International Full Time MBA

COURSES - BASICS IN DIGITAL AND BASICS IN ACTION

People and Organizations

The course aims at providing an understanding of the human and organizational contexts and the skills required to be productive and successful throughout the career path. Students will go through fundamental concepts along with current trends in organization theory and design. They will also be exposed to some of the most recent developments in organizational models and learn how to manage organizational change in various types of settings as well as face complex decisions within organizations.

Accounting and Performance Management

The objective of the course is to introduce students to some of the key tools and concepts of management accounting and control in order for managers to enhance decision making (e.g. pricing decisions, product-mix decisions), guide the implementation of strategy (e.g. through budgets and other control systems), and evaluate the performance of managers or business units (e.g. through performance measures).

Economics and Global Business

The course aims at providing the fundamentals of micro-economics and macro-economics. This type of knowledge is essential to appreciate how a modern economy works, to better understand the competitive
environment surrounding businesses, and for the managerial decision-making.
The course shows how to apply economic principles to real problems of managerial decision-making by analyzing economic theories and models together with real examples, data and case studies.
In the Global Business module, professors and professionals will illustrate and discuss the models of international trade and investment; the new features of the international production process from the point of view of a profit-maximizing firm; trade policies and their effects and the main barriers to access foreign markets; impact and long-run effects of macroeconomic policies on firms’ price competitiveness.

Strategy and Marketing

This course explores both business and corporate strategy from the perspective of the general manager, whose responsibility is to maximize the performance of a business unit within the firm or the firm’s overall performance. Consequently, the course utilizes frameworks and analytical tools to help students analyze a firm’s competitive environment, and its internal environment, strategic positioning and competitive advantage.
The marketing module aims at providing students with the basic knowledge about marketing principles and tools focusing on the importance of marketing as a value-creation lever. In the course, students will analyze all the phases of the marketing process - analysis, creation, communication and delivery of the value proposition to meet the needs of its customers, help build long term relationships and ensure that the firm builds equity with its customers.

Supply Chain and Operations

Supply Chain and Operations management is a central field in every modern business organization.
The Operations module aims to outline the typologies of productive systems, key performance indicators, the strategic approach to the choices of design and management of the productive systems and the quality management in operations. Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a process-oriented, integrated approach to procuring, producing, and delivering products and services to customers.

Innovation and Project Management

The course aims at providing the models and methods for managing innovation strategically. It focuses first on Innovation as a source of competitive advantage.
It then provides a framework for innovation management, on innovation strategy (drivers of innovation, innovation portfolio, collaboration in
innovation, complementary assets, standards, profiting from innovation). Next, it focuses on the process of innovation (vision design, creative problem solving, and product-service development). Finally, it discusses the culture and leadership for innovation.

Digital Transformation

This course provides the students with a complete and comprehensive view of the digital worlds in a rapidly changing business environment. It shows the instruments and the techniques that make ICT both
relevant for the business and able to play a leading role in business decisions. Particular attention is dedicated to the characteristics of successful organizations in the use of the digital transformation: how to define winning strategies, design effective organizational models and develop digital leaders of the future.

Finance

This is a core class that offers the basic concepts and tools necessary to understand how financial markets work, and how financial instruments are used for sound investment decision-making. The course aims at teaching students how to structure a financial analysis of a firm and providing specific tools and methodologies for the valuation of investments and securities.Topics covered include the following: evaluation techniques of investments; the financial structure of a business; financing forms; business evaluation; project financing.

Business Law

The course in International Business Law aims at providing participants with an overview of the law applicable to international transactions, with a specific focus on the rules governing international business transactions, cross-border M&As and joint-venture agreements as well as the discipline of transfer pricing.

Business Statistics

The purpose of the course is to show students the relevance of statistics in business, provide guidance for using statistical software, and give students ample practice in understanding how to apply statistics to business in order to make better managerial decisions.
At a rapidly changing pace, managers have come to rely on larger, more detailed, more reliable and more frequently updated sets of data, therefore the goal of the course is to give the right tools to collect and analyze the relevant data, as well as read and write a technical and statistical report.


BOOT CAMP - TO JUMP INTO CHALLENGING TOPICS

The Management Boot Camp will allow candidates to learn about emerging management topics under the mentorship of industry experts and company officials from the MBA Partner Companies and several other companies in the corporate network of MIP. Candidates will work on 7 different Boot Camps based on a range of emerging topics in business which they can also club with an optional Silicon Valley Experience.

THIS PHASE IS ORGANIZED IN TWO PARTS:

DEVELOPING YOUR ADVANCED SKILLS (1 WEEK EACH)

The Advanced skills courses are transversal in nature giving a cross functional view of business.

Business Planning and Financial Techniques:

• How to draft a business plan to analyse and evaluate a new business idea or a corporate entrepreneurship project
• How to finance an entrepreneurial idea: sources of financing, techniques, most relevant players, etc.

Developing an Effective Sales Strategy:

• Learning from the field: methodologies and techniques to set up an effective sales strategy
• Skills and competences required to boost your sales team

ADDRESSING COMPLEX BUSINESS CHALLENGES (2 WEEKS EACH)

The Complex Business Challenges courses focus on new and emerging management topics.

Unlocking the Potential of Smart Manufacturing and Internet of Things

• The business value of Smart Manufacturing and Internet of Things applications and technologies: Cloud Manufacturing, Industrial Analytics, Additive Manufacturing, Wearable Devices, Advanced Automation, 3D Printing
• Developing a Smart Manufacturing/Internet of Things project: business model design and strategy, marketing plan, operations, economic and financial evaluation

Going Global: Developing Your Business Internationally

• Methodologies and tools to design and develop an internationalization strategy, in terms of organization, operations, supply chain, sales strategy and relationship with the suppliers
• Developing an internationalization project: business model design and strategy, marketing plan, operations, economic and
• financial evaluation

Entrepreneurship: Launching and Financing your own Venture

• Developing your business idea: business model design and strategy, setting up of an entrepreneurial team, marketing and sales strategy, operating plan, economic and financial evaluation

Sustainability & Ethics in Business

• Understanding and analysing the management of critical «ethical issues» in complex business environments and analysing the most important Corporate Social Responsibility problems to define a real CSR Strategy
• Developing and proposing a CSR strategy in a real company

The Success Secrets of Design, Luxury and Made in Italy Excellence

• Developing a project to apply the specific methodologies and techniques commonly used in Design, Luxury and Made In Boot Camp Italy expertise to other businesses

PROJECT WORK - YOUR REAL BATTLE FIELD

Project Work is a full-time, three month experience working
inside one of the MBA Partner Companies or other companies
in the school’s corporate partner network.

This is the opportunity for students to experiment and apply the
content learnt during the classroom component of the course to
real-life situations. It is not the “usual internship” as it is a project
that sets tasks to complete and goals to fulfil and is tailored to
meet both the needs of the company and the student.

In fact, companies actually make an investment in the student and hence it is in their best interests to dedicate a great deal of attention to
both the project and student. Project Work may actually lead to a job offer in the host company at the completion of the project.