MBA 2420 Consultancy Project
The students shall, as part of the exams requirement, complete a Consultancy Project (CP). Students are expected to work on the CP in groups of two to four students. Exceptions are possible (with explicit prior approval), but experience indicates that group work creates better results and students are encouraged to create diverse working groups.
The topic of the CP should be an analysis and evaluation of a real life challenge (including problems as well as opportunities) facing an organisation. The students should choose the topic from their own company or a company that they have close connection to in order to facilitate access. The students should be able to observe and discuss the topic with people dealing with the challenge in the organisation. Applicable and relevant themes encountered in the MBA coursework should be discussed in the thesis, and the students should demonstrate their ability to apply the models, theories and methods that they have studied to a real situation.
The candidate should acquire better knowledge of how strategic issues can be addressed, and how problem solving should be conducted in a Chinese or multi-national organisation operating in China.
The students should learn how to conduct a research investigation into a business topic, and how to write a paper reporting their process, findings and conclusions, both according to scientific, evidence-based principles.
The candidate can analyze managerial challenges using relevant academic, professional and ethical perspectives, and draw conclusions from the independent work conducted.
There will be a one-day lecture on CP work and methodology at an early stage of the program. The lecture will cover the following topics:
- How to conduct a CP
- How to write a CP report
- Phases in CP work
- Critical evaluation of published articles
- Introduction and problem formulation
- Theory, research model, and hypotheses
- Methods considerations and documentation
- Discussion, implications for practice and theory
Supervision will be given to the students, by BI faculty, in person as well as electronically.
CP work schedule
A topic hand-in is requested at an early stage; a preliminary report will be submitted at the time of the second supervision; the CP will be presented orally late in the program. The deadline for handing in the written CP report will be approximately one month after the oral presentation.
Students will present their CP orally to the graders and fellow students before the final hand-in.
The CP work is continuous throughout the whole program.
The students are evaluated through a preliminary CP report, an oral presentation of the CP, and the final CP report.
MBA 24201 – Consultancy Project Preliminary Report; accounts for 10%.
MBA 24202 – Consultancy Project Oral Presentation; accounts for 35%
MBA 24203 – Consultancy Project Final Report; accounts for 55%
All three evaluations must be passed in order to fulfill the 30 credits of the MBA2420 course.
The course is a part of a full MBA and examination in all courses in the MBA programme must be passed in order to obtain a certificate for the MBA degree.
In all BI Executive courses and programmes, there is a mutual requirement
for the student and the course responsible regarding the involvement of the student's experience in the planning and implementation of courses, modules and programmes. This means that the student has the right and duty to get involved with their own knowledge and practice relevance, through the active sharing of their relevant experience and knowledge.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 10 Grouping: Group Duration: 2 Semester(s) Exam code: MBA 24201 Grading scale: China Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Activity Form of assessment: Presentation Weight: 35 Grouping: Group Exam code: MBA 24202 Grading scale: China Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 55 Grouping: Group Duration: 4 Semester(s) Exam code: MBA 24203 Grading scale: China Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 30 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 800 hours.