In-Company Project (Final Master Project) (M85311)

General information

Type:	TFP	Curs:	1	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	6 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
	Manuel Marquez Dorsch	Dirección General y Estrategia	ENG

The Final Master Project is a consultancy study, delivered by ESADE full-time MBA students to selected participating companies with the collaboration of Monitor Deloitte.
These consulting projects will expose ESADE MBA students to real-life specific business issues in one of many areas such as strategy, marketing, innovation, operations,
organizational behavior or finance. ESADE MBA students have five years of previous business experience on average and, by the time they participate in the Final Master
Project, they will have already undergone 9 months of ESADE's world-class intensive MBA education.
Using a wide range of methodologies (the case method, simulations, business problems) they will have explored a broad variety of specific business situations related to issues
such as international business strategy, impact of disruptive technologies in Business dynamics, marketing analytics for strategic decision making, operations and supply chain
management, and corporate finance.
PARTICIPATING COMPANY BENEFITS
Participating companies will benefit from the fresh perspective and thorough analytical capabilities provided by the assigned student teams, at no cost. The project teams
will be guided and supervised by strategy professionals from Monitor Deloitte, the ESADE MBA faculty, and a group of partnering industry experts, who will support
the students as external advisors.
In each project, the students will explain their views on the specific goals that should be met to address the issue(s) under consideration, they will detail the supporting rationale hey used to develop possible solutions -including related research undertaken-, they will present a comparative analysis of their proposed alternative courses of action and Will summarize their recommendations.

An In-Company Business Project is a project aimed at adding value in an organization. This contribution can consist on any study that could positively impact the organization in which projects are conducted.

The In-Company Project can be delivered as:
Consultancy Project based ICP: based in a challenge/consulting problem suggested by an organization, the students are expected to deliver a consulting-project like analysis and recommendations.
Internship based ICP: based in the knowledge of the company acquired during their internship, the students can prepare a consulting report, analyzing an important challenge faced by the organization, and prepare a set of recommendations.

This academic work is expected to show the student's ability to put theory into practice. It has to reflect the knowledge, tools and techniques acquired during the MBA.

-Magretta, J. (2002). Why Business Models Matter? Harvard Business Review.
-Osterwalder, A. & Pigneur, Y. (2010). Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers.
-Vives, L. & Svejenova,S. (2011) "To, from and beyond the margins: Business models: towards an integrative framework", Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, Vol. 9 Issue: 3, pp.230-242.

Group	Teacher	Department
	Manuel Marquez Dorsch	Dirección General y Estrategia