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SEMINAR
STRUCTURE, CLASS PREPARATION, GRADING
STRUCTURE |
Seminar
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- Textbook- and article-based seminar presentations and discussion
- Combination of on-site- and distance-traching/learning
- Competitive strategy case study,
analysis, and presentations authored both by individual students
and by student teams
- Semester Project: Each team will
develop a comprehensive plan for a new Lithuanian company -
from concept through fully specified business plan using BusinessPlanPro4.0
software.
- Streaming video - One component
of the distance learning experience will involve viewing and
then electronic disucssing Webcasts delivered by expert practitioners.
The electronic discussion will be accomplished using Motet within
the Website.
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Laboratory
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- We will further develop our command
over Excel and PowerPoint
- You will also receive hands-on
introduction to Excel-based spreadsheet modeling, analysis,
decision-making,and forecasting. You can expect assignments
and problem sets, which are to be completed individually, in
connection with the laboratory work
- BusinessPlanPro 4.0 will require
a major investment of group and individual work in a computer
laboratory setting.
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PREPARING FOR CLASS |
The schedule, readings, and links pages
of this Website contain both specific assigned reading and a growing
libraray hardcopy and online resources. Full access is
provided to all online artilces. Simply select a item, right click,
select "Save target as", select a file name if one is
not assigned, and click O.K. You will received a complete digital
copy of the article that you can save and print.
Note: I will assume that you
have read and digested the
assigned reading before it is dealt with in class. It is critical
that you arrive at each class armed with questions on the reading
and ready to contribute to the discussion. Ours is not a spectator
sport!
If you have not worked through the reading prior to its discussion,
you will almost certainly be lost. Worse yet, you will be unable
to add value to the seminar when you are called on to contribute
content and analysis to our discussion!
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GRADING
Your
final grade will be determined based on averaging both individual and
team work.
Periodic
Assignments
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15% |
Essays, problem sets, electronic
discussion - designed to build fluency with Excel modeling,
decision theory, competitive strategy analysi
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Individually
Completed and Submitted Examinations
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40% |
Each student will
submit Three
case-studies examinations during the term and one case study
final examination will be submitted for grading by each student.
You examination performance will be judged based on the extent
to which you offer rigorous, clear, and insightful content;
and the extent to which your arguments, findings, and especially
your recommendations are supporty by evidence, modeling, or
other empirical or theoretical analysis you offer.
Note:
The narrative content of your response to each case study examination
is stricly limited in length. Supporting tables and charts may
be placed in an appendix, and will not count against the page
limit stipulated in each assignment.
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Seminar
Contribution
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10% |
You are expected to actively and
consistently add value to this seminar; not to just sit and
listen and take notes. Your performance will be judged by the
extent to which you regularly contribute new insigths, ideas,
or information; and your ability to bring others to your point
of view.
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Group Project
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35% |
Each student will join one of four business development teams
for purposes of conceiving and preparing and presenting (using
Power Point) a comprehensive business plan for a new Lithuanian
company.
Each team will be tasked with condicting comprehensive competition
strategy and industry structure analysis, which will be presented
to the group. That is, each team will become fully conversant
with the historical, current and prospective competitive climate
- including metrics such as sales, revenue, and profit experience
and trends/potential in the proposed company's industry and
markets.
During the June examination period, each team will present
its analysis, findings, and then its business plan to the seminar
using Power Point.(The presentation will count for 10% of the
final grade)
The teams will complete their projects by submitting a written
version of the plan for grading. (The written business plan
will count for 25% of the final grade.)
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