MBA with International Business

Programme Overview

This module is a continuation of Research Methods for Business and Management I in which the student will complete the project or dissertation presented in the first module. 

Programme Overview

This module introduces a wide range of economic concepts, theories and analytical techniques. It considers of the fundamentals of supply and demand, the microeconomic theory of the firm, the macroeconomic fiscal policy and monetary policy, and selected topics, such as international trade, financial markets, economic growth, and externalities, both positive and negative. The supply and demand model is the fundamental market model where trade-offs and choices are considered by comparing benefits and costs. Product and market structures, including perfectly competitive, monopolistically competitive, oligopolies, and monopolies, are analysed at the firm level. Macroeconomic issues of fiscal and monetary policy are explored at an aggregate level. Finally, selected topics in international trade, financial markets, economic growth, and positive and negative externalities are examined. 

Programme Overview

During this course, you will learn about the critical financial fundamentals necessary for managing an organisation’s operational activities and achieving its strategic goals. You will learn about the time value of money, investing in various instruments, making critical decisions regarding capital expenditures, and various methods for successfully capitalising the firm. Managing critical cash flows and allocation of financial assets are also discussed in detail from a managerial perspective.

Programme Overview

Many business decisions throughout every level of an organisation are based on the information found on the company’s financial statements. During this course, you will analyse how small and large process changes can increase organisational efficiency and profits through analysing information on the financial statements. In addition, you will explore how decisions made about capital projects, long-term investments, and a company’s risk aversion impact the bottom line.

Programme Overview

This module examines specific issues involved in developing and executing marketing strategies on a global scale as opposed to a domestic scale. The course is intended to provide a thorough understanding of global marketing strategies, including:

• Fundamental trends underlying convergence of world markets.

• Pitfalls and challenges of entering other countries.

• Ways to design global marketing strategies.

• The impact of organisation structure, management processes, culture, and people on global marketing strategy implementation.

• The important and unique role emerging markets play in global marketing strategies.

The module will help you achieve your career goals as you work – as virtually all of you will – in or with companies that are active in the international marketplace as well as domestic companies that face active international competitors.

Programme Overview

In this module, you will conduct a strategic assessment of the overall global competitive environment and consider how an organization can leverage resources, capabilities, and preferential entry modes to create competitive advantages when entering a foreign market. As part of the final assessment of global strategy, you will take part either virtually or in-person in an international trip, visiting one to two foreign locations to experience local business culture. You will use theoretical knowledge to assess the strategy of an international organisation in an applied cultural context.

Programme Overview

Following the international financial crisis of 2007-2008, global businesses and governmental leaders have taken profound measures to change the structure of the financial markets and ensure such a crisis does not happen again. This is the activity of financial regulation, which is the attempt of authorities to control economic risks and the focus of this course in International Financial Regulation. Students will learn about the liberalisation of international financial markets, the development of international regulations in response to crises, and how the most recent watershed has shaped the current global economic environment. The course will equip students with an understanding of key elements in financial regulation, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as well as important historical events, including the Breton Wood Conference of 1944 and the Herstatt Bank failure of 1974. Students will explore the benefits and challenges of liberalisation related to saving and investments, market forces on government action, and the creation of derivative instruments aimed at managing risk, among other relevant topics.

Programme Overview

During this module, students will learn the skills and characteristics of an effective leader. Students will learn how to apply leadership skills during change and in multicultural and diverse environments. The common thread throughout the course will be leading with strong managerial ethics, emotional intelligence, and reflective leadership. The course will also examine the relationship between contemporary leadership issues and classical leadership theory.

Programme Overview

This module explores the design and implementation of the best combination of marketing efforts to carry out an organisation’s strategy in its target markets. You will develop an understanding of how an organisation can benefit by creating and delivering value to its customers, and stakeholders, and the skills in applying the analytical concepts and tools of marketing to such decisions as segmentation and targeting, branding, pricing, distribution, and promotion.

Programme Overview

You will gain a deep understanding of operations management and how it is critical to your success in any field, from consulting to entrepreneurship to general management. Detailed in this course are major problems and decision processes of operations management such as operations strategy, process and capacity planning, facilities planning, aggregate planning, materials planning, and quality planning. 

Programme Overview

This module is designed for students to develop a comprehensive understanding of research in general and business. Both academic business research and business consultancy research are addressed in the module. 

The module examines the concepts and theories underlying research, as well as the practice of research. The module has an applied focus. The readings and assignments are designed to identify a feasible research topic and develop a research proposal for academic business or business consultancy research. How research problems and questions may be identified, and the process of achieving thoughtful, effective and efficient research design are examined. The importance of the literature review and how it can be carried out for optimal effectiveness in research are investigated.

In addition, the module provides an overview of research methodologies and methods and the techniques of the research process as applied to business, whether as a business consultant or as an academic researcher. The philosophical and epistemological assumptions underpinning the research approaches and methodologies, as well as their role in determining the design and implementation of the research, are studied. Besides these aspects, the ethical aspects of research and consultancy are also addressed.