Suchergebnis: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2016
MAS in Management, Technology, and Economics Einführungsveranstaltung für MAS MTEC Studierende des Jahrgangs 2016-2018: Freitag, 26.08.2016, 18.00-20.00 Uhr, Dozentenfoyer | ||||||
3. Semester | ||||||
Kernfächer | ||||||
Strategy, Technology and Innovation Management | ||||||
Nummer | Titel | Typ | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |
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363-0392-00L | Strategic Management Number of participants limited to 80. Registration through myStudies (first come, first served). If you are unable to sign up through myStudies, please contact the course assistant: Link | W+ | 3 KP | 2G | G. von Krogh | |
Kurzbeschreibung | This courses conveys concepts and methods in strategic management, with a focus on competitive strategy. Competitive strategy aims at improving and establishing position of firms within an industry. | |||||
Lernziel | The lecture "Strategic Management" is designed to teach relevant competences in strategic planning and -implementation, for both professional work-life and further scientific development. The course provides an overview of the basics of “strategy” and the most prevalent concepts and methods in strategic management. The course is given as a combination of lectures about concepts/methods, and case studies where the students solve strategic issues of the case companies. In two sessions, the students will also be addressing real-time strategic issues of firms that are represented by executives. | |||||
Inhalt | Contents: a. Introduction to strategy b. Industry dynamics I: Industry analysis c. Industry dynamics II: Analysis of technology and innovation d. The resource-based theory of the firm e. The knowledge-based theory of the firm | |||||
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Session #0: (September 19) Introductory Guest Lecture & Organizational Issues Session #1: (September 26) Introduction & How to Solve a Case Session #2: (October 3) Industry Dynamics I Session #3: (October 24) Guest Lecture Session #4: (October 31) Industry Dynamics II Session #5: (November 7) Resource-Based Theory Session #6: (November 14) Knowledge-based Theory Session #7: (November 28) Guest Lecture For participants of the MAS-MTEC program we offer a complentary course Practicing Strategy in which students will apply the concepts of Strategic Management to their real-life contexts and organizations. Please register simultaneously for both courses if you want to take part in this course. For more information please see: Link | |||||
365-1059-00L | Practicing Strategy Exclusively for MAS MTEC students (third semester). A prior/parallel enrolment for the lecture Strategic Management (363-0392-00) is mandatory. Limited number of participants: a minimum of 10 persons and a maximum of 25 persons. Please register through myStudies to enrol for the course no later than 27.10.2016. | W+ | 1 KP | 1S | G. von Krogh, S. Herting | |
Kurzbeschreibung | This lecture is a special course for MAS students which supplements the Strategic Management course. Participants work on real-life strategy problems in a two-day workshop and apply concepts & methods from the Strategic Management course to develop suitable solutions. | |||||
Lernziel | The goal of the course is that participants are able to transfer and use the concepts and methods from the Strategic Management lecture to develop solutions for strategic issues in real-life business contexts. | |||||
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Successful registration and prior/parallel enrollment in "363-0392-00 G Strategic Management" required (see course catalogue page for details). | |||||
363-0387-00L | Corporate Sustainability | W+ | 3 KP | 2G | V. Hoffmann | |
Kurzbeschreibung | The lectures addresses the assessment of corporate sustainability and its links to strategy, technology, and finance. Students learn why sustainability matters for managers and how businesses can act towards it. E-modules allow students to train critical thinking skills. In the 2nd half of the semester, sustainability challenges on water, energy, mobility, and food are explored in group projects. | |||||
Lernziel | Understand the limits and the potential of corporate sustainability for sustainable development Develop critical thinking skills (argumentation, communication, evaluative judgment) that are useful in the context of corporate sustainability using an innovative writing and peer review method. Be able to recognize and realize opportunities for corporate sustainability in a business environment | |||||
Inhalt | Overview of the key concepts of corporate sustainability and topics related to Water, Energy, Mobility, and Food Business implications of sustainable development, in particular for the assessment of sustainability performance, strategic change towards sustainability, technological innovations and sustainability, and finance and corporate sustainability. Critical thinking skills for corporate sustainability. In-depth case studies of corporate sustainability challenges in the track phase: How to deal with environmental pressure groups? How to use the strengths of business to solve pressing sustainability problems? How to catalyze technological innovations for sustainability? How to invest money in a sustainable way? | |||||
Skript | Presentation slides will be made available on moodle prior to lectures. | |||||
Literatur | Literature recommendations will be distributed during the lecture | |||||
Information Management, Operations Management | ||||||
Nummer | Titel | Typ | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |
363-0425-00L | Transformation: Corporate Development and IT | W+ | 3 KP | 2G | T. Gutzwiller | |
Kurzbeschreibung | Die Vorlesung behandelt die wesentlichen Problemstellungen rund um die unternehmerische Transformation und demonstriert die Anwendung des Wissens anhand von Fallbeispielen im Rahmen eines durchgängigen Vorgehensmodells. | |||||
Lernziel | Ziel dieser Vorlesung ist es, die wesentlichen Problemstellungen rund um die unternehmerische Transformation aufzuarbeiten und anhand von Fallbeispielen im Rahmen eines durchgängigen Vorgehensmodells anzuwenden. Die Studenten sollen lernen • die wesentlichen Ursachen der unternehmerischen Transformation darzustellen, • die Instrumente der projektorientierten Steuerung der unternehmerischen Transformation (Unternehmensentwicklung) zu formulieren, • die Interdependenzen zwischen Unternehmensstrategie, Unternehmensprozessen und Informationssystem-Architektur zu erklären, insbesondere den Übergang vom Entwurf der Unternehmensstrategie, in die Geschäftsprozesse und in die Umsetzung mittels Informationssystemen zu erläutern, • die kritischen Faktoren für eine erfolgreiche Durchführung von Grossprojekten zu formulieren, • die wesentlichen Instrumente des Projektmanagements zu erklären und anzuwenden, • unterschiedliche Arten von IT-Projekten zu unterscheiden und zu beurteilen, • die Instrumente des Qualitätsmanagements im Rahmen von Grossprojekten zu erläutern und anzuwenden, • und zu erläutern, wie ein Grossprojekt auf der sachlich-rationalen und der emotional-psychologischen Ebene geführt wird. | |||||
Inhalt | Die globale Wirtschaft führt dazu, dass der Transformationsrhythmus laufend zunimmt. Unternehmen müssen sich immer schneller verändern, um sich den neuen Umweltbedingungen aus Wettbewerb und Markt anzupassen. Im Informationszeitalter heisst dies nicht nur Strategie und Prozesse sondern vor allem auch Informationssysteme an die neuen Bedingungen anzupassen. Die schnelle und kontrollierte Umsetzung neuer Unternehmensstrategien über veränderte Geschäftsprozesse, die Unterstützung von Geschäftsprozessen durch geeignete Informationssysteme ist für viele Unternehmen Voraussetzung dafür, dass sie Wettbewerbsvorteile realisieren können. Die Einführung von neuen Prozessen und Informationssystemen erfolgt im Regelfall durch komplexe, häufig über Jahre angelegte Transformations-Projekte resp. -Programme. In der Praxis scheitern viele dieser Projekte an der mangelnden Vernetzung zwischen Entscheidern im Geschäft (Unternehmensführung) und der IT. Der erfolgreiche Projektablauf wird durch mangelnde Planung, unklares Rollenverständnis, die Fehleinschätzung von Projektsituationen, das Fehlen methodischer Vorgehensweisen und die fehlende Einbindung der betroffenen Mitarbeiter in die Veränderungsprozesse gefährdet. Die Veranstaltung gliedert sich in die folgenden Teile: • Einführung • Steuerung der Unternehmenstransformation • Management von grossen Transformationsprojekten: Integration von Strategie-, Prozess- und Informationssystem-Entwicklung • Qualitätsmanagement in Grossprojekten • Projekt-Management in Grossprojekten • Projektbegleitendes Change-Management • Zusammenfassung | |||||
363-0453-00L | Strategic Supply Chain Management | W+ | 3 KP | 2G | S. Wagner | |
Kurzbeschreibung | The course offers an introduction to the theory and practice of supply chain management. Students will learn how to develop supply chain strategies and supply chain networks based on firms’ competitive strategies and marketing priorities. | |||||
Lernziel | The task of designing and managing supply chains requires that managers apply strategic, decision making and leadership skills in a supply chain context. The goal of this course is to develop and practice these skills. | |||||
Inhalt | Effective supply chains ought to be aligned with and support the achievement of the firm’s corporate, business and product strategies, taking into account future opportunities and risks. This course will familiarize students with modern supply chain management theory and practice to develop and manage supply chains. The topics covered range from fundamental logistics and supply chain concepts (e.g. push vs. pull, postponement) to the development of supply chain strategies, relationships and networks. | |||||
Skript | Course material will be available for download from the homepage of the Chair of Logistics Management: Link Login will be provided in the first lecture or can be obtained from the Teaching Assistant Dagmar Reinerth (Link). | |||||
Literatur | The following textbook is mandatory: Chopra, Sunil and Meindl, Peter (2013): Supply chain management: Strategy, planning, and operation, 5th ed., Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. The following textbook is supplementary: Hopp, Wallace J. (2008): Supply chain science, New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin | |||||
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | The final course grade will be a weighted average of the following: Exam (semester end): 70% Case studies (during the semester): 30% Students (at least in groups of two) must bring a laptop with MS Excel and the Excel Solver installed to class. | |||||
Quantitative and Qualitative Methods | ||||||
Nummer | Titel | Typ | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |
363-0305-00L | Empirical Methods in Management | W+ | 3 KP | 2G | A. Scherer | |
Kurzbeschreibung | Evidence-based management requires valid empirical research. In this course, students will learn the basics of research design, fundamentals of data collection and statistical methods to analyze the data acquired in social science research. Students are expected to apply their knowledge in class discussions and out-of-class assignments. | |||||
Lernziel | - Ability to formulate research questions and designing an appropriate study - Ability to collect and analyze data using a variety of methods - Ability to critically assess the quality of empirical research in management - Applied knowledge of empirical methods through out-of-class assignments | |||||
Inhalt | 1) Introduction to empirical management research 2) Research designs: exploratory, descriptive, experimental 3) Measurement and scaling 4) Data collection and sampling 5) Data analysis methods 6) Reporting and presenting empirical research | |||||
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Assignments and projects: This course includes out-of-class assignments and projects to give students some hands-on experience in conducting empirical research in management. Projects will focus on one particular aspect of empirical research, like the formulation of a research question or the design of a study. Students will have at least one week to work on each assignment. Students are expected to work on these assignments individually. Duplicate answers will receive no credit and will be subject to a disciplinary review. Assignments will be graded and need to be turned-in on time. Class participation: Class participation is encouraged and can greatly improve students' learning in this class. In this spirit, students are expected to attend class regularly and come to class prepared. | |||||
363-1004-00L | Operations Research | W+ | 3 KP | 2G | M. Laumanns | |
Kurzbeschreibung | This course provides an introduction to operations research methods in the fields of management science and economics. Requisite mathematical concepts are introduced with a practical, problem-solving perspective. | |||||
Lernziel | - Introduction to building and using quantitative models in a business / industrial environment - Introduction to basic optimization techniques (Linear Programming and extensions, network flows, integer programming, dynamic and stochastic optimization) - Understanding the integration of quantitative models into the managerial decision process | |||||
Inhalt | The following topics are covered: Systems and models, linear models and the importance of linear programming, duality theory and shadow prices, integer programming, optimization under uncertainty and applications in inventory management. | |||||
Skript | A printed script will be made available. | |||||
Literatur | Any standard textbook in Operations Research is a useful complement to the course. | |||||
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Undergraduate calculus, linear algebra, probability and statistics are a prerequisite. | |||||
Economics | ||||||
Nummer | Titel | Typ | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |
363-0537-00L | Resource and Environmental Economics | W+ | 3 KP | 2G | L. Bretschger, A. Brausmann | |
Kurzbeschreibung | Relationship between economy and environment, market failure, external effects and public goods, contingent valuation, internalisation of externalities; economics of non-renewable resources, economics of renewable resources, cost-benefit analysis, sustainability, and international aspects of resource and environmental economics. | |||||
Lernziel | Understanding of the basic issues and methods in resource and environmental economics; ability to solve typical problems in the field using the appropriate tools, which are concise verbal explanations, diagrams or mathematical expressions. Topics are: Introduction to resource and environmental economics Importance of resource and environmental economics Main issues of resource and environmental economics Normative basis Utilitarianism Fairness according to Rawls Economic growth and environment Externalities in the environmental sphere Governmental internalisation of externalities Private internalisation of externalities: the Coase theorem Free rider problem and public goods Types of public policy Efficient level of pollution Tax vs. permits Command and Control Instruments Empirical data on non-renewable natural resources Optimal price development: the Hotelling-rule Effects of exploration and Backstop-technology Effects of different types of markets. Biological growth function Optimal depletion of renewable resources Social inefficiency as result of over-use of open-access resources Cost-benefit analysis and the environment Measuring environmental benefit Measuring costs Concept of sustainability Technological feasibility Conflicts sustainability / optimality Indicators of sustainability Problem of climate change Cost and benefit of climate change Climate change as international ecological externality International climate policy: Kyoto protocol Implementation of the Kyoto protocol in Switzerland | |||||
Inhalt | Economy and natural environment, welfare concepts and market failure, external effects and public goods, measuring externalities and contingent valuation, internalising external effects and environmental policy, economics of non-renewable resources, renewable resources, cost-benefit-analysis, sustainability issues, international aspects of resource and environmental problems, selected examples and case studies. | |||||
Skript | Learning material and script can be found here: Link | |||||
Literatur | Perman, R., Ma, Y., McGilvray, J, Common, M.: "Natural Resource & Environmental Economics", 3d edition, Longman, Essex 2003. | |||||
Financial Management | ||||||
Nummer | Titel | Typ | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |
363-0561-00L | Financial Market Risks | W+ | 3 KP | 2G | D. Sornette | |
Kurzbeschreibung | I aim to introduce students to the concepts and tools of modern finance and to make them understand the limits of these tools, and the many problems met by the theory in practice. I will put this course in the context of the on-going financial crises in the US, Europe, Japan and China, which provide fantastic opportunities to make the students question the status quo and develop novel solutions. | |||||
Lernziel | The course explains the key concepts and mechanisms of financial economics, their depth and then stresses how and why the theories and models fail and how this is impacting investment strategies and even a global view of citizenship, given the present developing crises in the US since 2007 and in Europe since 2010. -Development of the concepts and tools to understand these risks and master them. -Working knowledge of the main concepts and tools in finance (Portfolio theory, asset pricing, options, real options, bonds, interest rates, inflation, exchange rates) -Strong emphasis on challenging assumptions and developing a systemic understanding of financial markets and their many dimensional risks | |||||
Inhalt | 1- The Financial Crises: what is really happening? Historical perspective and what can be expected in the next decade(s). Bubbles and crashes. The illusion of he perpetual money machine. 2- Risks in financial markets -What is risk? -Measuring risks of financial assets -Introduction to three different concepts of probability -History of financial markets, diversification, market risks 3- Introduction to financial risks and its management. -Relationship between risk and return -portfolio theory: the concept of diversification and optimal allocation -How to price assets: the Capital Asset Pricing Model -How to price assets: the Arbitrage Pricing Theory, the factor models and beyond 4- Financial markets: role and efficiency -What is an efficient market? -Financial markets as valuation engines: exogeneity versus endogeneity (reflexivity) -Deviations from efficiency, puzzles and anomalies in the financial markets -Financial bubbles, crashes, systemic instabilities 5- An introduction to Options and derivatives -Calls, Puts and Shares and other derivatives -Financial alchemy with options (options are building blocs of any possible cash flow) -Determination of option value; concept of risk hedging 6-Valuation and using options -a first simple option valuation modle -the Binomial method for valuing options -the Black-scholes model and formula -practical examples and implementation -Realized prices deviate from these theories: volatility smile and real option trading -How to imperfectly hedge with real markets? 7- Real options -The value of follow-on investment opportunities -The timing option -The abandonment option -Flexible production -conceptual aspects and extensions 8- Government bonds and their valuation -Relationship between bonds and interest rates -Real and nominal rates of interest -Term structure and Yields to maturity -Explaining the term structure -Different models of the term structure 9- Managing international risks -The foreign exchange market -Relations between exchanges rates and interest rates, inflation, and other economic variables -Hedging currency risks -Currency speculation -Exchange risk and international investment decisions | |||||
Skript | Lecture slides will be available on the site of the lecture | |||||
Literatur | Corporate finance Brealey / Myers / Allen Eight edition McGraw-Hill International Edition (2006) + additional paper reading provided during the lectures | |||||
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | none | |||||
363-0723-00L | Corporate Finance | W+ | 3 KP | 2G | M. Neuhaus | |
Kurzbeschreibung | Unternehmensfinanzierung, Investitionsmanagement, Unternehmensbewertung, Wertmanagement & Entschädigung, Finanzberichterstattung heute & in Zukunft, Financial Reporting Wertschöpfungskette, Reporting zu nicht-fin. Aspekten, Fusionen & Übernahmen, rechtliche & steuerliche Aspekte von Corp. Fin., Corporate governance - Risikomanagement - Internes Kontroll- & Mgmt. Informationssystem, Turnaround. | |||||
Lernziel | Einführung in die Theorie und die Praxis von Corporate Finance. Der Fokus liegt auf der Analyse der Unternehmensfinanzierung und von Transaktionen, wobei auch rechtliche und steuerliche Aspekte miteinbezogen werden. | |||||
Inhalt | Unternehmensfinanzierung, Investitionsmanagement, Unternehmensbewertung, Wertmanagement und Entschädigung, Finanzberichterstattung heute und in Zukunft, Financial Reporting Wertschöpfungskette, Reporting zu nicht-finanziellen Aspekten, Fusionen und Übernahmen, rechtliche und steuerliche Aspekte von Corporate Finance, Corporate governance - Risikomanagement - Internes Kontrollsystem und Management Informationssystem, Turnaround. | |||||
Skript | Präsentationen in Englisch werden auf folgender Website zur Verfügung stehen: Link | |||||
Literatur | Brealey, Richard A. / Myers, Stewart C. / Allen, Franklin (June, 2013): Principles of Corporate Finance, 11 Edition / Global Edition., New York: McGraw Hill - Hill Book Co. | |||||
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Die Vorlesung wird vom Lehrstuhl "Entrepreneurial Risks" betreut. Detailliertere Informationen zur Vorlesung sind auf der Website des Lehrstuhls zu finden (Link). |
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