The M&IB & AC courses are meant for

1. Management & International BusinessAcademic SkillsIntroductory sessionProgram Director: Kristiina Mäkelä, kristiina.makela@aalto.fiStudy Coordinator: MarjaElonheimo, marja.elonheimo@aalto.fiStudy Coordinator: TuuliHakkarainen, tuuli.hakkarainen@aalto.fi

2. The M&IB & AC courses are meant for M&IB Master’s Degree students Entrepreneurship Master’s Degree students • Academic Skills course only Management Bachelor’s Degree students • In transition phase IF YOU ARE NOT IN ONE OF THESE GROUPS, THIS COURSE IS NOT MEANT FOR YOU

3. Please note! M&IB and AC course are meant to be taken together • Not compulsory, but much easier & more logical!

4. Who are we?Kristiina MäkeläMarjaElonheimoTuuliHakkarainenTopic teachers

5. Who are you?

6. All entrepreneurship studentsstand up!

7. All new M&IB students stand up(meaning those of you who were in the welcome sessionlast Thursday)

8. Everyone else stand up!

9. Today’s agenda Academic skills –course overview (AC) Management & IB course overview (MIB) M&IB student introductory tutoring path continues

10. M&IB & Academic Skillscourse objectives To provide you with the knowledge (M&IB) and skills (AC) that you need to successfully progress through your (M&IB) studies M&IB students: M&IB + AC Entrepreneurship students: AC + coursework provided by your own program

11. Tutoring path In connection with the M&IB and Academic Skills –courses Objective: provide you with the skills and knowledge that you need to successfully progress through your studies Consists of: • Last Thursday’s introductory session • Today’s introduction session to M&IB and Academic Skills –course Mon Sept 9 • Specialization area tutoring meetings Wed Oct 9 • Library intro: How to use the library in your studies? Thu Oct 17 • Thesis intro: What to expect? Thu Oct 31 Includes short intro to CEMS & Double Degrees

12. Attendance is compulsory General rule: If you are ill, always ask for a doctor’s certificate

13. This is how we work Practice Applying learning Examples Cases YOU! Theory Reflection Conversation Lectures Readings Individually or In groups

14. Theory - practice ”There is nothing more practical than a goodtheory” • Helpsusto ”make sense” (better understand) reality • Gives us different perspectives (”glasses”) to look at whathappensaroundus • Gives structure to the ”messy” reality (we Homo Sapiens are not very good at remembering and/or using random information) Hanken Svenska handelshögskolan / Hanken School of Economics www.hanken.fi

15. Hanken Svenska handelshögskolan / Hanken School of Economics www.hanken.fi

16. Academic skills Objective: To build the skills that you need to successfully progress through your (M&IB) studies

17. Academic skills course Academic writing (Carol Kiriakos) • Introduction to developing and using your writing as part of your academic studies and professional development Academic work I (SaijaKatila) • Academic work and research, types of research questions and the nature of academic research, reading analytically and constructing a critical literature review, identifying disciplinary cultures Academic work II (Rebecca Piekkari) • Philosophical debates in management research, assessing and evaluating the quality of management research + Practical orientation • Using the library • Thesis intro: What to expect?

18. Some practicalities Grading: pass/fail, as we focus on building skills • You have to attend all sessions and pass all three academic parts (those provided by Carol Kiriakos, SaijaKatila& Rebecca Piekkari) to pass the course All readings and requirements for each part are provided by the lecturers • Check course homepage in Noppa • If further questions: contact each lecturer

19. Management and International Business Objective: To provide you with a horizontal overview and foundation of the field(s) of Management & IB Together with the AC course, give you the knowledge and skills that you need to successfully progress through your (M&IB) studies

20. Pre-assignment GRADING: pass/fail, given that these are personal essays Write a 1-2 pagereflectionessayaround the followingquestions: Whatare my objectives for the Management & IB Master’sstudies? Whatwill I do to achieve my objectives? Whatexpectationsdo I have for the program? What and how am I expecting to learn? Objective: Part of the tutoring path – forces you to think about YOUR objectives for YOUR Master studies – you both • Study more strategically and • Are aware what you will have learned when finish

21. Pre-assignment If you haven’t returned your pre-assignment yet (or want to revise the current version): Final deadline Fri Sept 13 @ 10.00 am Return to M&IB postbox (by the Arkadia reception)

22. Four specialization area topic lectures • For each module: • A pre-reading package – READ THESE BEFORE THE SESSION • Four-hour compulsory lecture session • A reflection essay – PART OF YOUR GRADING • Final grading: arithmetic mean of the four reflection essays (0-5)

23. Tutoring path Joint Thesis intro with AC-course: What to expect? Specialization area tutoring meetings • Small-group interactive tutoring meetings • Go to the group that corresponds the specialization area that you’ll take (i.e., you only need to do one of these small-group meetings)

24. Group discussion

25. Group discussion Introduce yourselves • Tell one interesting thing about yourself Discuss the following questions: • Whatare my objectives for the Management & IB Master’sstudies? Whatwill I do to achieve my objectives? • Whatexpectationsdo I have for the program? What and how am I expecting to learn? List questions / things you are currently wondering about Select a spokesperson who will report back to the whole group • Objectives: To learn about and be inspired by the different objectives different people have Address those questions you are thinking about now, after the intro week

26. M&IB Master’s Programme Q&A

27. M&IB electives • -Management & strategy making (book exam) (STR) • -Operating in different cultural and institutional contexts (IB) • -People management in multinational organizations (IB) • -Doing business in Russia (IB) • -Sustainability Politics and CSR - Reading Seminar (SUST) • -Corporate Responsibility in Global Economy (SUST) • -How to Change the World: Innovation toward Sustainability (SUST) • -Responsibility Management (book exam) (SUST) • -Human resource development (book exam) (HR) • -Gender and Diversity at Work (HR) • -Inside work cultures (book exam) (HR) • -Business ethics (GENERAL)

28. HR specialization area Core courses currently only in Finnish If you want to take the HR module as your compulsory two-course specialization area, and don’t speak Finnish: • Henkilöstötyö (HRM and HR Work in Practice): contact the course responsible teacher MinnaStenius (minna.stenius@aalto.fi) • HR tutkimuksenerityiskysymyksiä: contact Kristiina Mäkelä (kristiina.makela@aalto.fi)

29. Course admission - general M&IB: M&IB Master’s Students CEMS & exchange students M&IB minor students Others Others: Varies a lot, get the inside info from student tutors Check quotas Some courses difficult to get in if you are not one of the priority groups Check required pre-knowledge

30. Minor studies Think about the minor strategically: how do I build myself a profile? Check with the responsible department & course descriptions Have a look at the reading materials to gauge what the minor is about It’s a puzzle: Timings may clash with your other studies

31. Questions?

32. Where do we sit?

33. Course timing for studentstakingminor in Aalto 1st studyyear The basic idea is to take 2 courses per teachingperiod. 2nd studyyear The Thesis is ongoingprocessmainlyduring the secondyear. In addition, onecourse per teachingperiod. M.Sc. in M&IB - Study schedule example

34. Course timingfor studentsgoing for exchange All the courses (exceptminorstudies) done in 3 semesters. M.Sc. in M&IB - Study schedule example