MSc Management Curriculum
The programme consists of 10 taught modules, with 5 modules in Michaelmas Term (September–December) and 5 modules in Hilary Term (January–April). The final Trinity Term (April–August) is dedicated to your Company Consultancy Project. Assessment is through a blend of written examinations and continuous coursework.
| Module | ECTS |
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| Entrepreneurship and Innovation | 5 |
| Human Resource Management | 5 |
| Leading and Managing Marketing in a Hyperconnected World | 5 |
| Operations & Supply Chain Management | 5 |
| Strategy & Global Business | 10 |
| Developing Skills for Business Leadership | 5 |
| Cross Cultural Management | 5 |
| Ethical and Sustainable Business | 10 |
| Introduction to Finance | 5 |
| Project Management | 5 |
| Team Consultancy Research Project | 30 |
Taught modules normally take place across Michaelmas and Hilary terms, with the final Trinity term dedicated to the dissertation.
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September-December Michaelmas Term |
January-April Hilary Term |
May-August Trinity Term |
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Note: Modules offered each academic year are subject to change. The modules listed above and below are the modules and timetable for 2026/27.
Module Descriptions
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The aim of this module is to provide students with:
- Framework for approaching the creation of a new business opportunity
- Set of core entrepreneurship skills and mind-set.
- Critical perspective of the major trends, dynamics, and opportunities currently marking the field of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Over the past two decades, entrepreneurship has become one of the most relevant disciplines in business and has attracted the interest of scholars, policymakers and practitioners from all over the world. Entrepreneurship is deemed a key driver to innovation and economic development, regional and urban competitiveness, and a critical source of jobs. Yet entrepreneurship has also been criticized for underpinning wealth and income inequality, particularly in “winner takes all” markets. As entrepreneurship progresses and generates opportunities as well as controversies, a multi-disciplinary and international perspective is required.
Having successfully completed this module, the student should be able to:
- Understand the process of entrepreneurship and the major phases undertaken to create a successful innovation driven venture.
- Discover and quantify entrepreneurial opportunities.
- Create, formulate and present a new business idea.
- Display personal skills including creativity, idea generation, initiative, research and reflection.
- Critically evaluate the role of entrepreneurship in an international content.
Human Resource Management (5 ECTS)
Explore how organisations attract, select, manage, develop and retain their people to support sustainable performance. The module examines the strategic role of human resource management, the responsibilities of HR professionals and line managers, and core practices including resourcing, talent management, learning and development, performance management and reward.
How this fits your MSc journey:
This module introduces people management as a core organisational capability rather than a specialist activity alone. It develops the evidence-based judgement needed to align HR practices with organisational strategy, diagnose workforce challenges and recommend practical solutions.
Learning outcomes:
- Explain and apply key human resource management concepts and theories.
- Evaluate the role and responsibilities of the HR function and the context in which it operates.
- Assess how recruitment, development, performance and reward practices align with strategy and influence performance.
- Develop evidence-based recommendations for a real organisational people-management challenge.
Operations & Supply Chain Management (5 ECTS)
Develop a practical understanding of how organisations create and deliver products and services. The module examines process and production management, capacity, quality, inventory, sourcing, logistics, supplier management and improvement. You will use relevant theories, concepts and analytical tools to assess the operational decisions facing managers in complex and dynamic global environments.
How this fits your MSc journey:
Operations and supply chains connect strategy with day-to-day value creation. This core module enables you to understand manufacturing and service organisations, analyse operational challenges and recommend improvements while recognising the links with other business functions.
Learning outcomes:
- Explain how manufacturing and service organisations operate from an operations and supply chain perspective.
- Analyse operational and managerial situations using relevant evidence and tools.
- Apply concepts relating to process, capacity, quality, development and improvement.
- Evaluate sourcing, inventory, logistics and supplier-management decisions.
- Communicate operational conclusions and recommendations professionally.
Strategy & Global Business (5 ECTS)
Build an understanding of the fundamental principles of strategic management and the tools used to analyse organisations operating in international markets. The module explores the social, cultural, economic and policy factors shaping global business decisions, together with theories of internationalisation, foreign-market selection and entry strategy.
How this fits your MSc journey:
This module develops the broad strategic perspective needed to connect the programme's functional disciplines. It equips you to diagnose business challenges, evaluate international opportunities and understand how organisations formulate strategy in an evolving global environment.
Learning outcomes:
- Explain key concepts, frameworks and theories in strategic management.
- Diagnose and analyse strategic activity from a manager's perspective.
- Assess the social, cultural, economic and policy factors influencing global strategy.
- Evaluate international market selection and entry strategies.
- Work effectively in teams to assess an organisation's international strategic challenges.
Developing Skills for Business Leadership (5 ECTS)
Examine leadership through personal experience as well as theory. The module explores leadership purpose, public narrative, listening, feedback, emotion, values and culture through structured exercises, group work and dramatic performance. Working with the same small group throughout, you will practise leading and following, reflect on your own intentions and test how leadership is embodied under pressure.
How this fits your MSc journey:
This module provides the programme's leadership foundation and turns it into a question of personal practice: what kind of manager you intend to become, on whose behalf and by what means. It develops self-awareness, relational judgement and communication skills that support leadership across management settings.
Learning outcomes:
- Analyse the personal and contextual forces shaping your leadership and define a deliberate leadership intent.
- Evaluate major leadership approaches, their evidence and their limitations.
- Assess what embodied performance reveals about leadership dilemmas and organisational culture.
- Apply listening, feedback and emotional awareness to leadership and group work.
- Craft and deliver a public narrative that moves a defined audience to action.
Cross Cultural Management (5 ECTS)
Develop the awareness, knowledge and interpersonal skills needed to manage effectively across cultures. The module examines national and other cultural frameworks, stereotyping, cultural sense-making and the influence of culture on leadership, communication, decision-making, negotiation, trust, knowledge transfer, ethics and people management. It also considers the management of international assignments and the transfer of HR practices across countries.
How this fits your MSc journey:
Management increasingly takes place across national, organisational and professional cultures. This module builds the cultural intelligence and practical judgement needed to work internationally, adapt management approaches and communicate effectively with diverse colleagues and stakeholders.
Learning outcomes:
- Evaluate the challenges of working and managing internationally.
- Explain national culture, cultural differences, stereotyping and cultural sense-making.
- Analyse how culture influences leadership, communication, negotiation, trust, knowledge transfer and ethics.
- Apply comparative management models to people practices across national and regional contexts.
- Use appropriate tools and professional communication to work effectively across cultures.
Ethical Business & Sustainability (10 ECTS)
Examine how organisations and their supply chains navigate ethical and sustainability challenges. The module introduces business ethics, compliance management, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, drawing on legal, non-legal and moral frameworks. Through company analysis and practitioner engagement, you will assess stakeholder relationships, non-financial risks and whether organisational practices support or undermine responsible business goals.
How this fits your MSc journey:
This module places the functional practice of management within the wider role of business in society. It develops the critical judgement needed to identify ethical dilemmas, conduct non-financial due diligence and evaluate organisational conduct from the perspectives of managers, employees, consumers and other stakeholders.
Learning outcomes:
- Identify the legal frameworks relevant to ethical and sustainable organisational conduct.
- Map an organisation's stakeholders and evaluate how it interacts with them.
- Apply management and psychology theories to assess organisational ethics and sustainability.
- Conduct desktop research to identify and evaluate non-financial risks.
- Critique whether company policies and practices support or undermine stakeholders and sustainability goals.
Introduction to Finance (5 ECTS)
Build an introductory understanding of financial management and the financial language used in business, academic literature and the media. The module examines investment appraisal, the relationship between risk and return, portfolio theory, bond and equity valuation, financing, capital structure, dividend policy and corporate value. Worked examples and Excel activities connect financial concepts with real decisions.
How this fits your MSc journey:
All managers need to understand financial information and contribute to decisions involving investment and value. This module provides the core financial toolkit underpinning strategic, operational and entrepreneurial decision-making across the MSc.
Learning outcomes:
- Explain financial management and its importance to organisations.
- Appraise capital investments using appropriate methods and techniques.
- Analyse risk and return and their role in corporate decision-making.
- Apply financial mathematics, statistics and Excel to value bonds, shares and other risky assets.
- Evaluate investment, financing, capital structure and dividend decisions and explain how businesses create value.
Project Management (5 ECTS)
Build a strong foundation in the principles and practical application of project management. The module examines the project life cycle, major delivery approaches, governance, assurance, reporting and the leadership skills required for successful outcomes. It also considers emerging developments, including artificial intelligence, sustainability and the management of international projects.
How this fits your MSc journey:
Project management is a transferable capability for delivering strategy and navigating organisational change. This module equips you with the frameworks, practical insight and confidence needed to contribute to or lead projects across sectors and organisational settings.
Learning outcomes:
- Explain how project management connects organisational strategy with operations.
- Assess the importance of leadership and interpersonal skills to project success.
- Apply major project management approaches across the project life cycle.
- Evaluate project governance, assurance and reporting requirements.
- Adapt project management practices to international and changing organisational contexts.
Team Consultancy Research Project (30 ECTS)
Apply learning from across the MSc to a substantial live challenge for an external organisation. Working in a diverse team, you will investigate a real business problem or opportunity, engage with stakeholders, integrate relevant evidence and management frameworks, and develop feasible recommendations and an implementation plan. The project mirrors professional consultancy practice and is supported by workshops, mentoring and client engagement.
How this fits your MSc journey:
This capstone module bridges academic learning and professional practice. It develops the analytical judgement, research capability, teamwork, stakeholder management and communication skills required to operate effectively in complex management and consultancy environments.
Learning outcomes:
- Analyse complex organisational challenges in their strategic, operational and cultural context.
- Integrate appropriate tools and frameworks to diagnose underlying business problems.
- Develop evidence-based, feasible recommendations and implementation plans.
- Demonstrate professional communication, presentation, stakeholder engagement and consultancy delivery.
- Collaborate effectively under uncertainty and reflect critically on personal and professional development.