2014 the Lancaster MBA Prospectus

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The Lancaster MBA

Explore the leader inside you

Award Winning | World Ranked | Triple Accredited

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The Lancaster MBA www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/mba

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Inside you, there is a strategic achiever full of ideas and potential. Now you are looking for a development experience that helps you explore this potential to the full, and that will take your expertise to a higher level of performance. Explore the leader inside you with The Lancaster MBA.

Combined, these powerful tools will help you develop your existing skills, experience and capability. Our focus is on helping you amplify these qualities by acting as your partner throughout this journey of change – not just through the course of the programme, but throughout the course of your career. This is what we mean by ‘Explore the leader inside you’.

Welcome to The Lancaster MBA: a unique professional development experience. We’re passionate about the power and transformational qualities of The Lancaster MBA – a truly unique programme that has earned its place amongst the world’s best. Two key features set the programme apart. With Learning Through Action we place more emphasis on real, practical experience than any other MBA. And with our pioneering Mindful Manager module, we encourage you to question and understand attitudes, motives and behaviours – both your own, and the people you work alongside.

The experience is different for everyone, but you will most definitely leave the programme as a stronger leader with the ability to operate at a strategic level, whatever career challenges you choose.

A world of opportunity surrounds you. It is there for you to define and discover. We are here to help you explore the possibilities inside you.

Explore the leader inside you with The Lancaster MBA

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One of the world’s leading programmes. The Lancaster MBA aims to turn high achievers into senior strategic leaders, with the confidence, skills and practical expertise to work effectively with others and to lead change at all levels, across all industrial sectors, and in every corner of the world. Our programme is much more than ‘knowledge by textbook’. We believe real learning comes from inside you: from drawing on your own experiences, honing your specific skills, nurturing your professional personality and crystallising your ambitions. This unique approach to learning underlies our international awards, rankings, and accreditations.

The Lancaster MBA

• IMS Health Business Case Competition – 2013.

• Proctor & Gamble Sustainability Challenge – 2011 & 2012

• AMBA Global MBA Student of The Year, Husameldin Elnasri – 2012

• Inaugural winners of the THE Business School of the year

Available in two modes: Full-time and Executive:

• The Full-time MBA (FTMBA) – an inspirational 12-month leadership development programme’ delivered in Lancaster, UK

• The Executive MBA (EMBA) & The Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) – Executive mode programmes running part-time over two years. They comprise a series of modules – roughly every 10 weeks – that allow you to blend your learning into your employment. The EMBA is delivered in Lancaster, while the GEMBA – currently offered in Singapore, Jordan and Malaysia – marks the overseas reach of The Lancaster Executive mode MBA.

Full time MBA

• Top 10 in UK, Top 100 worldwide, Financial Times 2013 and The Economist 2012

• 4th worldwide in Value for Money, Financial Times 2013

• 7th worldwide, Forbes 2011

Global Executive and Executive MBA

• Top 10 in UK, Top 100 Worldwide, Economist 2013

The Lancaster MBA

“The Lancaster MBA gave me excellent academic training and so much more. It gave me a better understanding of my strengths, potential and leadership style, and was one of the best years of my life. LUMS supported me with a generous scholarship and as the AMBA MBA Student of the Year I would like to encourage more business schools to follow LUMS and provide more MBA scholarship to students from the developing world, especially Africa.”

Husameldin

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The Lancaster MBA is among the top 1% of MBA programmes worldwide, holding triple accreditation: fully accredited by the Association of MBAs, AACSB and EQUIS

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Setting real life challenges that accelerate your development. We understand the importance of learning from your own experiences. Accordingly, throughout the programme The Lancaster MBA encourages you to assimilate knowledge and understanding by taking part in practical assignments and challenges. We call this Learning Through Action, an approach that is integral to The Lancaster MBA experience.

Learning through action The challenges take place within carefully selected partner organisations and reflect the realities of contemporary management. Lancaster identifies the organisations taking part, and works with them to develop a brief outlining the objectives, resources, and deliverables associated with each project. These are shared with student teams (selected to maximise diversity and stretch) who then iteratively refine and ultimately agree the brief with the client organisation.

Most of the challenges are designed to provide 1-2 weeks of intensive ‘in-organisation’ work – analysing situations, solving problems and, ultimately, making recommendations to the client organisation’s senior leaders. In addition to working alongside senior managers within the host organisation, teams typically receive additional support from experienced mentors (including partner-level consultants) who are not in the client organisation.

These mentors challenge you with critical questions on how to approach, structure and pitch your work. Their input, along with the feedback from the client and lecturers, provides some of the information you use in reflection on your professional practice. Each experience provides intense and invaluable learning that you will apply to your career.

In the Full-time MBA, you will undertake The New Venture Challenge (working with a real business entrepreneur), The Consultancy Challenge (within a medium sized organisation) and The Corporate Challenge (which involves you in a significant project or assignment over the summer months).

In the Executive mode MBA, you will undertake The Business Development Challenge (driving a new initiative or project within a real organisation), The Consultancy Challenge (identifying solutions for a strategic dilemma), and The Applied Research Challenge (exploring the depth of knowledge and applying it to address a significant organisational issue, typically within your own organisation).

Because they are real – and not outdated case-studies or artificial simulations – the outcomes of the challenges are important, to the client and you. However, their primary role in The Lancaster MBA is to integrate your pre-MBA career knowledge and programme-based learning into a new and shared work experience.

The challenges provide you (and us) with an opportunity to evaluate your progress in developing as a senior strategic leader. Having completed several challenges, each designed to stretch you in new ways, you will emerge from the programme stronger and more confident, ready for the strategic opportunities of today’s business world.

The challenges vary, according to which mode of The Lancaster MBA you follow.

The Challenges

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Learning to understand and influence others. Today’s business world is complex, with diverse stakeholders, competing agendas and ambiguity. Instead of shrinking away from this complexity, you will embrace the opportunities it offers, learning to be a more strategic leader. Similarly, an effective leader is able to call on a broad mix of capabilities, including the ‘softer’ skills needed to understand, motivate and influence others. Unlike other MBA programmes, we’ve recognised the importance of these factors and brought them together into The Mindful Manager – a module that’s totally unique to The Lancaster MBA.

The Mindful Manager Module explores the ‘art and craft’ of management. It is more about ‘how’ you manage, than ‘what’. It extends knowing and doing into being, and connects all of your learning across the whole of The Lancaster MBA, strengthening your cognitive and collaborative skills, as well as your judgement.

The Mindful Manager is not a module you study for a short while before moving on to another. Rather, it is a constant throughout The Lancaster MBA experience. Connecting all your previous career experiences with your in-programme learning, it helps you understand the behaviours, motivations and cultural differences (your own, and those of others) which inform opinions and drive decisions.

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“It has been an amazing year. Working with people from different nationalities has been a great experience, and the range of courses has honed my ability to make balanced and effective decisions.”

Tiffany

The Mindful Manager Module

The Mindful Manager emphasises self-discovery and critical thinking. We encourage you to question your assumptions, to develop your practical wisdom, and to improve your judgement and decision making capabilities.

Among its features, you will be asked to create a blog which explores your experiences and thought processes during your time on the programme. We will encourage you to learn from these experiences and the feedback you encounter.

Through this process, and with our support, you’ll find your thinking style evolving to that of a senior strategic leader.

Designed to increase your self-awareness, critical thinking and team-working skills, The Mindful Manager is a richly rewarding and transformational experience that influences you as a person and a professional.

As part of The Mindful Manager, we also engage with senior business leaders who share their own personal journeys: how they arrived in their senior roles, how they drive and sustain success, and how this affects the decisions they’re making today. Some of these who have provided such insight recently include Gil Steyeart (MD of adidas), Nahed Taher (the first woman to be appointed Head of a Saudi Investment Bank, and an alumna), and Kevin Roberts (CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide Inc).

These talks can be seen on video at www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/media/postgraduate/mba

Mindful Management

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Delivered at the beautiful Lancaster campus, this intensive 12 month leadership development programme offers a truly transformational experience. We work with you to help you understand your purpose, values, motives and interests, your talents and potential. Through a mix of learning opportunities – in the classroom and in organisations – you find yourself exploring what it really means to be a strategic leader. At the end of the twelve months, you emerge as a more aware, confident and able individual, ready for the next step in your career. Not only that, you will have made bonds with lecturers and fellow participants from around the world that will last a lifetime.

• World-class MBA in a close-knit campus community, with a busy social calendar, including cultural evenings, sports fixtures and the MBA Ball

• Unique Mindful Manager module which develops your cognitive and collaborative skills and your judgement and decision-making ability

• Learning Through Action, giving you practical real world exposure to three real business challenges

• A dedicated Career Advancement Programme to help you achieve your ambitions

• An international module that allows you to examine how business is done in a part of the world you are unfamiliar with. Recent visits have been to China, India, Turkey and the Czech Republic

• Internationally respected colleagues, lecturers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds and experience

As a participant on The Lancaster MBA, you are encouraged to take part in extra-curricular activities, including numerous national and international challenges. Our record of success in these is strong, testament to the quality of our candidates, their commitment to teamwork and their ability to meet the challenges faced by today’s organisations. Recent achievements include:

• IMS Health Business Case Competition – 2013 winners

• Procter & Gamble Sustainability Challenge – 2011 & 2012 winners

• M&S Sustainability Challenge – 2012 finalists

• 2012 Rice Business Plan Competition – the only UK Management School to qualify

• MBA Cricket League of leading UK Business Schools – 2012 winners

The Full-time MBA

Key Features International Recognition

Your Choice of ProgrammeExplore one of the world’s most respected MBAs, how and where it suits you.

Three Programmes • The Full-time MBA (Lancaster) • The Executive MBA (Lancaster) • The Global MBA (Singapore, Jordan, Malaysia)

Two Modes • The Full-time MBA and The Executive MBA

One Degree • The Lancaster MBA

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Learning takes place in a variety of contexts, including lectures, workshops, small group tutorials, 1-to-1 meetings, mentoring, and teamwork across multi-national and multi-disciplinary teams. On-line, everyone in the community has access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) which holds all documents and resources, and acts as a direct conduit to lecturers, tutors, support staff, and mentors.

The key strengths of The Lancaster MBA, lie, however, in collaborative working and practical challenges (Learning Through Action) and on ‘reflective assessment’ (The Mindful Manager) which helps you explore your own particular skills and objectives. We help you assimilate and integrate all of these experiences into an enriching and rewarding experience. During the year, we also undertake numerous visits to the offices and factories of our corporate partners. Similarly, each study tour includes 4-5 organisational visits. In Guangzhou, for example, our students visited both the factory and the concept store of Goelia Fashion, an emerging global brand.

Everyone undertakes three key challenges throughout the year, each one designed to embed learning in a practical context. Unlike other MBA programmes, we source and select all the challenges for you, ensuring their relevance and availability.

The New Venture Challenge

Here, you support a real business entrepreneur to take a new idea to market. Focusing on a ‘live’ project with real issues, this challenge primarily explores business planning, giving you real insight into the entrepreneurial mindset, exposing the processes and the challenges of establishing a new venture.

The Consultancy Challenge

Following intensive consultancy training covering all the ‘soft’ skills typically needed to lead organisational change, you will work with the senior leadership team of a medium-sized organisation. Recent partners include the Brewery Arts Centre, Gyro HSR and Isothane Ltd. Your brief will always involve strategic organisational change, with specific focus on marketing, HR, or operational issues. You will offer consultancy to the business, formulate recommendations and present your findings to the client as well as the Faculty. This challenge explores the nexus of your teamwork and leadership styles, as well as your capacity for orchestrating strategic change.

The Corporate Challenge

Taking place over the final ten weeks of the programme, this challenge explores your ability to bring your learning to a sophisticated project or assignment. This involves working in a team on a project for a global organisation, recent partners include PwC, BASF, Vodafone, EDF Energy and the Co-operative Group. Depending on needs, some students may prefer to substitute this option with either a research-based dissertation or a self-sourced MBA internship with a recognised multi-national organisation.

Learning Through Action and The Three Challenges

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• Top 10 in the world – Forbes 2011

• Top 10 in the UK – FT 2013

• Top 100 in the world – FT 2012

• Top 100 in the world – Economist 2012

The Lancaster Full-time MBA attracts people from a wide range of backgrounds, work experience and nationalities (typically, around 20 countries are represented in each class). Most are aged between 27 and 34, with approximately 8 years work experience.

“The Learning Through Action approach challenges students to test their knowledge in various live projects, offering a unique experience that prepared me well for my future career.”

Jeff

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Consultancy Challenge.

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Everyone on The Lancaster MBA has a career objective: whether to switch career paths, take a significant step in salary and/or seniority, or simply evolve in your current role. Whatever your objective, we work with you – before, during and after the programme – to help you realise your ambition.

We have learned that the most effective way is to empower you to create your own plan for achievement and build a portfolio of activities and engagements throughout the programme – your MAP (My Achievement Portfolio).

This gives you a solid platform for career advancement, and The Lancaster MBA Career Advancement Programme – which runs throughout the year – will help you build on it with:

• Individual careers advice and consultations during and after completing The Lancaster MBA

• Regular presentations from career experts, updates from recruiters, and practical workshops such as a series of mock-interviews and assessment centre training

• Networking events, including campus visits from leading employers

• Support with CV design and developing your presentation and interview skills

• A dedicated career management centre, providing invaluable source material

• Access to the Carnet Alliance, a careers network comprising 14 of Europe’s leading business schools

• Affiliation to leading MBA recruitment organisations, including MBA-Exchange and QS Global-Workplace

On our website, you’ll find several videos showing mock-interviews, assessment centre workshops and our engagement with recruiters in London.

“The course curriculum is packed with theory, tools and models that are highly applicable for dealing with the complex, uncertain and rapidly changing world of business. You reflect on and learn more deeply from everything that’s taught and everything you experience in the action elements of the programme. It provides tomorrow’s leaders ways of handling tomorrow’s challenges.”

Orjan

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The Mindful Manager Support with Career Advancement

Focusing on the ‘softer’ skills essential for effective leadership, The Mindful Manager module runs through the whole MBA, and gives you the tools to support lifelong learning and development. By encouraging reflective thinking, it connects all your experiences and leads you to understand the dynamics which shape and influence business today.

As part of this module on the Full-time MBA, you will take part in regular interactive sessions with CEO’s and senior managers from a variety of businesses who will involve you in the current issues and challenges of their organisations.

The Lancaster Full-time MBA is a global programme, designed to enhance your international outlook.

As well as living and studying in a diverse, multi-cultural community, you have a number of opportunities to broaden your awareness of the cultural differences impacting organisations. These include ‘International Business in Context’, a one week intensive study tour of an emerging economy. Recent tours have included China, India, Turkey and the Czech Republic. You can gain further international experience by joining our Global MBA classes or participating in study opportunities with world-class partner institutions.

An International Dimension

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There’s a real sense of community, on campus and in the town. You feel safe, but not secluded.

Located just 3 miles from the campus – and easily accessible by a bus service running every 10 minutes – Lancaster is a small, friendly city with a population of 40,000 people. Though it has a long history, reflected in cobbled streets and 12th century castle, it is very much a modern city with a full range of shops and entertainments, including museums, multi-screen cinemas, and an active independent arts scene.

As you would expect, the city of Lancaster and surrounding communities are heavily influenced by student needs, with restaurants catering for most tastes and budgets (from South American and European to Far Eastern and Vegetarian). Much of the centre is pedestrianised and traffic free, creating a real sense of safety and space to realise your potential.

For those of you who enjoy the outdoor life, Lancaster is well placed for exploring the beautiful English Lake District and Yorkshire Dales. For those seeking a more cosmopolitan experience you can train into the centre of Glasgow, Edinburgh and London in just over two hours.

Lancaster University Management School is home to 13,000 students, all studying on an attractive campus covering 360 acres of landscaped parkland. Think of it as a small town with a focus on education. And just like a town, the campus has a huge range of facilities, from shops and banks, to a post office, travel agent and petrol station. Leisure facilities are excellent, with a cinema, theatres, cafés and restaurants, as well as a £20 million state-of-the-art sports centre.

Lancaster has recently invested £420 million in enhancing the campus, and offers over 1,000 computers, Wi-Fi access and high-speed broadband, as well as sophisticated on-line databases, a world-class library (also accessible on-line), and e-learning environments.

You will spend a lot of your learning time in the purpose-built MBA suite, which is open exclusively to The Lancaster MBA students 24 hours a day, all year round. It is primarily a work and meeting space laid-out in a modern hot-desking format. However, it also includes break-out areas, an MBA-specific library, and all the necessary office equipment for your use. The MBA suite and dedicated lecture theatre is set in the main Management School building, which includes additional break-out spaces and a popular coffee bar (The Hub).

Most Full-time MBA students live on campus in Graduate College. Designed for mature postgraduates, it has large rooms with en-suite facilities, internet access and its own lecture theatre, boardroom, and resource and study area.

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The Practical Perspective

“Being immersed in real business projects with exceptional mentoring creates the perfect environment to develop your critical thinking and criteria when choosing and applying the most suited tools learned throughout the programme.”


The Lancaster MBA is delivered around three perspectives: Practical, Relational and Strategic. Here, a Lancaster MBA student, Cesar, explains what these perspectives mean to him, and how they’ve helped support and drive his development. While your journey will be uniquely your own, The Lancaster MBA is transformation for all.

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Consultancy Challenge

Corporate Challenge or Internship

New Venture Challenge

International Study Tour

Career Advancement

The Mindful Manager

Learning Through Action

Induction

Three Elective Modules

Leading Change

Managing IT in Organisations

Global Society and Responsible Management

Strategic Management

Operations and Process Management

Business Economics

Finance

Marketing

Accounting

Organisational Behaviour

The Strategic Perspective

“This has a powerful emphasis on developing ones knowledge and business awareness. It helps build the fundamental critical thinking, resourcefulness and self-confidence needed to perform in senior strategic positions, regardless of the sector.”

The Relational Perspective

“The diversity in the nature of the projects and in the rich backgrounds and experiences of each MBA team member helps develop your understanding of the importance of different roles and interrelations in the business world. This in turn forges vital soft managerial skills.”

Integrative Case Exams

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This two-year part-time programme has been specially designed for leaders who want to develop without leaving their employers. While it demands real commitment, we understand the time pressures you face. So we’ve organised the programme such that face-to-face time is conveniently provided in block modules – approximately one every other month. Structured to make full use of your time, the programme includes online pre-learning, work-based assignments and a real focus on you as a manager and leader: on building your strengths, broadening your awareness and strengthening your soft skills. You will find yourself developing throughout the two years, ensuring your on-going career advancement in the years after.

• World-class MBA in a convenient, career enhancing format


• Learning Through Action, giving you practical exposure to 3 real business challenges

• Aligns the needs of you and your employer to deliver maximum returns to both

• Internationally respected lecturers and practitioners

• Limited class sizes and fixed start dates, so you share the experiences and develop deep life-long bonds with your fellow participants

• Opportunities for international study and experience

Popular across the UK and Europe, The Executive MBA is an international programme, drawing ideas and inspiration from international businesses, staff and participants. In addition to the opportunity to network with Full-time MBA students, you have the opportunity to undertake overseas study.

You could choose to:

• Join other Lancaster Executive mode students in the modules your same faculty members deliver at our overseas Global MBA locations (currently Jordan, Singapore, and Zambia)

• Take part in the International Business in Context Module (a core element of the Lancaster Full-time MBA programme)

• Venture out to China on the ‘Doing Business in China’ programme run by Guanghua Management School, part of Peking University

Please note: these are not course requirements and will involve additional fees.

The Executive MBA

An International DimensionKey Features

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Classes typically number 30 to 40 students, representing a full spectrum of professional disciplines in everything from multinationals to not-for-profit organisations. The age profile is generally 28 to 45, with seniority ranging from middle management to director level. All classes begin on fixed dates, so you can schedule well ahead. Your classmates will remain the same throughout the programme, allowing you to create deep bonds, and ensuring a consistent and enriching experience.

Four-day modules at regular intervals throughout the year, supported with self-study

Learning on The Lancaster MBA is based around three perspectives (Strategic, Practical and Relational), each giving you insights into your ‘professional self’ and the business world. During the four-day modules, the programme is delivered via a series of highly interactive workshops. These combine input from leading academics with in-depth discussion and a range of integrative activities designed to reinforce learning in a practical context. This practical focus (Learning Through Action) is continued with a series of challenges, while in between sessions you will undertake self-study and online learning supported by our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) which holds all documents and resources, and acts as a direct conduit to Module Tutors.

Just as on the Full-time MBA, all learning activities are connected by The Mindful Manager module, helping you assimilate and integrate all activities into an enriching, rewarding experience.

As part of The Executive MBA you will undertake three challenges, each designed to embed learning in a practical context. While these include an assignment in your own place of work, we also ask you to undertake projects with external partners. This gives you exposure to unfamiliar cultures and strategic imperatives, helping accelerate your development and understanding.

The Business Development Challenge

As part of a team, you will participate in a highly realistic and dynamic business start-up simulation, requiring you to integrate learning from across the programme to negotiate the full range of challenges and decisions faced by new and growing businesses. The challenge also includes a live ‘dragon’s den’ style funding bid, which will have real impact on the outcome of the simulation as well as giving team members an opportunity to develop their analytical and presentation skills.

The Consultancy Challenge

In this challenge, we will allocate you to a larger organisation with a culture and operational orbit very different from your own. Your brief will be to find solutions to a live issue, typically involving organisational change or a marketing, HR, strategy or operational problem. You will offer consultancy to the business, formulate recommendations and present your findings to the client as well as the Faculty. This challenge explores your capacity for business analysis, as well as your consultancy style.

The Applied Research Challenge

Here, you will work within your own organisation on an extended assignment, carefully chosen to reflect both your objectives and your employer’s business needs.

Everyone on The Lancaster MBA has a career objective, but owing to the transformational nature of the programme, many people reappraise their career options during the 2 years. Whatever you are looking to achieve – to grow in your current role or explore new pathways – we work with you to support your aims. Throughout this journey, you will have full and on-going access to all our career expertise and contacts – before, during and after the programme.

During all of the four-day workshops delivered at Lancaster University, The Executive MBA is delivered in a purpose-built conference facility on the main campus. Many students stay at the adjoining Lancaster House Hotel, which boasts 100 en-suite bedrooms with internet access and its own leisure club with swimming pool, sauna and gym.

Running through the whole MBA, this module helps develop your strategic leadership skills and capability in a very tangible sense. There is a significant practice-based element using, among other approaches, an external drama coach, while theoretical study will help you understand and deconstruct a range of leadership styles, including your own. You will discover and extend your own leadership ‘voice.’

Learning Through Action and The Three Challenges

Who takes the Executive MBA?


Support with Career Advancement

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Focusing on the ‘softer’ skills essential for effective leadership, The Mindful Manager module (see page 8) runs through the whole MBA and gives you the tools to support lifelong learning and development. By encouraging reflective thinking, it connects all your experiences and leads you to understand the dynamics which shape and influence business today.

The Mindful Manager

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The Lancaster MBA is delivered around three perspectives – Practical, Relational and Strategic. Here, a Lancaster MBA student, Tom, explains what these perspectives mean to him, and how they’ve helped support and drive his development. While your journey will be uniquely your own, The Lancaster MBA is transformation for all.

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Applied Research Challenge


Business Development Challenge

Career Advancement

The Mindful Manager

The Practice of Leadership

Induction

Global Society and Responsible Management

Strategic Management and the Economic Environment

Strategic Change

Strategic HRM and Organisational Behaviour

Strategic Operations Management

Financial Decision Making for Managers

Applied Marketing for Managers

International Study Tour and Electives

(Optional Extras)


“The Consultancy Challenge really focused the mind on ensuring that the needs of the client were clearly understood from the outset so that these could be met by the end of the project. It also emphasised the variety of challenges associated in leading and working in a new team in a pressurised environment”.


“The EMBA has helped me question more objectively an organisation’s strategic purpose and corporate raison d’etre. It has also reinforced how critical it is to engage people’s interest up and down the business before implementation”.


“I have definitely recognised the need for effective leadership in all work situations but especially in periods of transition through my studies on the EMBA. Topics such as culture, change and motivation may all appear to be soft options to many but they are all pivotal to becoming a more well rounded manager”.

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The Lancaster MBA has long enjoyed a global reputation, and now it is also global in reach. We deliver the Global MBA programme in Executive mode – two year, part-time – in Singapore and Jordan, bringing our expertise to more and more talented people. Involving a variety of learning methods – including lectures, virtual learning and live assignments – The Global MBA offers a truly international perspective and all-round insights into strategic leadership. Helping you explore and develop your potential without the need for extensive travel, the programme has a high rate of successful completion – testament to the quality of learning, and the power of partnership.

• World-class MBA local to you – in a convenient, career enhancing format


• Learning Through Action, giving you practical exposure to 2 real business challenges, and assignments based around you and your objectives

• Aligns the needs of you and your employer to deliver maximum returns to both

• Exclusive Lancaster lecturing team who also lead the same modules on the Lancaster-based MBA Programmes

• Limited class sizes so you share the experiences and develop deep life-long bonds with your fellow participants

• Opportunities for international study and experience

The Global MBA provides region-based participants with extensive exposure to the rest of the world. In addition to your work with an internationally-adept set f Lancaster lecturers, you will have a series of opportunities to take your programme abroad.

You could choose to:

• Join other Executive-mode MBA students at deliveries around the world, including the Executive MBA in Lancaster.

• Join Full-time MBA students in the extensive offering of electives delivered each year in Lancaster

• Take the ‘International Business in Context’ module (part of the Full-time MBA), and/or

• Venture out to China on the ‘Doing Business in China’ programme run by Guanghua Management School, part of Peking University

Please note: these are not programme requirements and will involve additional fees.

The Global MBA

Key Features An International Perspective

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Like the Executive MBA, Lancaster’s Global MBA suits practising managers with the ambition and drive to become senior strategic leaders. Most participants are mid-managers with ambition to join the C-suite or launch their own organisations.

Three-day or four-day residential workshops every two months, complemented by self-study.

The Lancaster Global MBA takes the best of Lancaster’s Executive MBA programme and delivers overseas, largely with the same faculty members.

You will take part in lectures, workshops and small group work. Classes are delivered in a U-shaped seating arrangement, so you can see and interact with all your colleagues.

In between the residential sessions, you undertake self-study, supported by our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) which holds all documents and resources, and acts as a direct conduit to programme leaders and tutors. You also work on assignments which address real challenges and issues in your organisation, bringing benefits to both parties.

Just as on the Full-time MBA, there is a strong emphasis on helping you explore your own particular skills and objectives, which we call ‘reflective assessment’, and on collaborative working and practical experience (Learning Through Action).

Combined, these give you different perspectives and insights into your ‘professional self’ and the business world. We help you assimilate and integrate these into an enriching, rewarding experience which strengthens your strategic leadership capability.

Although we aren’t always local to you, we remain fully committed to supporting you to achieve your career goals – before, during and after completion of the programme. We achieve this by working closely with you to create a personal plan of engagement – My Achievement Portfolio – which serves as your MAP to advancement. In periodic meetings throughout the programme, we review your progress and objectives and support you in meeting your goals. We even continue these reviews after you complete the programme, so we are here to help you steer and shape your career for the long-term.

“The Lancaster MBA programme provided me with the tools and experience to elevate my business management skills and increase my value to any organisation. I particularly appreciated the Lancaster based professors who lead their fields in combining academic excellence with practical experience.”

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Who takes The Global MBA


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18 Months

Applied Research Challenge


Career Advancement

Mindful Management

Practice of Leadership

Orientation

Integrated Case Exam

Managing Change

Strategic Management

Corporate Finance

Management Accounting

Business Economics

Marketing Management

Managing Operations

Organisational Behaviour

Perspectives on Managing & Organising

International Study Tour (Optional Extra)

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The Lancaster MBA is delivered around three perspectives – Practical, Relational and Strategic. Here, a Lancaster MBA student, Jessica, explains what these perspectives mean to her, and how they’ve helped support and drive her development. While your journey will be uniquely your own, The Lancaster MBA is transformation for all.


“It has been hard work, but informative! The assignments are well-thought out, and taking part in different groups continuously challenged my weaknesses, triggering quick learning and rapid improvement over the programme.”


“This perspective taught me the skills and tools needed to deliver real strategic value to organisations. I’ve learned to look at situations in a different way, and to consider wider issues in my decision-making.”


“The valuable insights generated from this perspective improved my understanding of business as a whole, and enlarged my capacity for working in complex cultures. You just can’t help but be inspired by the huge range of people and experience around you.”

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You are self-starters with an impressive track-record of achievement in your own disciplines, and you all have the drive and desire to explore your talents further and make a positive impact – on businesses, on your colleagues, and on your own careers.

A world-class programme, with a unique and collaborative way of working, The Lancaster MBA is committed to helping you achieve your specific career aims and objectives. We will only offer a place if we feel our approach is suitable to you, and if you meet the following criteria.

You should possess a good first degree from a recognised university and/or equivalent professional training. If your degree is not from a UK university you will be required to achieve a GMAT score of 600 or above balanced across verbal, written and quantitative elements. You will also be required to complete two short essays as part of your application.

In special circumstances, candidates with other exceptional qualities may be admitted when their GMAT score is marginally below 600, but only if they can a) demonstrate a good standard on the quantitative element, b) successfully complete the admissions essays, and c) meet other minimum language requirements (IELTS, TOEFL iBT, PTE).

For The Full-time MBA, we look for at least three years’ postgraduate experience in a professional capacity. For The Executive MBA and The Global Executive MBA, we look for five years’ professional experience, including managerial responsibility.

If your first language is not English, you will need to demonstrate your English language proficiency, preferably with an IELTS score of 7.0 or above (with at least 6.0 in each element), or with a TOEFL iBT score of 100 or alternatively with a PTE score of at least 70.

Depending on your location, we undertake either a face-to-face or telephone interview.

You need to supply at least two references, including one from your current and immediate line manager or tutor.

If your background is ‘non-standard’, you may still be eligible for The Lancaster MBA. We review each case individually. For more advice about your suitability, please contact the MBA Admissions.

Full-time and Executive MBA. These programmes begin in September/October each year. Places are limited, and competition is intense, so you are advised to apply online before June (Full-time) and August (EMBA).

Global Executive MBA. These programmes begin at various times throughout the year. Information about the application windows for each location is available on our website.

All current details are available on our website. For The Full-time MBA, we recommend that you allocate a further £10,000 a year for accommodation, meals and personal spending.

We have a limited number of partial-fee scholarships for exceptional applicants. You will find more information on our website.

If you would like any further advice please contact the MBA Admissions office, visit us at one of the many international MBA fairs we attend, or ask one of our local agents. Alternatively, we can put you in touch with former MBA students who can give you an ‘insider’s’ point of view.

Our international quest for strategic leaders. One of the strengths of The Lancaster MBA is the diversity of participants. Although drawn from many different countries, industries and backgrounds, all Lancaster MBA applicants have significant potential, combined with the drive to achieve. Our selection process is designed to identify a new breed of aspirational professionals who want to ‘Explore the leader inside’.

Applicants

Academic

Work Experience

English Proficiency

Interview

References

Exceptional Circumstances

Applications

Fees

Scholarships

Help and Advice

Selection

A world of opportunity is waiting. The potential is inside you. We will help you explore your capabilities, drive your capacity for lifelong learning, and prepare you for the challenges of your career. Explore the leader inside you, and take it to the world outside. The journey starts here.


Thank you to all The Lancaster MBA students who have so freely given their time and support in the creation of this prospectus.

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