Current Electives (6 ECTS each, Total 30 ECTS). Electives are subject to change.
Business Analytics
The module introduces the concepts of decision making under uncertainty and statistical knowledge formation. Students will learn estimation, hypotheses testing, model building, queuing theory and discrete event simulation, including their application to business cases.
Challenging International Managers and Leaders
This elective module provides students who seek to be challenged by real-world cases from different areas, be it mergers & acquisitions, digitalisation, turning companies around, managing change, or coping with a crisis.
Corporate Reputation and Brand Development
This module draws on a wide range of disciplines including corporate communications, marketing, sustainability, organisational behaviour, HR and strategic management when discussing how to develop, manage and protect corporate reputations and brands.
Corporate Responsibility Management
The topic of this module is how companies take on responsibility through considering specific concerns of their stakeholders and developing management approaches which harmonise economic objectives and environmental and social issues.
Cross-Cultural Consumer Behaviour
This module adopts a psychological, cross-cultural, technological and economical approach to consumer research and consumer behaviour analysis and also explores the implications for individual consumers, organisational consumers and marketers.
Disruptive Change and Enterprise Transformation
This module offers students a framework to understand what organisations are capable of accomplishing in disruptive change situation. Students will learn how a company’s disabilities become more sharply defined even as its core capabilities grow.
Educational and Managerial Experiences in China (Intensive Learning Module)
This intensive learning module takes place during the mid-semester's catchup weeks. It provides students with the opportunity to connect and engage with students and companies in China to learn about Chinese businesses, education, and organisational and social cultures.
Emerging Topics in International Management
The module aims to raise students' abilities to manage effectively and efficiently in a changing world. Students will learn about the contextual conditions and success factors of management innovations in different types of international companies and markets.
Eurasia-Pacific Enrichment Economy
This intensive module provides students an opportunity to explore and work on a real project with a different cultural, social, commercial and development context, including strategised and enrichment activities for a prospective region.
EYA International Student Project (Council of Europe collaborative module, field trip included)
This module is part of a European Project involvement based on the goals defined by the Council of Europe and Europe 2020, as well as the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The international business analysis and project includes a short field trip and intensive symposium.
Going Global, Human Resources Challenges for a digital Future
This module focuses on the future digital challenges that managers may face in understanding human resources and addresses topics such as global talent management, international mobility and careers and corporate governance and how they impact on human resources in the sharing economy.
International Competitiveness and Local Clusters
This module is based on a distinctive course platform developed at Harvard Business School by Professor Michael E. Porter, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. The module is taught with the permission and support of Professor Porter and his Institute.
International Management Accounting & Controlling
Students strengthen the foundations of management accounting, learn the concepts of controlling and are able to put the findings into a higher-level context.
Internationalisation of Business
Students will participate in a highly recognized award winning cross-cultural organisation of projects. Students will work alongside partners from different countries to compete, collaborate, and learn the ‘real challenges’ and best practices of international business consulting.
Leading People in Changing Environments
Students learn to develop a ‘critical discourse’ about the nature and relevance of leadership in different business sectors and across diverse strategic business contexts, incorporating in depth discussion of case studies and applying a variety of strategic management tools.
Negotiating International Strategic Alliances
Students will use a variety of case studies and/or simulations to see the function of strategic alliance negotiations and be conversant with key concepts in the areas of strategic alliances in the context of international business strategies and partnerships.
Technologies for International Customer Engagement
This module will provide the global best-practice concepts and an overview of technologies that drive and support the digital transformation, innovation and marketing strategies to drive customer engagement and business performance.
Independent Learning Module
Students can choose a module from the MSc Business Information Systems programme.
