Challenges in Business Management (CBM)

Feedback from prior participants

CBM-Participant WT 2016/17

„Opportunity to get a great insight of Siemens‘ digital transformation/ get in touch with employees and understand the long business processes“
CBM-Participant ST 2018

„Current topics, get in touch with real companies/ paper and presentation before exam period“
CBM-Teilnehmerin WS 17/18

„Sehr interessantes Thema/ Praxisbezug und tiefer Einblick in das Unternehmen/ sehr gute Betreuung durch das Siemens-Mentorat“

Course Details

Economics: free elective module
FACT: focus module
International Business Studies: elective module
Management: compulsory optional module (case studies and projects in management II)
Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen: elective module (current issues in FACT I)
Master programs of exchange students

Seminar Challenges in Business Management (CBM Stage A)

English and German, 2 SWS, 5 ECTS

Topic:	Crises Management & Development of Organizational Resilience in MNEs
Supervisors:	Prof. Dr. Thomas M. Fischer	Prof. Dr. Ralf P. Thomas
Contact Person:	Sebastian Gaschler (M.Sc.)
Term:	Summer Term 2021, Stage A (XVIII), Stage B (XVII)

Agenda	Date	Time	Room
Kick-off Session	April, 16 2021	08.30 am – 10.00 am	MS Teams
Workshop „Academic Writing and Presentation Skills“	April, 21 2021	09.30 am – 01.00 pm	Zoom
Presentation Day	July, 2 2021	08.30 am – 03.00 pm	Tba.

Seminar Challenges in Business Management (CBM Stage B)

Available for participants of CBM Stage A who have completed the seminar with honors. Read more.

Learning objectives, skills, and support

Challenges in Business Management is an interactive seminar with a focus on controlling and financial management tools for the analysis on the enterprise, business segment and project levels. The course offers a great opportunity to extend professional studies in the field of Accounting and Controlling. The students analyze and discuss case studies on current challenges of a global technology enterprise. Each participant receives support for his individual topic from a Top-level Siemens Manager.

The main topic for the seminar in summer term 2021 is „Crises Management & Development of Organizational Resilience in MNEs“.

Application, Topics, and Course Material

Notice

Please be aware that access to the topics list and registration form requires a valid IdM account (StudOn).

We provide the course notes via StudOn: accepted participants please enter the password protected group „Course Material“ within the StudOn-Course (the password will be disclosed in the kick-off session).

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Workload, method of examination, and grading

Students prepare a working paper, which will be presented and discussed in class. Students can choose to write the seminar paper in English or German. All presentations and discussions will be in English or German. The working paper and the presentation are the basis for the final grading.

Students who successfully pass the seminar are eligible for a Master thesis at the Chair of Accounting and Management Control.

Workload: Attendance time: 30 h, Self-Study: 120 h

Grading:

Seminar paper (15 pages, 60 %),
Presentation (15 minutes, 30 %), and
Class participation/discussion (10 minutes, 10 %)

Duration and module frequency

Each module 1 term (Stage A and, optional, Stage B), Winter and Summer Term

Challenges in Business Management (CBM)