Electives

Your choice of electives and management reports, which take place after successful completion of Part One, present an opportunity to explore areas of particular interest, to specialise in certain subjects and to gain breadth and depth across a range of business and management disciplines. You are required to complete six to eight electives.

We continually update the portfolio of electives in order to reflect current business issues and the latest developments in markets, technologies, processes and the global economy. Many elective courses are offered in block week and modular (normally alternate Fridays/Saturdays) formats to fit more easily with the Dubai-London Executive MBA schedule. In addition, Dubai-London Executive MBA students are able to choose from a number of electives offered in weekly sessions during the day and evening.

A key feature of the elective portfolio is that you will study alongside students from other London Business School programmes and with visiting international exchange students. Thus, your network and learning opportunities will increase and you will be able to further refine your skills of working in different teams.

Below are some of the electives that are currently being offered in a block format.

Advanced Marketing Strategy
Brand Management
Computer Based Financial Modelling
Financing the Entrepreneurial Business
Going to Market: Managing the Channel and Salesforce
The Global Business Leader
International Finance
Managing Change
Managing Corporate Turnarounds
Negotiation and Bargaining
New Communications Industry
Paths to Power
The New Rules of Strategy
Technology Strategy
Pricing Strategy
Project Management
World Economy: Problems and Prospects

Optional international assignments

Dubai-London Executive MBA students will have the option of participating in one of our international assignments. Some of the key challenges which global business leaders face today are communicating and managing across boundaries and coping with ambiguity - features of the dual-location degree. The elements of the programme that take place outside of the School's Dubai and London classrooms and outside of the students' work environments contribute to understanding and facing these key challenges.

The optional international assignments reinforce such extra-curricular learning opportunities. Each week-long immersion into a country allows students to experience the way business is conducted in other key economies and markets of the world, to test and apply skills in an unfamiliar business environment, and provides excellent learning opportunities as well as genuine benefits to companies.

Depending on the location, students may conduct a communications audit in a company, advising on areas of best practice and how to achieve tangible improvements in communications activities, or work with companies to better understand the impact of new, emerging or changing national economies on different kinds of businesses: entrepreneurial, state-owned or international.

Current destinations include: China, India, South Africa and Ukraine.