The Saïd Business School offers a range of core courses that will enhance general management skills and knowledge. Alongside traditional teaching methods, participants are able to reflect on their own experiences and collectively to examine new methods of understanding in the global business community.
Core courses on the Executive MBA are:
- Understanding general management
- Developing effective managers
- Decision and data analytics
- Strategy
- Finance I
- Operations management
- Marketing
- Managerial economics
- Financial reporting
Understanding general management introduces some integrating themes around general management, helping you to understand the nature and personal demands of being a general manager and leader.
Developing effective managers ties concrete organisational situations – as reflected in cases, simulations, and field projects – to essential theories and effective management practices.
Decision and data analytics enhances the participant’s ability to apply modern decision technology and statistical methods to decision-making. The course uses computer software to illustrate how to apply the methodologies introduced.
Strategy focuses on the knowledge and skills required to analyse key issues in strategic decision-making. It raises awareness of process as well as analytical issues in strategic decision-making and develops the capacity to argue and support proposals in strategic decision-making situations.
Finance 1 addresses the most important question in finance: how should the firm deploy its financial resources? The course is delivered using a mixture of case study exercises, lectures, and classroom discussions.
Operations management examines the key issues in running organisations and managing business processes. Topics covered include managing customer service, quality improvement and capacity management.
Marketing focuses on preparing you to go beyond a standard set of formulations regarding marketing tasks and explore the real possibilities of the discipline in the 21st century in an environment that calls for flexibility, innovation and change.
Managerial economics focuses on the choices of firms and the implications for the evolution of industries. It covers the fundamental building blocks of supply and demand, competition and monopoly as well as focusing in some detail on the important managerial topics of pricing and strategic interaction between firms.
Financial reporting provides an understanding how modern financial reporting practices are supposed to function theoretically from technical and institutional viewpoints and evaluates how and to what extent the roles of financial reporting are achieved in practice.