1. MSc Strategy Major: 2014-2016 WELCOME! Debbie Harrison, Assistant Dean

2. Is this something for me? Would you like to work at Accenture, BGC, Ernst & Young, or Capgemini? Or perhaps be Head of TV at GET, a Business Development Analyst at Statoil, or a Graduate Trainee at Maersk?

3. 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. 1. Economic and Organisational Foundations of Strategic Management 3. Corporate & Global strategies 2. Behavioural Foundations of Strategic Management 1. Autumn 2014 2. Spring 2015 3. Autumn 2015 4. Spring 2016 Research Methodology 4. Inter- organizational strategies 6. Consulting project 5. Strategies of Industrial Competitiveness Business Development & Innovation Management Thesis

5. What about my profile? A major consists of 6 mandatory courses A minor consists of 3-4 courses –several relevant alternatives Other options –’pick and mix’ –free electives –internship (2 courses) –exchange

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

7. 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

8. What could I write my thesis on? Vertical integration & international expansion: a case study of Marine Harvest How Norwegian companies look at corruption in Russia Network pictures in the oil sector Long term alliances in China Strategic planning processes at Wilhelmsen Maritime Services Managing disruptive innovation in the recording industry

9. Questions! Questions! Office number B3-077 debbie.harrison@bi.no