MSc Strategic Management

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT MASTERTILBURG SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

THE INFORMATION WILL BE PROVIDED BY

• Presentation

• Aswin van Oijen

• Alex Niklas

• Information fair

• Isabelle Salemink

• Bas van Kemenade

• Arnout Suijk

• Eric Niesten

WE WILL ADOPT THE FOLLOWING ROADMAP

What is our view of strategy?

Input:

What kind of person do you need to be?

What are our student

experiences?

Throughput:

How will we train you?

Output:

What kind of careers can you expect?

What are our additional offerings?

BUT PLEASE DO ASK QUESTIONS

Which decision to make?

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Analyze external environment and internal resources

Design international, corporate-, and

business-level strategy

Implement strategy through management

and organization

Advise internal and external clients

Create new business for a new or

established firm

Recognize strategic challenges

Making and implementing vital decisions in the face of high complexity and uncertainty

Entrepreneurship

Consulting

General management

INPUT: WHAT KIND OF PERSON DO YOU NEED TO BE(COME)?

Analytical capabilities

• Swiftly and solidly structure complicated information

Qualitative and quantitative skills

• Interviewing

• Statistics and finance

Thinkers 2.0

• Think before you act …

• But also able to interact, discuss, and present

Pioneer with an open mind

• Go where no man or woman has gone before

• Eager to learn and improve

• Embrace creative destruction

Committed

• Doing your best may not be good enough

• Produce excellent results in a pressure cooker environment

Team leadership

• Take responsibility as team member or leader

• Open to feedback and willing to provide feedback

THROUGHPUT: HOW WILL WE TRAIN YOU?

Carefully designed curriculum

Four study units

Concentration of efforts

Completion within one year

Two tracks

Strategic consultancyAdvise on strategy and

its implementation

Entrepreneurship

Contribute to creation of new business for a

new or an existing company

AUGUST ENTRANTS→ STRATEGIC CONSULTANCY TRACK

Business-Level Strategy

Corporate-Level Strategy

International Strategy

Research Skills SM

Strategy Analytics

Strategy Implementation

Strategic Consultancy

Master Thesis

Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4

Skills training and topic definition

Extended proposal development under

supervisor

Full-time research

Thesis:

JANUARY ENTRANTS → ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRACK


Corporate-Level Strategy

Research Skills SM


Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4

Skills training and topic definition

Extended proposal development under

supervisor

Full-time research

Thesis:

International Management

• Less optimal sequence

• Less flexibility at the end

Corporate Entrepreneurship

Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Master Thesis

WE USE A VARIETY OF TEACHING METHODS

• TiSEM’s advanced scientific expertise feeds into our classes

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• Varying balance between theory and practice in courses




• Guest presenters teach complementary, practical skills





• Guest presenters teach complementary, practical skills

• Different work forms

Assignments

Case Discussions

Discussions

Exams Excursions

Games

Guest Lectures

Lectures

PresentationsTrainings

Tutorials

Web Lectures

Workshops

Case Writing

Coaching

Label Topic Main teaching methods

Corporate-LevelStrategy

Design and management of a portfolio of businesses

• Paper presentations and discussions•Analysis and virtual advice of a large corporation• Tutorials and coaching sessions

International Strategy / Management

Impact of internationalization, designing an international strategy, management of internationalization

• Lectures• Case discussion tutorials


Analysis of strategic position, evaluation of strategic alternatives, implementation and evaluation of chosen business strategy

• Strategy game, analysis and solution of strategic company issue• Tutorials and coaching sessions

Research SkillsStrategy

Quantitative and qualitative skills to perform fundamental and applied research in strategy

•Assignments• Lectures, guest lectures, tutorials, workshops

Strategy Analytics Smart use of big data to derive strategic insights • Lectures, tutorials, lab sessions

Label Topics Main teaching methods


Design of elements required for successful execution of strategy

•Assignments, game• Plenary lectures, half-cohort lectures, guest lectures,

interactive lectures, coaching sessions

Strategic Consultancy

Key consulting skills: intake with the client, proposal, tools, data, presentation advice

•Advice to real entrepreneurial and corporate clients• Coaching, trial runs, feedback, and peer evaluation• Interactive lectures, guest lectures and trainings,

excursions

Corporate Entrepreneurship

Fostering entrepreneurial behavior in established organizations: needs, forms, challenges, and solutions

• Lectures, guest lectures, case discussion and presentation tutorials, web-based training on decision-making skills

Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Creation of business models for startups and SMEs that contribute to sustainability (e.g., crowdfunding, entrepreneurial networks and marketing, circular economy)

•Writing a business case based on real-world entrepreneurial company• Lectures, guest lectures, interactive lectures

Master Thesis Research to contribute to the solution of a scientific, societal, or company-specific issue

• Coaching

HOW DO STUDENTS EXPERIENCE THE PROGRAM?• Background

• Choice for MSM

• Experiences so far

• Future plans

OUTPUT: WHAT KIND OF CAREERS CAN YOU EXPECT?

40%

13%

21%

5%

7%

6%

2%

2%

3%

2%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

Consulting (including analysts)

Entrepreneurship / New Business Development

General Management / Trainee

Account Management

Finance / Accounting / Control

Marketing / Marketing Management / Sales

HR / Recruiting / Training

Research / teaching / education

Various (IT / management support / purchasing)

Unknown / no job yet / between jobs

Graduations from 1996 until October 2016 (median: 2013); Survey date: November 6, 2016

Career Type Typical Starting Positions Examples of Companies

(Strategic) Consultancy Business Analyst External: Accenture, BCG/Platinion, Capgemini, Deloitte, Delta Capita, EY, IBM, KPMG, McKinsey, PwC, Supply Value, Thaesis

Internal: ABN AMRO, Amazon, Apple, ASML, DAF, Essent, Etos, KLM, KNVB, Ministries, Philips, Rabobank, TNT

Junior consultant

New Business Development / Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneur Best Value Group, ConceptCrate, Fresh Minds, Human Surge, Rebels in Finance, Socialize Media, Sticks Grips, The Report Zone

Successor Infra-Service, Gooskens Hout Groep, Klikgordijn

New business developer Bayer, CZ, Dell, Google, NewCold, P&G, Philips, Ситас ООД, Tony’s Chocolonely

General Management Management trainee

Ahold, Allianz, ASML, BMW, Boels, Bosch, BrandLoyalty, Palm, DAF, Elsevier, Friesland Campina, Google, Lidl, Nutreco, Procter & Gamble, Rabobank, Prodrive, SAP, Schipper, Twitter, Van Deursen, Yourzine

Project manager

ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS

• Career support

• Dual degree opportunities with EBS, EDHEC, ISM, ZSEM, and LUISS

• Extended Master

CLOSING

Rankings

• #1 Elsevier Keuzegids

• Top Rated Program Keuzegids Masters

For more details please visit

• Master's Fair

• Our website https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/education/masters-programmes/strategic-management/

Questions?

Thank you and good luck!

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