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THE COPENHAGEN MBA EXPERIENCE
Progress is made when you face challenges and that is why you will be tested in a variety of ways from day one. We will push you out of your comfort zone, encouraging you to think creatively, reflect inwardly and innovate - all skills we believe are vital for future success.
Come prepared to open yourself up to opportunities and collaborate with those around you and you will quickly thrive within our diverse community of talented, engaged and experienced international students.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
Spread over one intensive year, the Copenhagen MBA curriculum is taught by world-class lecturers and business experts who promote an informal learning atmosphere with small class sizes. You will encounter a mix of teaching styles including lectures, guest speakers, case studies, immersive experiences and group work.
Sustainable Management is the central theme and you will find yourself reflecting on this as you progress through the programme.
Alongside your core courses you will take part in the Leadership Discovery Process , designed to help you uncover your personal leadership style. Through our personalised Career Module , you will identify your goals and how to get there. You will finish the MBA year with your Integrated Strategy Project or Internship Project allowing you to bring your entire MBA skillset to life.
How You Will be Assessed
The assessment of each course varies, but it typically includes take-home assignments and written and oral examinations. Tested material blends a mix of theory and practice that covers seminal academic work to current affairs. The Integrated Strategy Project culminates in a group thesis, individual thesis defence and a presentation to the company.
What You Will Study
The Copenhagen MBA curriculum has been designed to gradually build up your skills and knowledge across the course of the year, testing and challenging you along the way.
We also offer a one-week optional pre-MBA course to allow you to familiarise yourself with number-crunching business subjects, whether you have come from a humanities background or you are just a little out of practice.
Below is an outline of the courses you will encounter in each term.
Programme Outline
Key programme dates for intake cohort of 2022/2023
Pre-MBA: 26 September - 30 September 2022
Introduction Program: 3 - 7 October 2022
MBA classes commence: 10 October 2022
Christmas break: 17 December - 5 January 2023
Spring break: 11 April - 19 April 2023
Graduation date: 17 September 2023
Concentrations run during these intervals
Entrepreneurship / Governance & Sustainability
16 - 21 May 2023
13 - 18 June 2023
Digitisation / Finance
23 - 28 May 2023
20 - 25 June 2023
Read a short description of the courses offered in each semester by unfolding the drop-down menu underneath each term.
Term 1 - Understanding the organisation
The first term combines courses that allow you to better understand the foundational principles of organisational behaviour.
The term starts with reflections on how an organisation's human resources can be managed in effective and efficient ways and how such management is related to performance (Human Resource Management).
You will then learn how to gain timely and relevant information by managing an organisation's accounting systems and how to analyse a company's financial statements (Accounting).
Further, you will learn how to extract value from business data in an environment of uncertainty and time pressure and how to make sure you are adding long-term value through your organisation's digitalisation activities (Analytics and Digitalisation).
The second term looks into the organisation's market environment and prepares you to develop skills to analyse the behaviour of different market actors.
We start by understanding how organisations and investors interact and which options exist to finance their activities (Corporate Finance).
This term also includes a course in which you explore how basic economic aspects shape the environment in which businesses operate and how you can use such knowledge to tackle selected managerial problems (Economics).
Trimester two then concludes with a course on contemporary marketing techniques, enabling you to better understand how to analyse consumer behaviour and thereby generate demand for an organisation's products (Marketing).
Term 3 - Managing strategic execution
The third term encourages you to use your knowledge of how organisations and markets operate in order to lead in innovative ways.
You start with learning about how to streamline a firm’s supply chain activities in a way that you achieve a competitive edge and sustain value for the company’s customer (Operations and Supply Chain Management).
You will then learn about how to develop the organisational capabilities to manage innovation processes in organisations, and how to link these processes to strategic decisions (Innovation Management).
And finally, you will apply different concepts to analyse the competitive positioning of an organisation and to implement a coherent strategic orientation within a business (Strategic Management).
The last term allows you to personalise your MBA by choosing between our four concentrations; Digitalisation, Entrepreneurship, Finance or Governance and Sustainability.
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