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Executive Management 5 (BUSA90509)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Summer Term
EMBA Office at Melbourne Business School
Overview
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This subject contains four components, as described below.
Finance II:
This component builds on the Finance I component in the subject, Executive Management 1, and is designed to provide students with advanced knowledge of financial management. This knowledge provides the basis for funding a firm’s investments and using its resources efficiently. The topics covered include:
- Risk management
- Real options
- Capital investments in foreign markets
- Determinants of capital structure
- Corporate payout policy
Business Strategy:
Business Strategy has a number of primary aims:
- to provide the students with an understanding of the primary roles and responsibilities of a general manager in formulating business strategies, and in building and sustaining competitive advantage;
- to provide students with an appreciation of the fundamental issues involved in integrating and coordinating the activities of different functional areas, such as marketing, operations, management, accounting, human resource management and finance;
- to introduce the frameworks and tools commonly used in developing and assessing business strategies; and to develop the decision-making skills of the students from the perspective of top management
Operations:
In competitive global and dynamic environments, companies face increasing pressures to exceed customer expectations along multiple performance measures, such as cost, quality, flexibility and innovativeness. To outperform their competitors, firms need to build a sustainable competitive advantage around these capabilities. The focus of the component is to highlight how firms should design, manage and continually improve their business and operational processes to better manage the mismatch between supply and demand. It aims at providing the core concepts in operations that are essential for appreciating how operational capabilities can help organisations achieve sustainable competitive advantage. This component provides a logical and rigorous approach to plan and control process structure and managerial levers to achieve desired business process performance.
Seminar V:
This Executive MBA Seminar Series complements the mainstream components of the module, and is dedicated to contemporary issues and global best practice development in the Finance II, Market Access Strategy and Managing Human Capital fields.
Intended learning outcomes
Finance II:
On completion of this component students should:
- Be able to identify the risks arising from a firm’s operating, investing, and financing activities and
- understand the techniques for managing those risks
- Understand how to incorporate sovereign risk into capital budgeting decisions
- Understand the role of real options in capital budgeting decisions
- Understand factors that affect a firm’s capital structure
- Be able to calculate cost of capital for complex situations
Business Strategy:
On completion of this component students should:
- understand the basic concepts of business strategy, and in particular the notion of competitive advantage and the more commonly occurring types of competitive advantage;
- know how to use financial and accounting data to understand the performance of a firm;
- know how to analyse a firm‘s value creation processes, and determine whether they represent a potential competitive advantage;
- know how to analyse the external environment, including industry structure, to assist in formulating and assessing strategies;
- be able to integrate the content to develop and assess strategy alternatives available to senior management.
Operations:
On completion of this component students should:
- Understand core fundamentals of process analysis
- Recognise taxonomy of process types
- Understand the link between operations and finance
- Understand the role of inventories in organisations and managerial levers for controlling the investments in inventories
- Understand variability and its adverse effect on process performance and ways of mitigating its negative effect
- Have developed skills in quality management, statistical process control techniques and fundamentals behind six sigma initiatives
- Be able to demonstrate knowledge of lean production and core principles governing Toyota production system
- Recognise the importance of collaboration and cooperation in supply chain management
Seminar V:
On completion of this component students will be able to:
- Understand and discuss contemporary and advanced issues in the field
- Recognise and apply global best practice models
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Enrolment in the MC-BAEV program
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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BUSA90505 | Executive Management 1 | April (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
BUSA90506 | Executive Management 2 | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
The components Finance II, Business Strategy and Operations are equally weighted as 30% each. Seminar V is weighted as 10%. In order to pass the subject, students are required to pass each component.
Finance II:
- Syndicate assignment (equivalent to individual 1200 word assessment), due mid-way in module (50%)
- Final examination (hurdle requirement; 90 minutes; 1500 words), taken at end of module (50%)
Business Strategy:
- Contribution to class learning (attendance at lectures, peer and instructor evaluation of contribution to class learning), throughout the module (20%)
- Final examination (hurdle requirement; 2.5 hours; 2500 words), taken at the end of the module (80%)
Operations:
- Contribution to class learning (attendance at lectures, peer and instructor evaluation of contribution to class learning), throughout the module (10%)
- Syndicate assignment (equivalent to individual 1200 word assessment), due mid-way in module (30%)
- Final examination (hurdle requirement; 90 minutes; 1500 words), taken at end of module (60%)
Seminar V:
- Class Participation (attendance at lectures, peer and instructor evaluation of contribution to class learning), throughout the module (10%)
- Individual Assessment (hurdle requirement; Module Reflection & Application; 1500 words), due 2 weeks after completion of the residential module (90%)
*The Individual Assessment underpins the critical application of ideas in the module to workplace practice. It is a reflective, integrative element that crystallises the executive-level learning experience.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 60 hours Total time commitment 280 hours Pre teaching start date 12 January 2019 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 19 January 2019 to 27 January 2019 Last self-enrol date 14 January 2019 Census date 21 January 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 January 2019 Assessment period ends 27 January 2019 Summer Term contact information
EMBA Office at Melbourne Business School
Time commitment details
280 hours
Additional delivery details
This subject is only available to students enrolled in the MC-BAEV program
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
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Prescribed texts
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Type Name Course Master of Business Administration
Last updated: 3 November 2022