MBA

Accelerated MBA

Course Description 

This course will provide delegates with an overview of each of the core topics covered in a full 1-2 year MBA programme. In particular it will provide delegates with an overview of business disciplines including finance, marketing, strategy, management, operations and M&A.  

The course covers the underlying theories of each of these subject areas, whilst also providing delegates with the skills to apply these theories to their own working environments.

The course is taught such that the theories are combined with real world case studies and examples, focusing on the successes and failures of a variety of large businesses, in order to learn from their experiences.

 

Who should attend?

This course is for anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of how to manage a business, division or team, including:

• General Managers
• Team Leaders
• Prospective and Future Managers
• Business Analysts
• Financial Analysts

 

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course delegates should have a broad understanding of the following subject areas:

• Strategy: Porter’s five forces and industry value chain analysis, activity/resource-based sources of competitive advantage
• Marketing: defining the market, customer segmentation, assessing market potential, writing marketing plans, managing brand image and identity, measuring the performance of marketing spending
• Corporate Finance: methods of company valuation, creating shareholder value through WACC and ROIC concepts, managing the factors such as asymmetric information involved in financing, investment and payout decisions
• Organisational Behaviour: principles of communication, managing moods and emotions, building and managing successful teams, principles of persuasion, motivation and feedback, leadership, negotiation, organisation structure design, cultural change
• Management decision-making: understanding human biases inherent in decision-making such as Framing, Anchoring, Availability, Representativeness, Overconfidence, Escalation of Commitment, as well as how to put in place mechanisms to counteract or effectively use such biases and emotions within an organization
• Operations: matching supply & demand, tradeoffs between market responsiveness and efficiency, managing quality through methods such as six-sigma, managing buyer-supplier relationships, and the Bullwhip phenomenon
• M&A: creating & capturing value through M&A, context for successful M&A, alliances and partnerships as an alternative to M&A
• Managerial accounting: measuring profitability appropriately, activity-based costing, and the Balanced Scorecard

 

Teaching Style

Classroom style lectures featuring use of up-to-date relevant case studies and examples. Highly interactive with delegates encouraged to participate fully.

 

Knowledge Pre-requisites

It is expected that participants will have at least some experience with business and/or finance and solid mathematical ability.

 

Course Programme

View the detailed course programme.

 

Tutor

Mark Colley - see tutors.

 

Duration

3 days or 6 evenings.

 

Course Fee

£1,500.00 plus VAT

Early Bird Discount – book by April 16th and receive a 15% discount.

 

Course Dates

The next scheduled Accelerated MBA session is an evening course on the following dates.

2012	June	5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21