Core modules
Data Driven Decision Making
Build your analytical and critical thinking skills as you learn how and why managers apply behavioural science insights to their strategy, leadership style and day-to-day decision-making.
Dissertation
Synthesise, apply and extend the knowledge you have gained in the taught component of this course in this 6,000 word dissertation.
Performance Management of the Firm
Develop the key skills and knowledge to assess the strategy, management and performance of a firm, and how they meet their stakeholder expectations.
Customer Value Management
Gain a comprehensive understanding of how customer value is created for customers as you consider both applied and practical marketing and operations theory.
Purpose, Impact and Profits
This module will encourage you to consider the very purpose of a company’s existence, and how and why that has changed over time. Discover how companies must find the right balance between profit, and social or environmental impact in order to prosper.
Strategies for the Global Economy
The global economy is a dynamic one, which shows no signs of slowing down. This module explores the different business strategies, mitigations and forecasts that managers must employ in this ever-changing climate.
Leading & Managing Change
Develop an understanding of some of the challenges faced by leaders and managers within an increasingly volatile organisational environment.
Optional modules
Optional modules can vary from year to year. Example optional modules may include:
Current Issues in Leadership
This module is designed to provide you with the ability to critically assess issues related to leadership and management in organisations, with a particular emphasis on management consulting.
Digital Strategy & Agile Transformation
Using the latest strategy learning techniques used in leading firms and consultancies, this module will help you develop a toolkit for becoming a competent strategist and deal with agile transformations.
Digital Business Services
Focus on how digital technologies enable organisations to offer digital services that aim at improving customer experience as well as firm performance. You'll be prepared to engage with technology-related conversations in the modern workplace.
Entrepreneurial Finance
This module will enable you to understand the fundamental need for finance in entrepreneurial companies, the flow of capital around entrepreneurial young companies and how to execute a practical fundraising strategy for a start-up.
International Business
Build on your knowledge of the global economic and business environment and link this to strategies for managing in changing global contexts.
Entrepreneurial Mindset
This module will provide you with a broad understanding of the theory and practice of entrepreneurship, with a special focus on the entrepreneurial mindset.
Business Analytics for Managers
This module will introduce you to the theory and practice of conducting business analytics projects.
Case Studies in Data Science & Economics
This module will provide you with training in applying data science methods to contemporary economic problems, giving you the opportunity to conduct a data science project using economic data.
Developing Consulting Expertise
This module will teach you about the crucial soft and technical skills needed for successfully gaining roles with the tier-1 consulting firms.
People & Organisations
Through this module you will be introduced to key theories and research concerning the behaviour, leadership, and management of people and organisations.
Introduction to Consulting
This module will introduce you to the world of consulting, focusing on the process and the requirement for management consultants.
Strategic Human Resource Management
The aim of the module is to provide you with a deep understanding of this strategic role of human capital management and the tools with which to analyse and manage it.
Management Internship
This internship module presents the unique placement opportunity to gain hands-on experience at a company of your choosing.
Business, International Finance & Economics
This module will provide real world examples and case studies to illustrate how economic thinking helps businesses make the most of new opportunities, while managing the risks associated with expansion into new markets and regions.
International Management
Gain cultural exposure and expand your knowledge of international business and global management.
Managing Human Resources in Contemporary Organisations
Through this module you’ll be introduced to a range of debates that are central to the human resource management and employment relations field.
Governance and Corporate Responsibility
Understand the wider institutional location of business activity within the polity and the society.
Digital Working & Organisational Transformation
You'll gain a broad understanding of the tools and organisational arrangements driving the shift towards digital working, and learn the techniques and frameworks to operate effectively in this more dynamic and fluid work environment.
Project Management
Look at project management methods in a modern context, spanning a range of sectors and applications.
Behavioural Economics
You'll be introduced to the ways in which economists and psychologists have used behavioural theories and experimental methods to provide extensions to, or alternatives to, the conventional economic wisdom covered in the first term module Fundamentals of Economic Behaviour.
Digital Marketing Technology & Management
Gain an overview of how today's firms use digital marketing practices to achieve their business objectives, giving theoretical and practical subject knowledge and understanding.
Forecasting for Decision Makers
This module will train you in the key methods that aid decision making when managers face an uncertain future.
Corporate Finance
Get an introduction to the principles of Corporate Finance and learn how the basic tools and techniques of modern finance theory can be applied to analyse and improve the investment and financing decisions of the firm.
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