EMN CIM – 2024-2025

Session 1 – Introduction to critical thinking

Session 2 – Coca Cola case study

Session 3 (23/01)

Case study: Facebook case study

Assignments for next session

Session 4

NO ONLINE COURSE ON THURSDAY

Preparation: see Tutorials

Session 5 (06/02)

Preparatory assignments

Case study: Koch Industry

  • Research notes (2 pages, presenting your work, your main arguments, including the 5 most relevant quotes, along with the detailed references used) are due by 6pm two days before the session in PDF format to yoannbazin@yahoo.fr
  • Presentations (10-15 minutes) during the session

Session 6 (13/02)

Assignments

Case study: Theranos

  • Research notes (2 pages, presenting your work, your main arguments, including the 5 most relevant quotes, along with the detailed references used) are due by 6pm two days before the session in PDF format to yoannbazin@yahoo.fr
  • Presentations (10-15 minutes) during the session

Session 7 (20/02)

Assignments

Case study: Entrepreneurship & Deception cases

  • Research notes (2 pages, presenting your work, your main arguments, including the 5 most relevant quotes, along with the detailed references used) are due by 6pm two days before the session in PDF format to yoannbazin@yahoo.fr
  • Presentations (10-15 minutes) during the session

Session 8 (27/02)

Case study: Whistleblowing at Theranos

  • Research notes (2 pages, presenting your work, your main arguments, including the 5 most relevant quotes, along with the detailed references used) are due by 6pm two days before the session in PDF format to yoannbazin@yahoo.fr
  • Presentations (10-15 minutes) during the session

Session 9 – Tutorials

NO ONLINE COURSE ON THURSDAY

Preparation: see Tutorials

Session 10 – Uber (13/03)

Assignments

  • Everyone reads the case study on Uber
  • Groups 1, 2, and 3 prepare their case study assignments

Case study: Uber’s toxic corporate culture

  • Research notes (2 pages, presenting your work, your main arguments, including the 5 most relevant quotes, along with the detailed references used) are due by 6pm two days before the session in PDF format to yoannbazin@yahoo.fr
  • Presentations (10-15 minutes) during the session

Session 11 – Presentations (20/03)

Session 12 – Presentations (27/03)

Groups assignments and feedback

Assessment

For your final assessment, you are going to pitch a “Critical Issues in Management” case study. It should follow the criteria of what constitute a critical issue presented at the beginning of the course. You can obviously use the cases studied during the sessions to get an idea of what represents relevant material.

You are encouraged to take advantage of your personal curiosity, professional interests and/or cultural background to identify cases that are more diverse than the ones tackled during the sessions (recognising most of them came from US or Western European, for-profit, multinational corporations).

Your pitch document should include a short description of the issue at hand, along with a presentation of the organization(s) and stakeholders. You have to provide at least 10 sources from legitimate media (e.g. press articles) to evidence the case. Finally, like the ones studied in class, you should suggest an assignment for 5 five different groups (2 related to consulting specialties and 3 to other relevant stakeholders).

Presentations

During Sessions 11 & 12, groups will present their pitch, as a last opportunity for feedback before submitting the final essay. Presentations should not exceed 10 minutes and include:

  • Short introduction to the company or sector
  • Description of the critical issue faced (outlining its ‘wicked problem’ nature)
  • List the main stakeholders concerned (outlining divergence in viewpoints)

Final essay

Your pitch document should include a short description of the issue at hand, along with a presentation of the organization(s) and stakeholders. You have to provide at least 10 sources from legitimate media (e.g. press articles) to evidence the case. Finally, like the ones studied in class, you should suggest an assignment for 5 five different groups (1/2 related to consulting specialties and 3/4 to other relevant stakeholders).

  • 1,500 words (+/-10%)
  • Pdf document
  • Deadline: April 5th
  • To: yoannbazin@yahoo.fr