EMBA 510 Financial Reporting Analysis 

Understanding the financial health of a company through financial statements has significant implications for equity valuation and net worth assessment. Students get acquainted with financial statements prepared under different accounting practices prevailing globally. They develop a perspective on interpreting, analyzing and applying them in an appropriate manner. Through problem solving and analysis of corporate annual reports, students make reliable estimates about the present financial health of a corporation and expected future performance.

EMBA 520 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Effective financial management is essential for the value-creation and long-term survival of a business organization. Students learn valuation of securities issued by corporations and managerial decisions related to long-term investments, sources of funds, and distribution of earnings among shareholders. Through case studies, numerical problems, and projects based on real life situations, the students learn the dynamics of financial management at corporate level.

EMBA 525 Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

The survival of our planet is dependent on the collective efforts of all entities. Students explore how firms’ responsibilities are expanding to include non-financial elements as society welfare and global sustainability. They learn about the models and theories explaining concepts as corporate social responsibility, sustainability and global ecosystems. Through case studies, in-class discussions, students grasp the shift occurring in firms’ operations and strategies to become more sustainable, yet remain profitable.

EMBA 530 Contemporary Corporate Governance

Corporate governance calls for accountability and transparency. Students learn are introduced to its related concepts and implications for the sustainability of modern business enterprise. Through case studies, group activities and simulation exercises, they gain insights into key mechanisms of corporate governance, the policies influencing them, and the methods used in line with globally accepted best practices.

EMBA 535 Negotiation for Executives

Effective negotiation skills are essential as a personality trait in an entrepreneur for clinching beneficial deals, building strong inter-personal relations and overall corporate success. The students learn the science and art of negotiating with business partners, regulatory bodies, subordinates and top management for win-win solutions with wider acceptability. By using case studies, group activities and simulation exercises, the students develop the skills of closing business deals, managing conflicts, resolving deadlocks and communicating effectively as an executive in any organization.

EMBA 540 Supply Chain Strategy and Management

With increasing competition around the globe, supply chain management is both a challenge and an opportunity for companies. The course introduces students to the key concepts and techniques to analyze, manage and improve supply chain processes for different industries and markets. Students also learn how to assess supply chain performance and make recommendations to increase supply chain competitiveness. Learning methods include team presentations, individual assignments, and class tests.

EMBA 545 Strategy Formulation and Implementation

Sustainable competitive advantage is the product of well-formulated strategies. Students learn to envision business successes by finding market gaps, capitalizing on competitive advantage, and executing strategic plans in effective manners. They explore topics such as critical thinking, planning, and decision-making, strategic plan development and effective operational implementation. This will be done through case studies, in-class discussions and presentations.

EMBA 550 Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Diversity management helps organizations to create a mutually beneficial and harmonious relationship with its employees. It also offers students the opportunity to understand issues such as cross-cultural communication, leadership dilemmas, power, inclusion, creativity and innovation. Students learn successful inclusion approaches to maximise corporate diversity in the workplace. They develop strategies to maintain a balanced and harmonious workplace through interactive presentations, role plays, group discussions and projects on diversity management.

EMBA 555 Marketing Strategy

Modern trends in local and global economies have significant implications for marketing strategies in dynamic environments. Students will learn marketing mix, marketing analytics, market segmentation, target and positioning, and implementation of the marketing plan. Through case studies, simulations and projects, students learn how to formulate marketing strategies for the business.

EMBA 560 Leading Crisis Management

Unanticipated change, if not well managed, can jeopardize business continuity. Students learn how to handle sudden market threats that can affect the firm or its stakeholders. Concepts as cues’ detection, organizational resilience and agility, contingency planning and risk management provide them with tools to shape a managerial mindset capable of effectively dealing with unpredictable. Through extensive case reviews, simulations, in-class discussion students grasp how to strategize during crisis in order to ensure survival or; may be; growth of their firms.

EMBA 565 Leading Organizational Transformation

Rapid business transformation is the order of the day for organizations to keep up with the evolving work culture. Students learn to work in disruptive business environment and to upgrade organizational performance by ensuring organizational readiness and making them more resilient and agile. Through group discussions, job shadowing, integrated projects and case studies students can develop transformational business strategies.

EMBA 570 Cases in Business Analytics

Complex business problems can be effectively addressed through business analytics tools in a data driven organization. Students learn to identify, evaluate and assess business opportunities that create value for the organizations through predictive analytics, classification models, and factor analysis and decision support systems. Students solve business problems and learn to enhance organizational functioning through projects, simulations and case studies.

EMBA 575 Intervention Research Methods

Practically relevant solutions are needed to overcome contemporary business challenges. Intervention research has been suggested as a sound approach to achieve this aim.  Students are introduced to the related theoretical underpinnings and how to become actively involved as solution providers to the organizations under study. Through lectures, class discussions, and faculty guidance, students become agents of change capable of formulating, implementing, and evaluating actions based on a systematic research approach.

EMBA 580 Design Thinking, Innovation, and Value Creation

Creative thinking is an effective method for solving complex business problems. Students get acquainted with systematic problem-solving techniques aimed at facilitating the development of creative and innovative products and services to satisfy customers’ needs. The learners understand how value is created. Besides project-based learning that helps students apply prototyping strategy in product development processes, group discussions, team presentations, and class tests are used to foster collaboration and aid in integrating the knowledge and experience of the participants.

EMBA 585 Enterprise Creation and Management

New business ventures are the backbone of modern economies. Students are provided with competencies required to create and manage enterprises of differing size and complexity. The course also gives them practical hands-on training on preparing business plans ready to be presented to venture capitalists and business angels. This is done through lectures, class discussion, case studies, and practical assignments.

EMBA 590 Business Consultancy Report

Executives and consultants are often required to lead and participate in the preparation of research-based reports that assess particular organizational problems and recommend solutions to overcome them. Equipped with knowledge and skills related to interventionist research methods, students act as change agents and write a research-based structured consultancy report expressing their views and recommendations.