When you are in the second year of IBMS, you are asked to write reports on these important issues: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Exports (EXP) to another continent. Both projects are the most important of the year since together sum 13 ECT credits.
FDI
The whole point of the report is to give an advise to a well-known company whether to invest or not into a specific country. You have to research the internal market, external, competitors, legal matters and of course the financial scenarios. Divided in three sections, Law 30%, Finance 40% and Marketing 30% (of the grade) and you have to come up with a report of about 25 pages.
The workload is not as much as with EXP, since you have weekly seminars and you don’t actually have to hand in anything (anything for a real grade, just a few drafts) till the end of the project, so if you are smart enough, you can write the whole thing 2 weeks before the deadline and still pass.
Export
The whole concept is about you working for a global company and you have to research a South american country and decide whether is feasible to export your services to that country. It consists of weekly seminars where you have to hand in chapters of the report. Every chapter graded individually, so you better write them nicely. Also divided but in 4 sections.
The difficulty of these projects depends also on the teachers you get for each part. However I’ll discuss that in other post, so far, that was what you can expect from these projects.
Under the page “projects” you can get old versions of these projects. Have a look but don’t copy paste info, you might get caught, instead> try to get inspired… or in the worse of the cases: REWRITE!!!
So the question that arises is: Which one sucks the most??
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May 21st, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I hated so much EXP project. The only thing I learnt was to use Google and to explore the web. The rest of the project can never be applied to real life…
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:08 am
The export project is so different now.
There are 4 individual cases which are not relevent to each other and the cases deal with real life company problems(mostly famous american companies).
and we get group grades, so it sucks when some members who don’t work but expect to pass this project .
Good Luck everyone!!!
May 25th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
sounds more interesting
projects are always group grades!
June 1st, 2008 at 1:14 am
Obviously you’ve based your advice concerning the FDI project on your personal experience, because 40%+40%+30% = 110%… :/
Anyways, both projects have been of great value to me. I’d advice y’all to follow through both projects. You’ll be sorry you haven’t.
June 2nd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Thanks for the remark, now is changed.
February 5th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Export sucks, FDI sucks even more..
March 25th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Exports is more difficult. For the simple reason that it has far more strictness than FDI. In the first months of FDI you can sit back for a bit. (you don’t get grades for work handed in, only the end job)
July 3rd, 2009 at 6:20 am
I must say that the Export project has made a significant change in a positive way. Instead of 1 big project of “so many pages”, you get 4 small (company) cases, which are not related to each other. The main purpose of each case is to to find a solution for the “marketing department” of that given company.
Besides the 4 marketing cases (related to the MR1 class), there are also 2 law cases and a ppt presentation (related to law class). This will be discussed during the law course.
The final mark for the project will be the average of marketing (60%) and the average of law (40%) . Marks within each section are weighted equally