AEM 6993 - CEMS Masters in International Management Project

Spring. 6 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

Forbidden Overlap: due to an overlap in content, students will not receive credit for both AEM 6991/AEM 6992 and AEM 6993.
Enrollment limited to: students in the CEMS program.

P.D. Perez, S. Shu.

The CEMS Masters in International Management Project requires students to work in culturally and functionally diverse teams to solve real international business strategy and management problems for actual organizations engaged in activities that span national borders. Student teams are matched with corporate and social partners and given a consulting assignment, which the teams resolve with interaction with their corporate and social partners and supervision from the professor. In addition to the actual consulting work, the course includes a set of skill building and debriefing meetings referring to information acquisition and analysis, critical thinking in an organizational environment, consulting practice, project management, and processes of team formation and management. The result of the project is a comprehensive report and formal presentation to the corporate or social partner.

Outcome 1: Students will be able to develop a substantiated and implementable solution to a present business and/or organizational problem that encompasses national borders.

Outcome 2: Students will be able to present in written and oral form the substantiated and implementable solution described above.

Outcome 3: Students will be able to demonstrate healthy team formation and maintenance dynamics; with emphasis on psychological safety.

Outcome 4: Students will be able to develop and execute a project plan.

Outcome 5: Students will be able to apply sound critical thinking and problem solving methodologies for business and organizational problems.

Outcome 6: Students will be able to recognize the complexities of decision making in conditions of organizational inertia and of high levels of risk and uncertainty.

Outcome 7: Students will be able to practice the tools and behaviors to plan and execute a consulting intervention.