MBA Master of Business Administration (Executive) MBA

In this module, you'll explore how businesses create value for their customers by bringing together ideas from marketing and operations management. You'll learn how to analyse the market environment and an organisation's resources, using these insights to identify ways to improve performance while meeting customer needs. Through a practical approach, you'll develop your critical thinking and communication skills and strengthen your ability to apply marketing and operations management theory in an organisational context. You'll gain knowledge and skills that you can apply within your own organisation or other business settings.

In this module, you'll explore how leadership can support sustainable organisational performance across social, economic and environmental dimensions. You'll examine responsible leadership, business ethics, systems thinking, organisational complexity, governance and financial decision-making. Drawing on leadership, organisation studies, human resource management, strategy and finance, you'll learn to evaluate evidence, balance stakeholder expectations and assess options for long-term value creation. Through applied and collaborative learning, you'll develop the critical judgement, self-awareness and contextual sensitivity needed to recommend and communicate responsible approaches to organisational change in complex and uncertain settings.

This module will help you understand how strategy takes shape in today's complex organisations. You'll explore contrasting theories and frameworks and consider how they can strengthen strategy development and strategic decision-making. Along the way, you'll examine key concepts such as sources of competitive advantage and organisational responsibilities, developing your ability to apply them critically. By focusing on your own organisation, or one you know well, you'll connect theory with practice, generate insights into strategic challenges and opportunities, and use these to propose changes to organisational strategy.

In this module, you'll develop the skills, self-awareness and professional confidence needed to manage your career and support your long-term success in business and management. Using an active and experiential approach to learning, you'll explore reflective practice, personal and career goal-setting, commercial awareness, and skills and competency frameworks. You'll evaluate your strengths, values and professional aspirations, while developing your understanding of ethical practice, sustainability and global citizenship. By the end of the module, you'll be able to articulate your professional development, identify future growth opportunities and communicate your career ambitions effectively.

This module explores the drivers of transformation, innovation and sustainable growth in contemporary organisations. You'll examine how environmental, technological and organisational factors influence the need for change and how businesses respond through innovation and digital transformation. Topics may include innovation management, sustainability, strategic growth, environmental analysis and data-driven decision-making. The module encourages critical evaluation of opportunities and obstacles to change while developing your ability to create and implement strategies that support long-term organisational success in rapidly evolving environments.

This module introduces advanced approaches to business research, consultancy and enterprise. You'll explore research philosophies, methodologies and ethical considerations while developing the critical enquiry skills needed to investigate complex business issues. The module may include consultancy processes, project planning, literature review, data analysis and business idea development. Through applying research knowledge to academic, consultancy or enterprise projects, you'll learn how to evaluate evidence, build on existing knowledge and develop project proposals that respond to organisational and societal needs.

This capstone module provides the opportunity to implement a substantial independent MBA project. You'll build on an approved proposal to undertake an investigation, consultancy project or enterprise project focused on a business issue of your choice. The module develops advanced skills in research, analysis and critical evaluation while encouraging the application of learning to real-world business challenges. Through independent enquiry, you'll explore how organisations create social, environmental and economic value, while strengthening your ability to communicate evidence-based findings and recommendations.