Master’s Courses

This course aims to provide a solid foundation for creating, managing, and evaluating investment portfolios. It focuses on the practical application of portfolio management and asset allocation processes, management of fixed-income and equity portfolios, performance evaluation, attribution, and reporting at asset management companies.

This course is particularly important for those interested in the areas of business analytics, operations, and marketing. Throughout the last five years, Amazon, UPS, Wal-Mart, have been gaining unprecedented mastery over supply chains strategy. They have achieved increased visibility into order processing, product and service delivery by using big data and predictive data analytics to match supply with demand. Companies from retail, healthcare and energy sectors have been trying to catch up on this success. Business leaders can benefit and learn from this mastery and develop competitive advantages for their organization. The course teaches you some of the best practices for defining competitive priorities, aligning functions behind strategy, decide on the best use of resources, and choosing the right metrics to improve decision making for various market segments. The application of software tools for data analysis is also covered.

Begin your program with an immersion experience. This is where you’ll first practice essential business skills to prepare for the program and assess your readiness on commonly used concepts and tools for industry and career preparation. You’ll begin to develop communication and teamwork skills, reflect on your personal journey, and build a strong foundation for your ongoing success.

Effective communication enables leaders to grow their impact in the world as part of a global community. In Communicating with Impact, you will learn to use storytelling as a powerful communication tool to inform, engage, motivate and inspire others. You will also develop presentation skills for success in business environments by learning how to create and deliver a clear, concise, and compelling pitch.

Influencing people is key to reaching shared understandings and goals in business. In Influencing Others, you will learn how to use influencing and persuasion tools to enable you to change people’s viewpoints and behaviours, helping you to maximise your impact in a variety of organizational contexts. Crucially, you will learn how to apply your skills to situations where you either do not have or cannot rely on formal positions of authority.

In modern organisations most of the work is done in teams and so the ability to work with others is fundamental in business. The Teamwork & Collaboration course will lay the foundations for effective teamwork by understanding yourself – your behavioural style and mindset. The course will then focus on how to collaborate with others in a variety of contexts. You will develop a broad repertoire of tools to collaborate and negotiate across cultural and generational boundaries in a range of situations.

This course covers additional Financial & Managerial accounting concepts, like: investments in securities, consolidation, non controlling interests, foreign currency transactions. This course also provides deeper presentation & expansions of some of the covered topics in previous Accounting core, like: accounting for leases, accounting for various types of shareholder equity, financial accounting & ESG, IFRS & GAAP differences, and recent changes in global accounting standards.

This course will explore the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the future of work, specifically from a business perspective. It will cover topics such as automation, blockchain and other Web3 technologies, and the ethical considerations of AI in the workplace. Students will gain a better understanding of the opportunities and challenges presented by AI, and how it can be leveraged to drive innovation and competitive advantage.