Grading & Evaluation


Some assignments will be accomplished by teams.At the end of the course, an anonymous peer evaluation will be conducted to determine each team member’s contribution to the team work, which will influence individuals’ final grading with regard to the team work.


  1. Case reports (team)   


Three case write-up assignments will be required and the case reports should be no more than 6 pages in English (including exhibits, size:10.5, space between lines: 1.5 line spaces). The cases for write-up are indicated in the syllabus.

Write-ups are due at the beginning of the class when the case is to be discussed. Based on the information provided in the case, the write-up should be analytically judgmental and evaluative.


  1. Class presence and contribution (individual)


Class presence is a must. Please bring your name board/tag with you every time you come to class. If you get absent for more than one third of the class sessions, you will definitely fail.

Class sessions of this course emphasize a mix of concepts, techniques and cases. Your active participation in the discussion in class is integral to the design of this course. Sharing ideas and experiences with each other is appreciated and evaluated as your contribution to the class. Students should also get prepared to be “cold-called,” i.e., being called to participate without volunteering to do so. If you never share your ideas in class, you will get ZERO for class contribution.

For each case, the instructor has provided a number of study questions. These are suggested questions to help you think about the issues that may arise in the course of class discussions. They may not be mechanically followed during the class discussions.

Because we value exchange of ideas as an effective way of learning, we encourage debates among students and expressions of your own views. The more you input to this class, the more you’ll get out of it.


  1. Grading system


The part delivered by Professor Binda accounts for 25% of the whole course’s grading:

Class contribution (individual)10%

Final Exam (individual)15%


The part delivered by Professor Zhao accounts for 75% of the whole course’s grading:

Class presence and contribution (individual)     15%

(6% goes to class presence, and each absence without instructor’s approval costs 2% while each absence with instructor’s approval costs 1%; 9% goes to class discussion/contribution.)

Case reports and tentative presentation (in teams)   30%

Final Exam (individual)              30%


There will be one integrated final exam for the two parts, designed and evaluated by the two instructors separately though.




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