Cardiff Business School

Designed to give you a strong grounding in the basics of business management, the Foundation phase introduces you to the core components that make organisations function. You’ll understand the resources that an organisation requires, the processes that control organizational operations, and the approaches through which organizations relate to their international and external environments. It also develops the skills you will need to complete your MBA study successfully.

• * Study Skills
• * Financial Analysis and Control
• * Organisational Behaviour
• * Marketing
• * Economics and the Business Environment
• * Operations Analysis

The Application phase provides you with the opportunity to advance your thinking and knowledge by developing and applying the core themes studied in the Foundation phase. This phase focuses on the strategic business context, the development of organisational human capital, the management of the marketing function and the analysis and control of financial and business operations. You will undertake a business plan that is group based, giving you the opportunity to develop team working skills. You will work in an international, multicultural team where you will solve complex business problems, integrating the skills and knowledge gained in other modules. The group business plan will involve input from external business mentors, giving you the opportunity to test your ideas and to develop further understanding of the dynamics of businesses.

• Economics and the Business Environment
• Financial Management
• Human Resource Management
• Marketing Management
• Strategic Management
• International Business
• Group Business Plan

Students choose 1 lead elective:

• * Corporate Governance
• * International Management
• * Marketing Research
• * Strategic Operations Management
• * Strategic Human Resource Management

and two other other electives from within one pathway or from a combination of pathways.

• * Advances in Strategic Marketing
• * Consumer Behaviour
• * Corporate Governance
• * Electronic Business
• * Global Marketing
• * International Management
• * International Sustainable Business
• * Lean Operations
• * Management Consulting
• * Management in Emerging Economies
• * Management of Change
• * Managerial Finance
• * Marketing Research
• * Multinational Financial Management
• * Strategic Human Resource Management
• * Strategic Operations Management

Please click here to see a detailed diagram of the various pathways available in specialisation stage of the programme.

Replacing the traditional dissertation, the Business project provides the opportunity to test the theories you have learnt in a simulated, practical environment. Knowledge from across the subjects studied in the Foundation and Application phases will be integrated within this project, the final part of the Specialisation period. Teaching faculty from across the Academic Sections of the School will be involved within the project part of the programme. You will be supported by a member of faculty who will act as your internal project mentor throughout the duration of the project.