Executive MBA

Effective leadership is about being approachable, visible and courageous in a way that earns trust and provides useful direction for your workplace.

To achieve this, learn how to manage yourself appropriately, lead a team effectively, develop relationships quickly and understand the ways to manage conflict by developing a valuable leadership presence and style.

Knowing how to value an asset, choose a shareholder-valued project or ready a budget are only some of the financial issues facing managers today.

To understand financial management, learn how to financially approach: cash flow, time value of money, shares, bonds and projects. You will gain an understanding of capital markets, the effects of information asymmetry in the financial system, diversification and transfer of risk, the capital structure problem and more.

Leaders are required to use moral reasoning to analyse and solve the ethical problems that confront them daily – but for some it can be a difficult process.

To effectively reason in any situation, progressively master each of the Four Stages of Learning – Knowledge, Static Problem Solving, Dynamic Social Problem Solving and Leadership – by focusing on two common forms of moral reasoning, Kantianism and Utilitarianism.

Accounting is the basis for performance measurement, business contracting, operating, investing and the financing decisions that managers make.

To interpret this information correctly, learn to assess: a firm’s intrinsic value, ROE, the balance sheet, various income statements, cash flow statements, the shareholder equity statement and how each work to distinguish an organisation’s financing, investing, and operating activities to external people.

Even if you have been a manager for more than a year and have developed the skills to manage a team, people can still be difficult to manage well.

Discover how the world's best leaders manage their teams to understand the relationship between managing people and organisational outcomes in order to make the decisions that lead your team to successfully completing their tasks.

Customers determine an organisation's success, but without an offering that is both appealing to them and delivers on business goals, your organisation is at risk.

To understand the right marketing mix, learn to identify and manage critical market-based assets and ways to: undertake strategic analysis, position products, create marketing plans, understand marketing data, segment and target markets, and contribute marketing to strategic management.

Data is ever present in each facet of business, creating a need for managers to understand how to harness data in order to make informed and valuable decisions.

Introduce yourself to the fundamental data analysis skills and techniques required to interpret and compute business data, probabilities, uncertain events, statistics and more to solve all the problems challenging decision-makers today.

When the time comes, every manager will need to contribute to formulating the business strategy – developing the competitive advantage of their functional area.

To understand how to strategise with the firm in mind, learn ways to make the right critical choices, identify which products to run and which market segments to compete in, as well as analyse: internal resources, the external environment, firm capabilities, and the conditions necessary to reach competitive advantage.

Without the right analytical and economic reasoning skills, you will never be able to solve the more complicated business problems.

Enhance your skillset to predict what agreements will arise from negotiations with customers or partners, position your firm to do better in negotiations, set the right price, choose product offerings for different market segments, predict the actions of competitors and form strategies to enter different markets.

We suffer from strong biases that hinder good decision-making in management and leadership – and that's because of our sensitivity to various levels of threat.

Based on state-of-the-art neurobiological research, discover how to develop a realistic perception of others, understand biases in decision-making around interpreting information, and appreciate the positive and negative roles that emotions can play in guiding decisions.

Even a modest understanding of economics can help managers make more informed decisions and predict the economic business environment.

Learn to understand economic terminology, make informed judgements on questions of economic policy, describe the forces governing the long-run growth and short-run fluctuations in GDP, explain business cycle fluctuations, evaluate the motivations of central banks in conducting monetary policy, of governments in conducting fiscal policy, and more.

Fly to Asia for a field-study where you will apply the skills you have developed in preceding modules to organisational challenges in a developing economic setting.

You will walk away with new research skills and an understanding of how to conduct business in a foreign environment, the cultural forces affecting HR management, negotiations and strategy, globalisation and the relationships between the macroeconomic, political and cultural systems of an economy.

In a competitive global environment, companies face increasing pressure to exceed customer expectations along multiple performance measures, such as cost and quality.

To meet those expectations effectively, learn how to design, manage and continuously improve business processes, develop internal capabilities with sustainable competitive advantage, identify and analyse bottlenecks to form response strategies, leverage inventory, and develop sustainable solutions.

Negotiation is a decision-making process – and the art of securing agreements – in which two or more people must determine how to divide a resource.

To deepen what you already know and have experienced as a young executive, discover how to create a common vocabulary around negotiation principles, critically examine and refine your skills, and identify the practises that lead to optimal outcomes for a spectrum of negotiation problems.

The leadership and strategic challenges of social enterprises and not-for-profits deal with social problems within the community as well as ways to generate cash flow.

Apply your new MBA consulting and strategy skills to address the real-time challenges of a social enterprise by examining how to effectively provide significant benefit to a social enterprise, and resolve the social, management and operational problems in the way of success.

The merger and acquisition pathway to growth has constantly maintained its importance in large firms for well over a century.

Examine the history of mergers and acquisitions and develop an understanding of the elements required for M&A transactions, the reasons behind the continuing levels of such activity and the impact of regulatory considerations on a deal. You will gain practical knowledge on how to go about managing a merger or acquisition.

Without the right management skills required in diversified firms, the delivery of corporate strategy can be a difficult endeavour.

Gain a clear understanding of the differences between corporate and business strategy, the practical application of corporate strategy through diversification, mergers and acquisitions and internationalisation, and how value can be created through corporate economics, capabilities, performance, accounting and marketing.

Across all industries and for all managers, the need to understand the most critical and strategic aspects of managing innovation and corporate renewal is growing.

Discover how to develop the leadership skills required to effectively develop and drive innovation, strategic initiatives and radical changes within an organisation. You will learn how to build lasting competitive advantage and prosperity through innovation within any industry, as opposed to short-term optimisation strategies.

Gain an overview of the fundamental aspects of innovation management as part of a general management program at the master level.

You will cover strategic, organisational and procedural aspects of managing product, process, and business model innovation in different industrial and competitive environments. This will help you understand the most critical aspects of innovation management and the implications for all major industries including services.