The course addresses key debates and issues in management and leadership focusing on:

• Macro environmental influences on business
• The changing nature of competition
• The sources and dimensions of competitive advantage
• Global strategy and the multinational corporation
• External growth strategies including M&A
• Organisational decision making
• Implementing change initiatives

Recommended academic textbooks and journals:

• Balogun, J. Hope-Hailey, V. Gustafsson, S. (2016) Exploring Strategic Change. 4th ed. Harlow, Pearson.
• Grant, R. M. (2016) Contemporary Strategy Analysis. 9th ed. Wiley, West Sussex
• Jeffs, C. (2008) Strategic Management: A Sage Course Companion. London, Sage.
• Neilson, G. Martin, K.L. Powers, E. (2008). The secrets to successful strategy execution. Harvard Business Review. June 2018.
• Rummelt, R. P. (2011) The Perils of bad strategy. McKinsey Quarterly. June 2011.
• Ryall, M.D. (2013) The New Dynamics of Competition. Harvard Business Review. June 2013.

The course addresses key debates and issues in management, innovation and design thinking focusing on:

• Influences on global innovation
• Innovation strategy and competitive differentiation
• Design thinking, creativity and organisational problem solving
• Managing the innovation process, networks and people
• Protecting your innovations
• The value proposition and human-centric design
• Disruptive strategies and business model innovation

Recommended academic textbooks and journals:

• Brown, T. (2015) Design for action. Harvard Business Review. September 2015, pp. 56-64.
• Liedtka, J.M. (2014) Innovative Ways Companies are Using Design Thinking. Strategy & Leadership, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 40-45.
• Martin, B. Hanington, B. (2012) Universal Methods of Design. Rockport, MA.
• Michel, S. (2014) Capture more value. Harvard Business Review, October 2014.
• Price, R. Wrigley, C. (2015) Design and a deep customer insight approach to innovation. Journal of International Consumer Marketing.
• Westland, J. C. (2017) Global Innovation Management. 2nd ed. Palgrave, London.

The course addresses key debates and issues in insurance and regulations focusing on:

• Introduction to risk and the role of insurance as a risk transfer mechanism
• Characteristics and principles of insurance and the demand for insurance
• Structure of international insurance markets and their participants
• Forms of insurance including reinsurance

Excerpt from recommended academic textbooks:

• Rejda, G. and McNamara, M. (2017) Principles of Risk Management and Insurance. 13th ed. Harlow, Pearson.
• Grant, E. (2012) The Social and Economic Value of Insurance. Geneva/Basle, Geneva Association.

Further literature will be provided during the course.

The course addresses key debates and issues in insurance and regulations focusing on:

• Trade and economic development
• Government export financing mandates and foundations
• ECA set-up and policy objectives
• Key product offerings
• Rules and regulations
• Hot ECA topics

 
Literature:     
Literature will be provided during the course.

The course addresses key debates and issues in underwriting and claims focusing on:

• Fundamentals of corporate transactions
• Trade finance transactions
• Medium and long-term export finance transactions
• Structured and project finance specifics
• Hot topics

 
Literature:    
Literature will be provided during the course.

The course addresses key debates and issues in underwriting and and claims focusing on:

• Fundamentals of claims management
• Claim Examination Procedures
• Defaults and materialization of credit risk
• Disputed transactions
• Claims Portfolio Management
• Fundamentals of recovery actions
• Recovery portfolio management

Literature:   
Literature will be provided during the course.

The course addresses key debates and issues in underwriting and and claims focusing on:

• Credit risk underwriting process and approaches
• Risk types, Risk assessment and risk mitigation instruments
• Consideration of international standards
• Risk classification
• Portfolio Management

 
Literature:     
Literature will be provided during the course.

The course addresses key debates and issues in risk management and foreign trade focusing on:

• The global risk landscape
• (Digital) business ecosystems
• Process management and information systems
• COSO risk management
• Business continuity, corporate resilience and compliance

 
Literature:     
Literature will be provided during the course.

The course addresses key debates and issues in global business and the digital agenda focusing on:

• Fintech business models and use cases (egRegTech, InsureTech)
• Fintech disruptive potential
• Fintech Tech - introduction to Blockchain, AI, and big data
• Fintech Ethics and the role of regulation, identity and security
• Fintech challengers and challenges - profit and collaboration

 
Literature:     
Literature will be provided during the course.