Overview

Our Mission

We seek to offer a unique MBA learning experience and establish ourselves as the premier program in the region, creating leaders with vision in a dynamic global environment.

Our Philosophy

In line with our mission, we are fully committed to offering a unique MBA experience for the leaders of tomorrow.

This will be achieved by bringing together promising individuals into a stimulating academic environment that encourages the transformation of ideas into business realities.

A key component of this transformation process is our faculty, who bring excellence in both teaching and research with their broad experience in leading MBA programs worldwide.

Our quest is to develop and sustain a unique academic culture that promotes the exchange of ideas through innovative teaching methods and state-of-the-art methodologies, and deliver individuals capable of promoting new business paradigms.

Why The GLOBAL MBA

GLOBAL Vision: Our professional MBA program appeals to the leaders of tomorrow, who are committed to converting their vision into reality.

• Participate in a program that brings together high calibre individuals with diverse backgrounds.
• Access a network of decision makers who will bring about change and set business paradigms.
• Evolve as an adaptive and flexible leader that can pursue an international career path.

Learning Integration of excellent teaching with applied business knowledge.

• Interface with faculty that excels internationally in teaching and research.
• Address real problems and deliver effective solutions in a culture of continuous quest for excellence.
• Be part of an intellectual community continuously seeking knowledge that can be applied for the improvement of business and society at large.

Offering state-of-art balanced business education.

• Sharpen your management abilities in a recognized program designed according to international standards in business education.
• Customize your program to enhance your professional needs and interests, in both English and Greek, in small personable audiences.
• Acquire a business education that maximizes value and return on investment in the new campus.
Building Self-development through a rigorous personal and professional transformation process.

• Enhance your professional opportunities by building business expertise.
• Build key relationships that benefit your professional opportunities.
• Act as an agent of society transformation through the cultivation of a responsible and ethical way of thinking.
• Access well-developed support services for career advancement.

Advanced Innovation is fostered through the encouragement of individual creativity and teamwork.

• Cultivate innovation through intellectual curiosity.
• Seek innovative solutions to business problems through opportunities such as the Applied Business Project
• Acquire a business education that maximizes value and return on investment in the new establishment.

Learn & Develop an entrepreneurial spirit.

• Differentiate yourself through the adoption of an entrepreneurial mind set.
• Be part of a culture that enables participants to “think outside the box…”
• Build your confidence to successfully launch new business initiatives.

General Information

School	GLOBAL Business School	Course Length	1 Year Full-Time 18 months Part-Time
Contact	Academic Director Telephone: 0030 2810 264480 Fax: 0030 2810 264489 E-mail: info@global.edu.gr	Number of Places	20
Entry Requirements		Introduction
All applicants must normally: possess an honours degree, or an equivalent qualification and have appropriate working experience. If English is not your first language you must also demonstrate proficiency in the English language. An essential criterion will be your ability to complete the programme satisfactorily and to benefit from it. In exceptional circumstances, applicants may be accepted on this basis alone. Selection will be based on an assessment of the contribution applicants are expected to make as well as the benefit they will receive.		Recognised worldwide as the premier management qualification, the Master of Business Administration is the most advanced taught management programme available in the UK. The MBA at GLOBAL recognises the importance of a clear international perspective and the highest level of appropriate management education and training. The programme is designed to provide: an academically rigorous management education. a sound foundation for developing managerial ability. increasing effectiveness in future managerial roles. The course analyses key business issues likely to face managers today and in the future, particularly the internationalization of business and global management. E-Business is well targeted. It covers the latest concepts and techniques influencing the relationship between functional and strategic areas of management. There is also some scope for individually tailored programmes. The course: A common management foundation programme is followed by opportunities to specialise in business and management to enhance particular career aspirations. There is a strong emphasis on international business, global management and visionary management activity. The development of practical and intellectual skills of immediate and long-term benefit is a most important course feature. The course is taught by experienced tutors with an established reputation for teaching Greek and international students.
Teaching and Assessment		Career Opportunities
Students assume a large responsibility for their own learning and development guided and supported by academic staff. There is a mix of traditional teaching methods, independent participatory learning and internet based collaborative learning. Both the modules and the dissertation aim to integrate theory and practice.		On successful completion of the programme, you will have acquired the intellectual and practical skills required for a career as a successful manager with the strategic overview to make a long-term contribution or to start your own business.

MBA Introduction

The MBA programme seeks to develop a sound theoretical understanding in management, which is integrated with substantial case-study work in order to draw out the practical relevance of the conceptual material. The primary aim and underlying philosophy is to focus on the promotion of management skills and competencies by introducing students to the most contemporary ideas in the area of management. The importance of developing problem-solving and communication skills is emphasises, as well as critical and analytical abilities which enable students to improve their understanding an to deal with complex issues.

The MBA is an increasingly valued qualification because it has come to be recognised as the essential passport for entry into senior positions in business and management. The GLOBAL Business School has been at the forefront in establishing the MBA as a necessary qualification. It has been offering the MBA since 1998 on campus. The quality of students emerging from the GLOBAL MBA has convinced employers of how important it is that their staff, are professionally educated in management - that they have a quality MBA degree.

The GLOBAL MBA has regarded as one of the most innovative. As well as covering the core functional areas of business, it was the first in Greece to introduce systems thinking alongside strategic management as a means of integrating the various aspects of the degree. It was also one of the earliest to incorporate teaching of total quality management. This reputation for moving with the times, while rigorously upholding standards, continues today.

When you have completed the GLOBAL MBA, you will be well equipped to advance rapidly in your managerial career and will join a growing elite of managers holding the University qualification.

MBA Programme Aims

The MBA programme seeks to develop a sound theoretical understanding in management, which is integrated with substantial case-study work in order to draw out the practical relevance of the conceptual material.

The primary aim and underlying philosophy is to focus on the promotion of management skills and competencies by introducing you to the most contemporary ideas in the area of management. The importance of developing problem-solving and communication skills is emphasised, as well as critical and analytical abilities, which enable students to improve their understanding and to deal with complex business issues.

More analytically:

The aim of the MBA programme is to develop and enhance the abilities of candidates to

• Understand, manage and lead the change process;
• Develop and select strategies for competitive advantage;
• Respond to the challenges of a competitive environment;
• Build relationships and management systems to foster co-ordination across functions;
• Lead with vision and integrity.

By the end of the MBA programme you should be able to:

• Understand and critically evaluate the conceptual underpinnings and frameworks of core management subjects.
• Synthesise theory and practice of Management subjects in a changing environment.
• Adopt a systematic and rigorous approach to the identification and solution of Management problems.

MBA Course Structure

PART Α’ (Postgraduate Diploma in Management – DMS)

1. Advanced Professional Development
2. Managing Change in Organisations
3. Management Research – Project & Presentation
4. Financial Management – Principles & Techniques
5. Human Resource Planning & Development
6. Strategic Marketing Management
7. Strategic Planning & Implementation
8. Quality & Systems Management
9. Strategy Review

PART B’ (Master Level)

1. Global Business Issues
2. The Thinking Manager
3. Dissertation

Professional Development

The professional development of its graduates is of paramount importance to the GLOBAL MBA Programme. This includes delivering experienced advice and guidelines on a number of issues such as alternative career paths (locally and internationally), networking, job search and employment market trends, CV development, etc.

An MBA Career Office is being developed to assist program participants in their future professional advancement.