Business Management
Advanced Strategic Marketing
| Semester | 1 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM1ASMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 3 |
| ECTS Credits | 4 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni understand the relevance and effectiveness of strategic marketing decisions. They are able to name the goals, tasks and challenges of strategic marketing. Moreover, they understand to analytically apply the methods, concepts and tools in a strategy development process and to derive relevant implications, which develops their critical refection and holistic thinking skills. In addition, alumni are able to clearly convey and present their ideas and opinions in questions of marketing strategy.
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Advanced Management Skills
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Agile and Digital Human Resource Management
| Semester | 1 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM1AHCIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 2 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Alumni explore HR theories in the context of digitalization and agility. Upon completing this course, they can devise an HR strategy geared towards digitalization and agility and translate it into an operative HR process. Alumni understand and know to apply classical HR tools in their digital and agile implementation in line with the New Work approach. Alumni have developed their individual willingness and ability to change, their willingness and ability to learn, their holistic thinking, their ability to make decisions and solve problems related to HR aspects.
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Advanced Management Skills
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Business Skills Lab I
| Semester | 1 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM1BSLIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 1 |
| ECTS Credits | 1 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Permanent change often results in stress situations for corporate employees that seem impossible to overcome and thus paralyze. In order to meet these challenges, it is essential to constantly develop individual coping competencies; on the one hand, by consistently enhancing the core competencies relevant in change & sustainability and for interconnecting knowledge, and, on the other hand, by increasing individual strengths. In future corporate and economic environments it will be vital, to be able to convey these required competencies and individual strengths in a non-native language or cultural setting. This course pursues three core goals: 1. Develop the seven core competencies for Change & Risk situations and understand how to apply these in a target-oriented way in stress situations. These are: willingness and ability to change, willingness and ability to learn, systemic and holistic thinking, decision and problem-solving skills, target orientation, resilience & stress management 2. Identify individual talents and turn these into strengths and thus expand one`s action and decision scope in a change & risk context; learn to cope with individual weaknesses; assume responsibility for a lifelong learning and development process and enforce this in a target-oriented way. 3. Convey and apply individual, emotional elements (core competencies for change & risk situations in regard to individual strengths development for Goal 1 and Goal 2) in a professional context in a non-native language and cultural setting - in English for an Anglo-American context.
Superior module:
Business Skills Lab 1
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Business Ventures in Transformation
| Semester | 1 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM1UIWIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 2 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this module, alumni possess comprehensive insights into the effects of permanent environmental change on organizational and decision-making processes. They understand the consequences for the individual sub-aspects of corporate management and know how to integrate these for business success. They are familiar with the challenges businesses face that are willing to change. They are able to seize the opportunities of a turbulent market environment to achieve dynamic corporate development. At the same time, they are able to responsibly invest corporate resources in order to mitigate risks for the business and achieve success. Drawing on these insights, they know how to initiate restructuring, innovation and change processes. Specifically, they have developed the following competencies: - They are familiar with strategic management theories along with their individual theoretical foundations and foci and know how to apply the tools of strategic management - They understand the underlying principles of development dynamics of world views, paradigms and scientific theory of (business) management and are capable of objective interpretation - They are able to analyze and explain management practices, understand their individual applicability and can anticipate success effectiveness - They know how to analyze, evaluate and develop corporate management practices - They are capable of analyzing the effects of complex corporate systems and draw up suitable change proposals - They can identify and design new business opportunities in the context of change and risk - They understand to plan and implement corporate visions, goals, strategies and tactics in order to successfully execute corporate change processes This course strives to promote alumni` analytical and assessment skills by determining the specifics of a corporate case and explaining how theoretical insights can be applied to this case which helps alumni build their decision-making and problem-solving skills. Developed as competencies, these skills assist alumni in applying economy of thought and promote the confident handling of the theories and practice of change management.
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Business Ventures in a VUCA world
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Corporate Risk Management
| Semester | 1 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM1CRMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 4 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni possess a comprehensive overview of the types of risk, in particular ecological, social and digital risks, a business venture is exposed to and can identify risks that arise from changes, new requirements and increased com-plexity and dynamics. They are familiar with relevant legal and managerial requirements of corporate risk management as well as with the tools to identify and assess risks. Alumni are able to assess the effects of ecological, social and digital risks on the business venture and and know how to integrate these risks along with corresponding opportunities in the risk management system. They understand the fundamental strategies of risk management, can evaluate these and derive risk response measures for specific situations. Alumni comprehend corporate risk management processes and can evaluate them according to individual criteria. As this lecture considers the complete process, as well as the business venture with its multifaceted interfaces, it promotes systematic and holistic thinking with alumni. By providing a deep understanding of the relevant methods, the course helps alumni develop their decision-making and problem-solving skills along with their analytical and assessment skills. After completing this course, alumni are able to initiate change processes in the light of ecological, social and digital transformation based on the analysis and evaluation of identified risks.
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Business Ventures in a VUCA world
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International Economic Relations
| Semester | 1 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM1IWBIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni possess deep insights into the changes and risks businesses and corporate decision makers face in a corporate environment. Special attention is paid to the changing framework conditions of entrepreneurial action, e.g., internationalizing economic activities and increased market integration, emerging competition, the relevance of digitalization for international economic relations, changing consumer behavior, shortened product life and innovation cycles with the resulting need to innovate, as well as the requirements of sustainable economy. Drawing on these insights, alumni are able to identify, analyze and assess for decision making the opportunities and risks the management are likely to face from external changes, increased complexity and dynamics. Alumni train their analytical and assessment skills applying these newly acquired insights as the course requires them not only to internalize the information presented but also to actively use it. Upon completing this course, alumni are aware of existing global economic ties and know how to analyze and assess the requirements of international innovation competition for internationally operating businesses. They understand that, due to these external shifts, management requirements are constantly exposed to change and risk. In this context, they have learned to identify leverage points to ensure business success in an ever-changing environment and they are conscious of the relevance of innovative solutions and proactive management.
Superior module:
Changing Conditions
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Organization Development
| Semester | 1 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM1OETIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 2 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are familiar with the principles, methods, models and tools of organization development, of teamwork and coaching. They can assess the applicability of these tools and of the organization develop process in an increasingly changing and volatile corporate environment and evaluate potential impacts of application. Alumni have substantially developed their willingness and ability to change and learn, their systemic thinking and assessment capacities and thus their transformation competencies to meet the challenges of organization development.
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Advanced Management Skills
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Planning and Designing Sustainable Value Creation Systems
| Semester | 1 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM1PGWIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 3 |
| ECTS Credits | 4 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni possess a comprehensive overview of the methods models, and optimization approaches for value creation networks. By the end of the module, they are able to analyze value creation processes and to identify indicated optimization potentials. The knowledge in planning and devising value creation networks that alumni acquire in this course, enables them to determine the fundamental correlations between corporate strategy, organization and individual value creation processes. Alumni have developed the ability to identify process parameters relevant for optimization, understand their interdependencies and can develop solution approaches independently to suport the operative implementation of strategic goals. This course helps alumni develop holistic and systemic thinking. It sharpens alumni` analytical and assessment skills and lays the foundation for alumni to be able to overcome the content-related challenges of changing and devising value creation systems.
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Business Ventures in a VUCA world
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Research Methodologies
| Semester | 1 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM1QTMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are able to process a relevant topic in a systematically structured approach with defined steps and adequately apply scientific methods in a results-oriented way. They possess profound knowledge of quantitative data collection and analyses in the field of social and economic sciences, as well as regarding multimethod and explorative approaches. Alumni are familiar with the individual forms of standardized surveys (oral, written, phone and online surveys) and are able to develop standardized questionnaires for quantitative surveys using appropriate scaling methods, surveying techniques and strategies. Moreover, they know all relevant methods of selecting respondents for sample planning. Alumni also profoundly understand how to apply multivariate data analysis methods. With these learning outcomes, alumni demonstrate their willingness and ability to learn, which as a relevant methodical competency allows them to operationalize work practice. Thus, explaining the reasons and goals of a method becomes a fixed part of their professional practice. Accordingly, they do not merely consider these methods as superficial tools, whose helpfulness might lose luster in professional routines, but they acquire the core competency of methodical and systematic thinking, which will be practice-proof in the long run.
Superior module:
Research Methodologies 1
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Sustainability and Circular Economy
| Semester | 1 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM1NHWIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are familiar with the functions and thought patterns of environmental and sustainability management. They recognize and can categorize the tools of environmental and sustainability management. Moreover, they understand the ties to other disciplines. Drawing on the environment-specific types of market failure, alumni learn how to use corporate tools and strategies to internalize externalities in order to add value potentials. Alumni have comprehensively mapped sustainability management in the sense of legitimization management for stakeholders and have thus honed their decision-making and problem-solving skills. Historical evidence (the development of sustainability in institutions - from the Brundtland report to SDGs, civil-society forms of social sustainability) demands an increasing willingness to change from all involved agents, the reasons for which this course reflects upon.
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Changing Conditions
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Sustainable Finance
| Semester | 1 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM1SFIIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 2 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni know who the drivers of sustainability orientation in finance are. They understand the financial relevancy of a sustainability orientation, the pressure exercised by investors, politics and NGOs to increasingly consider sustainabiltiy aspects that companies and financial intermediaries are exposed to. Moreover, they understand the potential positive effects of a sustainabilty orientation as suggested by the SDGs on a corporate level as well as from a more holistic viewpoint. By comprehensively disussing the mentioned topics along with its many interfaces to facilitate sustainability on different levels (diversity, female empowerment, fighting poverty, climate change) this course promotes systematic and holistic thinking. The course helps alumni develop their decision-making and problem-solving skills along with their analytical and assessment skills. Alumni know about the relevance and role of sustainable finance for nudging positive change in terms of governance as well as ecological and social aspects.
Superior module:
Business Ventures in a VUCA world
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Advanced Financial Accounting
| Semester | 2 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2AFAIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 2 |
| Examination character | final |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni understand the interplay of balance sheet items and elements of financial reporting and consolidated financial statements. They are familiar with the principles of balancing accounts in a domestic and international con-text as well as the rising demand for non-financial and sustainability reporting. They know the methods and tools of consolidated group accounting and understand consolidation processes. Alumni are able to interpret financial statements and consolidated accounts considering measures of balancing policy and analyze a business venture`s assets, cash flow and financial performance based on accounting data. They are familiar with the impact that challenges of dynamic, complex and volatile environments have on balancing accounts and are able to assess emerging risks in annual and consolidated financial statements. Alumni understand the effects of digitalization, the increasing relevance of non-financial and sustainability aspects and of other current developments that impact accounting. Accordingly, the course helps alumni develop analytical and assessment skills as well as their willingness and ability to change. Through assuming a holistic perspective, systematic thinking is promoted.
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Accounting in a VUCA-World
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Advanced Management Accounting
| Semester | 2 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2ACOIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni profoundly understand the methods, tools and models of management accounting and know how to apply them in an increasingly changing and uncertain corporate context to meet the demands of the situation at hand. They are able to adapt the management accounting toolbox to and optimize it for a dynamic, complex and international environment. To achieve this, they assume a holistic perspective and are aware of the relations and interplays within the company as well as of those between business ventures and their environment. Drawing on performance and key performance indicators, alumni are able to assess a business venture`s situation and identify weaknesses, risks and threats but also strengths and opportunities. Moreover, they are familiar with the latest developments in management accounting, as well as with resulting challenges and opportunities, and can evaluate the resulting need to adapt institutional and infrastructure-related aspects of businesses.
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Accounting in a VUCA-World
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Advanced Quality & Process Management
| Semester | 2 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2AQPIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni possess the required skills to recognize the relevance of processes for corporate performance. Against the backdrop of expected changes, they possess the methodical competency and know how to apply suitable reference models, standards, and norms, to plan, manage and optimize change processes. Alumni have developed their holistic thinking skills and acquired the relevant decision-making and problem-solving competencies to be able to successfully execute corporate change tasks applying process management.
Superior module:
Advanced Management Skills
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Business Skills Lab II
| Semester | 2 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2BSLIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 2.5 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
1. Develop further the defined core competencies as relevant for change & sustainability scenarios, focusing on willingness & ability to change, willingness & ability to learn, analytical skills & goal orientation under stress conditions. 2. Recognize individual talents, develop them into strengths (see goal 1 for main focus) and from this expand the individual scope for action and decision making in change and sustainability scenarios; address individual weaknesses. 3. Convey and apply in a goal-oriented way individual, emotional concerns (core competencies for change & sustainability scenarios as developed for goals 1 and 2) in a professional context and in a non-native language, here the English language, for an international environment, here in particular the international work-place coined by the Anglo-American culture.
Superior module:
Business Skills Lab 1
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Innovation Economics & Digitalization
| Semester | 2 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2INOIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni have acquired profound knowledge on the changes and risks in corporate environments relating to endogenous microeconomic innovations and macroeconomic framework conditions. Alumni understand to address the need to innovate - often perceived as empty or external pressure - based on the situation at hand in a concrete manner drawing on scopes of action and alternatives to increase the business venture`s value potentials. Moreover, they can distinguish the economic impacts of the new digital technologies for platforms and determine success criteria. Thus, the mostly vague talk about potential digital scaling is solidly based on network effects. Alumni have acquired profound application-oriented insights. Drawing on the knowledge gained in this course, alumni have formed several competencies: they can analyze innovation dynamics and most importantly assess deriving changes and risks as well as recognize the potentials for sustainable value creation.
Superior module:
Changing Conditions
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Qualitative Methods
| Semester | 2 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2QLMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni can process a relevant topic in a systematically structured approach with defined steps, adequately applied scientific methods and a clear goal in mind. By drawing on the theory of science, they are able to perform research independently and integrate different points of view and approaches in a solution-oriented way. Alumni possess in-depth knowledge of qualitative survey and evaluation methods on multi-method and exploratory approaches in the field of empirical social and economic research. They are aware of survey and evaluation-inherent risks and are familiar with scientific and epistemological foundations. They are able to conduct research with a view to practical application and suggest carefully contemplated recommendations for action. They have the skills to create qualitative research designs and know how to execute and interpret in-depth interviews, focus groups, and observations. With these learning outcomes, alumni demonstrate their willingness and ability to learn, which as a relevant methodical competency allows them to operationalize work practice. Thus, explaining the reasons and goals of a method becomes a fixed part of their professional practice. Accordingly, they do not merely consider these methods as superficial tools, whose helpfulness might lose luster in professional routines, but acquire the core competency of methodical and systematic thinking, which will be practice-proof in the long run.
Superior module:
Research Methodologies 1
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Student Studies I
| Semester | 2 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2STSPT |
| Type | PT |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 1 |
| ECTS Credits | 4.5 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Due to the format of the course and the individual self-selected student projects, alumni develop the ability to study mostly independently and autonomously. Upon completing this course, they have learned to analyze problems from different points of view and to identify systemic-holistic contexts appreciating cross links. They are, moreover, able to determine which questions to raise and tasks to set to further the discussion relevant for practice and academia and to independently plan, coordinate, execute and assess the success of their projects. The competencies willingness & ability to change, willingness & ability to learn, systemic & holistic thinking, decision-making & problem-solving skills, goal orientation, endurance & stress management, analytical & assess-ment skills are thus acquired in a group project in which alumni penetrate the contents along a self-selected project organization rather than in the hypothetical setting of an academic lecture. Autonomous and self-responsible behavior, as well as assessment skills, are strengthened outside the constraints of set topics, courses and projects thus facilitating the alumni to develop the meta-competency of applying reason and intellect to decide for an approach in their own right not along preset criteria.
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Student Studies 1 - Development Spaces
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Market Entry Strategies
| Semester | 2 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2MESIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 1 |
| ECTS Credits | 2 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni possess a deepened understanding of the mar-kets as economic, political, social and cultural arenas and of how internationalization and globalization trends are reflected in the institutional, structural and cultural foundations of these economic fields. Drawing on this knowledge base, alumni learn about and discuss market entry strategies, and derive implementation criteria. Through an application-oriented analysis, alumni gain insights to the multidimensional uncertainties of market entry strategies and thus acquire the competency to systematically interpret and assess structures and causalities.
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Business Development 1
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Bank Management & Current Issues in Banking
| Semester | 2 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2BMCIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 2.5 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni understand the major challenges in the banking industry, the role of banks, the risks banks are exposed to, in particular sustainability risks, as well as the tools and methods to mitigate these risks in order to comply with their tasks. Alumni have acquired analytical and assessment skills to evaluate relevant scenarios. They can decide on the applicability of tools in a complex and volatile financial market in response to a particular situation and anticipate potential impacts. Thus, alumni have sensitized their readiness and capacity for change and strengthened their holistic and systematic thinking abilities.
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Changing Financial Environments
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Financial Markets & Financial Institutions
| Semester | 2 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2FMIIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3.5 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are familiar with the core models of capital market theory. They possess deep and comprehensive insights to financial market structures and agents, in particular financial institutions. They understand the principles of neoliberal institutional economics with its assumptions and their limitations, which Behavioral Finance seeks to overcome by drawing on behavioral science and psychology. They can apply theoretical knowledge on financial markets and behavioral science responding to particular situations in order to implement change processes in financial markets and anticipate potential impacts. After completing this course, alumni know how to categorize occurring phenomena and assess the effectiveness of regulatory steps. They are familiar with the tasks and tools of the most relevant financial institutions as well as their interrelationships. They are aware of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Directive of the European Union and its impact on financial markets participants, in particular asset managers and investment funds, and how this regulation aims to facilitate achieving sustainability goals. As this course pursues a holistic approach towards analyzing financial markets and dependencies, it also promotes systematic and holistic thinking. It further fosters the alumni` ability to take decisions and solve problems by discussing past financial crises along with steps taken to overcome these and helps them develop their analytical and assessment skills by thoroughly exploring financial market tools.
Superior module:
Changing Financial Environments
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Corporate Networks & Collaboration
| Semester | 2 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2UNKIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni possess a thorough understanding of the in-creasing relevance of inter-company networks and collaborations for the economic success in dynamic environments. Drawing on network theory they are familiar with the framework conditions and drivers of networks, as well as with the most relevant forms and types of corporate networks including their particularities (e.g., production, innovation and project networks, supply networks, collaboration in logistics and supply chain management). They know the methods and tools required to manage networks and understand to differentiate their functional applicability. Equipped with this knowledge base, alumni are able to assess the opportunities and limitations of intercompany collaborations, which are increasing in relevance, particularly for innovation and market entry activities, while honing their analytical skills and sagacity. Moreover, they understand how to manage corporate networks, as well as collaborations with funding and R&D institutions.
Superior module:
Electives 1 - Corporate Networks & Collaboration
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Corporate Restructuring & Turnaround Management
| Semester | 2 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2URSIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni possess profound insights into the problems, risks and challenges of corporate crises and insolvency. Apart from legal principles and framework conditions relevant for insolvency cases, they have a solid understanding of crisis, turnaround and restructuring management from a business management point of view and are aware of the dynamics of these processes. They are familiar with the progression, methods and tools of turnaround and restructuring management and know how to apply these in an increasingly transforming and uncertain business environment to preserve and strengthen corporate resilience. As-suming a holistic perspective, they are able to assess the challenges and effects restructuring and turnaround activities can have on involved stakeholders and are aware of the interplay of short-term, as well as long-term, and sustainable restructuring activities. According to the situation at hand, they can apply methods of pro-active crisis management that, to prevent insolvency, aim for the early detection and avoidance of corporate crises.
Superior module:
Electives 1 - Corporate Restructuring & Turnaround Management
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Cross Cultural Management
| Semester | 2 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2ACMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course alumni understand how culture influences management tasks and how to devise communication strategies to accommodate cultural diversity. They know how to structure and manage teams that embrace culturally diverse backgrounds and use these effectively. They are aware of the challenges of international and expat assignments and are able to measure performance, as well as reintegrate employees after an international assignment. They appreciate the challenge of communicating effectively across cultures and have developed strategies to achieve goals in a multinational, diverse setting. The following of the defined central competencies in Change & Sustainability will be developed further: decision-making and problem-solving, goal orientation, resilience and stress management, analytical skills & ability to judge.
Superior module:
Electives 1 - Cross-Cultural Management
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Agile Group Dynamics & Change Processes
| Semester | 2 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2AGVIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 3 |
| ECTS Credits | 4 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni have acquired the following skills for specific roles, e.g., as manager, external consultant, or HR business partner: - Using the "self" purposefully as a tool when designing change processes. - Understanding and experimenting with the dynamics that arise when people, groups and organizations collaborate - Testing, deepening, and learning to apply special skills: asking, listening, observing, and conveying observations, leading conversations purposefully, understanding group processes, conflict and collaboration skills, self-reflection, intervention skills, and emotional intelligence - Applying group dynamics in agile contexts - Designing and delimiting change processes Alumni have developed their willingness and ability to change, willingness and ability to learn, systemic thinking and assessment skills by dealing with the course tasks.
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Organization Development 1
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Consumer Behaviour
| Semester | 2 |
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| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2COBIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni understand the psychological and social principles of consumer behavior and their impacts on corporate marketing. The course design promotes holistic thinking. Alumni are familiar with several tools to measure consumer behavior and know how to apply these, which strengthens their analytical and assessment skills.
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Service Marketing
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Service Marketing
| Semester | 2 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2SEMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are able to understand, describe and convey the particularities of a service-oriented marketing perspective. They comprehend the interplay of customer expectations, perceived service completion, and customer satisfaction in the context of service quality (Service Location Protocol, S-L-P). Moreover, alumni are capable of identifying relevant measures to manipulate these relationships and of recognizing the relevance of active customer management of organizations, as well as the core challenges of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships. They know how to operationalize theoretical constructs of customer relationships and to solve real-life marketing problems in a case-study format. Thus, alumni particularly hone their analytical and assessment skills.
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Service Marketing
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Sustainable Value Creation
| Semester | 2 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 1 |
| Course code | BWBM2WSGIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 4 |
| ECTS Credits | 6 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni possess a thorough understanding of the indi-vidual possibilities to create added value in the fields of purchasing and supply chain management. They are able to recognize the potentials and opportunities that creating value chains entails and have gathered initial practical experience for how to implement these. They understand the tasks and opportunities of strategic SCM and can make a crucial contribution to an organization`s development. Alumni have gained profound insights into the influencing potential of purchasing on important strategic corporate decisions. In this course, they apply and develop their analytical and assessment skills working on practical examples, which, in turn promotes their systemic and holistic thinking skills.
Superior module:
Sustainable Value Creation
Module description:
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Business Skills Lab III
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3BSLIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni have learned to: 1. Develop the seven predefined core competencies relevant for managing change and sustainability - systemic & holistic thinking, decision-making and problem-solving skills, resilience, and stress management individually and under stress 2. Recognize individual talents, transform them into strengths (with a focus on those competencies named under point 1), and thus enlarge the individual action and decision-making capacity for managing change and sustainability; learning to deal with individual weaknesses 3. Assume responsibility for their individual life-long learning/development journeys
Superior module:
Business Skills Lab 2
Module description:
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Data Intelligence & Literacy
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3DILIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are aware of the increasing relevance of data in the context of digital transformation. They, furthermore, develop an understanding of data sources and how data-generation processes work. Moreover, they are able to collect, manage, and use data appropriately drawing on the data`s quality and integrity. They possess the competencies to analyze and interpret data in terms of value and costs in a business context and know how to use specific software tools. Finally, they understand to present their results effectively. They are able to assess whether and how the information obtained can be used to resolve or support business issues and what legal and ethical implications (may) arise in this process.
Superior module:
Research Methodology 2
Module description:
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Master Thesis Seminar
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3BSMSE |
| Type | SE |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 1 |
| ECTS Credits | 1 |
| Examination character | final |
Learning Outcomes:
With completing their master thesis, alumni prove their ability to process relevant specialist and scientific topics at an academic level independently and appropriately in method. This means that alumni are able to deal critically and independently with relevant specialist issues, to document them and argue them according to academic standards within a specified timeframe. They are capable of working on issues with a view to practical implementation, drawing on solid scientific principles identified in their own literature analyses, applying scientific methods and principles for a timely and successful completion of their work.
Superior module:
Master Thesis
Module description:
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Student Studies II
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3STSPT |
| Type | PT |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 1 |
| ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Due to the format of the course and the individual self-selected student projects, alumni develop the ability to study mostly independently and autonomously. Upon completing this course, they have learned to analyze problems from different points of view and to identify systemic-holistic contexts appreciating cross links. They are, moreover, able to determine which questions to raise and tasks to set to further the discussion relevant for practice and academia and to independently plan, coordinate, execute and assess the success of their projects. The competencies willingness & ability to change, willingness & ability to learn, systemic & holistic thinking, decision-making & problem-solving skills, goal orientation, endurance & stress management, analytical & assessment skills are thus acquired in a group project in which alumni penetrate the contents along a self-selected project organization rather than in the hypothetical setting of an academic lecture. Autonomous and self-responsible behavior, as well as assessment skills, are strengthened outside the constraints of set topics, courses and projects thus facilitating the alumni to develop the meta-competency of applying reason and intellect to decide for an approach in their own right, not along preset criteria.
Superior module:
Student Studies 2 - Development Spaces
Module description:
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Empowerment in Agile & Digital Contexts
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3EPKIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3.5 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are familiar with the principles, concepts, and tools to empower employees in the agile and digital contexts of organization development and know how to apply them in a target-oriented way. Moreover, they understand the necessity, impact, and interplay of these elements for developing agile and digital organizations. They have developed their willingness and ability to change, willingness and ability to learn, systemic thinking, decision-making and problem-solving skills, goal orientation, resilience, and stress management, as well as their assessment skills.
Superior module:
Agility & Digitalization in Organization Development
Module description:
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Business Opportunity Recognition
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3NGMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3.5 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni have built insights into insightful and mindful management reasoning and action when professionally dealing with management approaches. To achieve this, they acquire a personality-psychological diagnostical competence for selecting management approaches and their impact on recipients, including themselves. This diagnostical self-reflection process supports recognizing individual needs and motives of self-perception to promote innovative entrepreneurial and particularly self-regulated authentic management reasoning and behavior instead of merely adapting, which, consequently, eliminates the fear of self-induced change. It more general terms it can be said that this course promotes the alumni` "entrepreneurial spirit".
Superior module:
Business Development 2
Module description:
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Organization Development & Management Approaches
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3UEMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 3 |
| ECTS Credits | 4 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni can confidently and competently - Explain the links between theory and practice - Analyze corporate problems and select applicable management approaches - Understand theory and management concepts more comprehensively to explain how to identify and assess management approaches for a situation at hand - Select the appropriate management approach for successful problem solving - Derive from a management approach which framework conditions need to apply for its implementation so it can be executed successfully - Understand the metatheoretical considerations that support a successful reconstruction - Know different forms of organization development and link them to the appropriate management approaches - Achieve practical implementation and acceptance of management approaches - Detect and eliminate "blind spots" in managerial considerations and, accordingly, finetune management approaches to meet the situation at hand. The competencies acquired in this course go beyond accepting the simple relation between application/tools, management approaches/managerial key performance indicators, as applying these tools comes with certain requirements: a metatheoretical analysis suggests that applying tools requires structuring and translating data, information, knowledge and interpretation so that alumni develop and refine their analytical and assessment skills along with their systemic thinking when deriving the application of management approaches.
Superior module:
Business Development 2
Module description:
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Agile & Digital Leadership
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3ADLIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Graduates possess leadership competence by knowing classical, newer and alternative methods, models and approaches of leadership, understanding interrelationships and, in an increasingly changing and uncertain business environment, being able to understand and reflect on situational application. They are aware of their personal preferences in leadership and how they can permanently develop their own leadership skills in current and future leadership situations according to their strengths. The following of the defined central competencies in Change & Sustainability will mainly be developed further: willingness & ability to change, willingness & ability to learn, systemic holistic thinking, decision-making and problem-solving, goal orientation, resilience and stress management, ability to judge.
Superior module:
Electives 2 - Agile & Digital Leadership
Module description:
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Innovation Management
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3INVIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni possess a deepened understanding of organizational und human resources-related requirements of innovation processes. They understand the opportunities and limitations of generating innovative solutions, as well as of designing integrative innovation processes. They are familiar with the tools of strategic innovation management, as well as with key aspects of strategic and operative innovation management. They are able to initiate and implement creative processes in business ventures in line with Creative Leadership. Drawing on these insights, they can anticipate, drive and manage the development, design and market-ready implementation of new ideas, as well as organizational innovation and market innovation, and assess their impact. In this course, alumni thoroughly develop their competencies: they learn how to analyze and assess the strategic fit of business ventures with their environment in regard to the systemic implications of innovation. Drawing on their decision-making and problem-solving skills, they understand how to decide on courses of action for this system-theoretical question, that in visualizations is illustrated with non-logical signs only, based on the success criteria of innovation
Superior module:
Electives 2 - Innovation Management
Module description:
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Sustainability Marketing
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3CCCIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
After attending this course, the student - knows and understands the role of marketing in supporting sustainable development (Knowledge and Understanding) - will be able to distinguish between green washing tactics and long-term sustainable strategies (Knowledge and understanding) - will be able to evaluate the environmental and social impact of a product/behaviour (Applying Knowledge and understanding) - can communicate clearly and present his or her ideas in a convincing manner (also in a foreign language) (Communication skills) - is able to pursue autonomous learning based on the feedback received (Learning skills)
Superior module:
Electives 2 - Sustainability Marketing
Module description:
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Managing Risk in Financial Statements
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3MBRIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are aware of risks related to individual and con-solidated financial statements. They possess an overview of the risk-charged balance sheet items and are able to analyze these using appropriate methods, tools and model while honoring the balancing policy. Alumni understand the conceptional intention of relevant requirements regarding risks in financial statements and are, due to an increased willingness and ability to change, able to identify and assess risk exposure in the field of financial reporting despite dynamic of regulatory changes. By exploring the regulatory framework of norms that this course conveys, alumni develop their decision-making and problem-solving skills. By highlighting conceptional regulation inten-tions, this course facilitates alumni to hone their analytical and assessment skills to be able to gauge the impact of changes in the legal framework on business ventures.
Superior module:
Financial Management in a VUCA-Environment
Module description:
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Mergers & Acquisitions
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3MACIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are aware of the agents, process, and framework conditions of Mergers & Acquisitions. They understand the essential transaction forms, trends and tactics in M&A processes, know how to apply their insights in an increasingly uncertain business environment and how to assess the opportunity and risk potentials that M&A processes entail for all parties involved. Alumni are able to meet the demands of a corporate merger in special circumstances and are aware of the high process pace of an M&A transaction which they overcome with their heightened resilience and stress tolerance. Given that the transaction process is discussed from a triangular viewpoint, alumni develop their systemic and holistic thinking. Moreover, alumni increase their goal orientation as well as decision-making and problem-solving skills as they have to assess their courses of action based on, by nature, incomplete information in the transaction process.
Superior module:
Financial Management in a VUCA-Environment
Module description:
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Regulation, (Risk) Governance & Compliance
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3RGCVO |
| Type | VO |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 1 |
| ECTS Credits | 2 |
| Examination character | final |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni understand the role and importance of corporate governance for sustainable management. They have an overview of relevant laws, regulations and requirements regarding (risk) governance and compliance against the backdrop of global networks and international interaction, constantly changing regulations, and diverging international structures. As alumni acquire an understanding of regulatory norms, this course promotes their decision-making and assessment skills and since the course contents refer to international legal sovereignty, participants develop their systemic and holistic thinking skills.
Superior module:
Financial Management in a VUCA-Environment
Module description:
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Credit Risk Management
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3KRMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni have acquired a comprehensive overview of credit risk management in banking and organizations. They are familiar with the legal framework for banking and the challenges that result from considering ESG criteria. They, moreover, know the most important methods to identify and gauge credit risk along with risk management tools. They understand the structure and effect of credit ratings, can assess these critically and select relevant criteria to assess the financial standing according to the situation at hand. Alumni are aware of current developments resulting particularly from digitalization, sustainability considerations, as well as from changes in the economic and legal environment and are able to adapt credit risk management tools through appropriate change processes. They understand the relevance of a holistic view of the business as well as the interplay between different types of risk and corporate subdivisions. By assuming different perspectives, i.e., banking, company and customer views, alumni acquire insights that promote developing new solutions and accordingly overcoming new challenges.
Superior module:
Financial Risk Management
Module description:
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Financial Risks & Financial Instruments
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3FRFIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 3 |
| ECTS Credits | 4 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni have a comprehensive overview and understanding of the financial risks also in the context of sustainability risks, a company is exposed to. They are able to identify financial risks and their economic roots in a practical context. They are familiar with the most relevant methods to evaluate financial risks, in particular of currency and interest risks. They are able to derive, analyze, critically reflect, select risk mitigation strategies adequate for the situation at hand. Equally, they are familiar with financial instruments (derivatives) to mitigate risk, understand how they work, and can apply them to manage risks. Since risk mitigation strategies can trigger change. Alumni are able to analyze the management of financial risk with a view towards the resulting change processes and initiate appropriate change processes. To do so, they assume a holistic and integrated view of the company, as they are aware of the links and interplays between the individual company functions and understand that ultimately all risks (including corporate risks) have negative effects on the financial standing of the business.
Superior module:
Financial Risk Management
Module description:
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Digital Business Models
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3DBMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni understand the paradigm shift electronic business has caused and its impact on marketing. Alumni appreciate its intermediations and manifestations as well as its the success factors along with the advantages and impact on business transactions. They are aware of the components that result from the newly created business models and of the particularities of e-marketing as well as social media marketing as individual marketing. Alumni have refined their reflection as well as their analytical skills by working with case studies.
Superior module:
Marketing & Sales
Module description:
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Holistic Customer Management
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3HCMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are familiar with the tasks CRM managers have to accomplish to develop and (digitally) implement a market-based strategy. Alumni understand how to phrase customer management targets and to measure impact with operative market research. All participants are able to purposefully apply market research tools to learn about customer needs. This course helps alumni train and develop their holistic thinking and decision-making & problem-solving skills.
Superior module:
Marketing & Sales
Module description:
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Sales & Distribution Management
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3SDMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are familiar with the principles of sales and distribution management and understand the role of distribution as a key marketing tool to increase competitiveness. They know the strategic and operative steps in a distribution context (applying operative processes in customer processing) and can draw up distribution concepts as well as budgets. Alumni are able to identify current trends in distribution such as digitalization, understand how to build customer relations and lead management, and can develop these concepts further. This course facilitates alumni to train and develop their decision-making and problem-solving skills.
Superior module:
Marketing & Sales
Module description:
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Applied Marketing: Projects & Techniques I
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3AMPIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
The didactic concept and the conveyed contents facilitate the following learning outcomes: Upon completing this course, alumni are able to independently conceptualize and execute market research projects. This requires and promotes competencies such as target orientation, holistic thinking, decision-making and problem-solving as well as assessment skills. Moreover, alumni have acquired and refined (agile) project management and presentation skills and possess insights into project documentation.
Superior module:
Marketing Tools
Module description:
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Key Account Management
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3KAMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, student possess an overview of the aspects a penetration plan needs to address with a special focus on defining targets and considering costs. They know the criteria to define a target group for KAM activities and are able to analytically grasp and conceptionally describe integration potentials and synergies. Alumni are aware of classical obstacles and pitfalls in key account management, concepts of the partnering approach, and the buying center with key customers. This course helps alumni train and develop their holistic thinking and decision-making & problem-solving skills.
Superior module:
Marketing Tools
Module description:
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Designing Change Processes
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3GVPIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 3 |
| ECTS Credits | 4 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni know how to structure the phases of the organization development process in a target-oriented way. They are able to head change projects assuming the role of an internal manager or as project manager and are able to contribute to complex organization development projects. They possess a holistic view of organizations and business ventures. Over the course of the semester, alumni have developed and refined the seven predefined core competencies for change and sustainability: willingness and ability to change, willingness and ability to learn, systemic thinking, decision-making and problem-solving skills, goal orientation, resilience and stress management, and assessment skills.
Superior module:
Organization Developmen 2
Module description:
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Digitalizing Purchasing & SCM
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3DESIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni understand which opportunities and potentials digitalizing purchasing and SCM processes holds. They are able to identify the disadvantages and risks of digitalization and to assess application potentials. They also understand when digitization does not support meeting targets. Thus, they can contribute essential impulses to any digitalization activities in purchasing and SCM drawing on the subject-related and analytical competencies they have acquired in this course.
Superior module:
Purchasing & Supply Chain Management
Module description:
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Legal Principles for Purchasing
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3REGIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are familiar with the relevant legal frameworks for purchasing and SCM. They recognize the implications of these legal frameworks for specific situations, can adjust activities accordingly and thus make a key contribution to planning, managing, and optimizing global and company-spanning value chains meeting governing legal conditions and compliance regulations. Thus, they are able to contribute towards avoiding corporate risk. Alumni have acquired fundamental competencies to recognize and assess legal risks and implementation potentials.
Superior module:
Purchasing & Supply Chain Management
Module description:
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Purchasing Control
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3ECOIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
This course conveys current methods, practices, and concepts, as well as the management levers, that purchasing and SC management processes can influence. Upon completing this course, alumni possess the subject-related and analytical skills to run performance indicator-based analyses of complex processes and to identify and assess connected opportunities and risks.
Superior module:
Purchasing & Supply Chain Management
Module description:
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Supply Chain Riskmanagement
| Semester | 3 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM3SCRIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 4 |
| ECTS Credits | 6 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni possess the required competencies and analytical skills to obtain a comprehensive overview of the individual risks in purchasing and supply chain management. They are familiar with the methods and steps to identify, analyze, and assess risks. Moreover, they understand to optimally manage risks, including trading, financial, and logistical risks. Alumni also acquire practical insights into how businesses address these risks in purchasing and supply chain management in corporate practice.
Superior module:
Purchasing & Supply Chain Management
Module description:
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Master Graduation Exam
| Semester | 4 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM4MAPMP |
| Type | DP |
| Kind | Compulsory |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 0 |
| ECTS Credits | 2 |
| Examination character | final |
Learning Outcomes:
The master graduation exam aims to verify the following skills in the candidate: - Presenting the essential contents and findings of the master thesis in a structured and well-argued way - Defending the elaborated contents along with the conceptual-theoretical and methodical foundations of the thesis (defensio) with well-founded arguments - Applying the knowledge acquired in the selected specialization onto new problems (transferring knowledge) - Possessing profound insights into general aspects of business management
Superior module:
Master Thesis
Module description:
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Master Thesis
| Semester | 4 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM4MTHIT |
| Type | IT |
| Kind | Diploma/master thesis |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 0 |
| ECTS Credits | 21 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
With completing their master thesis, alumni prove their ability to process relevant specialist and scientific topics at an academic level independently and methodically appropriately. This means that alumni are able to deal critically and independently with relevant specialist issues, to document and argue them according to academic standards within a specified timeframe. They are capable of working on issues with a view to practical implementation, drawing on solid scientific principles identified in their own literature analyses applying scientific methods and principles for a timely and successful completion of their work.
Superior module:
Master Thesis
Module description:
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Agile & Digital Organization Development
| Semester | 4 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM4ADUIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 4 |
| ECTS Credits | 5.5 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni have developed an understanding of agile organization and its application. They are familiar with agile work forms and can classify these in a corporate context. They know the building blocks of artificial intelligence and how these can be used to digitalize decision making in digital ecosystems and platform economies. Alumni are able to identify direct and indirect network externalities as a prerequisite of digital value creation so that organization development can react to current circumstances and anticipate future developments. Alumni can make a focused and professional contribution to agile and digital corporate transformations. They have developed all seven predefined core competencies for change and sustainability scenarios: willingness and ability to change, willingness and ability to learn, systemic and holistic thinking, decision and problem-solving skills, target orientation, resilience & stress management, assessment skills.
Superior module:
Agility & Digitalization in Organization Development
Module description:
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Internationalization in Corporate Development
| Semester | 4 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM4ICDRC |
| Type | RC |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 1 |
| ECTS Credits | 1.5 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are able to transfer topics of organization development or business development in an international context. They have the ability to relate topics to an intercultural context in a way that is appropriate to the situation. Alumni gain a detailed understanding of markets (from an economic, political, social and cultural point of view). They understand in which ways internationalization and globalization trends are reflected in institutions, especially in their structural and cultural foundations. Based on this reflection, internationalization strategies are discussed and requirements for their implementation will be reflected.
Superior module:
Agility & Digitalization in Organization Development
Module description:
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New Social & Ecological Business Models
| Semester | 4 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM4NSEIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are familiar with the structures of hybrid and social organizations /NPOs (organizational, legal, and economic framework conditions) and are able to evaluate their economic relevance and cooperation potentials. Alumni recognize the management, marketing, leadership and management accounting particularities of this type of organization. This course supports alumni in developing their holistic thinking, decision-making and problem-solving skills.
Superior module:
Critical Marketing Perspectives
Module description:
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The dark side of (social) Marketing
| Semester | 4 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM4DSMIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 1 |
| ECTS Credits | 2 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni understand the opportunities and risks of marketing and communication in an increasingly digitalized world. They are aware of the conundrum of sustainability/responsibility, on the one hand, and marketing/consumption, on the other. They are able to make their own contribution to the public discussion and encourage organizations to proactively address and reflect social/ecological implications and to implant these into the company strategy and operations as well as in the whole organization including marketing. This course supports alumni in developing their holistic thinking and assessment skills.
Superior module:
Critical Marketing Perspectives
Module description:
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Applied Marketing: Projects & Techniques II
| Semester | 4 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM4AMPIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 2 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are able to critically reflect the findings from market research projects from different perspectives and derive management implications. Thus, they have developed their willingness and ability to change as well as their assessment skills. Moreover, alumni have acquired (agile) project management skills.
Superior module:
Marketing Tools
Module description:
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Purchasing Investment Goods
| Semester | 4 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM4IGEIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 3 |
| ECTS Credits | 4 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are familiar with the specifics of purchasing and procurement for individual business projects. By contrasting the purchase of capital goods with serial purchasing, alumni learn to recognize and distinguish a range of particularities. They know how to procure investment goods minding the key opportunities and risks of a procurement innovation. In this course, alumni develop their analysis and assessment skills regarding the procurement of investment goods.
Superior module:
Purchasing
Module description:
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Purchasing Negotiations
| Semester | 4 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM4VFEIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are familiar with different negotiation strategies and techniques and understand the methods and models of professional communication. They are able to react appropriately and in a target-oriented way in difficult business situations. Alumni have developed the required decision-making and problem-solving skills and have improved in evaluating their own resilience and stress management.
Superior module:
Purchasing
Module description:
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Advanced Corporate Finance
| Semester | 4 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM4ACFIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 1.5 |
| ECTS Credits | 2 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni are familiar with the individual forms of corporate financing as well as with the risks such as digital and sustainability risks resulting from changes in financial markets and regulations. They can assess the tools and methods of corporate management in an environment coined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity and anticipate potential impacts and how this impacts a business`s resilience. They understand the interplay between corporate financing, corporate strategy and institutional framework conditions and are aware of the occasionally extreme process speed and dynamic that corporate financial management is confronted with.
Superior module:
Special Aspects of Financial Risk Management
Module description:
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Business Analytics & Financial Modelling
| Semester | 4 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM4BAFIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | English |
| SWS | 2 |
| ECTS Credits | 3 |
| Examination character | immanent |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni understand the relevance of data along with the possibilities to analyze these in the context of management accounting and financial management, as well as for operative management. Facilitated by their increased will-ingness and ability to change, they recognize the transformed requirements profile for corporate management that has arisen due to digitalization as well as current IT analyses potentials. Alumni have acquired decision-making and problem-solving skills and are able to resolve practical operative and financial problems as well as sustainability aspects applying relevant methods, tools, and programs. They are sensitized for automated and machine-made recommendations for actions and can, due to their enhanced analysis and assessment skills, gauge the necessary involvement of human decision-making and problem-solving requirements.
Superior module:
Special Aspects of Financial Risk Management
Module description:
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Opportunities & Challenges of Sustainability Reporting
| Semester | 4 |
|---|---|
| Academic year | 2 |
| Course code | BWBM4SBIIL |
| Type | IL |
| Kind | Elective |
| Language of instruction | German |
| SWS | 1.5 |
| ECTS Credits | 2 |
| Examination character | final |
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this course, alumni possess a comprehensive, in-depth understanding of the opportunities and challenges of sustainability reporting, the process of balancing accounts as well as current challenges in balancing and consolidating accounts resulting from digital transformation and sustainability considerations. They are able to detect weaknesses in an organization`s financial reporting and derive a catalog of steps to ensure process reliability and accordingly the quality of financial accounting. Alumni understand the impact individual courses of management action have on stock size and results of financial reporting, and in particular sustainability reporting, in a complex and dynamic environment and comprehend the balance sheet approach and valuation. Building on the regulatory framework of norms that the course conveys, alumni strengthen their decision-making and problem-solving skills. By initially highlighting conceptual regulation intentions, the course supports alumni in developing their analytical and assessment skills, which enables them to gauge the impact changing legal framework conditions can have on an organization.
Superior module:
Special Aspects of Financial Risk Management
Module description:
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| Legend | |
| Semester | Semesters 1, 3, 5: courses held only in winter semester (mid-September to end of January), Semesters 2, 4, 6: courses held only in summer semester (mid-February to end of June) |
| SWS | weekly contact hours over 14 weeks in semester (example SWS 2 equals 28 contact hours for the whole course |
| ECTS Credits | Work load in ECTS credits, 1 ECTS credit equals an estimated 25 hours of work for the student |
| Type | BP = Bachelor final exam DP/MP = Master final exam IL = Lecture with integrated project work IT = Individual training/phases LB = Lab (session) PS = Pro-seminar PT = Project RC = Course with integrated reflective practice RE = Revision course SE = Seminar TU = Tutorial UB = Practice session/Subject practical sessions VO = Lecture |