Core courses

Build on your knowledge for future career success.

Continuously challenge and evolve your mindset and knowledge relating to contemporary business issues, through rigorous academic frameworks and applied project work.

Your core courses are intended to refresh and enhance your knowledge of general management topics and concepts, while considering their application to issues that businesses are facing today. The courses are split into three dynamic categories, each addressing a contemporary business need.

Programme titles and content are regularly reviewed and subject to change.

Navigating the New Business Environment

Rethinking Corporate Purpose

Firms around the world, regardless of size or business model, must comply with various regulations and effectively leverage their internal data for sound decision-making. This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of how firms can utilize financial accounting to create value for internal decision-making and effectively inform their stakeholders.

The course places a special emphasis on achieving a level of corporate transparency that extends beyond financial information, enabling the business world to transition effectively towards sustainability. Students will explore existing and evolving accounting standards designed to hold firms accountable by measuring their investments and outcomes objectively.

Through this course, students will examine the progress made in adapting accounting standards to support sustainability, as well as the internal systems firms use to make sustainable choices. By the end of the course, students will have gained the knowledge and skills to navigate the complexities of corporate transparency and sustainability in the modern business environment.
In today’s world of big data and digital transformation, how do strategic leaders bring their influence to bear on their organizations and beyond? How can they harness the power of data while staying true to what they stand for, both personally and professionally? This course delves into these questions, offering a deep dive into strategic management for the modern age.

“Strategy for the Data Era” serves as an essential introduction to the MBA program, focusing on the pivotal role of strategic management in driving business success. As business increasingly takes the lead over traditional institutions like government and religion in shaping societal norms, strategic leaders are crucial in fostering both economic and social progress. Many of you will step into these influential roles within business organizations.

Over five sessions, this core course will illuminate strategic challenges and responsibilities you will encounter, providing a comprehensive roadmap to navigate the complexities of the MBA curriculum over the next year. This course will give you profound insights into the strategic roles of business leaders you will engage with.

Individual Agency and Entrepreneurship

The first step towards leadership and management success is to know your strengths and weaknesses. Lifelong learners who have risen to positions of power and influence have learned to accentuate their known competencies and diminish the role of their weaknesses. When you gain a dispassionate understanding of your relevant traits, you know what you offer to the people you work with, and where you need to focus effort for professional improvement. These qualities can also help you work in teams. The most successful leaders use their knowledge of self and evaluations of others to decide when to step forward and lead a project versus when to promote the voices of experts and subordinates on their teams. Leader versatility like this stems from fundamental understanding of individual traits and models of interpersonal communication taught in The Science of Leadership and Management.
To have a profound impact on the world, students need to develop an "entrepreneurial mindset" that encourages and enables them to successfully pursue opportunities that help make the world, or at least their corner of the world, a better place in some way. This course explores the six counter-conventional mindsets that enable entrepreneurs to do what they do and, sometimes, change the world. Students will find that these mindsets often fly in the face of what’s assumed to be “doing things right” in large companies, and that they likely run counter to some of what they’ve been taught earlier in their MIM programmes.

Core courses FAQs

The short core has been designed specifically for One-year MBA students to build upon their general business management knowledge, already gained through a Masters in Management or equivalent. These courses will provide an opportunity to further refresh student learning of core topics and concepts while also applying them to important contemporary business issues. The core is split into three parts on the themes of: Navigating the New Business Environment, Rethinking Corporate Purpose and Individual Agency and Entrepreneurship

We have a duty to you, our alumni and future students to maintain the integrity and standard of the degrees we award through a rigorous assessment system. The purpose of the various assignments and examinations we ask you to complete is not simply for assessment: these are also intended to help you to structure your learning to help you gauge your progress through the programme.

The assessment system makes use of elements like course assignments, projects, group work, class participation, examinations and simulations. You will be expected to prepare for and attend class and participate actively in discussion both in class and in your group. The precise assessment model for each course - for example, whether class participation and oral report presentations count towards your final grade - will be set out clearly from the outset.

You must successfully pass all core courses. Your grades will be adjusted to a grade curve from A+ to C, with a maximum of 10% of the class achieving A+. The decision to Pass or Fail is a matter of academic judgement, and there is no obligation to fail any students.

To earn your degree, you must complete all the requirements of your programme. This includes both courses and programme elements.

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Core courses

Build on your knowledge for future career success.

Core courses

Navigating the New Business Environment

Rethinking Corporate Purpose

Individual Agency and Entrepreneurship

Individual Agency and Entrepreneurship

Electives

Core courses FAQs

Navigating the New Business Environment

Rethinking Corporate Purpose

Individual Agency and Entrepreneurship

Individual Agency and Entrepreneurship

Electives

Core courses FAQs