Each participant has the opportunity to tailor the Executive MBA programme to their own particular areas of interest via electives. Electives allow participants to specialise in certain subject areas to either strengthen their current skill set or improve on their weaker areas while gaining depth and breadth across the range of business and management disciplines. Participants must complete a total of eight electives - four core electives and four other electives from a range of options.
Core electives
Finance 2 continues the overview of corporate finance provided in Finance 1. The emphasis of the course is on financial decisions from the perspective of the organisation – the finance director or the corporate treasurer. This course takes a practical perspective on corporate finance focusing on the main decisions of the firm and illustrating these with case studies and exercises.
Strategy and innovation takes shape at the interface of what we know about market emergence, organisational capabilities, and the strategic management of new technologies. This course explores key challenges that confront entrepreneurs who design and build new technology-based businesses.
Macroeconomics looks at economic growth and macroeconomic forecasting through money, inflation and interest rates. Interest and foreign currency hedging are examined through the use of derivatives, futures and swaps, and exchange rates and balance of payments as well as financial stability and regulation are explored.
Global strategy focuses on providing you with the tools needed to formulate and implement strategies for global expansion. Although levels of global economic integration have increased dramatically over the last three decades, the global economy is still far from being perfectly integrated, and the differences between national markets remain critically important. The objective of this course is to provide future business leaders the tools needed to evaluate the opportunities and risks of global expansion and to successfully implement a global strategy.
Financial management aims to introduce the basic techniques and approaches of financial management. Specific aims include: to provide a grounding in cost analysis frameworks, customer profitability analysis, the construction of robust budgets and planning systems, and financial control and performance evaluation.
Other elective courses
We want to ensure that all the electives we offer keep up with current developments in management and business. Therefore, each member of the class is asked to forward their top four preferred elective choices. Our faculty will then create a list of electives to suit the class and, if required, join topic areas together to create a new elective choice enabling a truly tailored offering.
Subjects may include: (subject to change)
- Branding and communications
- Entrepreneurial finance
- Corporate turnaround
- Corporate valuation
- Designing better futures
- Behavioural finance
- Private equity
- Social entrepreneurship
- Strategy implementation
- Theory and practice of strategic negotiation