Case Analysis and Business Games

The program is open to all students enrolled in the 2019–2020 academic year in the first year of a Master’s degree program in the Departments of Economics and Finance or Political Science, or in the third year of the Single-Cycle Master’s degree program in Law.

The program is completely free, and attending it earns you 4 university credits under the “Other Activities” category in your curriculum.

The program, conducted in Italian, spans a total of 44 hours. Beyond these hours, students will be expected to work on assigned project work, either independently or as part of a team, as needed. Classes will take place over 5 or more weekends, all concentrated in the second semester of the 2019-2020 academic year, with the schedule tailored to the educational objectives of each phase of the program.

To earn the University Credits, you must attend 80% of the total hours, which amounts to 35 hours. This means you can miss a maximum of 9 hours.

The course aims to analyze the most relevant aspects of doing business. The selected case will focus on E.R.S. (Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability) issues.

By analyzing a business case from various perspectives, students will focus on the most significant issues related to doing business and systematize the knowledge they have acquired throughout their studies.

After analyzing the case, students will be divided into small teams of 6–8 and asked to develop concrete proposals to address the real-world problems identified during the analysis phase.

By incorporating the role-playing technique, students will step into the shoes of various roles within and outside the company, experiencing the range of possible solutions.

The course will be structured into the following phases:

STEP 1 - Case presentation - 8 hours

STEP 2  - Dividing students into groups - 4 hours

STEP 3 - Group work - 8 hours

STEP 4 - Plenary presentation - 6 hours

STEP 5 - Business game launch - 2 hours

STEP 6 - Group work - 12 hours

STEP 7 - Plenary presentation and conclusion of the work - 4 hours

The calendar will be available in January 2020.

 General rules

• To earn University Credit, you must attend the specified minimum number of hours.
• A tutor will be responsible for recording attendance, which will be done by signing a register. Failure to sign in and/or out will be considered an absence. There will be no exceptions to the sole criterion for awarding CFU credits, which is attendance.
• Absence hours will be calculated based on the attendance records. Depending on the schedule or personal needs, students may take these hours all in one day or miss individual hours across multiple lessons.
• Once a student has chosen a course, they will not be able to earn University Credits through any other method.
• The program excludes all students who have already earned the University Credits required by their curriculum for Other Activities, who have already started attending optional language courses, or who are enrolled in any other activity that awards credits as Other Activities.

• There are a maximum of 30 places available. Participants will be selected solely based on the order in which they register. The maximum number of participants includes students from all relevant departments.
• The course will be activated provided a minimum of 15 participants is reached.
• All activities will take place on Friday afternoons and Saturdays
• There will be no activities during the exam period
• All courses will be held at one of the LUISS campuses.

Students enrolled for the 2019/2020 academic year in the first year of one of the Master's Degree Programs (excluding the Department of Business and Management, as specified above) or  in the third year of the Single-Cycle Master's Degree Program in Law will be able to select the Soft Skills course they wish to take to earn credits directly through the Web Self Service while completing their study plan.

Requests received outside the specified period will not be considered.

The calendar will be available in January 2020.