Weekend MBA

Before the start of your programme, you will be expected to complete online pre-study modules, delivered via The Hub, our bespoke virtual learning environment. Some of these modules are compulsory while others are strongly recommended as they will help you prepare you for the remainder of your programme.  

The Weekend MBA induction will take place on our South Kensington Campus in London, where you will meet with the rest of your cohort, faculty and programme staff. Please note attendance of your induction week is mandatory. 

This two-day induction will lay the foundations of your Weekend MBA experience. As well as a programme introduction, you will partake in several lectures and activities to give you a taste for the programme, as well as attending a special welcome dinner. 

This module explores the basic analytical principles that can guide a manager in making complex decisions. You will learn how to identify the underlying analytical structure in a seemingly complex and amorphous decision problem and the role of uncertainty and risk in the decision-making process. You will be able to analyse data to understand relationships and predict future outcomes, while building models, decision trees and simulations to help understand problems with more clarity.

This module will contribute to your managerial potential by explaining the techniques of financial management accounting and examining the relevance to broader issues of decision-making and organisational control. You will also examine the uses of financial and management accounting information for a wide range of decisions relating to financial performance, corporate social responsibility and governance and business sustainability.

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship module offers you a unique opportunity to build your knowledge, skills and experience in this important topic which covers innovation, entrepreneurship and design as core elements. The module introduces you to the themes that are relevant if you want to clearly define problems in the market place and develop unique solutions to address these problems. It enables you to understand how to introduce these solutions into the market and analyse the financial feasibility of the overall business case.

This module introduces basic economic concepts of practical value in business life, providing a conceptual framework for assessing the interaction between firms and markets, and identifying the ways in which profit opportunities arise in markets and can be effectively exploited. It will provide a framework for modelling the interaction between consumers and producers, study alternative market structures ranging from monopoly to perfect competition, and enable students to identify and analyse strategic interaction between market participants.

This module will give you a practical yet theoretically grounded collection of tools you can use to be an effective leader and manager of people—one who earns the respect, appreciation and gratitude of the people who work with and for you in your future career. You will learn how modern organisations work (and fail). The module will show how your success as a leader, manager and professional depends on how well you work in organisations with and through people to deliver good results.

By undertaking this module, you will gain a market-oriented framework for analysing the major types of financial decisions made by corporations. It will provide an introduction to the objective function of the firm, present value techniques, asset valuation, capital budgeting principles and problems, the capital asset pricing model, the operation and efficiency of financial markets and the financial decisions of firms.

This module provides a basic framework to help you understand how macroeconomics explains global events. At the end of the module, you will appreciate how business, government and the global economy interact, which will give you the understanding required to make more informed managerial decisions. It aims to provide a practical understanding of the workings of a modern economy as a basis for interpreting the factors that influence aggregate expenditure and the impact of changes in this demand on employment, inflation and the trade balance.

Effective marketing management requires a clear understanding of consumers and the market in general. This module will help you to understand how marketing contributes to a business’ competitiveness and survival and provides you with critical marketing insights, tools, and techniques. It will cover concepts associated with brand management, promotion and services marketing.

Strategy is about how an organisation achieves an advantage in a competitive, fast paced environment by harnessing its resources and competencies over relatively long periods of time, in pursuit of specific goals. Integration of external and internal perspectives provides the basic framework for strategic thinking. The module will give a holistic view of the firm, developing your ability to think beyond day-to-day business activities and challenging you to ask the right questions about its future.

Big Data, AI and Machine Learning 

Business Analytics

Project Management

Data Analytics and Visualisations for Business

Operations Management

AI Ventures

Digital Business Model Design

Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital

Entrepreneurial Journey

Idea SMARTCamp

Leading Social Innovation

Venture Capital Finance

Asset Management

Finance for Net Zero

Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital

Finance in Cleantech

Mergers and Acquisitions

Pricing Strategy

Private Equity

The Fintech Revolution: New Markets, Models and Opportunities

Topics in Asset Management

Venture Capital Finance

Decision Making for Leaders

Family Business

Leadership

Leading and Executing Strategic Change

Leading Social Innovation

Managing Negotiations

Strategy and Leadership in a Digital World

The Future of Cities (IB Glocal elective)

Brand Management

Consumer Behaviour

Technologies in Marketing

Marketing Analytics

Pricing Strategy

Applied Strategic Marketing

Digital Marketing

Market Research

Advanced Strategy in a Stakeholder Economy

Breakout Strategy

Business Problem Solving

Climate Change and Business Strategy

Digital Business

Energy Business

Global Strategy (online)

Strategic Networking

Strategy and Leadership in a Digital World

Strategy in Volatile and Uncertain Environments

Sustainability and Competitive Advantage

Taking place over the summer term, Global Experience Week is an unforgettable opportunity that MBA students look forward to each year. You’ll learn about the challenges faced by local organisations, and how a country’s business environment affects the way they operate.  

Past Global Experience Weeks have included the Nordics, where students explored how businesses can be transformed to tackle climate action.

You will choose from the following locations aligned with our key topics:

Brazil – Market Trends in the Marvellous City

Kenya – How can business address inequality?

The cost of this trip is included in your tuition fees. 

The IB Glocal Electives are intensive four-day study abroad experiences where you are able to explore contemporary global business challenges with a local perspective. You will gain deep insight into international issues in a particular geography, benefitting from the in-market exposure and teaching the trips provide. Previous locations have included Houston, Milan, Singapore. 

Sustainable Transformation Made in Italy

The Future of Cities 

Sales Management and Leadership

The optional Global Exchanges programme allows you to increase your international exposure and build your network by taking advantage of specialised electives at one of our partner schools.

The Independent Project can be selected as a double-weighted elective as part of the Weekend-MBA experience, and involves researching a real business issue for an organisation of your choice. You may choose to do your project for your current company or you can be sponsored by another organisation. You will submit a report of up to 15,000 words which includes a critical, evaluative or analytical element. Projects range from consultancy assignments to theoretical analyses, giving you the opportunity to develop analytical expertise. 

The Entrepreneurial Journey is your opportunity to work an idea into a product or service and pitch your proposition to a panel of venture capitalists to compete for a monetary prize. 

The journey is suitable for both those wanting to innovate as intrapreneurs from within an organisation or start their own ventures. You will develop a value proposition, carry out customer discovery research, validate the product or service, and create a fully-fledged business proposal. Throughout the Journey, you will be able to collaborate with the Imperial Enterprise Lab to connect with investors and receive coaching support.  

The Capstone Consulting Experience (CCE) gives you the opportunity to solve a complex/strategic problem facing a real client with a team of your peers from the Weekend MBA programme.  

This module focuses on developing your skills in managing a real consulting project from inception to completion, drawing on the knowledge and skills achieved in other modules and in the Personal Leadership Journey. Clients, based in the UK or abroad, include large multinational companies, SMEs, governments, entrepreneurial ventures and NGOs.