Explore our MBA

• Understand communication theories and apply this knowledge to your own communicative behavior and that of others
• Acquire skills in presentation as well as in moderation and get training in tools for mindful communication
• Develop your leadership and self-management skills and apply them to your own professional situation

• Deepen your understanding of the scope and fundamental concepts of business development particularly in view of sustainability as a transformative force
• Learn about the role of Business Development in different organizational structures and how it interfaces with other functions; this includes alternative settings depending on company size
• Learn to apply a structured Business Development process and sharpen your skills for business modelling and planning in a dynamically changing and unpredictable global competitive environment
• Apply your knowledge to establish and manage performance measurement and control

• Identify the differences between intra- and entrepreneurship in an academic and application-oriented context
• Recognize the relevance of intra-/entrepreneurial competencies when dealing with uncertainty
• Reflect on and assess the potential as well as the impact of entrepreneurial undertakings
• Apply systemic approaches to innovations and identifying opportunities
• Select and apply methods of entrepreneurial self-management/-development and value-based leadership approaches

• Learn the different schools of thought of systems thinking
• Understand systems dynamics and acquire tools for systems thinking
• Use the systems practice process to identify opportunities for impact
• Build up skills to design regenerative systems (circular economy) and learn to effectively manage complex systems (cybernetics and viable systems theory)

• Understand the historical and theoretical foundations of sustainability and its importance as a management task
• Learn to apply and critically evaluate key concepts, models and control mechanisms of sustainability.
• Reflect on the impact of corporate actions and behavior on sustainability and understand it as an opportunity for the strategic positioning of the company in the market

• Learn and apply the essential theoretical foundations of business and corporate ethics as well as corporate social responsibility (CSR)
• Understand and assess the fundamental relationship between law, economics and ethics in a national and international context
• Learn about value-based leadership concepts: trait theories, behavioral/situative/interactionist approaches

• Understand and apply approaches of sustainable marketing and sales management
• Articulate the importance and advantages of CSR marketing together with the related risks and understand how to implement it
• Learn and assess the complexity of CSR and its impact on future consumer behavior
• Describe what social marketing is and how companies now use it as an essential part of their strategic CSR

• Apply state of the art business development know-how, methods and concepts on a corporate and SBU level
• Understand and manage the interdependencies and complex relationships between corporate and SBU business development
• Learn to design and implement business development strategies for existing and new SBUs in an international and intercultural context
• Recognize the growing importance of M&A in international business development and learn the management and application of the major M&A instruments

• Understand innovation management from a general strategic and operational management perspective focusing on markets, industries and their inherent dynamics
• Learn how to turn ideas into new products and sustainable business models based on insights into innovation economics and network effects
• Reflect on sustainable innovation strategies including timing of disruptive vs. incremental innovation efforts and catalyze specific innovation projects within the organization
• Develop a tool set for product development

• Understand the fundamentals of digital business in terms of digital business model innovations, data-driven business models, and smart products and services
• Evaluate selected emerging digital technologies, their potential business implications and the challenges of organizational adoption
• Reflect on the need for and areas of action in the digital transformation of businesses and public organizations
• Learn about emerging digital technologies as enablers of business model innovation

• Understand the concept of transformational leadership as a participative process of creative collaboration and transformation in a team
• Reflect on your leadership role in a dynamic and agile business environment and link the different bodies of knowledge for managing teams, particularly in the context of change
• Learn negotiation skills, constructive/de-escalating conflict and change management
• Identify personal development potential by reflecting on your own professional/leadership role(s)

• Apply your theoretical knowledge and team-based experience directly to a simulated competitive, realistic business game
• You will be exposed to a wide range of business decisions in as real a context as possible
• Your team will be responsible for decision making within conflicting objectives
• During the simulation game your skills in conflict management and team orientation will be challenged

• Familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of funding, new technology in raising capital, sustainability, climate and definition protection of the environment, capital investment behavior, consumption and demand
• Understand the concepts of private equity, rating and financial clearing-up reconstruction measures and develop solutions for restructuring and financial investment
• Become familiar with controlling methodologies in order to steer investments within new projects
• Build up knowledge about digital finance, kryptolicense business and blockchain strategies

• Understand Operational Excellence principles and their importance for business success in terms of product and process development as well as end-to-end supply chain design
• Internalize the meaning of Operational Excellence for a sustainable production, e.g. how to realize and adapt it to different production characteristics
• Get to know professional tools like 5S, SMED, Six Sigma, Value Stream mapping (VSM) or Cause-and-Effect-Diagram
• Get a holistic view on the necessity of Operational Excellence for a sustainable transformation

• Learn about the service dominant logic in business models of companies/corporations
• Understand the theoretical and strategic characteristics of service businesses incl. service production and marketing
• Reflect on the specific role customers play in the development and production of services (hurdles and/or opportunities)
• Get to know the multitude of factors associated with service management and the required strategies for transformation in all operational functions
• Recognize the impact of CSR requirements, new innovative technologies like digitalization, new work, diversification and talent development on the development of service businesses

• Discover the challenges and the underlying problems of Digital Business Transformation Management and Agile Project Management
• Learn and critically reflect on possible consequences of science-based decisions
• Develop a detailed understanding of the latest tools, techniques and methods within agile project management and their application
• Learn Design Thinking methods and Transformation through Enterprise Architecture Management

• Apply scientific methods
• Demonstrate your ability to solve problems
• Conduct a study in an unfamiliar field in the specified timeframe
• Deepen your knowledge in a specific subject area or in an interdisciplinary practical case

• Perform a self-critical analysis
• Practice conflict management, moderation techniques, verbal and non-verbal communication and conversation techniques
• Execute learning techniques, time management and presentation techniques
• Introduce innovation, plan and implementing change processes by apply networked thinking

Applicants with an academic degree of less than 210 credits will be required to complete this module.