Master of Business Administration (MBA)

This module focuses on and facilitates further discussion of the implications of globalization for businesses and investigations of the primary economic dimension connected with the proliferation of globalization. The main objective of this module is to familiarize students with ideas, concepts, and ways of analyzing globalization and encourage thinking about the future agenda for global leaders in such a changing environment.

The objective of this module is to help students acquire and develop skills in relation to effective leadership within organizations. Students will understand and compare different approaches, theories and methodologies about leadership and will practice leadership behaviors through class exercises and assignments. Furthermore, students will go through the process of the “PersonalSuccess Profile” process, which is a personal goal-setting process featuring Leadership Day at the Adventure Camp in Ostia.

Students are taught the fundamental topics in accounting and financial management.

Accounting:
Topics include accrual accounting, financial statement analysis, tax accounting, backup schedules, ratio analysis, public filing (10-K) review, and other select accounting topics. The principal focus is on those aspects of accounting most used by decision-makers and most useful to students.

Financial management:
Topics include the function of financial markets, analysis of risk and return, time value of money, valuation of financial assets (stocks, bonds, derivatives), capital structure capital budgeting, and other select corporate finance topics. The principal focus is on those aspects of analysis most used by decision-makers and most useful to students.

Additionally, the following is also covered: investigative techniques, such as reading 10K’s, and other public filings to ascertain opportunity, risk, and return; valuation methodologies, such as comparable company analysis and discounted cash flow; qualitative investigative techniques, such as talking to company managements and financial research. The means to effectively communicate written and verbal analytic results are demonstrated.

This module is designed to equip students with International Business Law concepts. It covers the main topics in this field, such as the settlement of disputes, Multinational Organizations, Foreign investments Laws and Codes, and legal issues arising among businesses in the cross-border context. Therefore, the module will examine international contract law, conflict of laws, ie in case of insolvency, international private dispute resolution, choice of foreign law (the Governing Law), and the essential elements of IP rights. The course will help international affairs and other non-law students have a general understanding of international business law better to understand the underlying legal environment in global economic affairs. In addition, this module will briefly review and discuss several chapter questions and cases, as well as certain Court decisions, treaties, resolutions, and other international legal instruments of importance.

In this module students assess theories of :
1) international monetary relations (often termed by economists as global macroeconomics)
2) international finance concepts.

International Economics:

Topics covered include international trade, monetary theory, international finance, foreign exchange markets, balance of payments (and trade deficits), capital mobility, government fiscal and monetary policies, international macroeconomic cooperation, economic crises, and the role of international institutions.

International Finance:

Students learn international finance concepts and develop skills to analyze business potential in emerging markets. We study various global finance tools, including hedging, forward and futures markets, and exchange rates. Political, economic, social, and legal frameworks, among others, are studied and discussed. Emphasis is on the impact of the financial sector on economic development, performance, and crises. Additional topics include financial intermediation, privatization, portfolio management, and globalization of labor markets. Lectures, reading, and case study probe geopolitical, macroeconomic, and market trends, so that students learn to forecast the effect and understand the global impact of large-scale forces.

Permanent innovation, disruptive technological, social, and economic changes. We are in the Technological Cambrian, a unique period of digital diffusion, comparable in terms of typology and importance to the Geological Cambrian, where life has exploded in today’s variety and diversity. Recognizing the uniqueness of this period is the first step in not succumbing to it. Riding it is the next one. Opportunities are immense for people, organizations, and businesses. The module will help to understand the digital economy dynamics and acquire the tools to excel in such an environment.

Students will learn how to navigate notional culture when negotiating deals, resolving disputes, and making decisions in teams. Rather than offering country-specific protocol and customs, Negotiating Globally provides a general framework to help negotiators anticipate and manage cultural differences, incorporating the lessons of the latest research with a new emphasis on executing a negotiation-planning document. It also shows how to execute the plan, and how the cultural environment affects negotiators’ interests, priorities, and strategies. The module also explains how to distinguish good deals from poor ones and good negotiators from poor ones, as well as how resolving disputes is different from making deals, and how negotiation strategy can be used in multicultural teams. After every chapter presentation, the course does also emphasize on role-plays. The role-plays include individual ones as well as group work.

This module covers the various aspects and approaches to attract, motivate and retain human resources in organizations. The module will comprise of readings and class assignments and the focus will be on participation in class, in scenario simulations where you would act as a Human Resources Partner for a company looking to recruit the best talents or help managers improve team performance but also as a candidate going through an interview process. This will help you better understand both sides of the human resources dynamic.

This module introduces students to the subject of strategy and helps them to better understand the overall impact of internal and external influences on the firm. The basic purpose of the module is to provide the student broad insights into the practice of strategic management, and its real significance in contemporary multi-national corporations.

The module is designed to teach investing techniques, principally for publicly traded securities (although similar principles apply to private markets). Topics include; the function of financial markets, analysis of risk and return, analytic tools, valuation of financial assets: stocks, bonds, options; investigative and research techniques, such as reading 10K’s, and other public filings for opportunity; valuation methodologies; qualitative investigative techniques such as talking to company managements. Long-term financial planning, wealth management, and personal finance are also taught.

Sessions will consider the nature and scope of marketing and its role in society; the importance of a customer orientation and co-creation of brands; the contribution of marketing research; approaches to STP; and the role of marketing activities such as product, price, promotion, distribution, physical evidence, process and people. There will be a particular focus on innovation, the role of marketing in creating value and competitive advantage, and the challenges of marketing innovative products and services.

Professional and academic research are vital necessities for modern leaders to forge ahead. Research is the process of asking the right and relevant questions and of gathering and analysing the necessary data in a systematic and methodologically sound manner. An important aspect of sound professional and and academic research is to embed the research within the body of existing knowledge (applied research) and to add to it (generating new knowledge). This module will introduce the students to the basics of academic research, a pre-requisite before they start writing their thesis. The students will be trained to identify excellent research ideas, write and analyse data that leads to a relevant and timely contribution