Global Mini MBA

Introduction

This Global Mini-MBA is a One-month Program, and is uniquely designed specifically for enrolled students at Business or Engineering Colleges and for graduates with business or engineering backgrounds to give them the high- performance Management, Marketing, Operation, and Finance skills of an MBA. This intensive course will help you to translate your learning into new behaviors and improvements in your capability and performance and will work through live issues impacting on the industry you are in and on you directly. Working in the highly competitive Market, with ever-increasing change and pressure, is probably one of the most challenging managerial roles of any Industry today. This program has been especially designed to help you transcend these challenges by training you to become equipped to see the bigger picture in all aspects of your role. It will help you build your management skills for the future and prepare you t . o fulfill your ambitions. The program is an accelerated management program containing the most valuable parts of an MBA, as applied to different industries. It will provide you with practical management tools to apply in the workplace, as well as give a real taste of an MBA course with practical case studies from Austin University and other world-class business schools.

Objectives

By the end of this program you will improve the following skills:

• Problem solving
• Strategic thinking
• Global Leadership
• Finance and Accounting Techniques
• Strategic Marketing
• Decision making, and prioritization
• Change management
• Implementing strategy
• Team working
• Project Management
• Cross-cultural communication
• Increased self confidence

Training Methodology

 Key Benefits :

• Understand how a company really works – with a multi-functional overview of a business and key leadership competencies necessary for success.
• Develop strategic thinking, planning, and execution skills at a divisional or functional level, using the best tools and frameworks.
• Influence, enable and deliver wider organizational goals and tasks.
• Lead and align your stakeholders to deliver your divisional, functional ororganizational strategy.
• Make better business decisions and improve your contribution to the business.
• Speak the language of business and understand how business leaders think and act.
• Read the business environment and translate changes into competitive strategies for sustainable growth.
• Support strategic goals from top management and be able to translate them for your area and implement them more efficiently.
• Implement better strategies with the people on your team and different departments with new leadership skills.

Who Should Attend?

The Global Mini-MBA is the ideal program for enrolled students at Business and Engineering Colleges and graduates, professionals and entrepreneurs with technical, scientific or specialist backgrounds e.g. IT, biotech engineers, production engineers, IT engineers, and R&D engineers who want to develop their business knowledge to support their future career. This in an intensive and challenging program, so get ready for the challenge!

Course Outline

Day 1

Program Overview

• Topic.1 Orientation and Meeting with Professors
• Topic.2 Working and Living in the United States
• Topic.3 Introduction to Silicon Valley
• Topic.4 The Future of IT Technology
• Topic.5 Graduate Study & Professional Career

Day 2

Business English

• Topic.1 Business Communication: Writing and Speaking
• Topic.2 Essential Business Communication Skills
• Topic.3 Business Negotiating
• Topic.4 Speaking with Credibility and Confidence
• Topic.5 Public Speaking and Pronunciation

Day 3

Strategic Management and Leadership

• Topic.1 Organization and the Environment of Global Business
• Topic.2 Strategy Formulation and Implementation in International Business
• Topic.3 Organizational Leadership
• Topic.4 Leadership Styles and Effective Traits of Leaders
• Topic.5 “NASA Approach to Management” Guest Speaker – Prof. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, former Chief Scientist, NASA Hubble Telescope

Day 4

Accounting and Finance

• Topic.1 Basic Accounting Concepts
• Topic.2 Financial Statements: Balance Sheet - Income Statement - Cash Flow Statement
• Topic.3 Financial Statement Analysis
• Topic.4 Stock Market Analysis and Mutual Funds
• Topic.5 Case Study “Analyzing Financial Statements for Better Decision Making”

 Day 5

Strategic Marketing

• Topic.1 Value Proposition and Market Strategy
• Topic.2 Defining Market Targets
• Topic.3 Branding your Company
• Topic.4 Social Media and the New E-Marketing Techniques
• Topic.5 Case Study “Preparing complete Marketing plan for your Company”

​Day 6

Operation Management

• Topic.1 Operations Strategy in a Global Environment
• Topic.2 Managing Quality
• Topic.3 Supply-Chain Management
• Topic.4 Project Management
• Topic.5 Decision Making Tools

Day 7

Entrepreneurship Management and Start ups

• Topic.1 Generating Ideas and Identifying Opportunities
• Topic.2 Creating and selling differentiated products/services
• Topic.3 Business Model Innovation
• Topic.4 Entrepreneurship through Acquisition
• Topic.5 Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Day 8

Ethics and Corporate Governance

• Topic.1 History of business ethics. Shareholder Theory.Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Stakeholder Theory.
• Topic.2 Opportunities and challenges. Globalization.Markets and the State. Managing ethics in organizations.
• Topic.3 Officers and Controlling Shareholders and Board of Directors
• Topic.4 The separation of ownership and control:the role of fiduciary duties
• Topic.5 Comparative modes of ethical analysis in business ethics

Day 9

Managerial Economics

• Topic.1 Using Economics in Management Decisions, and Understanding the Seller's Costs
• Topic.2 Understanding the Global Buyer's Demand
• Topic.3 Understanding Global Markets and Profit Maximizing
• Topic.4 International Economies of Scale and Scope
• Topic.5 Relationships Between Industries: The Forces Moving Towards Long Run Equilibrium

Day 10

Information Technology

• Topic.1 Artificial Intelligence
• Topic.2 Wireless Digital Communications
• Topic.3 Blockchain Technology
• Topic.4 Coding
• Topic.5 Cloud & Cyber Security