A full-function MBA training students in the functional areas of business. The finance specialization enhances the professional profile of every graduate.
Sustainability is a fundamental socio-economic aspect of doing business in Europe and the Americas, and sustainable finance runs throughout the curriculum.
This is a Master of Business Administration: a graduate business degree that trains students across the functional areas of business, including accounting, finance, economics, strategy, entrepreneurship, marketing, customer analytics, operations, governance, risk, cybersecurity, leadership, human resources, organizational transformation, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence.
The Finance specialization enhances the professional profile of students through advanced study in corporate finance and valuation, investment and portfolio management, financial risk management, international finance and development banking, and artificial intelligence in finance, closing with an Applied Finance Capstone.
The program prepares globally minded graduates to allocate capital, evaluate investments, manage risk, support resilient enterprises and financial institutions, and advance inclusive and sustainable development. Every course uses applied projects, a Week 7 midterm, and a Week 14 project with oral defence in place of a conventional final examination.
The program identity guiding curriculum, assessment, teaching, partnerships, and public communication.
To advance a future in which finance strengthens resilient enterprises, inclusive prosperity, and sustainable development across interconnected economies.
To prepare globally minded graduates and professionals to exercise rigorous, responsible, and forward-looking financial leadership: allocating capital, evaluating investments, managing risk, supporting resilient enterprises and financial institutions, advancing inclusive and sustainable development, and defending evidence-informed decisions with integrity and accountability.
Within this program, responsible finance means applying financial knowledge, instruments, institutions, technologies, and professional judgment in ways that are analytically sound, economically and operationally credible, ethically defensible, transparent, attentive to material impacts and dependencies, and accountable for foreseeable consequences.
Responsible finance is not treated as a marketing label. Students distinguish facts, estimates, assumptions, and judgments; recognize uncertainty, model limitations, and conflicts of interest; and substantiate financial, sustainability, and development claims with credible evidence and defined boundaries.
Six program learning outcomes, each developed and directly assessed across the common trunk, the advanced finance courses, and the capstone.
Integrate accounting, economics, strategy, marketing, operations, leadership, governance, technology, and advanced finance to diagnose complex organizational and market decisions, formulate coherent financial strategies, and create durable enterprise, stakeholder, and societal value in global contexts.
Critically acquire, evaluate, model, and communicate financial and non-financial evidence; apply valuation, capital-budgeting, investment, portfolio, performance, scenario, and quantitative methods; and make defensible capital-allocation decisions under uncertainty.
Evaluate and manage market, credit, counterparty, liquidity, operational, model, country, sovereign, currency, climate, technology, and other material risks; design resilient responses; and exercise sound judgment across corporate, investment, international, and development-finance contexts.
Integrate fiduciary and professional ethics, sustainability, stakeholder and common-good considerations, regulation, environmental and social safeguards, accountability, and long-term consequences into financial decisions, governance, implementation, and claims.
Use data, research, artificial intelligence, analytics, and digital tools responsibly to build, validate, challenge, and communicate transparent and reproducible financial models and decisions while protecting privacy, security, fairness, explainability, human oversight, and data integrity.
Lead and collaborate across functions, cultures, institutions, and stakeholder groups; translate financial strategy into governance, resources, controls, implementation, measures, and learning; and communicate and defend professional recommendations with clarity, integrity, and reflective judgment.
Six integrated graduate courses establishing broad managerial competence across the principal functions of business administration before students progress to the finance specialization.
Builds digital capability, business analytics, and human-AI decision support. Generative AI is treated as a probabilistic collaborator, not an authoritative source: students formulate tasks, verify claims, recognize bias, protect sensitive information, and document AI use. The final project designs, tests, governs, and communicates an AI-enabled workflow that preserves human judgment and measurable value.
Managerial accounting, financial reporting, finance, quantitative analysis, and capital-allocation decisions. Students interpret financial statements, apply budgeting, variance analysis, and capital-investment methods, with IFRS and cross-border contexts supporting globally informed judgment. Spreadsheet models, scenario analysis, and approved AI tools support, never replace, professional judgment. Final: an integrated financial decision case with oral defence.
Global economics, competitive and corporate strategy, digital business models, entrepreneurship, and international growth. Students evaluate platforms, ecosystems, network effects, and AI value logic, and connect strategy to trade, investment, regulation, supply networks, energy, and geopolitical fragmentation using evidence and scenarios. Final: a board-level briefing defending an internationally responsive digital-business strategy.
Marketing strategy, consumer and organizational markets, branding, pricing, channels, and digital growth, connected to evidence through customer analytics: conversion, retention, churn, acquisition cost, contribution, and customer lifetime value. Digital and AI-enabled marketing is evaluated through customer value, privacy, fairness, inclusion, sustainability, and claims integrity. Final: the Customer Analytics and Responsible Growth Project.
Responsible management, operations and value-chain governance, enterprise risk, cybersecurity, accountability, and sustainability assurance. NIST, EU, OECD, and UNESCO resources are treated as adaptable frameworks; attention is given to trustworthy AI, data governance, privacy, third-party risk, incident response, climate dependencies, disclosure quality, and greenwashing. Final: an Integrated Governance, Cybersecurity, and Sustainability Assurance Plan.
Executive leadership, human-resource management, organizational behaviour, change, workforce strategy, and the future of work. Students diagnose strategy, culture, capabilities, and readiness, and design feasible transformation architectures. Attention is given to inclusive leadership, psychological safety, human-AI work design, hybrid work, skills transitions, worker voice, and well-being. Final: a Leadership and Organizational Transformation Portfolio with oral defence.
Every course contains exactly five course learning outcomes mapped directly to assessment evidence, producing sixty mapped outcomes across the twelve-course program.
Five advanced courses building the analytical, fiduciary, and leadership capabilities of the finance specialization. Completion of the six-course common trunk is the prerequisite.
Allocate capital, design financing policy, and estimate the value of companies, business units, and strategic initiatives. Students construct auditable forecasts, estimate discount rates, apply discounted-cash-flow, relative, transaction, and sum-of-the-parts methods, and communicate a defensible value range instead of a falsely precise point estimate. Signature assessment: an Integrated Corporate Valuation and Value-Creation Plan.
Download OutlineEvaluate investment opportunities, formulate capital-market expectations, construct portfolios, and manage investment mandates across equities, fixed income, derivatives, real assets, and alternatives. Sustainable finance is integrated through mandate design, financially material ESG information, climate scenarios, stewardship, and product claims. Signature assessment: an Integrated Investment Policy and Portfolio Management Plan.
Download OutlineDiagnose market, credit, counterparty, liquidity, operational, model, cyber, and strategic risk exposures; measure and challenge them using value at risk, expected shortfall, duration, stress tests, and model-validation evidence; and design risk appetite, limits, hedges, capital, governance, and recovery responses. Climate and sustainability-related risks are integrated throughout. Signature assessment: an Integrated Financial Risk Management Framework.
Course outline forthcomingInternational monetary arrangements, foreign-exchange markets, global capital flows, country and sovereign risk, and multinational financial decisions, plus the mandates and financing instruments of the World Bank Group (IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA) and regional development banks. Development additionality, debt sustainability, and safeguards are treated as integral to sound finance. Signature assessment: an International Financing and Development Impact Strategy.
Download OutlineEvaluate, design, govern, and implement AI applications in finance: machine learning, natural-language processing, generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, forecasting, and anomaly detection across corporate finance, investment, risk, banking, and regulatory functions. Model accuracy alone is insufficient: decisions require validation, explainability, regulatory awareness, and accountable human oversight. Signature assessment: an AI-Enabled Finance Solution and Responsible Deployment Plan.
Download OutlineThe culminating course, where the full MBA in Finance comes together on a real applied-finance problem.
Students frame and investigate a complex applied-finance problem using a clear decision question, stakeholder and governance analysis, authoritative evidence, and explicit assumptions and limitations. The capstone integrates corporate finance, valuation, investment, portfolio, risk, international finance, development banking, AI, accounting, strategy, economics, and quantitative methods into decision-ready financial analysis.
Models, evidence, scenarios, and stress conditions are validated through reproducible analysis and independent challenge, and material sustainability objectives and consequences are integrated within financial value, risk, trade-offs, and implementation.
Graduates leave with a portfolio of defensible work: an integrated financial-statement analysis, a corporate valuation model, an investment and portfolio analysis, a risk framework, an international or development-finance appraisal, and the capstone itself.
Illustrative roles for which graduates may prepare, aligned with the curriculum and the six program learning outcomes.
The MBA in Finance is designed principally for experienced professionals seeking advancement into middle-management, specialist-lead, finance-business-partner, advisory, and cross-functional financial-leadership roles.
Illustrative roles: Finance Manager, FP&A Manager, Treasury Manager, Financial Risk Manager, Credit Manager, Portfolio Manager, Sustainable Finance Manager, Investment Officer.
Graduates without substantial work experience normally target analyst, associate, rotational, trainee, junior-officer, or project-support roles, building the experience required for later managerial responsibility.
Illustrative roles: Financial Analyst, FP&A Analyst, Credit Analyst, Treasury Analyst, Investment Analyst, Financial Risk Analyst, Sustainable Finance Analyst, Development Finance Analyst.
Career alignment means the MBA develops knowledge and capabilities relevant to a role family. It does not guarantee employment, promotion, compensation, or professional licensure. Hiring also depends on prior experience, language capability, local labour-market conditions, work authorization, and employer, licensing, or regulatory requirements. Portfolio management, wealth advice, brokerage, and securities activities may require examinations, licences, or registrations depending on jurisdiction.
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Outlines for C9 Financial Risk Management and the C12 Applied Finance Capstone will be added when available.
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