Programme Curriculum
The curriculum has been designed to empower working professionals in making decisions. They will gain decision making confidence by solving on average 24 management practical problems rather than memorising theory in order to pass examinations.
MA 6100
3 US credit hours
International Management
In MA 6100 you will appreciate how your workplace is part of a larger international world. You will assess how globalisation and the great technological transformation affects your workplace today and in the foreseeable future. This will be the departure point for a discussion on strategy. Furthermore, we will challenge you to assess your abilities to communicate and negotiate across cultural borders. To appreciate the uniqueness of your home country in this global world, you will design a proposal that calls for foreign direct investment into your company.
Course units include:
- The Nature of International Business
- Cross Cultural Management
- International Business Law
MA 6210 and MA 6211
each 3 US credit hours
Effective Management
In MA 6210 we will change the perspective and focus on you and your workplace. You will have an opportunity to assess your management skills and principles you apply in managing people around you. Succeeding in an executive position has much to do how you manage yourself and others.
Strategic Management
Course units include:
- Principles of effective management
- Tasks and tools of effective management
- Strategy intensive
- Mastering Complexity through Navigation
MA 6310 and MA 6311
each 3 US credit hours
Corporate Finance and Managerial Accounting
In MA 6310 and MA 6311 you will be able to analyse and evaluate the performance of your company/workplace as revealed in financial and other data you are able to access. In addition to this, you will have to evaluate the company/workplace performance including a possible investment based on the analysis of internal account data. Finally, we challenge you to plan on-going performance based on findings in your prior analysis and the intensive.
Course units include:
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Planning
- Finance Intensive
- Advanced Financial Planning
MA 6410 and MA 6411
each 3 US credit hours
Marketing Management
In MA 6410 we will start with understanding the marketing opportunity. How can you develop a market for a new product or service? This may also require developing a new geographical market for an existing product/service. In the next step, you will discover how marketing research can assist you in reducing risks associated with making marketing decisions.
Marketing Communication
Course units include:
- Strategic Marketing
- Marketing Research
- Marketing Intensive
- Leading Marketing Innovations
MA 6510 and MA 6511
each 3 US credit hours
Human Resources Management
In MA 6510 you discover human resources as a strategic asset, meant to support the strategy of your company/workplace. In doing so, you will have the opportunity to assess yourself as part of an ongoing employee development programme. You will be searching for options how to improve existing systems for appraisal of performance of HR.
Developing Leadership Practice
Course units include:
- Learning and Employee Development
- Appraisal and Performance of HR
- Human Resources Intensive
- Development of Management Skills
MA 6610 and MA 6611
each 3 US credit hours
Operations Management
In MA 6610 you will be equipped with skills to improve your personal performance as a project manager. In the second part, we will discuss ways operational activities support the business strategy, no matter whether you are into services or manufacturing. This discussion also looks at what may consider to be the main task of operations in times of globalisation: supply chain management.
Industry 4.0 and Performance Management
Course units include:
- Project Management
- Operations Processes and Supply Chain Management
- Operations Intensive
- Strategic Performance Management
MA 6800
3 US credit hours
Digital Leadership and Transformation
Students studying MA 6800 will not be promoted to become chief programmers after graduation. Rather, we like you to appreciate how digitisation will change the way how we conduct business today, and actions that need to be taken today to be in business tomorrow.
Furthermore, we allow you to return to what you have learnt by assessing the degree to which digitisation may disrupt how you manage your workplace from an operational standpoint. In particular, we will assess the sales part of your business model and integrate findings of MA 6800 into a revised strategy map.
Course units include:
- Innovation and Digital Technology
- IT and Customer Relations
- Managing IT and Strategy
MA 6999
6 US credit hours
Master Thesis
With finalising your own research project, the MA comes to an end. As experienced throughout the programme, we will ask you to solve a practical management problem again, which obviously differs in scope from smaller assignments you wrote before. Important for IBR is that you will create value for you personally and/or the company that you selected as a case. Those students that plan to continue their education at PhD level will particularly enjoy MA 6999 as it