Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)

This course focuses on individual, group, and leadership behavior in organizations. Topics covered may include personal performance and stress management; the theory and practice of effective organizational leadership; leading and managing teams; women business leaders and employee diversity; interpersonal, group and organizational communication; employee motivation, empowerment and performance, managing power and politics.

This course is a hands-on experience where students analyze the financial reports of real firms, requiring them to utilize both financial and other market information in making key decisions and provide suggestions to help improve firm performance. This course covers the language of accounting, preparation of financial statements, and the use of this information in making key business decisions especially during times of uncertainty. An overview of accounting systems is provided, but the course does not focus on the details of bookkeeping or creating new accounting systems.

Success in business depends on the positioning of the firm and the management of its resources. Through the lens of economic models, students will learn to think systematically and strategically about critical management issues concerning consumer demand, costs, pricing, market competition, and organizational incentives. This course differs from undergraduate microeconomics in its emphasis on how economic principles apply to real-world managerial decisions.

This course provides a framework for thinking strategically about the management of human resources in organizations in relation to their operating environments. It equips participants with the managerial competencies required to assess the adequacy of an organization’s HRM function, and to enhance the effectiveness of the same, so the organization’s human capital serves as a source of sustained competitive advantage.

Marketing is the art and science of creating customer value and market place exchanges that benefit the organization and its stakeholders. Marketing involves planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of an offering. It starts with identifying and measuring consumers' needs and wants, assessing the competitive environment, selecting the most appropriate customer targets and developing marketing strategy and implementation program for an offering that satisfies consumers' needs better than the competition. We will explore the theory and applications of marketing concepts through a mix of cases, lectures, individual assignments, and group simulation project. Up on finishing the course, students will be prepared to sit for an exam to be “Professional Certified Marketer, PCM”; it is pioneering certification program developed by the American Marketing Association (AMA). Read more about this certification through this link https://www.ama.org/marketing-management-certification/

This course is aimed at students who are interested in understanding the principles of corporate finance. This course describes the theory and practice of corporate finance. Students are shown how to use financial theory to solve practical problems. Besides, this course emphasizes financial management from a management perspective. Various corporate investment decision criteria are introduced. Students learn how to apply relevant frameworks and tools to determine the optimal capital structure and payout policy. It focuses on raising and spending cash both short-term and long-term to create share value through internal growth, M&As (Mergers and Acquisitions) and capital restructuring.

Entrepreneurship is a guided journey of discovery and change that can be managed by developing an entrepreneurial confidence that comprises an entrepreneurial mindset, capabilities and tools, and immersive learning through lots of practice. This course will follow a structure that outlines key entrepreneurial concepts and tools that systematically can help aspiring entrepreneurs to minimize the risk of the entrepreneurial process. The use of teaching case studies, video resources, reading and experiential learning via a workplace applied project will support the learning outcomes of this course. A key feature of this course is that students will be invited to reflect on the transferability of key concepts of this course to their workplace.

This course focuses on operation functions within organizations. It charts decision-making techniques including statistical analysis and technological applications, strategy and links to other organizational functions. This course is designed to enable students to understand the basic concepts of designing, implementing, planning, organizing and controlling the activities of production and delivery of goods and services from the principles of operations management, which are core elements of business organizations. Efficient and effective business operations help companies reduce business and operational costs, increase profitability, customer satisfaction and gain competitive advantage.

The course focuses on managerial decision making and its relationship to the main ethical issued raised by the activities of the business and corporate sphere and the legal complexities of the societies and environments within which they operate. The course examines the legal and ethical complexities of transnational business activity.

This course gives an overview of international financial markets, exchange rate determination, hedging, financial assets and investing internationally.

The course examines how firms shape their international strategies in an ever-changing global environment. It builds upon core strategic management models in the resource-based view and industry analysis, examining the field of strategic planning and management. In doing so it explores why strategic management leads to the optimising of business performance. Students complete a major research project based on their own or another organisation. This requires students to carefully assess, apply and interpret the concepts and tools of strategic analysis as they relate to this organisation; critically evaluate its strategic choices; advance appropriate options and make recommendations about how to execute them more effectively.

This course studies quantitative methods for both financial and economic analysis, which provide the framework for rational financial decision-making in contemporary financial management. The course will include contents of business mathematics, descriptive statistics, probability, hypothesis testing techniques for statistical analysis, and financial econometrics.