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Thesis Seminar
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Thesis Seminar

Welcome to the Thesis Seminar of the Chair for Strategy and Organization!

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This seminar accompanies the supervision of final theses at the Chair for Strategy and Organization. It is compulsory for all students to study the materials in the thesis seminar. If you have questions beyond the provided material, you can attend the monthly Q&A sessions.

The seminar contains the following components:

  1. Administrative information about your thesis.
  2. Materials (slides, videos, papers) about the (empirical) research process for self-study.
  3. Monthly Q&A sessions with Dr. Fabian Ahrens where we discuss open questions about your thesis, if the material provided here do not answer them.
  4. Detailed information about submission documents together with your final thesis.

No registration is necessary for the thesis seminar.

No attendance is required for the Q&A sessions.

You do not need to present your thesis.

1. Administrative information

Please refer to our thesis guidelines for administrative information.

🚀Thesis Guidelines & Starter Information

2. Materials about the (empirical) research process

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Slides

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Videos

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Academic papers & materials

3. Q&A Sessions

The thesis seminar offers monthly Q&A sessions where you can discuss general open questions about your thesis that the provided materials do not cover. Hence, the Q&A sessions are not compulsory for participation.

You should still send regular updates to your supervisor and get feedback on questions that are very specific to your topic and cannot be answered in the thesis seminar.

In case you have open questions for discussion in the thesis seminar, please fill in your information in the miro board:

Session Dates

Name
Date
Zoom
Zoom-Key
Q&A Session
26/09/2025 1:00 PM (GMT+2) → 26/09/2025 2:00 PM (GMT+2)
Online: https://tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/64352149180?pwd=6LxoTQO6pq9dFyYWK2A3Ku7ufd1EBy.1

Meeting-ID: 643 5214 9180 Kenncode: 496510

Q&A Session
31/10/2025 1:00 PM (GMT+2) → 31/10/2025 2:00 PM (GMT+2)
Online: https://tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/64352149180?pwd=6LxoTQO6pq9dFyYWK2A3Ku7ufd1EBy.1

Meeting-ID: 643 5214 9180 Kenncode: 496510

Q&A Session
28/11/2025 1:00 PM (GMT+2) → 28/11/2025 2:00 PM (GMT+2)
Online: https://tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/64352149180?pwd=6LxoTQO6pq9dFyYWK2A3Ku7ufd1EBy.1

Meeting-ID: 643 5214 9180 Kenncode: 496510

Q&A Session *NEW DATE*
19/12/2025 1:00 PM (GMT+2) → 19/12/2025 2:00 PM (GMT+2)
Online: https://tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/64352149180?pwd=6LxoTQO6pq9dFyYWK2A3Ku7ufd1EBy.1

Meeting-ID: 643 5214 9180 Kenncode: 496510

Q&A Session *NEW DATE* (1)
30/01/2026 1:00 PM (GMT+2) → 30/01/2026 2:00 PM (GMT+2)
Online: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97570890456

Meeting-ID: 975 7089 0456

Q&A Session *NEW DATE*(2)
27/02/2026 4:00 PM (GMT+2) → 27/02/2026 5:00 PM (GMT+2)
Online: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97570890456

Meeting-ID: 975 7089 0456

Q&A Session *NEW DATE*(3)
27/03/2026 3:00 PM (GMT+2) → 27/03/2026 4:00 PM (GMT+2)
Online: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97570890456

Meeting-ID: 975 7089 0456

Q&A Session *NEW DATE*(4)
24/04/2026 4:00 PM (GMT+2) → 24/04/2026 5:00 PM (GMT+2)
Online: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97570890456

Meeting-ID: 975 7089 0456

Q&A Session *NEW DATE*(5)
29/05/2026 4:00 PM (GMT+2) → 29/05/2026 5:00 PM (GMT+2)
Online: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97570890456

Meeting-ID: 975 7089 0456

Q&A Session *NEW DATE*(6)
26/06/2026 4:00 PM (GMT+2) → 26/06/2026 5:00 PM (GMT+2)
Online: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97570890456

Meeting-ID: 975 7089 0456

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4. Submission documents with your thesis

For a successful completion of your thesis, you need to submit the following documents together with your thesis to your supervisor.

For all submissions, please provide the most interesting, inspiring and surprising content on your topic. This is not necessarily the method section of your thesis :) Surprise us and the outside world with amazing insights into your thesis topic. In the last months, you have become an expert for your topic, so please share your expertise in a professional and exciting way!!

Here is some inspiration:

💡Student insights

Please send all documents per email to your supervisor and to grade management. In case, the files are too large, you can send them via Dropbox, LRZ Sync&Share, Wetransfer or similar. Submit the files marked with a star (*) additionally to this form: https://forms.gle/qJBv4adescNZfEQn9:

  1. Final Thesis: Thesis (as word and pdf)
  2. Executive summary* (as word and pdf)
  3. Presentation on your thesis topic (as ppt)
  4. Infographic on your thesis topic* (as ppt and PDF/JPEG)
  5. Notion page on your thesis topic* (should also contain your infographic and a link to the article if available)
  6. GenAI usage declaration, see below (as pdf)
Use of GenAI Declaration@CSO.pdf181.5KB

Executive summary

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Please submit a short summary of your thesis (3-5 pages) as word and pdf that contains the following points.

Optional: Write a public article on your thesis topic

Prepare your executive summary as an article, for example, on Medium: www.medium.com or other practice-oriented and public outlets.

Presentation on your thesis topic

Please use this template for your slides and submit your file as .ppt or .pptx.

CSO_Template.pptx6028.7KB

Infografic on your thesis topic

Please submit your infografic as .ppt/.pptx and pdf/pdf and include your name.

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Here is some software you can use
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You can find free images here

Notion page on your thesis topic

Please create a private Notion page with your private email and upload the page on the link above.

You can find some beautiful templates to start your Notion page here:

https://www.notion.so/templates/student-dashboard

https://www.notion.so/templates/notions-marketing-projects

https://nicklafferty.com/blog/free-notion-templates/

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Some best practice examples for exciting and insightful websites (in general)

Please also include your infographic and a link to the executive summary/medium article if available.

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