COIL Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), FHNW School of Business

Collaborating Universities

FHNW School of Business

University of Applied Sciences Utrecht

Responsible Person/Contact

Dr. Fabian Schmid

Guido van der Burg

Course description

The focus of this module is to gain international exposure and competence by working in teams on an international project in the field of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The project is an interdisciplinary, interactive, cross-cultural course focusing on industry and company consolidation. The aim is to merge a Swiss company with a foreign competitor.

More information

Collaborative part

• Interactive lesson/s in an international/intercultural virtual classroom (synchronous).
• Assignments for international/intercultural pairs (E-tandems) (synchronous/asynchronous).
• Assignments for Global virtual teams (GVTs) (synchronous/asynchronous).
• Working with collaborative tool/s such as Padlet, whiteboard, Miro, jam board etc. as an asynchronous extension of the international virtual classroom.
• Student’s presentations in the last session.

Conditions FHNW-students

Cross-country interaction requires time flexibility.

Good to know

This module is also part of the Virtual Exchange at FHNW and invites students from partner universities to join.