This week I describe my courses at NHH. I have 4 courses this semester: Economic crime, Purchasing strategy and supply chain management, Organizational theory and Frontiers of business ethics.
In economic crime: prevention and detection, we study white collar crime, mafias and gang’s economy. For example, my first and second assignment was on HSBC and money laundering system. This course is interesting, the teacher use a lot of relevant data concerning mafia, drug and crime. Here, the grade scale is from A to F for evaluations.
Secondly, purchasing strategy and supply chain management is based on theory. We talk about outsourcing, transaction cost or relation between business to business. I already made two group work with a French girl and three friendly girls from Japan. The big one was about BOSE, the American Hi-Fi company.
Now the course which is occurred in AUD MAX (cf picture in previous article): Organizational theory. This course is quiet interesting; we had guest lecture with important managers like chief manager of Oracle, Norway. In this course we have 3 assignments and 3 oral presentations per group plus a final exman. We already made two. Organizational theory is the most demanding course. For each assignment, we need to analyze a firm and make 8 pages. We choose Norwegian Air Shuttle with my group (2 guys from Norway and me). We have one week to make a draft version and send to the teacher assistant. After a couple of day, we receive a feedback and have a few days left to send the final version. I like the principal of draft. Thanks to feedback you can exchange with teacher and understand your faults before the final submission. Second point, for each homework, a presentation of 10 minutes is required, they called this session “seminar”. Just one person of the team presents the work during an oral presentation. I did it last week. My subject was: external environment of Norwegian. For this, there is no precise grade, it’s pass or no pass. If your work is not acceptable, you have a second chance to resubmit and remake an oral presentation. Hopefully, it wasn’t my case!
I conclude this article by my favorite: Frontiers of business Ethics. Our teacher, Knut J. Ims, is an old and very peaceful person. After a lecture of 3hours, you have the same feeling than after a yoga session. We are talking about moral choices, philosophy or environment. Each lecture begins by a song, such as Beethoven or Pharrell Williams with happy, and ended by clapping from the teacher and from the students.
This paragraph concludes my weekly article.
Have a good week 🙂