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Executive Management 7 (BUSA90511)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)

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This subject contains four components, as described below.

Mergers & Acquisitions:

M&As are important corporate events that allow companies to achieve a wide variety of strategic goals including; new market access, logistical arrangements, operational efficiencies and portfolio diversity.

This component takes a broad-based, strategic approach to M&A activity and includes the following topics:

  • An overview of the M&A landscape and history
  • Criteria for successful M&As
  • Strategic considerations in M&A activity
  • Due diligence for M&A
  • Valuation in M&A – theory and application
  • Regulation of M&A and deal-structuring in Australia
  • Planning and implementing post-merger integration

Leading in Transformational Times:

This component is structured around the critical question: When a company is going through a transformational situation, what is Top Management‘s (TM) role in the transformation and how important are they? In addition, the subject considers both theoretical and methodological issues in addressing three major issues related to leadership of transformational situations:

  • In recent years, transformation has moved to the core of the TM agenda, but what does TM really do in transformational times?
  • What are the conditions of effectiveness and the practices of leadership at TM level? To investigate this question the course revisits the classical notions of legitimacy, authority and power and their new forms of enactment in contexts of transformation.
  • How to organise governance systems and processes in situations of transformation?

Corporate Governance:

Corporate Governance addresses the system by which companies are directed and controlled. Structures relating to rights and responsibilities, and rules and procedures for decision-making, are covered. Governance involves the alignment of interests amongst stakeholders. This component includes the following topics:

  • The governance model
  • Duties and obligations – the law and practice
  • Corporate sustainability
  • Governance in the Asian context
  • Boards and executive teams

Seminar VII:

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 Mergers & Acquisitions, Leadership and Corporate Governance fields.

Intended learning outcomes

Mergers & Acquisitions:


On completion of this component students will:

  • Understand of the context in which mergers and acquisitions take place
  • Recognise the importance of strategy in decisions to acquire
  • Understand the importance of due diligence
  • Be able to apply valuation models in M&A transactions
  • Understand the areas of law relevant to the regulation of M&A
  • Be able to illustrate the application of the price multiples and discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation methodologies in M&A
  • Recognise the key issues in planning post-merger integration.
  • Be able to analyse the different types of takeover bids that may be made and their implications
  • Promote understanding of the critical importance of reaping expected synergies.

Corporate Governance:


On completion of this component students will be able:

  • To review the literature on corporate governance theories, consider their application to corporate structures and define the key players
  • To understand the legal obligations of directors and officers under the Australian Corporations Act and to consider the interplay of these with ASX governance principles
  • To apply the principles of Corporate Governance
  • To consider the topics of corporate social responsibility and sustainability and to assess their relevance to, and impact on, the law and practice around officers' and directors' duties in Australia
  • To consider whether the governance principles and approaches discussed are transportable to different regulatory regimes and cross culturally
  • To understand board structure and process
  • To consider issues relating to the board and executive teams as elite decision making groups

Leading in Transformational Times:


The principal objective of this component is to provide students with concepts and tools that help them understand and apply theories of leadership in transformation situations. As part of this process they will develop competencies in the analysis, planning and execution of leadership practice in transformational contexts. On completion of this component students will:

  • Possess the necessary competencies to assess the nature of transformational change and its implications for organizations;
  • Possess a body of knowledge related to the impact of top management on organisational transformation;
  • Be able to analyse, plan and execute leadership practice in transformation

Seminar VII:


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: 8 November 2024