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040020 KU Business Strategy (MA) (2020S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

Summary

1 Reitzig , Moodle
2 Keck , Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
Registration information is available for each group.

Groups

Group 1

max. 50 participants
Language: English
LMS: Moodle

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 03.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 03.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 15 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 03.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 15 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 04.03. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 04.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
    Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 04.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 10.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Tuesday 10.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 15 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 10.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 15 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 11.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 17 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 11.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 11.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 17.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 17.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 9 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Tuesday 28.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 12 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Tuesday 28.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 12 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

Aims, contents and method of the course

To complete the Minor/Major in Strategic Management, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business is highly recommended.

Pre-requisites:
Admission to the Master's programme

• Learn about appropriate tools and frameworks to analyze a firm’s business strategy.
• Apply analytical frameworks to real-world case studies.
• Lean how companies can deal with disruptive changes in their external environment and why some companies succeed or fail in doing this.
• Gain the ability to develop business strategies and make recommendations on how to improve existing ones.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Your final grade will be determined based on three components:
Class participation (max 30 points)
Group project (max 30 points)
Individual final paper (max 40 points):
You need to achieve a total of at least 50 points in order to pass the class.

Attendance is mandatory. You can miss one out of five sessions without losing points (that is an equivalent of 5 hours or 20% of the course). You will lose all participation marks if you miss two sessions and you will automatically fail the class if you miss more than two sessions.

Group 2

max. 50 participants
Language: English
LMS: Moodle

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 15.05. 11:30 - 16:30 Hörsaal 15 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 20.05. 09:45 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Friday 22.05. 11:30 - 16:30 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 27.05. 09:45 - 14:45 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Friday 29.05. 11:30 - 16:30 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

Aims, contents and method of the course

To complete the Minor/Major in Strategic Management, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business is highly recommended.

Pre-requisites:
admission to the Master's programme

Note: while we seek to maintain course descriptions on these course catalogue pages as updated as possible, kindly note that legally binding information on our classes will ultimately be published on our websites (see http://strategy.univie.ac.at/students/ for details)
• Learn about appropriate tools and frameworks to analyze a firm’s business strategy.
• Apply analytical frameworks to real-world case studies.
• Lean how companies can deal with disruptive changes in their external environment and why some companies succeed or fail in doing this.
• Gain the ability to develop business strategies and make recommendations on how to improve existing ones.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Your final grade will be determined based on three components:
Class participation (max 25 points)
Group project (max 30 points)
Individual final paper (max 45 points):
You need to achieve a total of at least 50 points in order to pass the class.

Information

Assessment and permitted materials

Please note that you will start working on the group project during our fourth session so it is essential that you attend this session. You will have 24h to complete the project (including class time).
The topic for the individual final project will be given to you on the day after our last session and you will have 24h to complete it.

Examination topics

Lectures, cases, class discussions;
Language: The course is held in English

Reading list

Please note that this class necessitates that you buy compulsory literature consisting of a number of case studies at a cost of approximately 35 EUR. Information on how to acquire these will be provided in due course.

Association in the course directory

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