MBA Program
Our accelerated online MBA program has been developed by a group of distinguished professors and entrepreneurs. It aims to fully equip students with comprehensive tools and hands-on experience for starting, managing and growing a successful business. This 33-credit hour program is designed to be completed in 1 year. It is composed of 9 modular courses.
Each course is 4-week long with synchronous and asynchronous content and activities. Upon the completion of the 9 sequential modules, the program ends with a Capstone hands-on project which is delivered by an elite group of entrepreneurs and executives.
Business Analytics and Data-Driven Decision Making
Module Description
The explosive growth in the amount of data created in the world by humans and machines continues to accelerate. This data deluge coupled with a societal awareness of the strategic value of data, has engendered a global business paradigm shift: the advent of a data-driven business era. In this new data-driven business world, business entrepreneurs and managers must get used to evolving in a volatile, fast changing and technology-driven business environment, and thus acquire new forms of expertise that are at the junction of management, advanced statistics, computer science but also artificial intelligence. This module aims at providing a solid multi-disciplinary training to help students equip with the necessary skill sets to solve today’s business problems through the use of business analytics techniques, and become an essential part of their future companies’ decision-making process.
Instructor
Kevin Carillo, Ph.D.
Professor of Data Analytics
Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Module Description
Digital technologies are playing a transformative role in the modern world. The changes associated with digital innovations such as social media, blockchain technology and smart embedded devices are rapidly disrupting a variety of industries across the globe and challenging institutions, organizational structures, and most importantly, the skill-set needed for successful new ventures. This module focuses on digital business transformation and digital entrepreneurship. It enables students to understand the challenges and opportunities of the dynamic complex and disruptive technological business environment of the digital age.
Instructor
Eusebio Scornavacca, Ph.D.
Professor of Management information systems
Business Ethics & Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
Module Description
This module focuses on essential ethical viewpoints as a foundation and examines specific characteristics of business life through cases and examples. There is not one universal set of ethical behaviors followed in the business community, which is why determining appropriate ethical behavior to maximize profits poses a unique challenge to entrepreneurs today. Entrepreneurs and managers are faced with daily challenges where individual values conflict with those of teams, organizations, customers, and clients. We will explore the nature of morality and the various normative theories of ethics that touch on business, economics, workplace, and the environment.
Instructor
Mark Salah Morgan, J.D.
Professor of Business Law & Ethics
Economics and Market Dynamics
Module Description
This module focuses on the application of micro and macroeconomic analyses for formulating and executing business plans and corporate strategy. Students will learn the role of market structures and dynamics in influencing various market and organizational outcomes.
Instructor
Jason beck, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Entrepreneurship and the Creative Mindset
Module Description
Entrepreneurship is a crucial skill for the 21st century manager. The creation and introduction of new goods and services to markets requires personal and organizational creativity alongside the ability to successfully conduct the corresponding change process in any context. This module will unleash the students’ creative abilities and apply them to the development of a real new product/service idea to be introduced in a business context. We will make use of lectures, case-studies, interactive exercises, and challenging debates throughout the module.
Instructor
Tiago Ratinho, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Financial and Managerial Accounting
Module Description
Accounting information is crucial to the management and evaluation of any business. The field of accounting has two parts, financial accounting and managerial accounting. In this course, both types of accounting will be studied. This first part of the module will introduce the financial accounting framework and enable students to properly evaluate financial statements. In the second part of the course, managerial accounting will be the focus. Students will develop tools and concepts that will help them with decision making, budgeting and performance evaluation. Altogether, this module provides students the foundation to be able to utilize a variety of information to be able to assess any organization’s performance and strategically plan for the future.
Instructor
Robert Felix, Ph.D.
Professor of Accounting
Leading Ventures & Organizational Dynamics
Module Description
This module is dedicated to understanding and having an initial experience about the “human side” of management and entrepreneurship that is so crucial for the success of any modern organization. Indeed, it is well known that an organization’s most competitive asset is its people. We will present the main concepts related to the Organizational Behaviour (OB) field, nothing else that the field of studies concerning the “organizational life” existing in any firm, thus related to the individual behaviors and inter-personal dynamics occurring in an organizational setting, also in terms of leading a group. The students will improve the understanding of their own actual future working environment, improve the management of their business and career, and will develop skills related to working with and leading other people, a key factor highly sought by entrepreneurs, managers and organizations.
Instructor
Massimiliano Pellegrini, Ph.D.
Professor of Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Marketing and Branding
Module Description
This module aims to provide knowledge and skills on marketing strategy using the marketing mix, in an integrated and current perspective of Product, Price, Distribution, and Communication for the digital era. Students will develop a practical vision of marketing and branding strategies development in a real context.
Instructor
Lilian Carvalho, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
Strategic Management & Entrepreneurial Strategy
Module Description
To succeed in the future, entrepreneurs and managers must develop the resources and capabilities needed to gain and sustain advantage in competitive markets—traditional and emerging. The way in which organizations attempt to develop such competitive advantage constitutes the essence of their strategy.
The module has been designed to allow students to gain the knowledge and expertise necessary to perform a entrepreneur and manager role as a strategist by encouraging and enabling students to develop the intellectual and professional acumen needed for the conception and analysis of responsible business strategies; to make appropriate choices between strategic options; and then to follow a strategic trajectory that will deliver results that are robust, ethically sound and socially responsible. Accordingly, the module adopts a contingency approach that is grounded in the understanding of the non-existence of a best way in strategy.
Instructor
Ghassan Yacoub, Ph.D.
Professor of Strategic Management
Capstone Project
Module Description
This module develops the analytical and conceptual skills required to test the feasibility of a concept for a new venture. The module uses an active experiential learning approach where students have the opportunity to learn and apply a number of practical skills and techniques associated with the development of a new venture. Students will undertake a significant amount of field research; develop and think critically about business concepts; answer fundamental questions about strategic, marketing, financial, operational and human resource issues; and then research a decision about going forward to start their proposed venture.
Professors of Practice
Financial and Managerial Accounting
Module Description
Accounting information is crucial to the management and evaluation of any business. The field of accounting has two parts, financial accounting and managerial accounting. In this course, both types of accounting will be studied. This first part of the module will introduce the financial accounting framework and enable students to properly evaluate financial statements. In the second part of the course, managerial accounting will be the focus. Students will develop tools and concepts that will help them with decision making, budgeting and performance evaluation. Altogether, this module provides students the foundation to be able to utilize a variety of information to be able to assess any organization’s performance and strategically plan for the future.
Instructor
Robert Felix, Ph.D.
Professor of Accounting
Leading Ventures & Organizational Dynamics
Module Description
This module is dedicated to understanding and having an initial experience about the “human side” of management and entrepreneurship that is so crucial for the success of any modern organization. Indeed, it is well known that an organization’s most competitive asset is its people. We will present the main concepts related to the Organizational Behaviour (OB) field, nothing else that the field of studies concerning the “organizational life” existing in any firm, thus related to the individual behaviors and inter-personal dynamics occurring in an organizational setting, also in terms of leading a group. The students will improve the understanding of their own actual future working environment, improve the management of their business and career, and will develop skills related to working with and leading other people, a key factor highly sought by entrepreneurs, managers and organizations.
Instructor
Massimiliano Pellegrini, Ph.D.
Professor of Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Marketing and Branding
Module Description
This module aims to provide knowledge and skills on marketing strategy using the marketing mix, in an integrated and current perspective of Product, Price, Distribution, and Communication for the digital era. Students will develop a practical vision of marketing and branding strategies development in a real context.
Instructor
Lilian Carvalho, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
Strategic Management & Entrepreneurial Strategy
Module Description
To succeed in the future, entrepreneurs and managers must develop the resources and capabilities needed to gain and sustain advantage in competitive markets—traditional and emerging. The way in which organizations attempt to develop such competitive advantage constitutes the essence of their strategy.
The module has been designed to allow students to gain the knowledge and expertise necessary to perform a entrepreneur and manager role as a strategist by encouraging and enabling students to develop the intellectual and professional acumen needed for the conception and analysis of responsible business strategies; to make appropriate choices between strategic options; and then to follow a strategic trajectory that will deliver results that are robust, ethically sound and socially responsible. Accordingly, the module adopts a contingency approach that is grounded in the understanding of the non-existence of a best way in strategy.
Instructor
Ghassan Yacoub, Ph.D.
Professor of Strategic Management
Entrepreneurship and the Creative Mindset
Module Description
Entrepreneurship is a crucial skill for the 21st century manager. The creation and introduction of new goods and services to markets requires personal and organizational creativity alongside the ability to successfully conduct the corresponding change process in any context. This module will unleash the students’ creative abilities and apply them to the development of a real new product/service idea to be introduced in a business context. We will make use of lectures, case-studies, interactive exercises, and challenging debates throughout the module.
Instructor
Tiago Ratinho, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Economics and Market Dynamics
Module Description
This module focuses on the application of micro and macroeconomic analyses for formulating and executing business plans and corporate strategy. Students will learn the role of market structures and dynamics in influencing various market and organizational outcomes.
Instructor
Jason beck, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Business Ethics & Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship
Module Description
This module focuses on essential ethical viewpoints as a foundation and examines specific characteristics of business life through cases and examples. There is not one universal set of ethical behaviors followed in the business community, which is why determining appropriate ethical behavior to maximize profits poses a unique challenge to entrepreneurs today. Entrepreneurs and managers are faced with daily challenges where individual values conflict with those of teams, organizations, customers, and clients. We will explore the nature of morality and the various normative theories of ethics that touch on business, economics, workplace, and the environment.
Instructor
Mark Salah Morgan, J.D.
Professor of Business Law & Ethics
Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Module Description
Digital technologies are playing a transformative role in the modern world. The changes associated with digital innovations such as social media, blockchain technology and smart embedded devices are rapidly disrupting a variety of industries across the globe and challenging institutions, organizational structures, and most importantly, the skill-set needed for successful new ventures. This module focuses on digital business transformation and digital entrepreneurship. It enables students to understand the challenges and opportunities of the dynamic complex and disruptive technological business environment of the digital age.
Instructor
Eusebio Scornavacca, Ph.D.
Professor of Management information systems
Business Analytics and Data-Driven Decision Making
Module Description
The explosive growth in the amount of data created in the world by humans and machines continues to accelerate. This data deluge coupled with a societal awareness of the strategic value of data, has engendered a global business paradigm shift: the advent of a data-driven business era. In this new data-driven business world, business entrepreneurs and managers must get used to evolving in a volatile, fast changing and technology-driven business environment, and thus acquire new forms of expertise that are at the junction of management, advanced statistics, computer science but also artificial intelligence. This module aims at providing a solid multi-disciplinary training to help students equip with the necessary skill sets to solve today’s business problems through the use of business analytics techniques, and become an essential part of their future companies’ decision-making process.
Instructor
Kevin Carillo, Ph.D.
Professor of Data Analytics
Capstone Project
Module Description
This module develops the analytical and conceptual skills required to test the feasibility of a concept for a new venture. The module uses an active experiential learning approach where students have the opportunity to learn and apply a number of practical skills and techniques associated with the development of a new venture. Students will undertake a significant amount of field research; develop and think critically about business concepts; answer fundamental questions about strategic, marketing, financial, operational and human resource issues; and then research a decision about going forward to start their proposed venture.
