link: Canvas Module |
November 26 Base teams 8, 1, 10, 11: 09:00 - 10:00 Base teams 9, 7, 12, 2: 10:15 - 11:15 Base teams 5, 4, 3, 6: 11:30 - 12:30 |
Applying marketing to reality The purpose of this workshop is to apply the insights on the core marketing decisions to reality |
Analyse a given context |
Based on that starting context, you will work on collecting information about critical challenges and discussing potential ideas to address them. You will present your proposal of the marketing decisions to the rest of the class, max 10 minutes per group. |
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Quiz Link: Canvas Module |
Opens November 26 |
Link: Canvas Module
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Introduction and kick-off |
November 29 |
Reserve all day for case work (apart from other program activities) |
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Live presentation for the company management team |
December 7 |
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Feed-back from teachers |
December 8 |
Groups only participate part of the time |
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Individual exam |
December 9 09:00 - 09:40 |
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Live-case final hand-in |
December 17 12:00 |