Dear foreign exchange students,

We want to welcome you at our chair for Strategic Leadership and Global

Management.

The chair is held by Prof. Dr. Dodo zu Knyphausen-Aufseß.

This set of charts is intended to give you an overview of what we are offering and

which possibilities exist for your master studies at our chair.

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The chair is held by Prof. Dr. Dodo zu Knyphausen-Aufseß. Prof. zu

Knyphausen-Aufseß is a renowned expert on management science with a special

focus on entrepreneurship. Prior to his call to TU Berlin, Prof. zu Knyphausen-

Aufseß held a chair at the University of Bamberg for nine years. His recent

research activities included the influence of different stakeholder groups on

strategy building and financial analysts.

Nadja Berseck will run the Grundlagen des strategischen und internationalen

Managements and BME - Einführung für Nicht-Wirtschaftswissenschaftler - those

modules will be held in German.

Martin Heitmann will assist you in our course Strategies for Sustainability

Maren Wendland is responsible for the mastermodul: Multinational Corperations

and Corperate Control, which is held mainly in English

Jan Henrik Voß is the responsible manager for the CKI project (Center for

Knowledge Interchange), a cooperation project between TU Berlin and Siemens

AG.

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This chart illustrates how the two major interests of our chair interact. Thus,

you should recognize the interplay of strategies and international management.

Among these two central interests several research fields will be discussed:

•Corporate Management

•Strategic Management of cities

•Business Model Design

•Influence of extern „Players“ on the corporate strategy

•Equality and disparity in organizations

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These are the key-concepts in our educational concept:

• dealing with current topics of economic impact

• integrating management practice with insights from practitioners

• students have to prepare (reading, sometimes a case study) for each session in

order to exploit the potential of peer-group-learning

• comprehensive assistance by our PhD candidates

• fostering presentation and communication skills

• ambitious and diversified lessons

• a solid feedback culture – we want to learn, too!

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Our chair is currently offering five modules with different focuses.

On the left you see our basic module (beneath „Grundlagen“). This module is

intended for bachelor students and shall give you an overview about the main

tools of strategic management and international management. It is split into two

courses which are both available each semester. In addition, we are offering a

business game project, where students can learn to interact and compete in a

near-realistic business simulation in a high-technology-branch.

The modules in the center of the chart beneath „Vertiefungsstufe 1“ deal with

strategic management and international management. They are intended for

master students. The module strategic management is only taught in winter

terms. The module international management is only available in summer terms.

The module on the right (beneath „Vertiefungsstufe 2“) will give you the

opportunity to get a deeper look into management science research as well as

opportunities for contact with real management tasks within external companies.

Each module will take four hours a week (not including time for your personal

preparation). Each module is valid for 6 ECTS.

Courses marked orange will be held in the summer term, courses marked with a

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bright color are held in the winter term. The basic module will be held each

semester.

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Students of the „Industrial Engineering and Management“ program (subsequently

called Wi-Ings) in a bachelor study program can participate in our basic module

and get credits for it as a compulsory elective module.

Wi-Ings in a master study program can participate in up to 3 „Vertiefungsmodule“

Wi-Ings studying in a diploma program can accumulate their credits for their first

management subject (erstes BWL Fach) at our chair. This means they have to

pass the basic module and two of the modules from the “Vertiefungsstufe 1” and

“Vertiefungsstufe 2”.

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One unique detail about our courses: we are offering so-called syllabi for each

course.

The syllabi will give you a detailed overview about the overall schedule for each

course. They also include the preparation tasks that are required on a weekly

basis and information about required readings.

All students should read the syllabi as a whole at the beginning of each term and

iteratively look up the current status once a week. In doing this, you can keep

track of what you should have learned until then and what to do next.

You can download the syllabi as well as all lecture charts from our ISIS platform

(www.isis.tu-berlin.de).

Please remember that you are required to register for each course you are willing

to attend over ISIS.

We also offer reading packages for each of our courses. These packages are

stored in our office (H 9111) and can be borrowed for copying by leaving your

student id card with us. As soon as you return the package to our office we will

return your identity card to you.

Our office is open from Monday to Friday 9 – 12 a.m., you can find it in the 9th

floor of the main building, room H 92.

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We will now turn to our basic course „Grundlagen des strategischen und

internationalen Managements“ .

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The courses are offered subsequently in one semester.

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This table indicates the specific topics we will focus on for each date.

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The same applies here.

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Information from the lecture can be downloaded from ISIS2

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The registration for the case studies is held through ISIS2. The course instructor will do the

assignment.

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Registration and examination issues

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Both domestic students from TU Berlin and foreign exchange students, who

participate in a double-degree-program (Doppeldiplom) at TU Berlin, are

required to register both at the examination office as well as on www.isis.tu-

berlin.de.

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Registration for exams:

• Wi-Ings (Bachelor) who intend to account this as an “Plichtfach” or “Wahlfach”

need to registrate by using Qispos.

• Wi-Ings (Diplom) need to register in the “Prüfungsamt” (Please hand us in a

copy of the registration form).

• Others need to check if their courses are listed in Qispos; in case they are not

listed in Qispos you’ll need to register

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Composition of the grade:

“PS” is composed of three parts

• Final exam about the content of the course „Instrumente des

Strategischen Managements und praktische Anwendungen“. (Duration:

45 min, weighting 35%)

• Final exam about the content of the course „Strategien und Führung

multinationaler Unternehmen“ (Duration: 45 min, weighting 35%)

• Participation and presentation of one case study (Duration: 30 min,

weighting 30%)

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Attention: If you fail a module (not a single assignment!), you have to repeat the

entire module.

Your second try has to be within 12 months after your failed exam. The second

try needs to be registered at the examination office distinctively.

We offer two options for students who have failed a module:

a) You may repeat only the written test(s) in a second try. In this case you will

write another test in the third week of the following semester and all other grades

you achieved in this module will remain the same.

b) You repeat all single tasks of the entire module the next time the module is

offered. Please note that our modules from „Vertiefungsstufe 1“ are only held

once in a year. Our basics modules on the other hand are held each semester. If

you choose this option, you will have to register at the chair (via ISIS) again.

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Information about the exams

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Information for exchange students

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All foreign exchange students who are studying in a double-degree-program

(Doppeldiplom) at TU Berlin need to register at the examination office.

Students from ESCP-EAP Paris, EM Lyon and ESC Toulouse will need to register

as management students (BWL), whereas students from ECP Paris and ENPC

Paris will have to register as Industrial Engineering and Management (WiIng)

students.

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We want to be as fair to all foreign exchange students as we are to students from TU

Berlin. Neither of those groups should have an unfair advantage or disadvantage against the

other.

The chart above explains differences between foreign exchange students participating in

a double-degree program (Doppeldiplom) and those who are not.

Foreign exchange students participating in a double-degree program will be treated

equally to students from the TU Berlin. They will need to take complete modules and

cannot opt for substitute tasks (subsequently called „Ersatzleistungen“).

Foreign exchange students, who are not participating in a double-degree program at TU

Berlin can opt for a special treatment in specific ways:

At first, foreign exchange students who are not participating in a double-degree program

should take complete modules. However, they may also choose only to participate in the

courses taught in English. These courses will only be valid for 3 ECTS. The written test

for these students will only contain the English courses‘ content.

However, students not participating in a double-degree program may choose an

„Ersatzleistung“. Students with this intention need to inform our staff until May 30st 2015

at the latest.

Attention: You may either write the exam only dealing with the English courses‘

content or you choose the „Ersatzleistung“! You cannot take both options!

All foreign exchange students may answer all questions in English and use a bilingual

dictionary. None of these options do release you from the additional assignments like

presentations or case studies.

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Students choosing the „Ersatzleistung“ can skip the written exam(s), but will need

to write a term paper and pass an oral exam. Choosing this option does not affect

any presentations which might be compulsory for all students during the course.

The term paper for a complete module should contain at least 15 pages.

Furthermore, it should cite at least 10 sources from appropriate academic

literature. It can be written either in English or German.

The paper‘s content should deal with topics of both courses included in the

module.

The term paper has to be delivered to our research scientists at the date of the

actual written exam for the corresponding module at the latest.

The oral exam will take about 20 minutes. All literature and the courses‘ content

is relevant for this exam.

The term paper and the oral exam each account for 35% of the final grade.

You still have to do the team work task including a presentation! The presentation

also contributes 30% to your final grade.

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There are some requirements for writing a bachelor thesis, master thesis,

“Studienarbeit” or diploma thesis at our chair.

- If you intend to write a thesis at our chair, you should have at lease completed

one module.

- If you intend to write a bachelor thesis or “Studienarbeit”, you are required to

have completed at least the basics module.

- Students willing to write a master thesis or diploma thesis are required to take

one additional master module.

Theses can be theory oriented or solve a real business problem. Please reconcile

with our research scientists.

You will find a guideline with additional information about how to write a thesis on

our website (www.strategie.tu-berlin.de).

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For further questions do not hesitate to contact us again.

We wish you a successful summer term!

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