ØABED4100 Valuation - Equity Research Emneplan

The course covers advanced valuation techniques used for thorough modeling of a firm's value. The aim is to provide students with advanced knowledge and in-depth understanding of the concepts behind fundamental value, and the underlying assumptions to sensibly apply their existing theoretical understanding of valuation. The goal is no longer to calculate a price, but to build a model to understand how different assumptions or potential future events impact the value of the firm. The course will be relevant for students seeking a career in equity research, investment banking, management consulting, and larger corporations in Norway and internationally.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have an overview and understanding of the most important environmental challenges the world is facing today and how design can contribute to solving them. Working on this complex topic, knowledge, skills and general competence on advanced level is needed.

Knowledge

The student

• understands how products and services can be interconnected in systems and mutually affecting each other
• has a good understanding of the scientific principles of sustainability
• has a good understanding of how to use information about the environmental impact of the product system, to make informed decisions about how the product system should be designed to minimize this impact
• understands the concept of a circular economy and how design can contribute to achieving this
• has knowledge about how the behaviour of the user may affect the environmental impact caused by the product, and how the design may affect this behaviour
• has knowledge about the global challenges of production and consumption as well as how design may contribute to a sustainable development and the UN sustainability goals.

Skills

The student

• can take a systems perspective to describe a chosen topic in relation to the sustainability challenges
• identify needs on a basic level and related user groups
• identify the main environmental impacts caused by a product system throughout its lifecycle and make rough estimates of these impacts
• can justify the choice of sustainable design strategy/strategies to be implemented in the project’s ideation phase, design process & results
• can make design decisions to enable for additional lifecycles in a circular economy
• can analyse and compare (socio-ecological) sustainability performance of product concepts in order to identify areas for improvement and select winning concepts
• can use sustainability analysis results to justify in what ways the suggested offering is more sustainable than the current solution, and to identify areas needing further improvement

General competence

The student

• understands the importance of considering sustainability aspects in a design process, and can identify and apply appropriate tools or methods to minimize or eliminate the negative environmental impact
• is able to communicate the design process, use of design strategies and tools, as well as evaluations and decisions made to reach the most promising results for sustainability
• is able to reflect on the consequences of values and strategies chosen by the designer and company in a systemic perspective.

1) Two internal examiners for the written project report, 2 internal examiners on the oral presentation.

2) Two internal examiners,

 External examiners are used regularly.

Claudia Hedwig Yamu, Email: claudia.yamu@oslomet.no

None.

No restrictions on examination resources

A grading scale of A (highest) to F (lowest) where A to E is a pass grade and F is a fail grade.

Two internal. External examiner is used periodically.

• Sustainability principles
• Sustainability challenges
• Human basic needs
• Sustainable design strategies
• Design for a circular economy (Cradle to Cradle)
• Life cycle understanding and estimation ("LCA light")
• UN Sustainable development goals
• Tripple bottom line (people, planet, profit)
• Systems thinking
• Design for sustainable behaviour
• Harmful substances in products
• Team work processes and reflection of learning

Students who have the subject ØABED3700 Valution - Equity Research in their bachelor's degree are not allowed to take this course.