Structure

In the course of the part-time Professional MBA with specialization options, participants gain profound insights into core business subjects and a specific field or industry.
During the program, participants master the “Business Core” focusing on core business and management knowledge, techniques and leadership, while ensuring a maximum flexibility to foster their individual needs and ambitions during the “Specialization” modules.

Curriculum

Business Core

• Managing People
• Managing Organizations
• Competitive Analysis and Strategy
• Data Analysis and Decision Making
• Financial Reporting
• Financial Management
• Operations Management
• Controlling
• Marketing Management
• Global Markets
• Information Systems Management
• Managerial Economics
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Leadership
• Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Specialization

Financial Markets and Institutions
Microeconomic foundations of financial intermediation from
a historical, macro and micro perspective with a special emphasis
on financial institutions and financial markets in CEE.
Analysis of the current financial system.

Risk Management
Key concepts of financial economics for effective decision
making in financial institutions and their practical applications.
Profound insights into portfolio theory, financial risk management,
credit and market risk modeling covering all major financial
instruments in treasury and credit risk.

Asset Management
Asset management practices with a particular focus on equity,
fixed income, pension and alternative investments.
Comparative study of modern portfolio management in real-life
applications.

Bank Management
Successful decision making in banks and other financial institutions.
Focusing on the asset-liability-management approach
and interactive financial intermediation and its product market.

Strategy in Financial Intermediation
Modern bank management from a strategic perspective.
Profitable product market interaction, global organization of
the financial industry, reporting and regulation of modern bank
management.

Master Thesis