Family Business MBA
Are you expected to make challenging management decisions? Do you want to
extend your current experience with contemporary knowledge? Are you looking to
progress your career, open your own business, or move into consultancy? Do you
want to acquire the skills, creativity and confidence that will underpin a lifetime
of management development?
The MBA provides a facilitated learning experience where you exchange views with
other participants, interact with research active tutors, and are challenged to become
a reflective manger. The course builds on a critical perspective, which understands
there is no one solution that fits every situation.
This approach enables you to explore your leadership style, understand your
strengths and weaknesses and consider a variety of approaches to change. This is
coupled with exposure to a broad range of management issues. You develop your view
of management through teamwork, group interaction, case studies, business simulation
and work-based learning and reflection.
Drawing on personal experience and applying the skills and knowledge developed the
next day are key elements of the programme. You become a confident, creative and capable
manager, well versed in all management functions, but with the flexibility to see
demanding situations from a fresh perspective.
To help you reach this point and prepare you for the challenges that many
organizations face on a daily basis, the programme builds through three stages:
Postgraduate Certificate
You acquire analytical tools drawn from economics, finance marketing, operations,
and strategic planning. You explore organizational behaviour, decision-making and
your own managerial style. Postgraduate Diploma
You consider finance, human resources, marketing and operations from both
day-to-day and strategic perspectives. You evaluate your own problem solving
and leadership styles. MBA
You pursue areas of specific interest - both your own and those of tutors.
You explore how far to take organizations and yourself forward into
sustained development.
MBA for the Family Business
The 'family business' is a complex and complicated model. For those
professionals working and advising family business clients, the issues
create a challenging client environment. Most professional training does not
deal with the range of concerns encountered in advising families engaged in
running a business.
The experience of family members in their business is of great benefit, but
there is also a possible disadvantage. Some are so involved in their firm emotionally
and otherwise, that they may find it difficult to develop an objective view.
Here, you acquire the tools and skills you need to develop an objective,
professional view.
Developed in collaboration with Grant Thornton, leading advisors to family
business, and with the support of the European Social Fund, this programme is
unique. It is a fully conforming MBA, with the same content as our standard
version. Innovative measures adapt the course especially for the family
business audience. These include: a family business focus to modules; the
opportunity for you to apply the learning directly to the family firm; flexible
assistance from experienced advisors to family firms; the sharing of experience
and learning throughout a group made up exclusively of people whose concern is
family business.
A teaching block - one for each module - typically runs from Thursday morning
through to early afternoon on Saturday. Module teaching takes place very six
weeks; between each teaching block you will undertake independent study and complete
an assessment.
The class is divided into small 'learning sets'; each set includes six to
eight students and a specialist tutor who is experienced in both family business and
in MBA-level business education. Not only are concepts and frameworks introduced
and applied, but their limitations are discussed in depth. Learning is a
continuous process and does not finish with the assessment. You are actively
encouraged to reflect on your learning, your approach to problem solving and the
broader management issues raised by assignments, sharing these reflections with
other course members.
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