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International Management MBA Degree at CBS in Germany

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Who is the international management full-time MBA degree suitable for?

The MBA Program, International Management commencing yearly at the end of August is aimed, in particular, at graduates of non-economic studies programs who wish to expand the knowledge acquired from a first degree studies or the skills attained through initial professional experience through sound, business-oriented and internationally oriented know-how.

Not only do graduates of a business economics studies background benefit from rediscovering the once familiar models in a new light, but also those who simply wish to refresh the knowledge they have lost in their everyday professional lives. For many students, the MBA Program, International Management is a crucial prerequisite for reaching the next step in their professional careers.

What are the contents of the full-time MBA course?

The programme comprises a total of four semesters, each with about 16-20 lecture hours per week. In addition to business and economics seminars, you will also attend a variety of skills courses, in which you will learn leadership and intercultural competencies – all of these a must in leadership positions nowadays. What’s more, CBS offers you the opportunity to specialize in a subject area of your choosing and in line with your own interests.

The first semester, along with its introductory modules on the subjects: Management Principles and Organization and Strategy, also lays the foundation with Accounting. Within this field of interdisciplinary skills, you will attend courses on the subjects, Research Principles as well as Project and Team Management.

On the agenda in the second semester are the modules: Business Environment, Financial Management, Global Value Chain Management, Culture and Change Management and International Management.

  • ECTS 120
  • Semester 4
  • Language English
  • Type of Study Full-time
  • Degree Master of Business Administration
  • Campus Cologne
  • Start of Studies Winter Cologne
  • Study Fee* 5.970 €
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Study Course Plan

Some information about the study plan for the study programme Master in Business Administration:

Programme specific teaching units

Basics Of Industrial Management3 ECTS ? !
  • Basic Business, Economic, and Market Principles and Key Terms

  • External Business Environment: At both National and International Level

  • Global Markets and International Trade

  • Competitive Environment

  • Internal Environment

  • Management, Leadership & Motivation

  • Business Function: HR

  • Business Function: Operations

  • Business Function: Marketing

  • Business Function: Finance and Accounting

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Business Ethics: Ethical Business Management, International aspects of Ethics & CSR

  • Emerging Business Trends

Foundations of Managerial Economics3 ECTS ? !
  • Demand Analysis and Applications of Elasticities

  • Supply Analysis and the Theory of the Firm

  • Production Economics and Cost Analysis

  • Economies and Diseconomies of Scale

  • Market Equilibrium and Welfare Analysis

  • Prices, Output and Strategy

  • Strategic Interaction and Game Theory

  • Market Failure and Government Regulation

Academic Writing & Quantative Methods3 ECTS ? !
  • Algebra and Mathematical Functions

  • Matrix Algebra and Linear Equations

  • Differentiation and Integral Calculus

  • Optimization: Functions of several variables

  • Linear Programming

  • Mathematics of Finance

  • Apply the sampling methods and the Central Limit Theorem

  • Compute the measures of location and measures of dispersion

  • Represent the statistical data

  • Perform linear (multiple) regression and correlation analysis

  • Describe the basic concepts of probability

  • Set up a difference and/or relationship hypothesis and carry out statistical inference tests

  • Apply decision making theory to make decisions under risk and under uncertainty

  • Apply statistical software like R or SPSS in common business issues

Modern Market and Business intelligence3 ECTS ? !
  • Defining the marketing research problem and developing an approach

  • Methods of international market research

  • Research design

  • Secondary Data

  • Qualitative research

  • Quantitative research

  • Scaling and sampling

  • Fieldwork and Data preparation

  • Basic data analysis (how to use it)

  • Report preparation and presentation

Advanced Business Strategy3 ECTS ? !
  • External Analysis

  • Internal Analysis

  • Generic business-level strategies for competitive advantage

  • Basic Corporate-level strategic choices for long-term profitability

  • Diversification strategy

  • Internationalization

  • Mergers and acquisitions

  • Strategic entrepreneurship

  • Strategic leadership

  • Social Responsibility and Ethics of Strategic Management

  • Basics of Corporate Governance

Organizational Behaviour3 ECTS ? !
  • Research Methods for Organisational Behaviour

  • Managing Diversity and Individual Differences

  • Perceptions and Decision Making

  • Work Motivation and Performance

  • Job Satisfaction and Commitment

  • Efficiency, Motivation, and Quality in Work Design

  • Interdependence and Role Relationships

  • Group Dynamics and Team Effectiveness

  • Leadership in Groups and Organisations

  • Power, Politics, and Conflict

  • Culture, Change, and Organisational Development

Financial & Cost Accounting3 ECTS ? !
  • Financial transactions and their impact

  • Major financial reports

  • Accrual accounting

  • IFRS versus US-GAAP

  • Ratio analysis

  • Cost behaviour, terms, and definitions

  • Traditional costing systems

  • Job costing and process costing

  • Activity-based costing

  • Overhead analysis sheet

  • Cost-volume-profit analysis

  • Pricing decisions, product mix decisions

  • Budgeting

  • Transfer pricing

Managerial Accounting3 ECTS ? !
  • Managerial accounting and global business environment

  • Cost term, terms and classifications

  • Job-order costing

  • Process costing

  • Cost behavior

  • Cost-volume-profit relationships

  • Variable costing

  • Activity based costing to aid decision making

  • Profit planning

  • Sustainability and ethics in accounting decision making

Interdisciplinary competencies

Project Management & Digital Skills3 ECTS ? !
  • Basic competence (Project specifications, project goals and evaluation, project phases and cycles, project norms and rules)

  • Social competence (Communication, motivation, groups and team structures, leadership, conflict management)

  • Methodological competence (Structural aspects, time management, cost management, human resource management, creativity and problem solving)

  • Organisational competence (Quality management, documentation, risk management, project start and closure)

Team & Self Management3 ECTS ? !
  • Team typologies models: Hippokrates, Kretschmer, Belbin, Jung, & Myers Briggs

  • From workgroup to high-performance self-managing teams

  • Phases of team development & the team performance curve

  • Conditions for team development Trust and control

  • Group dynamics

  • Ego-States: Eric Berne

  • Realistic goal setting

  • Team conflict: emergence and avoidance

  • Escalation and management of conflicts: Friedrich, Glasl

Programme specific teaching units

Applied Economics3 ECTS ? !
  • Labour economics

  • Business economics

  • Development economics

  • Health economics

  • Education economics

  • Monetary economics

  • Public economics

  • And economic history

International Law3 ECTS ? !
  • Foundations to Organization Theory

  • External & internal factors to change organizations

  • Organizational goals and instruments

  • Creating effective organizations

  • Organizational development & change

  • Alignment issues

  • Organizational controlling

  • Concluding a contract

  • Different types of contracts and their typical features

  • Performance and obligations

  • Solving problems (e.g. failure to perform, liabilities)

  • Safeguarding creditors’ rights

  • Forms of business organizations

Corporate Finance & Valuation3 ECTS ? !
  • Determinants of a firm’s financial structure

  • Market value of a firm and financial decisions

  • Effects of time, uncertainty, taxes, and incentives on the present value of firm cash flows

  • Net present value and discounted cash-flow analysis

  • Risk, Return and Capital Budgeting

Financial Instruments3 ECTS ? !
  • Overview of various types of fixed income securities, valuation of fixed income securities, understanding bond ratings, securitisation and asset backed securities, risks associated with investing in bonds, understanding yield spreads, interpreting the yield curve, Spot rates and Forward rates, measurement of interest rate risk, bond portfolio management strategies in the international context

  • Derivatives instruments; Futures and forwards, option payoffs and options strategies, option valuation techniques

Global Supply Chain Management3 ECTS ? !
  • Fundamentals of international logistics

  • Inventory management

  • Warehouse management

  • Packaging and transportation

  • Procurement logistics

  • Production logistics

  • Distribution logistics

  • Disposal logistics

  • Supply Chain Strategy & Design

  • Supply Chain Planning & Synchronization

  • Trends in supply chain management

Modern Marketing Management3 ECTS ? !
  • The Strategic importance of International Marketing

  • The world trading environment

  • International Marketing Research and opportunity analysis

  • Consumer Buying Behaviour – Analysing Customer Requirements

  • Identifying Market Segments and Targeting

  • Marketing Strategy Development with focus on market entry strategies

  • Implementation: The 4Ps in International Marketing

  • Technology enabled International Marketing

Business Process Planning & Operations Management3 ECTS ? !
  • Costs and Targets of Operations and Operations Strategy

  • Location Decisions and Layout Planning

  • Process Design and Business Process Optimization

  • Aggregate Planning, Material Requirements Management and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

  • Short-Term Scheduling in Production

  • Lean Production and Toyota Production System

  • Quality Management and Statistical Process Control

  • Maintenance and Reliability Decisions

  • Service Management

  • Sustainable Operations

International Human Resource Management3 ECTS ? !
  • The organizational context

  • IHRM in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international alliances and SMEs

  • Staffing international operations

  • Recruiting and selecting staff for international assignments

  • International training and development

  • Re-entry and career issues

  • International performance management

  • IHRM trends and future challenges

Interdisciplinary competencies

Intercultural Awareness3 ECTS ? !
  • Concepts of communication

  • Concepts of culture

  • Categories of cultural analysis

  • Creating brand identity across cultures

  • Marketing in global social networks

  • Cultural symbols and taboos

  • Diversity in world markets

  • Diversity in teams

  • Identity and culture

  • Gender and culture

Managing Change & Digital Transformation3 ECTS ? !
  • Organizations and the environmental change

  • The formal and informal subsystem of change

  • Forms of change

  • Frequency and magnitude of change

  • Organizational responses to change

  • Resistance, commitment and readiness to change

  • Implementing change management

  • Culture, politics and power

Programme specific teaching units

Digital Technology and Business Applications3 ECTS ? !

The module description is currently being worked on and will be available soon.

Digital Management Strategies3 ECTS ? !
  • Introduction to socio-technological trends driving digital transformation: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Robotics, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, Cloud Computing, mobile technologies, social media, semantic Web, Augmented und Virtual Reality, 3D print, …

  • Digital management approaches

  • Cross-functional coordination

  • Digital product management: product evaluation; product lifecyle management

  • Interplay between analytics and business model thinking; creation and orchestration of stakeholder networks

  • Process digitization

  • Digitization of value chains

Business Simulation Game3 ECTS ? !
  • Storage

  • Cost accounting

  • Capacity utilization

  • Cash-Flow

  • Performance indicators

Elective area

Business Elective9 ECTS ? !
  • Strategic Management and Consulting

  • Fundamentals of Consulting

  • International Competitive Strategy

  • Corporate Strategy and Renewal

  • Entrepreneurship

  • The Entrepreneur

  • Start Up Management and Business Modeling

  • Digital Network Economy

  • Sustainability

  • Sustainability and Business Ethics

  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management

  • Sustainable Financial Management

Business Project6 ECTS ? !
  • Project Kick-off

  • Project objectives, scope and key milestones presented by the “client”

  • Deep-dive sessions and feedback loops

  • Lecturer on a weekly basis supports students with designing their intermediate presentations

  • Feedback sessions

  • Final presentations

Interdisciplinary competencies

Management & Leadership Competencies3 ECTS ? !
  • Theories, Models, Processes around Peoples and Teams

  • Managerial competencies i.e. Planning and Administration Competency

  • Strategic Action Competency

  • Leadership competencies i.e. Communication Competency

  • Personal Vision and Self-Motivation

  • Goal Setting and Mission Statement

  • Teamwork Competency

  • Multicultural Competency

  • Self-Management Competency

  • Leading in a Culture of Change

  • Knowledge Building

Creative Thinking & Innovation3 ECTS ? !
  • Contemporary Theories of Creativity and Innovation

  • The Ten Faces of Innovation

  • Creativity and Intelligence

  • Barriers, Blocks and Squelchers

  • Inspiration through Analogical Thinking

  • Brainstorming and Others Techniques of Ideation

  • Lateral Thinking

  • Creative Problem Solving

  • The Art of Incubation

  • Assessing Creative Potential

  • Using Imagination, Association, Intuition

  • Creative Questioning

  • Creating Flow

Programme specific teaching units

Master Thesis24 ECTS ? !

You have 12 weeks to complete your thesis and the subject is freely selectible. A supervisor from CBS will support you and you can write the thesis in collaboration with a company as well.

Master Thesis Workshop3 ECTS ? !

During the Master Thesis Tutorial you will learn the fundamentals for your Master thesis: Defining the topic as well as structuring the thesis and you will learn the theoretical knowledge for scientific working.

Interdisciplinary competencies

Career Seminar3 ECTS ? !

In this module students will learn about future possible employments and business sectors of their interest. Aim is to discuss the master thesis and industry-related issues with companies to see future prospects, chances and limitations of particular business areas. Furthermore, students shall be able to make important contacts with business people for their further career development.

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Business Project and Simulation Game

In the third semester, all the contents learned shall be applied in a business project. The aim is for students to work on a real-life company case study before ultimately presenting their proposed solutions to representatives of that company. What’s more, a simulation game is conducted here as well, in which students practice making real business decisions to learn the actual consequences of these decisions for a company.

Furthermore, the students can pursue their own personal interests by choosing an elective course from the subject areas: Strategic Management and Consulting, Entrepreneurship, or Sustainability. The modules: Financial Markets and Institutions and Creativity and Managerial Leadership complete the program.

The fourth semester consists mainly of the Master Thesis where, for example, the students work on an actual problem or situation, taking into account scientifically based methods and approaches – also in close collaboration with a company. By doing so, both students and companies benefit from the results obtained. A Career Seminar also takes place in the final semester.

Full-Time MBA Career Path - What are the job opportunities?

Thanks to the knowledge acquired within the MBA program, students are able to move about safely in the international business world while positioning themselves for management opportunities. This means that graduates have a particularly good chance of success in internationally operating companies. The knowledge acquired during their studies will be of particular use, i.e. regarding regional idiosyncrasies and intercultural differences. And because of the study program’s wide range, a number of opportunities for applying these new skills become conceivable in the areas of consulting, project management, marketing, and sales, or even in general management. Graduates also have good career opportunities in product development and research. But that’s not all; career perspectives in government offices, government-related institutions, or non-profit organisations across almost all industries open up to job-seeking graduates. This includes, for example, the financial sector; the manufacturing industry; telecommunications; the healthcare sector, and the environment, just to mention a few. This degree also fulfills the prerequisites for a subsequent doctorate.

This is What Our Students Say

Philip Kollmann
Project Manager
Wayne´s Coffee

"Especially the soft skill courses have been of great help for my performance in job interviews. Through my work in the Finance and Business Club I have built up a broad network and acquired project management skills that have enabled me to score points with companies."

Katrin Rieger
Bereichsdirektorin Reisevertrieb Deutschland / Vice President Sales
HanseMerkur Krankenversicherung

"The practical learning in small groups prepared me optimally for today's project and team work. The CBS provided me with the decisive soft skills and current knowledge from the world of business."

Christopher Rosenbaum
Manager
Ernst & Young GmbH
Wirschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

"The Management Studies programme prepares you thoroughly for the tasks of a consultant. In particular, the development of presentation techniques as well as analytical thinking is of enormous importance in the everyday life of a consultant."

Oliver Kiderle
EMEA Regional Product Expert
Google Inc.

"The focus on internationality and practical skills have had a very positive influence on my development at Google. Especially the structured and very versatile project work, which is often found at a private school, was extremely helpful."

Kalle Kenkel
Commercial Excellence Manager
GE Healthcare

"My studies at CBS prepared me for a career in today's dynamic, global work environment. As one's origin and physical location become less and less decisive, it has become increasingly important to have a multinational network and adapt quickly to various cultures and environments."

Neil Jordaan
Global Digital Content Manager
Elanco

"Many professors shared their professional business experience with us in class and were able to illustrate dry theory with practical examples. I also enjoyed the international atmosphere on campus."

Patrick Stein
Head of Human Resources
Boston Consulting Group

"The strongly practice-oriented studies and the international orientation of the CBS, as well as the lectures held in English, were an absolutely necessary basis for starting a career with a renowned, international company."

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