Courses and Seminars

The Capstone project ʺOperations and Innovation Managementʺ offers insights into business models for intelligent energy solutions. In this seminar, students will gain practical insights into current trends and challenges of the practice partner, a world leader in heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions. The practice partner can commission the students with market research, competition analyses, the development of business models or prototypes within the scope of their project assignment. Students work in small groups on a real, open‑ended problem from organizational practice using the methods and theoretical content of the Bachelorʹs program.

As competition increases and technological advancements accelerate, many firms emphasize continuous innovation to remain competitive. Effective and efficient innovation processes depend on a well-designed management of Research & Development (R&D) activities. The seminar deals with important topics of R&D Management.

Today's firms often engage in economic activities internationally, thereby creating knowledge and competence in geographically dispersed locations. Managing global innovation is concerned with adaptation to local developments, decentralized creation of knowledge in subsidiaries, its transfer within the multinational corporation, and efficiency improvements through integration of subsidiaries, realization of synergies, and reduction of redundancies. This course delves into the often complex management of global innovation.

Grand challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change, and inequity have fundamentally changed what’s required of leaders and managers. According to the World Economic Forum, today’s leaders find themselves at a historic crossroads, managing short-term pressures against medium- and long-term uncertainties. Urgent global challenges require collective action on an unprecedented scale. This seminar empowers a new generation of leaders with the tools, skills, and mindset to lead the transformation towards a sustainable future on individual, organizational, and global levels.

In many organisations sustainability has moved up the boardroom agenda and has become an increasingly important strategic opportunity for companies. What is increasingly evident is that sustainability is becoming the lens through which a business is judged by its stakeholders and thus significantly influences a firm’s competitive advantage. This course approaches the forefront of sustainability thinking and practices of today to the innovative regenerative solutions of tomorrow. It equips business leaders with the knowledge and tools for personal and organisational evolution towards sustainability.

In many organisations sustainability has moved up the boardroom agenda and has become an increasingly important strategic opportunity for companies. What is increasingly evident is that sustainability is becoming the lens through which a business is judged by its stakeholders and thus significantly influences a firm’s competitive advantage. This course approaches the forefront of sustainability thinking and practices of today to the innovative regenerative solutions of tomorrow. It equips business leaders with the knowledge and tools for personal and organisational evolution towards sustainability.

In many organisations sustainability has moved up the boardroom agenda and has become an increasingly important strategic opportunity for companies. What is increasingly evident is that sustainability is becoming the lens through which a business is judged by its stakeholders and thus significantly influences a firm’s competitive advantage. This course approaches the forefront of sustainability thinking and practices of today to the innovative regenerative solutions of tomorrow. It equips business leaders with the knowledge and tools for personal and organisational evolution towards sustainability.

In many organisations sustainability has moved up the boardroom agenda and has become an increasingly important strategic opportunity for companies. What is increasingly evident is that sustainability is becoming the lens through which a business is judged by its stakeholders and thus significantly influences a firm’s competitive advantage. This course approaches the forefront of sustainability thinking and practices of today to the innovative regenerative solutions of tomorrow. It equips business leaders with the knowledge and tools for personal and organisational evolution towards sustainability.