Structure of the Program

The International Week has a strong emphasis on teaming and interaction so that you can optimize the networking opportunity. The week consists of two 3-day modules, each starting with a day of teaming workshops or seminars.

Optional Elective Modules

For the first part of the iWeek, the participants are divided into three smaller groups accordind to the elective module that they have chosen. With the first group in Innovative Corporate Responsibility, you will explore how to turn corporate responsibility challenges into sources of revenues and new business ideas. The second group Strategies for Mergers and Acquisitions will focus on developing participants' skills to successfully develop and execute acquisition strategies. With the third group in Project Management you will work on the different steps of maturing a project opportunity to a realistic project plan.

Whichever group you choose, you will be exposed to the latest knowledge through the input of the outstanding Aalto EMBA faculty who will inspire you to pose questions and elaborate your insights.

Driving Growth: Designing Customer Centric Business Models

The second half of the iWeek brings you together with all the International Week participants for a CEO Day and insightful sessions to discuss customer centric business models. Thursday is allocated for our CEO Day with prominent guest speakers from Finnish companies and organizations. Friday and Saturday we will concentrate on the topic Driving growth through customer centric business models.

Grading

The modules are graded according to the Aalto Executive MBA grading scheme. More detailed information on the weights of pre-work, contribution in class and take-home assignment will be announced in the pre-reading material package. In order to get credits from iWeek you need to attend all parts of the week.