Core courses and electives

This course is designed to give you an economic perspective on the topics, concepts and analytical tools that you will encounter in other parts of the MBA. You will be introduced to the parts of microeconomics that are especially relevant to management.

This course covers the evaluation and funding of investments. The aim of the course is to develop a broad conceptual framework for analysing issues in corporate finance. We will present the basic insights of corporate finance theory and link it to real business decisions. The emphasis is on investment and financing decisions. We address the present valuation of future cash flows, the treatment of risk, and the firm’s choice of financing.

This course is about the way that you interact with others to achieve your objectives. The classic approach to management development, which some of you may have experienced, is to give you tools and techniques with which to influence and control others. Our starting point is slightly different. We assume that before we think about managing others, we must first focus on managing ourselves. There is a long-standing tension in our understanding of how human beings, including managers, relate to the world around them.

The course is designed to help you understand why corporations are required to file financial reports, and how these reports aggregate and summarise a large number of independent transactions. It also covers what corporations have to report for a selected set of core positions in financial reports, what financial reports fundamentally communicate to outsiders, and what their core limitations are. In addition, the course explores how incentives affect certain accounting choices and financial reporting in general, as well as how financial reporting evolves over time to accommodate the demand for a broader assessment of the impact of firm activities.

This module will develop your viewpoint in planning and evaluating marketing decisions.

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This course will look at negotiations in a more structured way. Students will be given the tools to deal with more complex negotiations which will enable them to move from ‘value claiming’ to ‘value creating’ in their negotiations.

Advanced Strategy offers a forward-looking and integrative approach to business and corporate strategy. It builds on the learnings derived from the Strategy core course to help MBA candidates think as general managers (as opposed to functional managers whose responsibilities focus on one particular area such as finance, production, marketing, human resources, IT, etc.) and make better decisions that will improve the competitive position of their organisation in the long run and create value for its members, clients, corporate partners and other key stakeholders.

This module will help you make and defend decisions or recommendations, based on data and quantitative analysis. We will teach basic concepts and essential management tools that help you understand and exploit data and structure decision problems to compare decision alternatives in a quantitative way. You will learn key skills that help you perform, defend and critique a business analysis.

This module aims at understanding how individuals behave and the relationship between individual and group behaviour and organisational performance are some of the most challenging issues for managers and professionals. This module is designed to increase your knowledge about behaviour and performance within organisations and how these can be influenced and managed.

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Strategic Operations Management sits at the heart of every successful organisation. This core MBA module equips students with the analytical tools and strategic mindset needed to understand, design and improve the systems that deliver value, whether in global supply chains, service operations, technology-driven firms or start-ups.

In this course, students explore how operational decisions directly shape organisational performance and competitive advantage. You will learn to connect a firm’s strategy, marketing and operations, and to critically analyse processes to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement. The module also examines the strategic value of emerging technologies, including automation, and how to sequence operational investments to secure organisational buy-in.

Students will deepen their ability to manage supply chain and inventory trade-offs, assess risk, and understand how better matching supply and demand can unlock superior returns. Finally, the course highlights how operations can be a powerful engine for business model innovation to shape new ways of delivering value in rapidly evolving markets.

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