Corporate and Business Finance
This module provides students with a broad understanding of the world of accounting and finance. It introduces the concepts and application of accounting and finance and techniques used by internal and external parties to analyse and evaluate financial information for short-term and long-term economic decisions. The module also provides opportunities to develop numerical, analytical and interpretive skills.
Principles of Marketing
In this module, students learn to critically discuss and apply key marketing concepts and theories to a practical business setting. Students examine the evolution of marketing processes and technology in support of strategic business objectives. Students will conduct a marketing audit and critically assess the marketing strategy using several frameworks, and propose an improved marketing strategy based on findings.
Leading People & Managing Organisations
In this module students learn and apply theories and concepts pertaining to Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management. Students will identify and critically evaluate the frameworks and practices of leadership and people’s behaviour in organizations. Students will also discuss the significance of human resource practices for the functioning of organizations, and explain how interpersonal behaviour facilitates or hinders organisational effectiveness.
Corporate and Competitive Strategy
This module provides students with an appreciation of the issues and challenges facing entrepreneurs and managers responsible for the strategic management of organisations in complex, and uncertain conditions. It introduces concepts and methodological tools for analysing strategic position, developing sustainable strategies, and addressing the implications for effective strategy implementation.
Operations Management
This module provides students with the skills to critically reflect and communicate the nature, processes, problems, and techniques for managing operational processes in modern enterprises. We use case studies to foster creative strategic approaches in response to a variety of operation management issues. Students develop skills to identify and assess issues in the context of the organisation and competitive environment.
International Business
This module provides students develop a sophisticated understanding of the ethically diverse nature of international business. The module critically evaluates how technical, instrumental, and political considerations interact with legitimate moral judgements in the global context. Students explore issues of corporate governance and control, including political, social, economic, risk and security, social and corporate responsibility and technological dimensions.
Business Economics
This module equips students with the skills to use principles of microeconomics to make strategic decisions in the short-medium and long term of the company; to predict/forecast, demand and supply with quantitative methods; to use statistical software (eg SPSS) to elaborate complex information at a micro level; and to interpret the causal relations of different business and economics phenomena.
Business Project and Professional Portfolio
This module provides students with the critical thinking skills, processes, and methods to carry out independent, original research on a selected business problem. This module also contains the Leadership Masterclass Series (LMS) and the Career Development Portfolio (CDP) workshops. These workshops develop students’ leadership skills, develop and enhance their self-awareness, as well as career planning, interviewing, and professional networking skills.