CONSULTING METHODS in Spring 2025 (BA5019)

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This course engages students with advanced themes and methods in management consultancy, both in theory and in practice. We will take a critical approach to understand how theory influences practice and how our perceptions of management consultancy evolve over time and circumstance. Students will examine management consultancy in terms of specific cultural, international and organizational elements given specific consulting frameworks.

Course Master: 
CONSULTING METHODS (BA5019)
Term: 
Spring 2025
Discipline: 
BA (Business)
Credits: 
2 credits
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Graduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Exam Date: 
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 - 12:30
Pre-requisites: 
Major=MSc: International Management OR Major=MSc: Int'l Mgmt (NGO & Mission-Based Track) OR Major=MSc: Int'l Mgmt (Sustainability Systems Track) OR Major=MSc: Strategic Brand Management
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyze complex (“wicked”) management problems, where uncertainty is present, and significant disagreement about the strategies and policies to be taken.
  2. Demonstrate practical experience in dealing with management consultancy issues with a high standard of professional and personal ethics.
  3. Demonstrate problem-solving in an organizational context, including information gathering, data analysis, research methods, implementation and evaluation.
  4. Evaluate conventional and critical approaches and frameworks of management consultancy in business practices and explore how they influence our current management perceptions.
  5. To apply mainstream and critical management theories and methodologies and apply them in case studies and a live-client consulting project.

Syllabus

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Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, January 13, 2025
End Date: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Friday
12:10
13:30
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