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
- Everyone studies “Why think critically?” and “Being evidence-based”, and prepares a pitch (see next week) and schedules their tutorial (form here)
Session 4
NO ONLINE COURSE ON THURSDAY
Preparation: see Tutorials
Session 5 (06/02)
Preparatory assignments
- Everyone studies “Freeman (1984) Stakeholder theory”
- Groups 1, 2, and 3 prepare their 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
- Everyone reads the case study on Theranos
- Everyone studies “Unveiling Holmes’ rhetorics »
- Groups 4, 5, and 6 prepare their case study 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
- Everyone studies « Crimes of obedience » and « Hannah Arendt on the Banality of evil »
- Groups 7, 8, 1 and 2 prepare their case study 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
Yoann Bazin 