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The centerpiece of the CAS Project is a full-day simulation in which participant groups face off against each other in a complex negotiation around a contemporary multilateral issue. In this challenging real-life atmosphere, participants are required to make use of all of the knowledge and competencies gained during the course in order to successfully reach an agreement with the other sides.

In this course we go abroad to visit companies, universities and representatives for joint workshops, short lectures and social interaction.

The goal is to engage in multidisciplinary collaboration to tackle real world problems. Following a design thinking approach, students work in teams to solve a two design challenges. The 1st is virtual and builds upon digital content into customer discovery, problem definition, ideation and prototyping. The 2nd is in collaboration with an external project partner and goes deeper into application.

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Discovering Management offers an introduction to the field of business management and entrepreneurship for engineers and natural scientists. By taking this course, students will enhance their understanding of management principles and the tasks that entrepreneurs and managers deal with. The course consists of theory and practice sessions, presented by a set of area specialists at D-MTEC.

This course is geared towards first and second-year doctoral candidates of MTEC. It is held as in a workshop style. Students attending this seminar will benefit from interdisciplinary discussions and insights into current and future work in business and economics research.

ETH Week is an innovative one-week course designed to foster critical thinking and creative learning. Students from all departments as well as professors and external experts will work together in interdisciplinary teams. They will develop interventions that could play a role in solving some of our most pressing global challenges. In 2021, ETH Week will focus on the topic of health and well-being.

This seminar provides master and doctoral students at MTEC with the challenging opportunity of a real case on strategy, innovation and leadership in close collaboration with the senior management of a leading company: IBM

This course will introduce some of the major theoretical threads and controversies in the broad field of innovation. During the first part of the course, the emphasis will be on the evolution of innovation studies. The final part of the course will focus on one of the directions in which those studies have evolved: the field of managerial cognition.

The goal of this course is to get an understanding of how to run a business in China (and Asia) from the perspective of a Swiss company and to identify the risks when running a global business. Company visits and interactive workshops with professionals allow for networking and social interaction as well.

In this course we use the latest research on how individuals can improve at solving problems creatively to foster their careers, and the performance of their organization.

At the center of this module are the tools and frameworks necessary for representing an organization's interests. It enables participants to identify relevant stakeholders, to build effective advocacy and communications campaigns and to participate confidently in international negotiations.

This module explores the foundations of international policy and the varied context within which international projects take place. Participants are encouraged to connect their own areas of expertise and their own professional emphasis to these higher-order dimensions - a necessary foundation for sound decision-making and negotiation in a competitive international environment.

This course is an introduction to general management. This course follows a systemic view of organizations and adopts the congruence model as a framework to analyze the critical, interconnected elements of organizations.

This module centers on the negotiation process and prepares students to prepare for and carry out a variety of negotiations. Participants are enabled to apply the learnings directly through a series of mini-negotiation simulations, as well as in-depth discussions of real-life case studies

This course addresses the main problems related to design, implementation and publication of qualitative research on generalist management journals.

This module covers the latest research on management structures and processes as it applies to negotiations and interest representation. Participants are enabled to plan, implement and assess complex international projects.