Master of business administration

Core courses

Semester 1 (October - February)

Managerial spirit, individual and group dynamics
Managerial Economics
Understanding the volume/price
optimization strategies in a competitive
environment.
Financial Accounting
Mastering American (US GAAP)
and European accounting principles.
International Business Law
Corporate law, international contracts, merger & acquisition contracts, arbitration and international conflict resolution.
Organizational Behaviour
Understanding how an organization functions, making its structure evolve
in order to obtain strategic objectives.
Fundamental Marketing
Mastering fundamental concepts necessary to the analysis of a competitive environment.

Semester 2 (March – July)

Business Statistics & Data Analysis
Methods of quantitative data analysis for decision making
(Marketing, Strategy, Quality Management…)
Management Accounting
Using accounting data for cost optimization in a strategic
perspective.
Human Resources Management
including recruitment, competences and talent management,
remuneration policy and training.
Financial Management
Mastering the mechanisms and management techniques
to conduct analysis of the financial situation of a firm
and its evolution.

Operations & Supply Chain Management
Optimizing the manufacturing systems, inventory management,
quality control, innovation and firm positioning in its sector.
Developing your capacities of thinking and making decisions,
taking a long term view of the objectives, the priorities,
and the resources in a competitive environment.
Consumer’s behavior
Analysis of consumer’s behavior in different environments:
prices variations, new products launching etc.

July-August : Study Trip to Paris

Semester 3 (September – January)

Corporate Finance
The most powerful techniques to make complex financial
decisions: investment choices, financing modalities, etc.

Management Information System
Building, organizing and exploiting the information flows for
decision making.

Project Management
The importance of the Project concept in contemporary
organizations. Its implications on financial,
technical and human resources.

International Economics
Economic factors of the contemporary, global and uncertain
economic environment. Selling procedures and techniques on
international markets.

Marketing Simulation
A simulation with focus on strategic challenges in marketing which leaves students in a situation to make their own strategic decisions (segmenting, positioning, resources allocation,…) on numerous cycles, and from there to understand the consequences in a completely competitive environment.

Semester 4 (March – July)

International Development

Management Control
Mastering, by practical cases, the control tools of companies,
price policy and client profitability, budget planning and control,
performance assessment.

Doing Business in Asia/Europe
A series of conferences taking into account the cultural
aspects of business relations between Asia and Europe.

September : Research Study