COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
Typical day of Class
The format of each session may be adapted to better fit the learning objectives and profit from the experiece and reach of Senior Managers. But typically sessions will be:
- Before class general individual and team preparation assembling the teams collective knowledge on the Keywords provided by the Senior Manager and Faculty.
- Begin the class with a 15-minute Problem presentation by the Senior Manager and clarification questions.
- Team work in breakout room for 60 minutes to analyze the problem and propose a decision and plan of action in a one-page executive summary.
- Coffee Break for 15 minutes.
- Meeting of the representatives of each team with the senior manager for up-to 60 minutes. Students observe on fish-bowl setting.
- Gap Analysis comparing the analysis and decisions of the class with Management Team approach for up to-45 minutes.
- Final wrap-up and Q&A around 15 minutes.
Course Learning Objectives
The purpose of this course is exposing MBA FT students at ESADE to complex business problems that senior managers face. Consequently students work in teams combining their experience, expertisse and what they learn in the MBA to analyze an specific real decision-making situation. They work under the supervision and guidance of the faculty of the class and the Senior Manager who had or has to make that decision. The exercise is about bridging theory and practice.
Also students engage actively with senior managers very early in the MBA program. The course will certainly generate learnings, network, and new questions that students will be able to address as they advance in their MBA studies. It is as much about answering questions as it is about opening new relevant and important questions.