MSc. International Managementdr. Peter de Goeij – academic director

p.c.degoeij@tilburguniversity.edu

Agenda

• What is International Management?

• Student Profile

• Career Perspectives

• Program Objectives

• Curriculum

• Information about courses

• Questions

International Management – Keywords

� International

�Management

� Corporate Responsibility

� Research Based Learning (RBL)

What is International Management

• Business is conducted in an international environment

• Financial, social and environmental challenges

Msc. International Management offers training to become a

• Highly skilled all-rounder

• On the threshold of the main disciplines in business and

management

• Expert on Corporate Related Multidisciplinary issues

Student Profile

We welcome applicants with:

• Interested in Corporate Responsibility

• An international mindset

• The ambition to be intellectual challenged

• Commitment to personal development

• Critical and analytically thinking

Program Objectives

A graduate

• will be an all-rounder on business fields

• is a valuable sparring partner for specialists

• can innovate at the intersection of the main business

disciplines and Corporate Responsibility

• Has a critical attitude

Career Prospects

Potential to put yourself on the fast track to the career of your dreams in business, non-profit or the public sector

• General Management Jobs (but be realistic)

• Marketing

• Corporate Finance/Investing

• Accounting

• Organization

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Career Perspectives

Last year’s graduates

• Rabobank (local and main office)

• Unilever

• Nestlé

• Deutsche Bank (UK)

• Philips (the Netherlands and Austria)

• Google (Ireland)

• Smurfit Kappa Vandra

• CIMC – Shenzhen – China

• Emerson – India

• Other msc programs …

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Career Perspectives

Previous alumni

• Consumer Marketing Manager – Philips

• Controller Treasury – KLM

• Junior Advisor – Twynstra Gudde

• Credit Analyst Corporate Client – Rabobank

• Actuarial Consultant – Towers Watson

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Curriculum

OS&CR = Organizational Systems and Corporate Responsibility

Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July

International Man. Control

International Management

International Marketing

OS&CR AOS&CR A

Individual Research Project

International Financial Man.

Seminar Int. Business

Sust. Entrepreneurship/Free

OS&CR B

Curriculum

The program has 2 starting moments

1. You can start in August 2014

2. You can start in January 2015

Curriculum

Introdcution + company visit + guest lecture (student organised)

Organizational Systems and Corp. Responsibility

• Part A (autumn semester) and Part B (spring semester)

• Strategy and Accounting (Part A)

• Common theme

• Linkage of CSR to other disciplines

• Multiple group projects (Company assignments, Finance

assignment, Marketing Assignment) + final exam

International Management Control

• In-class discussions of research papers

• Prepare one critical question for each lecture

• Group assignment + presentation

• Open book exam

International Marketing

• Group assignments, interactive lectures (acting as Board of

directors, Marketing team, or audience)

• Theory and practice connected

• Real marketing research business cases with real companies –

poster presentations

• Final exam

Seminar IB

• Conducting research

• Helpful for your own IRP paper

• Reading of papers every week and hand-in questions

• Covering papers of different disciplines: Marketing,

Organization & Strategy, Finance, and Accounting

• 2 group presentations of papers + final exam

Organizational Systems and Corp. Responsibility B

• CSR in relation to finance and marketing

International management

• Multinational corporations

• Internationalization, entry decisions, management of MNCs

• Individual case discussions + final exam

International Financial Management

• FX markets, FX exposure, International capital markets, capital

management

• Number crunching

• Lectures and instruction classes

• Individual finance case, group presentation (paper) + final

exam

Individual Research Project

1. Faculty members will propose topics in their business field

2. Make a choice (1st,2nd and 3rd preference)

3. In the (second half of YOUR) first semester you have to work on your

research proposal

4. Group meetings

5. Defend you proposal – go/no go

6. Receive comments on your proposal

7. If proposal is no go, you should take into account the comments. If then

not sufficient – start again

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Individual Research Project (2)

8. In the (second half of YOUR) second semester you conduct your research

and write your individual research report under supervision of faculty

member

9. Paper defense before a deadline

10. If paper is no go, you should take into account the comments. If then not

sufficient – start again

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Individual Research Project (3)

Advantages

• Clear IRP topics and guidelines

• Deadlines

• Collaborate in groups (for proposal phase) on similar type ofproblems – prepare for career later

• Clear coaching by faculty members

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Individual Research Project (4)

Disadvantages

• Deadlines

• Combination with internship is possible, but then you will haveto find one before you start your topic (second half of firstsemester) + combine it with teaching load

• You will have to follow two parts in conjunction - it is thereforenot possible to write a proposal – wait for a semester – andthen conduct your research in ‘3rd semester’ (supervisionavailability)

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Entry Requirements

Completed (University) Bachelor’s degree in:

• Bedrijfseconomie

• International Business Administration

For HBO students, a Pre-Master’s program is obliged before starting the Master’s program (see previous presentation)

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For all students:

• Enroll via Studielink

Non TiSEM students who want to enroll in a (Pre-)

Master also need to:

• Submit an application for admission – Before August 1, 2014!!

For more information, go to

www.tilburguniversity.edu/education/masters-programmes/admissionprocedure/feb/

Admission & Application

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Are there any Questions?