Business Project

About the course

Topics

Innovation Management

Course content

In the Business Project course, students gain hands-on experience conducting their own empirical research project, preparing them for their Master's Thesis. They will learn to execute a research project leveraging the knowledge, skills, and insights acquired during their first year. With guidance from a supervisor, students are expected to independently tackle various project aspects: definition of a business issue and, thus, research question formulation, literature review, method selection and data collection, analysis, findings discussion, reflection on constraints and limitations, and formulation of practice recommendations.

The Business Project is aimed at designing relevant solutions for real-world issues, informed by the relevant management theories. Focus is on the practical application of problem-solving methodologies to address complex challenges, which can range from strategy, human resources, business operation, organizational, or system problems – i.e., all parts of management.

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What you learn

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

Define a complex business issue in general management and analytics that is relevant for a type of organization (a firm, an association, a public institution etc.)
Select academic literature of relevance to the defined problem for developing an analytical framework for the project.
Select and justify the choice of empirical setting, methods, and data, and acknowledge the benefits and limitations of specific settings, data, and methods.
Analyze the collected data, explain the main findings and implications of the study, and critically reflect on how the project could be improved.

Facts

Level

Master

Type

Mandatory course

ECTS

7.5

Course code

CGMAO2001U

Teaching periods

Spring – semester

Academic year

2026/2027

Status

Available places

Teaching language

English

Teaching Format

Hybrid

Exams

Written assignment and oral exam on campus
Group exam, summer

Assessment

7 point grading scale