Master of Science

MSc Strategy Major: 2017-2019 WELCOME! Erik Aadland, Coordinator Strategy Major

Is this something for me? Would you like to work at Accenture, BGC, Ernst & Young, or Capgemini? Or perhaps be Director of products and services at GET, a Product manager at Telenor, or a Management Trainee at L’Oréal? Run your own firm?

What’s the big picture? Why are some firms more successful than others? This is the central question in strategy. We take a broad view of ‘success’, whereby companies balance economic goals against the long term consequences of managerial action We give our students the critical analytical skills needed to make complex business decisions, an action-oriented perspective of firms’ strategic processes, and the contextual understanding to become strategists in a rapidly evolving and increasingly global business environment

4. Spring 2019 3. Autumn 2018 2. Spring 2018 1. Autumn 2017 6. Consulting project 4. Spring 2019 Thesis Business Development & Innovation Management 3. Autumn 2018 3. Corporate & Global strategies 4. Inter-organizational strategies Research Methodology 5. Strategies of Industrial Competitiveness 2. Spring 2018 1. Economic and Organisational Foundations of Strategic Management 2. Behavioural Foundations of Strategic Management 1. Autumn 2017

What about my profile? Combine with functional studies several relevant alternatives Other options ’pick and mix’ free electives internship (2 courses) exchange

Being a MSc Strategy major student Before class In class Evaluations & feedback

The Strategy MSc is… Taught in English Research-based International environment One semester exchange period at one of BI’s many international partners ’Double Degree’ options

What could I write my thesis on? What motivates firms to conduct M&As? How do the inter-firm networks affect firm behavior and performance? How will disruptive innovations rejuvenate or turn-up-side-down the movie industry? Long term alliances in China and performance Strategic planning processes at Wilhelmsen Maritime Services Vertical integration & international expansion: a case study of Marine Harvest

Questions? Contact me erik.aadland@bi.no Office number C3-066

You could be the one amongst these !