Management

Core modules:

This term encompasses a wide range of fundamental knowledge and key skill areas in management discipline.

• Accounting and Finance

  The aim of the module is to equip you with an understanding of the most common financial and accounting techniques and practices. Seeking a career in professional services, and more generally in the management and business arena, you need to have a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles in finance.

  The accounting and finance module is designed to teach you key areas of accounting and finance that every modern and successful manager should be aware of.

• Principles of Marketing and Strategy

  The probability and statistics module will assume that students will arrive with no knowledge of probability or statistics.

  The module will start with basic concepts such as summary statistics and basic probability and will develop these concepts to more advanced topics such as confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, regression and probability distributions.

  This module forms part of the CT3 course of the IFoA.

• Digital Management

  This module hones digital strategic skills and digital leadership skills focusing on survival through digital innovation – how the best leaders are managing change and adapting to shifting circumstances.

• Quantitative Methods for Business

  This module introduces some principal quantitative methods for analysing data related to various aspects of running a business.

  In many instances, the application of quantitative methods may improve the quality of business decisions, by grounding those decisions in analyses of available data rather than the gut feelings or preferences of decision makers.

Core modules:

In this term we transfer significant curriculum content choice to students which will increase not only your satisfaction with the course but also develop your potential, as course content can be tailored to your personal interests and career aims.

• Business & Managerial Economics

  This module provides you with an understanding and practical knowledge of economics.  The course assumes no background in economics, covers basic microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, and concentrates on the application of that theory and on the making and analysis of economic policy.

  Managerial economics is a branch of economics that applies microeconomic analysis to decision methods of businesses or other management units. As such, it bridges economic theory and economics in practice. It draws heavily from quantitative techniques such as regression analysis, correlation and calculus.

  The module integrates many concepts from financial economics, game theory, business forecasting and industrial economics.

• Research Methods for Business

  This module provides a set of analytical and methodological tools that will be fundamental for carrying out research projects based on empirical data.

  Managers, consultants, analysts, bankers, entrepreneurs, all face the issue of how to draw reliable conclusions from empirical data e.g. data on customers, competitors, geographical areas, etc.

  Any business needs research and, to be successful, any business needs methodologically sound and rigorous research.

Plus two electives from the following:

• Advanced Strategy Analysis

  This course asks why some firms are more successful than others and explores what corporate executives can do to enable superior results.

  This course revolves around two advanced topics in strategic management: a) knowledge and innovation and b) corporate strategy.

• Entrepreneurship

  The main aim of this module is to provide an understanding of the basic and essential issues in entrepreneurship and to provide some of the skills you will need to become an entrepreneur or to act entrepreneurially within existing organisational settings.

  This is an integrative module addressing both the theoretical and practical issues of entrepreneurship.

  The module will start with a general view over the latest theoretical approach to entrepreneurship. It will then move on to the more practical issues in entrepreneurship: identifying the opportunity, gathering the resources and the team.

  In this respect, we will be developing a business idea using the business model canvas and we will practice on how to pitch to investors.

• International Finance

  Business executives cannot ignore the international dimension in finance.

  A proper understanding of the fundamental issues behind international trade, international capital flows, the rise to prominence of the multinational corporation, and international debt (including balance of payments debt) has important bearings on business decisions.

  This module aims to allow you to get a solid grasp of the following topics:

  • International trade and the multinational corporation
  • The global FX and derivatives markets
  • FX risk and currency exposure
  • Use of derivatives and cash market hedges to mitigate FX exposure
  • International loans and bond issues
  • Swap-driven financing
  • Natural and real hedges and other strategies to mitigate long-term operating risks.

• Supply Chain Management

  This module is a combined version of operations management (OM) and supply chain management (SCM) modules with more emphasis on analytical skills.

  In any industry, managing process, operations and supply chain is one of the most important tasks of a modern enterprise.

  Therefore, having a thorough understanding of these two areas is critical to your success in your MSc in Management.

  The aim of this module is to provide you with a postgraduate level understanding of the key topics of OM and SCM

• Organisational Behaviour & HRM

  Organisational Behaviour (OB) and Human Resource Management (HRM) principles and practices encompass the so-called ‘soft skills’ that employers require from university graduates.

  These skills are transferable, meaning they can be used in many different contexts and types of role, and are essential for the effective and modern manager-to-be.

  The transferable, soft-skills that you will develop on this module include personal qualities and attitudes that help you to work well with others and make a positive contribution to organisations you work for.

Core modules:

• Business Research Project

  Any business needs research and, to be successful, any business needs methodologically sound and rigorous research.

  This module allows you to demonstrate, on an individual basis, your ability to integrate and apply concepts and techniques you have learned in an in-depth study of a topic of your choice, and to organise your findings in a report.

  All conducted within a given time limit.

  The aim of the project is to enable you to demonstrate the results of your learning; there is no single prescribed method and any reasonable proposal is acceptable providing that it is agreed with the project supervisor and the course director.

Elective modules:

Students choose 3 electives out of all available electives plus dissertation

• Business and Society

  This module explores the role of the firm in the 21st Century. It goes beyond corporate social responsibility and the economic concept of the firm and explores the concept of the licence to operate. It attempts to answer the question What is the contract between businesses and society in the early 21st century?

  A business cannot operate in a vacuum without understanding and managing its impact on the communities (or society) where it operates.

• Consulting Project

  In this module you will utilise use skills and knowledge gained during the first two terms in order to carry out a consulting project for a company selected by Bayes.

  At the start of the term groups of 5/6 students are each assigned to a particular company, which becomes your client. An executive from your client will brief you about the real-life business issue or opportunity that you should be addressing. If requested by the client you will also sign a non-disclosure agreement.

  Each group is also followed by a faculty coach.

  You will negotiate terms of engagement with the client executive and create and agree a project plan. In this plan you will research the assigned business issue or opportunity over a period of about six weeks, meeting up with your client at agreed times. You will recommend a solution and create a pragmatic implementation plan. You will then be asked to present your findings in a final workshop to your client and your peers.

  Read about student successes from participating in the Consulting Project module.

  Download the brochure (for organisations interested in being clients for one of the Consulting Projects)

• Global Strategy

  The purpose of this course is to expand your global mindset and provide you with theories, knowledge and practical tools that you can use to achieve success in the global business environment.

  To this end the course touches upon important topics such as global strategy execution, cross-cultural communication and learning, the challenges of managing projects across the varied customs and practices of the world, and the development of internationally sophisticated employees, teams and managers.

  Special focus is placed on how employees with a global mindset can effectively execute the international strategies of the firm, guided by an awareness of cross- cultural differences.

  The last part of the course focuses particularly on the challenge of managing culturally diverse teams, introducing you to the nuances of various cultures but also presenting you with tools to explore and leverage culture.

• Practicing Management in the Digital Age

  This module builds heavily on the preceding core modules and explicitly complements them. It is organised around seminar presentations by eminent practitioners.

  The themes chosen will vary from year to year given the nature of the course, but the aim is to select areas that are both topical and problematic, with some preference for emerging themes rather than ones that are the recent "hot topics".

• Leadership: Theory and Practice

Electives offered in 2019

• Innovation in Organisations
• New Market Creation
• Political Risk Management
• Project Leadership
• Retail Supply Chain Management
• Storytelling for Business
• Strategy Consulting Skills
• Ethics, Society and The Finance Sector

International electives

• Strategic Innovation in Hyper Competition (taught in Bologna, Italy)
• Start-ups: International Field Trip (taught in Helsinki, Finland; Barcelona Spain and Paris, France)
• Start-ups: International Field Trip (taught in Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Procurement (taught in Mannheim, Germany)
• The Monetary Policy (taught in Singapore)
• Uncredited International Study Tours (Milan, Florence, Prague, Lisbon and Berlin)

In summary as our curriculum combines great measure of flexibility in its course structure allowing you to have a significant choice and control over your studies.

The Course Director will partner with students to provide the support which allows you to form a learning program as unique and individualised as you are, even if this is general management degree.

See the MSc Management Programme Specification