MSc Business with Consulting

This module provides a comprehensive overview of the consulting cycle and equips students with foundational skills to begin a career in this dynamic field.

You'll gain insight into the diverse range of consulting and advisory roles that exist today and work on their own and in groups through real-life consulting tasks and case studies. There will be guest lectures from industry practitioners, reflecting also on the wider impact consultants can have on organisations.

The module aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to financial reporting and management accounting. 

By the end of the module, you will be able to prepare simple versions of the main financial statements: use financial statement information to analyse the performance of firms over time and across industries, and demonstrate an understanding of the role and the importance of the auditor and corporate governance in ensuring the quality of financial statement information and user confidence in this information.

The module aims to introduce fundamental economic concepts to non-economists. It will familiarise you with conventional assumptions about the behaviour of individuals and firms, their interactions in markets and the role of government with respect to market failures of various kinds. It will alert you to some basic questions and doubts about the conventional assumptions.

This module will provide you with a foundation for, and a critical assessment of, theoretical and empirical approaches to strategy.

You will also understand the historical and academic roots of the field of strategy, and provide frameworks and models for the interrogation and development of strategy in a variety of industries, and illustrate links between Strategy and Performance.

The module aims to provide an introduction to quantitative methods to students from non-numerical backgrounds. The module will equip you with an understanding of descriptive/inferential statistics and data presentation and enable you to apply the major tools needed for MSc level study and for the use of data analysis in the workplace.

You will learn to: 

• Describe a data set in a way that highlights what is important, by drawing the client directly to relevant comparisons.
• Choose which statistical method is most appropriate for each kind of data, and each kind of research question.
• Conduct basic inferential statistical tests, such as t- tests and Chi-square tests
• Conduct and interpret a multiple regression analysis
• Conduct and interpret a logistic regression analysis
• Demonstrate the ability to think quantitatively about data and determine what data can tell us, and what it cannot.

On this module you will be introduced to key contemporary themes, debates, and theoretical frameworks in the area of leadership, examining key leadership themes and frameworks in relation to real-world cases. You'll develop your capacity for critical and reflexive thinking about leadership theory and practice.

By the end of this module you will gain:

• Understanding of key leadership theories
• Critical understanding of the role of leadership in organisations, and an awareness of the role of context
• Awareness of critical current issues in leadership and of leading edge research in the field
• Application of knowledge and understanding of leadership theories to cases and 'real life' situations
• Ability to assess and critique research on leadership
• Articulate own strengths and weaknesses in relation to leadership and teamwork.

This module aims to develop an understanding of some of the challenges faced by leaders and managers within an increasingly volatile organisational environment. In particular, it aims to:

1) Introduce you to the major frameworks for understanding how different forms of organisational change might be evaluated, analysed, led and managed.

2) Build your skills in analysing how the cultural and micro-political dimensions of organisational life impact on both the need for change and the ways in which it manifests itself.

3) Develop your understanding of various strategies and tactics for the mobilisation of support for necessary change initiatives.

5) Enable you to critically engage with debates about the limitations of organisational change and its ideological dimensions.

This module aims to help you strengthen your understanding of consulting. We will explore concepts and skills across important topics in consulting, with a particular emphasis on current trends like digital transformation and sustainability, and engage in business case readings and discussions.

We will navigate topics, such as the consulting industry, the consulting process model, problem-solving methods, and emerging consulting agendas in the era of digital transformation (technology consulting) and sustainability (sustainability consulting). Former or current consultants may be invited (tentative) for your exposure to real-world consultants.