Growth Managing your Firm

Course number:1899

Credits:5

Date for course atart and stop:19 mar 2007--27 may 2007

Aim:

The objective of this course is to provide students with insights into the problems and opportunities involved in managing growth in entrepreneurial ventures. The course is designed to introduce a series of concepts, frameworks, and heuristics that enable people to manage entrepreneurially in organisations of all sizes and types.

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Contents:Content The course focuses on the decisions and actions owner-managers take in recognising and choosing opportunities, obtaining and allocating resources, challenging and directing personnel, and adapting personal goals and corporate strategies to changing personal and business conditions. In this process, the course examines management challenges that are typical of different stages in the business’s development – start-up, growth, change of direction, etc. Using this framework, the course will discuss issues of particular importance to rapidly growing firms such as developing networks, managing with limited resources, cash planning, delegation, and professionalizing the business as it grows, dealing with crises, while at the same time being careful to avoid stifling the entrepreneurial spirit as the organisation becomes larger and more complex. Structure There will be two weekly sessions lasting three hours each for seven weeks. Final project hand-in and presentations will take place during the eighth week. Teaching methods A blend of teaching methods including lectures, guest lectures, case analysis and presentations, and group discussions will be used for the course. Prerequisites Students must have a minimum of 80 university credits (120 ECTS respectively), especially in the areas of technology, economics, medicine or biomedicine. Experience with administration/management from a practical or theoretical perspective may be valuable, but is not required. Assessment ·Individual pre-class case analysis ·In-class participation ·Group field project ·Book review Attendance is required and recommended. Literature Course Compendium incl. selected readings and articles. Other Responsible institutions The Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, The Stockholm School of Economics www.sses.se

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Contact person:
Rasmus Rahm
Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship
Saltmätargatan 9:4tr

Phone +46 8 736 15 91
Email: Rasmus.rahm@sses.se

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