MBA 2407 Asian Business Trends

MBA 2407 Asian Business Trends

Course code: 
MBA 2407
Department: 
Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Credits: 
4
Course coordinator: 
Heidi Wiig
Course name in Norwegian: 
Asian Business Trends
Product category: 
Executive
Portfolio: 
MBA China
Semester: 
2022 Autumn
Active status: 
Active
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching language: 
English
Course type: 
One semester
Introduction

Recent economic growth in Asian countries (e.g. China, India) has forced companies to re-evaluate their strategies to take advantage of these opportunities. What are the current financial and human capital costs of doing business in Asia and globally? What might future challenges be? How do firms compete to capture emerging business opportunities? How should firms strategically position themselves today to take advantage of key developments in the Asian and Western economies to sustain high corporate growth? These fundamental concerns will be addressed by the proposed Asia EMBA Programme, specially designed for BI Norwegian Business School, to be conducted by the Nanyang Business School.

Learning outcomes - Knowledge
  • Gain thourough insights into Asian perspectives on leadership and strategy, through reflection and lessons.
  • Gain thourough insights into the tensions between stakeholders in multi-business corporations, and the implications for improving corporate governance.
Learning outcomes - Skills
  • Develop middle management strategic leadership competencies that are crucial in the changing and competitive global business environment.
  • Build cultural intelligence as a strategic leadership capability that will help manage global/local issues in a multinational work environment, create a global mindset that will help extract value from cultural differences and build alignment with global corporate strategy.
  • Develop the capability to analyze, understand, and adapt to the behaviour of people from different societal, generational, or organisational cultures.
General Competence
  • To gain a better understanding on how the global crisis is likely to affect Asia, its governments and its leading companies, with emphasis on China and India.
Course content

This is a 6-days programme comprising the following themes:

  • Corporate Sustainability
  • Asian Branding
  • Merger & Acquisition in Asia
  • Negotiation across Asia
  • Leadership in Asia
  • Strategy in a Digitalized Age

Company visits

Teaching and learning activities

The course is conducted as a teaching module, where students have classes all day for four subsequent days, a total of 32 hours.

This is a course with continuous assessment (several exam components) and one final exam code. Each exam component will be graded using points on a scale  0 -100. The components will be weighted together according to the information in the course description in order to calculate the final letter grade for the course. Students who fail to participate in one/some/all exam components will get a lower grade or may fail the course. Candidates may be called in for an oral hearing as a verification/control of written assignments.

Specific information regarding the points system and the mapping scale beyond the information given in the course description will be provided in class. This information may be relevant for requirements for term papers or other hand-ins, and/or where class participation can be one of several elements of the overall evaluation.

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.

 

Software tools
No specified computer-based tools are required.
Qualifications

Granted admission to the BI-Fudan MBA programme. Please consult our student regulations.

Disclaimer

Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.

Exam categoryWeightInvigilationDurationGroupingComment exam
Exam category:
Activity
Form of assessment:
Class participation
Exam code:
MBA 24072
Grading scale:
Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade
Grading rules:
Internal examiner
Resit:
All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course
50No -Individual Individual class participation, counts 50% of the total grade.
Exam category:
Submission
Form of assessment:
Written submission
Exam code:
MBA 24072
Grading scale:
Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade
Grading rules:
Internal examiner
Resit:
All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course
50No 1 Month(s)Group ( 3 - 6)Group assignment, counts 50% of the total grade.
Exams:
Exam category:Activity
Form of assessment:Class participation
Weight:50
Invigilation:No
Grouping (size):Individual
Duration: -
Comment:Individual class participation, counts 50% of the total grade.
Exam code:MBA 24072
Grading scale:Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade
Resit:All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course
Exam category:Submission
Form of assessment:Written submission
Weight:50
Invigilation:No
Grouping (size):Group (3-6)
Duration: 1 Month(s)
Comment:Group assignment, counts 50% of the total grade.
Exam code:MBA 24072
Grading scale:Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade
Resit:All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course
Type of Assessment: 
Continuous assessment
Grading scale: 
ECTS
Total weight: 
100
Sum workload: 
0

A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 4 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 110 hours.