Strategy and Entrepreneurship Analytics

Introduction

Please note that this is a preliminary course description. The final version will be published in June 2026.

This course will teach the students applied and quantitative approaches to model and analyse businesses and business opportunities, as well as typical problems of a strategic and entrepreneurial nature that they face. Students will learn how to quantify and analyse businesses, business environments, and different strategic and entrepreneurial initiatives, and to assess financial implications. The course offers the students a set of quantitative tools, methods and skills that complement their knowledge of conceptual theories in entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategic management.

Course content

Being able to model and analyse strategic and entrepreneurial choices is central to the course. The course will consist of a combination of lectures and group assignments and will contain quantitative components. Students will learn about various methodologies used in practice, e.g. by management consultants, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, experts carrying out due diligence, and others, and to apply these methodologies in a range of contexts chosen to represent real world analytic challenges facing businesses across a spectrum of activities.