Corporate Governance: a 14 week-course which introduces EPFL students to the main issues of how corporations and organizations are governed. It offers an overview of corporate governance, including definition of terms and discussion of typical problems of corporate governance. Participants will learn more about the principles, policies and theories of good corporate governance, including the analysis of cases of best and worst practices of corporate governance. Finally, the course focuses on future issues and challenges of corporate governance, such as the role of culture, innovation, and regulation.
Syllabus Corporate Governance

Contact: matthias.finger@epfl.ch

Industry Analysis and Trends: a 14 week course which introduces EPFL students to the way industries are and can be analyzed. It offers an overview of the different types of industries. Participants will learn more about the main approaches, methodologies, and tools for performing an industry analysis: Porter's five forces, Macroeconomic environment (PEST framework), analysis of competition, value chain analysis, strategic
group analysis. The course also addresses future issues in industry analysis, such as industry convergence and regulation.
Syllabus Industry Analysis

Contact: matthias.finger@epfl.ch

Next edition : The course will be restructured and taught again in the 2010-2011 academic year

Doctoral School

Regulation and deregulation in network industries: The network industries comprise several important sectors, including water supply and sanitation, energy, telecommunications, and transport. The course aims at: (1) providing an introduction to the emerging managerial, technical and political issues that accompany the liberalization and re-regulation of network industries; and at (2) exploring, with the participants, key research topics in these areas, pertaining, in particular, to the management of network industries, network economics, organizational change, institutional development, and regulation.

This course is taught every Spring alternatively at EPFL (Spring 2010), at Paris I-La Sorbonne (Spring 2011) and at Delft University of Technology (Spring 2012).
Syllabus De-& re-regulation of the network industries

Scientific coordination: matthias.finger@epfl.ch

Next edition: April, 19-23, 2010, EPF Lausanne. For further information or registration, please  contact celine.cordey@epfl.ch

Qualitative Research METHODS: This course offers an introduction to qualitative research methods for engineers. Participants will learn about the usefulness of qualitative research methods, the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of this type of research, the various approaches and schools of thought, as well as about particular research methods. Finally, the course will also place qualitative approaches and methods within the broader research design, i.e., in the case of engineers, often as a complement to quantitative research. But most of all, the course will help the participants to make progress in the formulation of their problem statement, their research design, qualitative data collection, and analysis of qualitative data.

This course is taught every other Fall Semester.Responsible: Matthias.Finger@epfl.ch

Syllabus Qualitative Research Methods 

Next edition: Fall 2011