Executive MBA

To transform management practice in Nigeria through offering high quality graduate executive education. The programme values integrity, intellectualism and humility.

The candidates for the Executive MBA programme are drawn from around the country and are connected by a common desire to accelerate their careers into the top ranks of their companies. Students are selected and recommended by their companies, which demonstrate strong support and commitment to the candidate's professional growth and the investment of their time and energy to complete the programme requirements.

Managing People and Organizations examines the most important topics of management in the context of today's contemporary global business environment. It analyzes the major theories and models in organizational culture, group dynamics, individual behaviour and motivation, decision making, leadership, power and politics, change management, and ethics and corporate social responsibility at graduate level, with particular emphasis on the use of theory to analyze and generate solutions to dilemmas likely to confront managers today and in the future.

Statistics for Executives provides an appreciation of the applications of advanced statistical analytical tools to business decision contexts, with strong emphasis on the development of a clear theoretical understanding as well as application. It develops students' abilities to access and critically interpret statistics and evaluate business information for managerial decision making, covering advanced inferential statistics, analysis of variance, regression and correlation analysis, time series analyses, and Bayesian statistics and decision making techniques.

Operations & Enterprise Management discusses the issues related to the operation of production and service sector companies. This is a comprehensive course in operation process design, planning and control. It contextualizes operations management by arguing that the goals to which any high quality operation must aspire are profitability and sustainable business practices, and examines operations within the context of the interactions within both the functional areas of an organization and its supply chain network.

Marketing Management builds the most important concepts of marketing management in a systematic way, emphasizing practical applications and the role of marketing in the overall strategy of the firm: from selling techniques and distribution channels, through analyzing competitors and developing sustainable marketing strategy, to managing marketing services and international markets.

Finance and Accounting for Managers provides a master's level introduction to accounting. The first part covers Financial Accounting, discussing the structure, purpose and content of financial statements and how to extract useful information from them to evaluate a firm. The second part deals with Management Accounting, analysing cost concepts, product costing techniques and other managerial accounting processes that generate information for managerial decisions.

Managerial Economics uses the advanced theory of the firm and other major economic themes to provide insight into managerial decision making. It outlines the economic forces that influence corporate strategy, enabling participants to acquire the range of skills and expertise expected of corporate managers with market power, and emphasizes both the correct application of managerial decision-making tools and the evaluation of economic issues with normative recommendations to improve business outcomes.

Corporate Finance is a comprehensive course discussing all major areas of financial management. It provides tools and techniques used in financial decision making, analysis and problem solving, and is concerned with the investment and financing decisions of the firm, examining risk and diversification, financing, capital structure and dividend policy, and financial planning.

Global Strategy and Competitiveness is the capstone course. It provides an understanding of the contemporary global business environment and how businesses can formulate appropriate organizational strategies, and discusses all major topics of strategic management. A variety of strategic options relevant to organizations in the region is explored, with emphasis on the inevitability of changes in the global environment and the need for strategic management. This course can only be taken after the other seven core courses have been completed.

Leadership and Innovation provides the critical insights and tools needed to successfully manage innovation and avert the pitfalls associated with traditional approaches to managing change. It introduces proven tools and techniques for encouraging innovation, a new analytical model of the leadership process, and a framework for analyzing the change process from three perspectives: strategic, political and cultural.

Planning and Starting a New Business is designed for students interested in forming their own venture, or who may have a role promoting new initiatives within existing organizations. It examines the criteria for success of a new business, personal, market and technical, and business plan development and its relationship to securing the necessary resources for the new venture, drawing on a range of case studies from high-impact technology ventures.

Entrepreneurial Marketing is a case course covering key issues such as planning the business, tools and techniques for planning, and anticipating customer adaptations. It covers marketing topics relevant to new businesses and examines the special requirements of entrepreneurs, preparing students for the decisions they face when they set up new businesses.

Product Design and Development presents a set of product development techniques aimed at bringing together the marketing, design and manufacturing functions of the enterprise. It addresses identifying customer needs, designing for manufacturing, prototyping and industrial design, and examines a collection of methods that guide teams in developing new products, using examples drawn from industrial practice.

Strategic HR Management and Leadership introduces the theory and practices needed to manage the human resource strategy of an organization. It establishes the nature and function of the various components of typical strategic HRM practices and exposes students to the skills of HRM through structured exercises. It also considers the future direction and strategic application of HRM within Africa and overseas.

Strategic Marketing Management covers the concepts and theories of creating and implementing a marketing strategy, with a focus on the strategic planning process and marketing's cross-functional and inter-functional relationships. It discusses the major corporate strategy decisions and their marketing implications, and presents all major elements of strategic marketing from market opportunity analysis through the design and implementation of marketing strategies to the strategic management of mature and declining markets.

Supply Chain Management introduces a range of sophisticated concepts of purchasing and materials management at graduate level. Relevant to the private, public and nonprofit sectors, it covers a wide range of supply chain activities including the formation and management of strategic alliances, buyer selection and management, global sourcing, ethics in contracting situations, and applications of information technology in supply chain management.