Dr. M.J. (Mathias) Boënne MSc

Adam Smith Hall (AA)
Kriekenpitplein 21-22
3584 EC Utrecht

Dr. M.J. (Mathias) Boënne MSc

Universitair docent
Sectie Entrepreneurship
m.j.boenne@uu.nl

Teaching talent nominee at Utrecht University (2023).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB9FCZ1EDq4&ab_channel=UtrechtUniversity 

Teaching experience at Utrecht University (0.6fte)

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation – 2021/2022, 2022/2023:

o    3rd year major-related elective course in the BSc of (Business) Economics; +- 160 students.

o    Roles: Course coordinator, Case-author; Lecturer; Tutor; Examinator; Jury member. 

o    Responsibilities: Redesigning the course structure, content and delivery fundamentally; coordinating student’s learning trajectories; realizing quick cycles between theory and practice; provision of feedback to student’s learning activities on weekly basis; provision of state-of-the-art knowledge in the course field; hosting and delivering professional skills workshops to students (presentation techniques, report writing, problem-solving, teamwork); evaluation of student’s learning achievement as exam instructor and jury chair; identifying and hosting intriguing experts as guest lecturers and aligning course delivery with the teaching team (dr. Coen Rigtering).

o    Self-authored case(s): The ‘San Murcatto Winery’ teaching case; a singular, immersive, deep-dive case concerns a winery organization that needs to reinvent its organization, strategy and culture if it wants to survive and thrive in an increasingly turbulent and competitive environment. The delivery of the teaching case spans eight weeks. 

o    Future Learning Space(s): the course ends with a grand finale at the Parnassos theater.

 

Market Dynamics and Corporate Innovation – 2021/2022, 2022/2023:

o    3rd year major-related elective course in the BSc of (Business) Economics; +- 125 students.

o    Role: Course coordinator, Case-author; Lecturer; Tutor; Examinator; Harvard Simulation facilitator, design-thinking or brainstorm facilitator. 

o    Responsibilities: Redesigning the course content and delivery fundamentally; coordinating student’s learning trajectories; provision of both basic and state-of-the-art knowledge in the course field; provision of feedback on report writing skills and presentations; coordinating the BackBay Battery Harvard Business Simulation; evaluation of student’s learning achievement as exam instructor; identifying and hosting intriguing experts as guest lecturers; aligning course delivery with co-teacher Rajani Singh; organizing a ‘gamified design-thinking brainstorm’ workshop with three employed tudent teaching assistants.

o    Self-authored case(s): ‘Innovate or perish: Lessons from Linkin Park’, ‘How to disrupt Amazon, Google or Netflix’, ‘The proliferation of the craft beer can’, ‘Would you buy the Dollar Shave Club for $1-Billion?’

o    Future Learning Space(s): the simulation is organized in the Hybrid Active Learning classroom 

 

Teaching experience at Amsterdam Business School (University of Amsterdam) (0.2 fte):

Managing Creativity – 2020/2021; 2021/2022

o    Master course in Business Economics; about 65 students

o    Role: Lecturer; Jury Member.

o    Responsibilities: Delivering new lecture content on ‘ideation’, ‘crowdsourcing’, ‘idea contests’ and ‘office workplace design’; jury member in the course-internal idea contest; aligning with co-lecturers prof. dr. Joris Ebbers and Aldo Da Carmo.

 

Innovation Management – 2020:

o    2nd year course in the Bachelor Business Economics; two tutorial groups of 30 students

o    Role: Tutorial Lecturer; Examinator 

o    Responsibilities: Case teaching; evaluating student learning achievement; engaging the class; aligning with course coordinator prof. dr. Michele Piazzi.

 

Teaching experience at Vlerick Business School (0.2fte):

Innovation Management

o    Executive, full-time and online MBA course; between 30 and 50 students

o    Role: Lecturer, tutor, coach.

o    Responsibilities: engaging with students on cases, simulations, debates; coordinating activity on learning ; developing course with Wiley; evaluating assignments, coordinate teamwork with prof. dr. Walter Van Dyck, Zeynep Erden and Robin Kleer; moderation of lectures; preparation of deep knowledge of the course material to engage in meaningful and professional debates; delivery of a flipped classroom workshop where MBA students were challenged to develop their own television series pitch.

o    Self-authored case: ‘How to develop ground-breaking ideas - How the Sopranos changed Television’.

 

‘Goldstein’ Business Game in General Management (Advanced Master)

o    Role: Coach and jury chair.

o    Responsibilities: Coaching Advanced Masters on how to manage the profitability of a company; coordination of student’s analyses on a PwC smart data analysis software platform; coordinating with PwC analysts; aligning course delivery and progress with prof. dr. Robert Boute.

 

Teaching experience at KULeuven (2018 - 2019)

Intrapreneurship 

o    Master course; between 40 and 120 students

o    Role: Guest lecturer appearance in the course of prof dr. Bart Leten and prof dr. Walter Van Dyck

o    Responsibilities: guest speaker session to share recent state-of-the-art research on intrapreneurship. 

 

Professional workshops within teaching portfolio (executive-level or expert education)

Gamified design-thinking workshop focused on finding creative solutions for societal challenges.

o    Learning objective: through a role-playing self-developed boardgame (see profile picture), I stimulate student’s search for information and inspiration about three societal challenges – 1) how might we increase affordable energy production (economic challenge), 2) how might we improve city transportation (social challenge), 3) how might we reduce sustainability impact of the food sector (ecological challenge) - before facilitating a design-thinking brainstorm.

How to conceptually develop ground-breaking ideas:  a flip-the-classroom workshop. 

o    Learning objective: to learn the criteria that constitutes a ‘creative’ idea, and to let students experience how paradigm-shifting ideas are less straight-forward than typically imagined.

o    Self-developed case: ‘How the Sopranos changed Television’ - developed as part of my faculty training in the ‘Vlerick accelerated faculty training’ program

Doctoral Research Methodology workshop: Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

o    Learning objective: introduce doctoral researchers at Vlerick Business School to the basic concepts, approach and operationalization of the QCA methodology.

 

Teaching Training

BKO (UTQ) Training (In process). BKO supervisor: prof dr. Katrin Merfeld, BKO manager; prof dr. Jeroen De Jong

Vlerick accelerated faculty training program

KULeuven and Vlerick Business School - doctoral training program

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