Executive MBA
Strategy & Geopolitics
This course empowers you to craft effective international strategies and confidently navigate organisational and geopolitical complexities.
Start: 25 February 2027
About the course
Purpose
Gain the insights and skills you need to thrive globally in a fastchanging landscape shaped by fierce competition, rapid technological change, and rising geopolitical uncertainty. This course empowers you to craft effective international strategies and confidently navigate organisational and geopolitical complexities.
A solid understanding of how to manage across borders has always been important to managers and entrepreneurs. Learning how to create and implement international trade and foreign direct investment strategies, and how best to manage the organisational complexities they produce, is therefore crucial.
But while these decision-makers have for many years been able to operate in a relatively benign and predictable world, this is now increasingly being called into question by a range of developments. These include increasingly competitive markets and rapid technological changes but also a geopolitical context that is becoming more uncertain and seemingly hostile towards firms that operate across borders. Against this background, this course seeks to provide you with novel insights and skills to manage global strategy and geopolitics.
Your benefits
- Understanding of the key issues in and perspectives on global strategy.
- Devise and implement strategies for operating global firms in complex environments.
- An understanding of the challenges facing global firms in a changing geopolitical context and solutions for addressing those challenges.
Themes
- Geopolitics and foreign direct investment
- The role of formal and informal institutions
- Strategies of global firms
- Understanding geopolitical changes
- The internal organisation of global firms
- Geopolitics and supply chains
- Geopolitics and technology
Facts
Spring 2027
| Lectures: | 25-26 February, 2027 & 4-5 March, 2027 |
| Examination: |
Written hand-in exam: 12 March, 2027 Oral exam: 18 March, 2027 |
| Location: | Råvarebygningen, Porcelænshaven 22, 2000 Frederiksberg |
| Lecturers: | Michael Mol, Larissa Rabbiosi og Grazia Santangelo |
| Type: | Elective |
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You must hold a bachelor’s degree – it is possible to apply for an exemption. In addition, you must have at least two years of relevant work experience after completing your degree.
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