Management and International Business

Nottingham Business School
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Level UP Team
(16)
6
Timeline
  • May 5, 2025
    Experience start
  • May 23, 2025
    First Meeting
  • May 30, 2025
    Second meeting to agree the research proposal
  • July 11, 2025
    Final report submission
  • July 11, 2025
    Attending and feeding back on the presentation
  • July 11, 2025
    Experience end
Experience
10 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any company type
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Communications Operations Project management Competitive analysis Market expansion
Skills
communication operational performance management management research
Student goals and capabilities

Are you looking for some fresh thinking for your business? Bring on students from Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University to be your student-consultants, in a project-based experience. A team of around 5-6 students will work on one challenge over the course of the project, connecting with you as needed with virtual communication tools.

Students undertaking these projects will apply their learning about the global supply chain and the principles and concepts underlying the strategic and operational performance of organisations in relation to one another - how to manage effectively in increasingly global work environments.


Please note: If you are interested in this project contact between Nottingham Business School and your organisation will take place outside of the Riipen platform. Likewise, the student project will take place off-platform. This format has been agreed with Riipen in advance.

Students

Students
Post-graduate
Advanced levels
120 students
Project
210 hours per student
Level UP Teams assign students to projects
Teams of 5
Expected outcomes and deliverables

At the end of the project the team of students will report back to you their research findings conclusions and recommendations.

This will be delivered in the following formats:

  1. A 30 minute oral presentation facilitated by their academic supervisor, including a Q&A
  2. A 3,000 - 4,000 word report summarising their research, analysis, insights and recommendations, plus any appendices and references


Project timeline
  • May 5, 2025
    Experience start
  • May 23, 2025
    First Meeting
  • May 30, 2025
    Second meeting to agree the research proposal
  • July 11, 2025
    Final report submission
  • July 11, 2025
    Attending and feeding back on the presentation
  • July 11, 2025
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Students in groups of approximately 5-6 will work with your company on a challenge to provide actionable recommendations, based on their in-depth research and analysis.


Employer partners please select one of the following challenges:

  1. Your organisation wishes to develop a growth strategy with the objective of entering new markets and is seeking recommendations.
  2. Your organisation wishes to launch an existing product into a different market and is seeking recommendations from an international strategy (or marketing, or consumer analysis, etc.) perspective.


By the time the students start work on their project they will already have completed most of their postgraduate qualification. The following list details some of the topics students will have studied:


MSc in Management and International Business specific

Core modules – skills obtained

  • Demonstrate an understanding of a range of strategic management concepts that can be utilised to explore and guide effective action in dynamic organisational environments
  • Knowledge of the principles and concepts underlying delivering value integrating operations, people and financial management
  • Understand how a range of financial and operations management tools and approaches can be practically applied in support of an organisation’s business strategy
  • Develop the capability to strategically focus the management planning, control and improvement processes in a range of business environments
  • Understand how organisations create strategies to increase competitiveness in a rapidly changing environment
  • Understand human resourcing issues and problems arising from the internalisation of business.
  • Understand the global supply chain and the principles and concepts underlying the strategic and operational performance of organisations in relation to one another

Non-core (optional) modules. NB: Not all students take every optional module

  • Recognise the value of developing skills and gaining work experience of operating in a different overseas context
  • Knowledge of differing frameworks and innovative tools available that allow businesses both large and small to develop business in new markets
  • Understanding of the changes taking place in the global economy


MSc in International Business specific

Core modules – skills obtained:

  • Acquire the tools and the mind-set for making sense of the notion of strategy in an international environment. Awareness of key political, socio-economic, and cultural dynamics and trends that characterize the international business environment.
  • Develop critical insight into the global organisation arena: develop a set of key concepts, theories, models, and cases aimed at addressing and rethinking core aspects of organizing and managing
  • Understand the role of the organizational factor within an international context: Critically self-reflect, and demonstrate an international awareness and openness to the world, based on an appreciation of social and cultural diversity