About
The course teaches students comprehensive and specialised subjects in entrepreneurial leadership and management for various business situations; it develops skills in critical thinking and strategic planning for changing and fast-paced environments, including financial and operational analysis; and it develops competences in leadership, including autonomous decision-making, and communication with employees, stakeholders, and other members of a business. These generalized MBA insights are firmly rooted in a curriculum focused on innovation, social entrepreneurship, finance, and technology. Specialised MBA programmes aims to refine the expertise in the specific field.
In this programme students master financial analysis, investment strategies, and risk management techniques to become a competent financial leader capable of optimizing corporate finances.
Target Audience
Ages 19-30, 31-65, 65+
Target Group
The course is suited for executives and general business managers in organisations of all sizes and types, or for those who will soon move into such management positions. It is designed for those that will have responsibility for planning, organising, and directing business operations. Some of the specific pathways will have associated audiences.
For example the MBA in International Business is suited for executives and general business managers, or aspirants to these roles, who work in organisations with global reach and need to enhance their understandings of internationalisation and cross-cultural aspects of work and business.
Similarly, the MBA in Technology Leadership is suited for business leaders at the forefront of digital and technological transformation in their organisations.
In all cases, the target group should be prepared to pursue substantial academic studies fitting to the MQF level.
Mode of attendance
Full-Time and Part-Time
Structure of the programme
Please note that this structure may be subject to change based on faculty expertise and evolving academic best practices. This flexibility ensures we can provide the most up-to-date and effective learning experience for our students.
Full-Time: 50 Weeks, 1 Year, or 3 Semesters (2250 hrs at ~45 hrs/week)
Semester I (~17 weeks): Tier One Foundational modules (30 ECTS, 750 hrs) result in 1 semester of coursework (~45 hrs/week)
Semester II (~17 weeks): Tier Two Specialisation modules (30 ECTS, 750 hrs) result in 1 semester of coursework (~45 hrs/week)
Semester III (~17 weeks): Tier Three Capstone module (30 ECTS, 750 hours) results in 1 semester of coursework (~45 hrs/week)
Part-Time: Up to 250 Weeks, 5 Years, or 15 Semesters (2250 hrs at <9 hrs/week)
Semester I (~17 weeks): Tier One Foundational module (3 ECTS, 75 hrs) at ~4.5 hrs/week
Semester II (~17 weeks): Tier One Foundational module (3 ECTS, 75 hrs) at ~4.5 hrs/week
Semester III (~17 weeks): Tier One Foundational module (3 ECTS, 75 hrs) at ~4.5 hrs/week
Semester IV (~17 weeks): Tier One Foundational module (3 ECTS, 75 hrs) at ~4.5 hrs/week
Semester V (~17 weeks): Tier One Foundational module (3 ECTS, 75 hrs) at ~4.5 hrs/week
Semester VI (~17 weeks): Tier One Foundational module (3 ECTS, 75 hrs) at ~4.5 hrs/week
Semester VII (~17 weeks): Tier One Foundational module (3 ECTS, 75 hrs) at ~4.5 hrs/week
Semester VIII (~17 weeks): Tier One Foundational module (3 ECTS, 75 hrs) at ~4.5 hrs/week
Semester IX (~17 weeks): Tier One Foundational module (3 ECTS, 75 hrs) at ~4.5 hrs/week
Semester X (~17 weeks): Tier One Foundational module (3 ECTS, 75 hrs) at ~4.5 hrs/week
Semester XII (~17 weeks): Tier Two Specialisation module (10 ECTS, 250 hrs) at ~15 hrs/week
Semester XIII (~17 weeks): Tier Two Specialisation module (10 ECTS, 250 hrs) at ~15 hrs/week
Semester XIV (~17 weeks): Tier Two Specialisation module (10 ECTS, 250 hrs) at ~15 hrs/week
Semester XV (~17 weeks): Tier Three Capstone module (30 ECTS, 750 hours) at ~45 hrs/week
Grading System
- Scale: 0-100 points - Components: 60% of the mark derives from the average of the assignments, and 40% of the mark derives from the cumulative examination - Passing requirement: minimum of 60% overall
Dates of Next Intake - Rolling admission
Pass rates - 2023 pass rates will be publicised in the next cycle, contingent upon ensuring sufficient student data for anonymization.
Identity Malta’s VISA requirement for third country nationals: https://www.identitymalta.com/unit/central-visa-unit/
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Course Structure
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This module explores basic economic principles (theories and applications) that are relevant to a variety of businesses. The module emphasises an economist's mindset and amassing the tools necessary to do so, including the study of microeconomics and macroeconomics.
Throughout the module, students will examine the underlying economics of successful business strategy: the strategic imperatives of competitive markets, the sources and dynamics of competitive advantage, managing competitive interactions, and the organisational implementation of business strategy.
Additionally, the module focuses on case discussion and analysis and provides a foundation for consultants, managers, and corporate finance generalists.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Has specialised knowledge of techniques for production and cost analysis.
- Has a comprehensive knowledge of the business cycle beyond that associated with general studies.
- Select topics in the strategic deployment of Information, auctions, and incentives.
- Performs critical evaluations of business environments in order to model relevant markets.
- Analyse and communicate the relevance of gross domestic product and its components for a given market.
- Analyse and take leadership decisions in a fast-changing environment about monetary policy and the supply and demand for money.
- Have the autonomy to recognise and describe the different strategic goals for firms managing in competitive and monopolistic environments.
- Research the determinants of market demand and supply in a given industry.
- Demonstrates the ability to respond to fast-changing market conditions with actionable proposals for strategic firm behaviour including game theory, entry and deterrence, collusion and cooperation, and bargaining.
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This module will approach leadership by identifying practices that researchers and practitioners have shown to be the most effective. Through these processes, students will gain a broad range of skills.
This module examines how leaders can most effectively use the resources of their team members to achieve business outcomes. The module develops managerial and leadership competencies, focusing on how key improvements in the general strategy and techniques of managing people can produce outcomes more significant than isolated improvements to employee performance. The module provides students with concepts to support them across their careers as they continue to develop effective delegation, management strategy, and engagement with people inside of an organisation.
Specific topics covered include managing a diverse workforce; self-leadership; perception pitfalls; decision making; conflict resolution; emotional intelligence; improving performance; team structure.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Critical knowledge of business leadership strategy.
- Select topics for the advanced management of human resources.
- Analyse and assess theories of management and concepts of delegation and performance tracking
- Strategies for improving general strategy and techniques of managing people to produce outcomes more significant than isolated improvements to employee performance
- Specialised knowledge of key strategies for effective delegation
- Autonomously gather material and organise it into a coherent, comprehensive presentation
- Communicate an in-depth domain-specific knowledge and understanding of business leadership and strategy.
- Creatively apply the theories learned in the module to develop critical and original solutions for the challenges of business leadership and strategy including: Assessing the resources of a team to show how those resources could be used to achieve business outcomes; assessing the performance of a team to show whether they are on track to meet business goals
- Employ the standard modern conventions for the presentation of scholarly work and scholarly referencing.
- Create critical and contextualised understandings and discussions of key issues related to leadership and management.
- Solve problems and be prepared to take leadership decisions related to business leadership and strategy
- Demonstrate self-direction in research and originality in solutions for management and leadership problems
- Efficiently manage interdisciplinary issues that arise when assessing human resources and delegating effectively to achieve business goals.
- Apply a professional and scholarly approach to research problems pertaining to the effective use of team resources and delegation of personnel
- Identifying research problems and solutions related to business leadership and strategy.
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In this module students will gain the capacity to understand how firms work in a global context, incorporating a broad, future-oriented, systems-based approach that incorporates data, information and insights from diverse perspectives and sources. This module is designed to convey the key concepts of strategic thinking and how they fit into the larger context of management strategy and decisions. Students will be presented with both the practical “how” and the fundamental “why” in the light of contributions from behavioural science, economics, and statistics.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Key strategies for applying integrative and strategic thinking to business.
- Select topics for the advanced management of future-oriented, systems- based strategic planning.
- The relevance of theories of strategy implementation for business applications.
- Critical knowledge of the role of strategic thinking in scenario planning.
- Diverse scholarly views on the role of strategic thinking as a core competency developed by managers.
- Autonomously gather material and organise it into a coherent, comprehensive presentation of a strategic plan with implementation strategy.
- Creatively apply the theories learned in the module to develop critical and original solutions for the challenges of integrative and strategic thinking in business by engaging in scenario planning.
- Apply an in-depth domain-specific knowledge and understanding to integrative and strategic thinking in business.
- Employ the standard modern conventions for the presentation of scholarly work and scholarly referencing.
- Act autonomously in identifying research problems and solutions related to a broad, future-oriented, systems-based strategic plan.
- Efficiently manage interdisciplinary issues that arise when assessing the implementation of a strategic plan.
- Create synthetic contextualised discussions of key business issues related to integrative and strategic thinking.
- Apply a professional and scholarly approach to research problems of developing strategies for a global context.
- Solve problems and be prepared to take leadership decisions related to integrative and strategic thinking in business.
- Demonstrate self-direction in research and originality in solutions developed.
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In this module students will deepen and extend their ability to create and maintain high-quality relationships with people who come from a wide range of backgrounds and possess different points of view in order to create and execute processes that produce successful outcomes and results.
This module teaches business managers and leaders to reflect critically on concepts from the behavioural sciences that can be applied to a fast changing business environment to improve their abilities to lead and manage in organisations.
Behavioural frameworks for individuals, teams, and organisations are evaluated critically and discussed in the context of real-world cases. Tutorial groups provide practice in problem-based teamwork, communicating in specialist and non-specialist registers, and in applying the frameworks in practice.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Critical knowledge of how high-quality business relationships can produce successful outcomes and results.
- Select topics in behavioural frameworks for individuals, teams, and organisations for the advanced management of business relationships.
- Diverse scholarly views on business relationships and their role in successful business outcomes.
- Key strategies for using business relationships to generate successful business outcomes.
- The relevance of relationship theories for business applications in the domain of business relationships.
- Creatively apply the theories learned in the module to develop critical and original solutions for case studies of business relationships.
- Employ the standard modern conventions for the presentation of scholarly work and scholarly referencing in discussions of business relationships.
- Autonomously gather material and organise it into a coherent, comprehensive presentation on the role of high-quality relationships in successful business outcomes.
- Apply an in-depth domain-specific knowledge and understanding to business relationships, using concepts learned in the course (such as concepts from the behavioural sciences) for the cultivation of high-quality business relationships.
- Demonstrate self-direction and originality in solutions developed for managing high-quality business relationship.
- Act autonomously in identifying research problems and solutions related to business relationships.
- Apply a professional and scholarly approach to research problems pertaining to the cultivation of business relationships in order to create results.
- Solve problems and be prepared to take leadership decisions related to business relationships, both on a personal level, and relationships between companies.
- Efficiently manage interdisciplinary issues that arise in developing relations with people who come from a wide range of backgrounds.
- Create synthetic contextualised discussions of key issues related to business relationships.
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In this module, students will gain the capacity to appropriately apply a broad repertoire of communication skills in business, professional, and social contexts.
Throughout the module, students will critically analyse managerial communication skills required for leadership in a wide variety of industries. It considers the varied means of communication including writing, speaking, and calling, and generally appearing professional. The communication requirements of different contexts are studied, including informational, persuasive, and relational forms of communication.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Effective managerial communication techniques, guidelines, and strategies.
- Theories for business applications in the domain of effective managerial communication.
- Topics for the advanced management of effective managerial communication-including writing, speaking, calling –and generally appearing professional.
- Key strategies for applying effective managerial communication to improve the connection between management and frontline employees.
- Diverse scholarly views on effective managerial communication.
- Apply in-depth domain-specific knowledge and understanding to effective managerial communication.
- Autonomously gather material and organise it into a coherent, comprehensive presentation of effective managerial communication techniques and strategies.
- Employ the standard modern conventions for the presentation of scholarly work and scholarly referencing in discussions of effective managerial communication.
- Creatively apply the theories learned in the module to develop critical and original solutions for the challenges of effective managerial communication.
- Apply a professional and scholarly approach to defining appropriate and effective managerial communication.
- Efficiently manage interdisciplinary aspects of effective managerial communication.
- Act autonomously in identifying research problems and solutions related to effective managerial communication.
- Demonstrate self-direction in originality in developing an appropriately broad repertoire of communication skills.
- Solve problems and be prepared to take leadership decisions related to effective managerial communication.
- Create synthetic contextualised discussions of key issues related to effective managerial communication.
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In this module students will strengthen their capacity to lead individuals, teams, and organisations in processes that generate data-driven solutions to problems, data-driven insights into customer behaviour, and data-driven decision-making.
This module provides the foundations of probability and statistics required for a manager to interpret large quantities of data and to make informed decisions under conditions of uncertainty, with incomplete information, and in both structured and unstructured settings. Theoretical topics include decision trees, hypothesis testing, multiple regression, and sampling.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Select topics for the advanced management of data- driven insights into customer behaviour.
- Key theoretical topics pertaining to evidence-based decision-making such as decision trees, hypothesis testing, multiple regression, and sampling.
- Diverse scholarly views on evidence-based decision-making in a business context.
- The relevance of theories for business applications in the domain of evidence-based decision-making.
- The foundations of probability and statistics to the extent required for a manager to interpret large quantities of data and to make informed decisions under conditions of uncertainty.
- Autonomously gather evidence and organise it into a coherent, comprehensive presentation advocating an evidence-based decision.
- Employ the standard modern conventions for the presentation of scholarly work and scholarly referencing.
- Creatively apply the theories learned in the module to develop critical and original solutions for the challenges of evidence-based decision-making in a business context.
- Apply an in-depth domain-specific knowledge and understanding to evidence-based decision-making in a business context.
- Efficiently manage interdisciplinary and diverse kinds of evidence that inform decision-making.
- Demonstrate self-direction in gathering and using evidence and data for decision-making.
- Create synthetic contextualised discussions of key issues related to evidence-based decision-making.
- Solve problems and be prepared to take leadership decisions related to evidence-based decision-making in a business context.
- Act autonomously in identifying research problems and solutions related to evidence-based decision-making in a business context.
- Apply a professional and scholarly approach to data and evidence as factors in decision-making.
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This module enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as well as the creation and delivery of services. Throughout the module, students will receive a comprehensive overview of technology utilisation to drive a competitive advantage for company operations. Students explore various technology solutions for business process automation, including value proposition analysis across organisation functions.
Specific topics addressed include process analysis; cross-functional and cross-firm integration; product development; information technology; and technology and operations strategy.
Additionally, students will analyse how technology can be leveraged to improve product development during the four lifecycle phases. The module provides a detailed overview of the impact of technology on various operating models such as manufacturing, supply chain management, customer-facing, product development, and support functions.
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Intended learning outcomes
- The importance of an effective production and operations strategy to an organisation.
- Quality management practice in organisations and how total quality management and six-sigma facilitate organisational effectiveness.
- Market and product research relevant to technology-based businesses.
- Assess technology architecture and infrastructure capabilities depending on various operating models.
- Assess the value proposition, including cost reduction and revenue generation, of integrating technology across operation functions.
- Make product and service design decisions that impact other design decisions and operations.
- Evaluate how technology-savvy human capital drives technology adoption in operations management.
- Develop a phased approach and methodology for embedding technology solutions across the operation, triggered by business value proposition and priorities.
- Understand and assess contemporary operations and manufacturing organisational approaches and supply-chain management activities and the renewed importance of this aspect of organisational strategy.
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This module examines how leaders can most effectively use the resources of their team members to achieve business outcomes. The module develops managerial and leadership competencies, focussing on how key improvements in the general strategy and techniques of managing people can produce outcomes more significant than isolated improvements to employee performance.
The module provides students with concepts to support them across their careers as they continue to develop effective delegation, management strategy, and engagement with people inside of an organisation.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Critical knowledge of business leadership strategy.
- Why improvements in the general strategy and techniques of managing people can produce outcomes more significant than isolated improvements to employee performance.
- Select topics for the advanced management of human resources.
- Key strategies for effective delegation.
- The relevance of theories of management and concepts of delegation and performance tracking.
- Creatively apply the theories learned in the module to develop critical and original solutions for the challenges of business leadership and strategy including: • Assessing the resources of a team to show how those resources could be used to achieve business outcomes. • Assessing the performance of a team to show whether they are on track to meet business goals.
- Communicate an in-depth domain-specific knowledge and understanding to business leadership and strategy.
- Employ the standard modern conventions for the presentation of scholarly work and scholarly referencing.
- Autonomously gather material and organise it into a coherent, comprehensive presentation.
- Create synthetic contextualised discussions of key issues related to leadership and management strategy.
- Apply a professional and scholarly approach to research problems pertaining to the effective use of team resources and delegation of personnel.
- Efficiently manage interdisciplinary issues that arise when assessing human resources and delegating effectively to achieve business goals.
- Solve problems and be prepared to take leadership decisions related to business leadership and strategy.
- Demonstrate self-direction in research and originality in solutions for management and leadership.
- Act autonomously in identifying research problems and solutions related to business leadership and strategy.
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Increases in product variety and customization in the past few years have posed challenges to firms in terms of delivering products to customers faster and more efficiently. With the prevalence of the usage of the Internet for business, electronic business transformations are occurring in every business. One of the fundamental enablers of electronic commerce is effective supply chain management. Thus, supply chain management has become the focus of attention of senior management in the industry today.
This module considers management of a supply chain in a global environment from a managerial perspective. The focus is on analysis, management, and improvement of supply chain processes and their adaptation to the electronic business environment. The module focuses on six topics: Inventory and Information Management; Distribution and Transportation; Global Operations; Supplier Management; Management of Product Variety; and Electronic Supply Chains. Several new concepts including Prognostic Supply Chains, Build-to-Order, Collaborative Forecasting, Delayed Differentiation, Cross Docking, Global Outsourcing, and Efficient Consumer Response will also be discussed. At the end of the module, a student will have the necessary tools and metrics to evaluate a current supply chain and recommend design changes to supply chain processes.
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Intended learning outcomes
- A specialised knowledge of the global outlook that reflects changes experienced and anticipated by firms and industries and the requirements for effective change management in operations and supply chains.
- A critical knowledge of the increasing importance of supply chain management in today’s business environment.
- Define and assess the significance of logistics as it relates to transportation and warehousing.
- Demonstrate the use of effective written and oral communications, critical thinking, team building, and presentation skills as applied to business problems.
- Utilise management skills such as negotiating, working effectively within a diverse business environment, ethical decision-making, and use of information technology.
- Design management plans for global supply chains that are lawful, ethical, and environmentally and socially responsible.
- Align the management to supply chains with corporate goals and strategies.
- Analyse and improve supply chain processes.
- Apply current supply chain theories, practices, and concepts utilising case problems and problem-based learning situations.
- Use concepts of operations and supply chain management and qualitative and quantitative methods to make decisions in business contexts that include new and unfamiliar situations.
- Analysing current supply chain management trends and their relevance for specific markets, industries, or organisation.
- Use and apply computer-based supply chain optimization tools including the use of selected state-of-the-art supply chain software suites currently used in business.
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Ethical dilemmas are frequently encountered in the workplace, in every function of the organisation, and at every level. Knowing how to deal with ethical issues is critical in being able to be an effective leader. Additionally, the range and complexity of ethical issues have increased in recent years, as well as expectations of responsible corporate conduct; knowing how to deal with such concerns is an important part of management today.
In this module, students examine how organisations, and individuals within them, can deal with ethical issues and dilemmas at the collective and personal levels. Throughout the module, students will gain skills related to elements of ethical decision-making, the psychological aspects related to business ethics, and ethics in the global marketplace. The module will focus on how business leaders can make ethical decisions, skilfully manage ethical issues in the workplace, and help encourage ethics in a variety of organisations.
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Intended learning outcomes
- The application of core elements of effective ethical and socially responsible management and leadership.
- The critical integration of ethical decision-making tools into their decision-making process in the workplace.
- Self-reflection upon, evaluation of, and improvement of their own practices as individuals, employees/managers, and consumers.
- Identify and evaluate key ethical and CSR issues related to different sectors of activity & different functions.
- Diagnose sources of organisational ethical culture and deviant behaviour.
- Propose solutions to business problems in a global environment.
- Design ethical programmes designed to accomplish specific objectives in organisations.
- Analyse ethical issues and they apply to management.
- Identify and analyse the implications of social and ethical issues in a business context.
- Recognise and critically assess cross-cultural variations and similarities in organisational practices in corporate social responsibility and business ethics.
- Apply knowledge of the diverse demographics of business to make effective ethical business decisions.
- Identify and solve ethical business problems.
- Implement both personally and organisationally key theories relating to personal, organisational, and societal ethics and values.
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This module develops the foundations for financial decisions in a global economic environment. It concentrates on four areas: markets, tools, investments, and corporations. Students will become familiar with the benefits of international diversification in investment strategies. Additional topics include the valuation of international investments and analysis of the functioning of international financial markets and institutions.
Throughout the modules, students will also develop skills related to the management of foreign exchange exposure in international corporations within the specific context of emerging markets.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Specialised knowledge of key issues related to equity, debt, and derivative instruments.
- Critical knowledge of current trends affecting financial markets to the extent required for a manager to interpret large quantities of data and to make informed decisions under conditions of uncertainty.
- Assess scholary disputes over the relevance of various trading venues and mechanics of security trading.
- Select topics in global investing, focusing on assessing opportunities and risks in emerging and frontier markets.
- Autonomously gather evidence and organise it into a coherent, comprehensive presentation advocating specific approaches to global investing.
- Apply in-depth knowledge and understanding of emerging markets to make decisions about global investing in a business context.
- Develop heoretically-informed critical and original solutions for the challenges of markets, tools, investments, and corporations in a business context.
- Efficiently manage interdisciplinary and diverse kinds of evidence that inform global finance.
- Create synthetic contextualised discussions of key issues related to global finance.
- Solve problems and be prepared to take leadership decisions related to traditional and alternative asset classes in a business context.
- Demonstrate self-direction in gathering and using evidence and data for developing financial strategies related to derivative instruments.
- Apply a professional and scholarly approach to data and evidence as factors in emerging markets.
- Act autonomously in analysing global financial markets.
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Throughout this module, students will learn the basic concepts of needs analysis, investment policy, asset allocation, product selection, portfolio monitoring and rebalancing. Students will assess the various types of institutional investors, including pension funds and insurance companies and develop skills related to the client management life cycle and portfolio management as a process. The module will address the basic concepts, principles, and the major styles of investing in alternative assets. Additionally, students will learn about the impact of digitization on investment strategies and the issues related to performance measurement, transaction costs and liquidity risk, margin requirements, risk management, and portfolio construction. Other topics addressed in the module include quantitative investment strategies used by active traders and methodologies to analyse them. Through the use of case studies, students will learn to use real data to back-test or evaluate several of the most successful trading strategies used by active investment managers. As a result, students will learn to read and analyse academic research articles in search of profitable and implementable trading ideas.
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Intended learning outcomes
- A critical knowledge of common strategies in quantitative investing.
- Principles of bond market and yield used to critically assess forecasting.
- Evaluate the different theoretical foundations of active investment management.
- The ability to identify, assess, and analyse common investment pitfalls through overleveraging and underappreciating.
- Utilise financial and economic databases for real-world applications.
- Use statistical packages and other programming tools to make investments, measure performance, and change strategic direction in response to rapidly changing market conditions.
- Make informed stock selections by measuring risk and applying risk management and analytical theory to choices.
- Make informed market decisions with a deep understanding of capital markets and major investable asset classes.
- Analyse the performance of investment products over time by using large data sets and statistical packages for measuring performance.
- Perform the functions of a quantitative research analyst at an investment firm with autonomy.
- Critically assess challenges of leveraging and shorting.
- Communicate effectively to technical and nontechnical audiences about underlying empirical evidence that informs investment decisions.
- Apply modern risk management and analytical theory to stock selection.
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Throughout this module, students will develop the analytical tools necessary to understand crisis prevention and management, and risk management. The properties and characteristics of risk management techniques will be analysed and related to corporate and sovereign default risk, hedging and trading strategies, regulation, and assessing financial stability and systemic risk. Emphasis will be put on applying these techniques to problems emerging in the marketplace.
Additionally, this module addresses the ability of different risk management approaches to account for large market shocks. Students will study the effect of leverage, through borrowing or through the structuring of assets, in amplifying shocks and increasing risk, and the role of capital in mitigating them. The information learned in this module will help business leaders understand their role in regulatory compliance and participate constructively in these interactions.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Select topics in corporate governance, accounting, and disclosure that prioritize the health of financial markets.
- Implementation of M&A-related risk management with respect to capital structure and interest rate risk.
- A critical understanding of key funding issues including how much debt a company should have, how different types of debt compare, and liability management techniques.
- Commodity risk management, including derivatives available and hedging techniques.
- Evaluate legal risk and reputational risk as factors in risk management.
- Develop effective risk management policies which address key roles and responsibilities, different approaches, advisable policy limits, and performance assessments.
- Assess interest rate risk management, including the risks of different types of liabilities, how liabilities are optimised with respect to cost versus risk, derivatives available, hedging, and pre hedging techniques.
- Identify and measure risk exposures using factor models, Monte Carlo simulations, and Value at Risk.
- Critically assess counterparty risk management, including derivatives available, and hedging techniques.
- Perform currency risk management, including assessing the different types of currency risk for a given organization, evaluating different hedging techniques, and managing emerging market currency risk.
- Perform critical evaluations of risk factors and evaluate risk management approaches on the basis of incomplete information in a fast-changing business context.
- Research solutions to real-world risk management problems across a variety of risk factors (currency risk, commodity risk, etc).
- Communicate the importance of risk management, key objectives, concerns, and challenges to technical and nontechnical audiences.
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Upon completion of this course, you will gain a deep understanding of how business analytics supports data-driven decision-making in an evolving business landscape. You will explore key analytics frameworks, learning how organisations leverage data to navigate uncertainty and drive strategic growth. Through practical applications, you will differentiate between various data-driven techniques and examine their real-world implementation across industries such as banking and healthcare. Additionally, you will critically assess the challenges and ethical considerations of integrating analytics tools into business processes, equipping you to apply these insights effectively in your organisation.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Assess the evolution of business analytics and its role in data-driven decision-making.
- Analyse business analytics and AI concepts to real-world case study, focussing on enhancing strategic and operational outcomes.
- Evaluate emerging trends, ethical considerations, and risk mitigation strategies in AI and business analytics.
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Upon completion of this programme, you will develop a customer-centric and future-oriented marketing mindset to promote sustainable growth in your organisation, or organisations you might work with in the future. Additionally, you will delve into the foundational topic of finance and economics-valuation. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of how key concepts are applied in financial decision-making and investment strategies.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Develop a customer-centric marketing mindset to drive sustainable business growth.
- Analyse company valuation using comparables analysis and financial modelling techniques, including LBO.
- Apply segmentation, targeting, positioning (STP), and the marketing mix (4Ps) to optimise brand strategies.
- Evaluate key financial valuation methods, including NPV and DCF, to inform investment decisions.
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Upon completion of this programme, you will develop fluency in the fundamental frameworks and analytical tools needed to effectively assess an organisation's strategic landscape. Through a blend of theoretical exploration and practical application, you'll gain the ability to develop insightful strategic recommendations for organisational success. Additionally, you will develop the knowledge and skills to analyse and improve how work is performed in your organisation.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Understand and assess an organisation’s environment using key frameworks.
- Develop strategic recommendations through analysis and research.
- Apply frameworks to enhance operational efficiency.
- Optimise processes using operations management principles.
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In this course, you will develop the strategic awareness and practical skills needed to lead digital transformation effectively within your organisation. You will explore the drivers of digital disruption, learn how to critically assess emerging technologies, and understand how to deliver transformation projects that align with organisational goals. You will also gain essential insights into cyber risk: how
to anticipate, mitigate, and respond to threats, and learn how to embed cyber resilience into your leadership approach. Through case studies, frameworks, and reflection exercises, you will build the confidence to lead digital initiatives in an informed, strategic, and future-ready way.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Identify and mitigate cyber risks to ensure secure digital environments.
- Analyse the opportunities and risks associated with digital transformation.
- Develop and apply strategies to successfully deliver digital transformation initiatives.
- Critically evaluate emerging technology trends and their organisational impact.
- Lead digital transformation through a cyber resilience lens, aligning with strategic goals and stakeholder expectations.
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The Digital Action Programme for Business Administration provides a capstone course in which students deepen and apply their learning through a 'Digital Action Programme' (DAP). In the DAP, students are grouped into cohorts (typically five students) and must work both individually and together on a specific, real, contemporary business consultancy problem related to their specialisation (Data Analytics; Marketing; Finance; International Business; DEI), normally proposed by a cooperating organisation (corporation or non-profit), which results in a comprehensive solution proposal.
This provides students with a real-world business consultancy engagement, and the opportunity to produce, both individually and as a team, a substantial piece of relevant, scholarly, and actionable research, to be presented directly to stakeholders in the cooperating organisation.
Over the course of the DAP, students fulfil the learning objectives: each student demonstrates their comprehensive knowledge and understanding of key business processes; each student uses multidisciplinary approaches to perform critical analyses of real business issues in situations of uncertainty and incomplete information in order to develop an actionable solution; each student practises teamwork, exercises their leadership skills, and reflects on their own performance and the performance of their cohort; and each student communicates to members of their cohort, the cooperating organisation, and faculty members from Woolf. Students are required to demonstrate autonomy, individual scholarly acumen, self-reflection in their engagement with peers, role adaptability within their cohort, and teamwork while engaged in the DAP. The goal of the DAP is (1) to fulfil the learning objectives and (2) to produce a project portfolio containing an analysis of the business problem and the proposed solution.
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Intended learning outcomes
- Key strategies for applying creativity and leadership to a contemporary business problem.
- Topics for the advanced management of a contemporary business problem.
- Critical knowledge of a contemporary business problem.
- Diverse scholarly views on a contemporary business problem.
- Theories for business applications in the pursuit of a solution to a contemporary business problem.
- Autonomously gather material and organise it into a coherent, comprehensive presentation.
- Creatively apply the theories learned in the module to develop critical and original solutions for the challenges of a contemporary business problem.
- Apply an in-depth domain-specific knowledge and understanding to a contemporary business problem
- Employ the standard modern conventions for the presentation of scholarly work and scholarly referencing.
- Demonstrate self-direction in research and originality in solutions developed.
- Act autonomously in identifying research problems and solutions related to a contemporary business problem; act as a professional team member where appropriate.
- Efficiently manage interdisciplinary issues that arise in connection with analysing and proposing a solution to a contemporary business problem.
- Apply a professional and scholarly approach to research problems pertaining to a contemporary business problem.
- Solve problems and be prepared to take leadership decisions related to a contemporary business problem.
- Create synthetic contextualised discussions of key issues related to a contemporary business problem.
Entry Requirements
Application Process
Submit initial Application
Complete the online application form with your personal information
Documentation Review
Submit required transcripts, certificates, and supporting documents
Assessment
Your application will be evaluated against program requirements
Interview
Selected candidates may be invited for an interview
Decision
Receive an admission decision
Enrollment
Complete registration and prepare to begin your studies
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