Course content

The full-time MBA programme runs for 12 months. Classes are scheduled on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Contact moments 16 - 20 hours
a week
Self-study 16 - 20 hours
a week

Additionally, you will receive online support through Brightspace, the electronic learning environment used at Saxion. During the final six months of the programme you will focus on your independent business project, resulting in a dissertation at the end of the year of enrolment. If you pass all modules and the dissertation, the Greenwich exam board will confirm graduation in November.

Online support through Brightspace,

Your personal electronic learning environment

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Working together on projects

For example: the Business Project

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Creative Problem Solving

searching for an original and previously unknown solution to a problem

THE programme:Learning objectives

Strategy & Growth: Formulating value-creating strategies based on business analysis.
Ethics & Sustainability: Embedding ethical principles and CSR in decision-making.
Leadership & Communication: Leading teams and communicating effectively in dynamic contexts.
Research & Innovation: Driving innovation through critical research and strategic thinking.
Functional Expertise: Deepening knowledge in marketing, HRM, finance, and data analytics.
Professional Growth: Enhancing reflection, relationship skills, and leadership professionalism.

Strategic Management and Board Communication
This module aims to develop strategic, future‑focused leaders who can integrate internal and external information to make effective decisions. In today’s fast‑paced and uncertain business environment, it emphasizes responsible and adaptable leadership that creates value for organizations and their stakeholders. The module covers strategy formulation, clear communication to diverse audiences, and ensuring successful execution.
Ethics of Business and Innovation
This module explores key ethical challenges in business and teaches learners to apply ethical reasoning to real cases. It prepares future leaders to make sound ethical decisions, recognize risks, resolve conflicts, and communicate their choices effectively.
Business Consultancy Project
This module builds practical consulting skills through a real client project, helping learners analyze a business issue, conduct research, present results, and strengthen their project‑management and self‑assessment abilities.
Simulated Learning Project
This module teaches students to apply theoretical concepts within a simulated international company facing both traditional business challenges and those related to the Sustainable Development Goals. It also develops leadership and team‑management skills by engaging students in the intellectual dilemmas presented by the simulation.
Executive Decisions and Grand Challenges
This module develops skills in rational, evidence‑based decision‑making while introducing learners to the complexities of grand societal challenges. It highlights how leaders must navigate trade‑offs, uncertainty, and cognitive biases, and shows how these skills support responsible business leadership in addressing major global issues.
International Entrepreneurship and Digital Innovation
This module develops learners’ entrepreneurial and innovative abilities, provides theoretical insights to strengthen their organisations’ international competitiveness, and builds practical skills to lead digital transformation in response to widespread digitalisation.
Sustainable Business and Risk Management
This module prepares senior managers to lead organisations in a complex global environment by developing the skills to navigate geopolitical and climate risks and build resilient, sustainable capabilities.
Data Analytics for Decision Making
This module teaches essential techniques and frameworks for business decision‑making by integrating economic theory, statistical methods and data interpretation. Learners develop deductive and inductive reasoning skills, improve problem‑solving abilities, and use tools like Stata, EViews and advanced Excel functions to analyse and manage data.
Managing Financial Resources
This module develops learners’ accounting and finance skills by showing how businesses source and protect their funds. It also equips them to make sound investment decisions by analysing cash‑flow statements and creating and interpreting financial reports.
Managing People and Talent
This module covers key aspects of people management including recruitment, training, motivation, leadership and talent management, to help learners understand effective HR practices and contribute to organisational success.
Strategic Marketing and Sale
This module gives learners a solid understanding of the strategic marketing process, including targeting, strategy design and implementation, and performance evaluation. It also highlights marketing’s role in business growth and the influence of external factors such as trends, competition, and technology. By the end, learners are equipped to develop and apply effective marketing strategies in various business contexts.