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Course Learning Objectives

2. Methodology


Entrepreneurship is about conceiving AND doing. Thus, a focus will be placed on hands-on experiences in real-life situations. Interactive lectures, discussions with entrepreneurs, Harvard business cases, pitches, role-plays, and work on the own venture project work are teaching methods employed in this course. Additionally, participants get the chance to discuss their venture concepts and learn from entrepreneurs who will join us through video-conferencing or in person.

A key element of the course is the development of an own venture project with high growth potential in teams of 3-4 students. Following the teaching philosophy of this course you are encouraged to make this project as promising, conceptually validated, and realistic as possible. In the final pitch session, an representative from the ESADE Business Angel network will be present to screen for promising projects.

Assessment criteria

Individual:
Participation in class (especially business case preparation and discussions, concept discussion and guest-speaker interaction) 20%
Final Quiz (30%)

Group:
Final pitch of the venture project 20 %
Final project hand-in 30%

Classroom attendance is mandatory. You need to attend at least 80% of all sessions. In order to pass the class successfully, you need to get at least a 5.0 (out of 10.0 points) as your final overall grade.

The venture project is a team-task. While in general each team member will get the same grade, team members can also choose a peer-evaluation if they feel that contribution to the team effort was SUBSTANTIALLY different. If you feel that input one or more team-members was substantially less than average, please inform me by email. We will keep this email confidential, yet call on each group member to provide me with a peer evaluation. Please note, however, that part of the team learning outcome is to work with members with different levels of aspirations, abilities, ideas, etc. Hence, try to solve problems internally. The call for peer evaluation is meant to be a last resort if prior efforts did not succeed.

All hand-ins need to be uploaded to Moodle on time.

Additional information on grading and the different course components will be given in the first session and can be found on Moodle.

Timetable and sections