Master's Degree in Business Management. MBA
- Students should possess and understand foundational knowledge that enables original thinking and research in the field.
- Students should apply acquired knowledge to solve problems in unfamiliar contexts within their field of study, including multidisciplinary scenarios.
- Students should be able to integrate knowledge and address the complexity of making informed judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their knowledge and judgments.
- Students should communicate conclusions and underlying knowledge clearly and unambiguously to both specialized and non-specialized audiences.
- Students should demonstrate self-directed learning skills for continued academic growth.
- Prepare, write and publicly present business reports and projects in a clear and coherent manner, defend them with rigour and tolerance and respond satisfactorily to criticisms relating to them.
- Seek, select and assess information from the different actors in the environment, both through traditional methods and information and communication technologies, to use it effectively in the face of problems and situations related to business activity.
- Analyse, synthesise and evaluate information, in a rigorous and critical manner, and be able to identify assumptions, assess evidence, detect false logic or reasoning, identify implicit values, and generalise adequately about problems and situations related to the business world.
- Act in the company's decision-making within the framework of human rights, democratic principles, the principles of equality between women and men, solidarity, environmental protection, universal accessibility and design for all, and the promotion of a culture of peace.
- Promote the ability to work in a team and to collaborate and organise the group's activities effectively and efficiently both in the area of general management and in the other functional areas of the company.
- Make both individual and collective decisions in professional practice as a company manager.
- Audit or define the values of an organisation and determine the mission and vision of an organisation accordingly.
- Evaluate the economic, technological, legal, fiscal and sociocultural framework in which a company develops its activity.
- Assess the direction and intensity of the possible impacts of change in the environmental factors on a companys activity and future results.
- Integrate the company into its socio-economic and competitive environment according to threats and opportunities.
- Analyse and assess the functional areas of the company with the aim of understanding its current and potential strengths and weaknesses as a support for decision making.
- Integrate the different functional areas of the company (marketing, finance, human resources, operations) in a synergistic way.
- Give a reasoned definition of the objectives of a company.
- Formulate the corporate strategy of a given company, as well as the competitive and functional strategies deriving from it.
- Apply creativity, knowledge and rigour to evaluate competitive strategies.
- Implement and control the company's strategy at its different levels, including the design of the company's organisational structure in accordance with its contingency factors.
- Formulate proposals for improving the company's strategy at its different levels as a result of a process of review and control.
- Reinforce the importance of liquidity management as a key element in the normal development of a company's financial activity and be able to establish the optimum level of the firm's treasury.
- Know and identify the principles of action and master plans of corporate social responsibility that allow the implementation of strategies aimed at improving confidence in the company, the relations with its environment, its image, its legitimacy and its social prestige.
- Develop entrepreneurial spirit and skills related to the management of change and innovation, in order to stimulate multifunctionality, diversity and the introduction of novelties in organisations.
- Produce the financial statements of the company based on the internal analysis, on the needs of users and on applicable regulations, interpret them and acquire the ability to make strategic and operative decisions on the basis of these analyses.
- Rationalise cost and optimise business profitability from the basis of management accounting.
- Anticipate, evaluate and select financing options and investment projects in a contingent way and plan, organise and control the implementation of the latter.
- Analyse different quantitative methods to solve problems in situations of uncertainty and specify the strategies to improve the companys overall performance and get ahead of competitors.
- Compare the solutions found for complex problems of company management, examine the most suitable method for decision making both at the tactical and the strategic level, and give the reasons for selecting this method.
- Determine the most appropriate leadership model for achieving the objectives of the company, and know how to guide and motivate the effort of the members of the organisation and encourage their participation.
- Initiate, promote and develop teamwork and interactions among people.
- Act assertively in negotiations, being able to apply mediation skills in the management of the organisation.
- Structure the corporate and competitive strategies of the company, integrated within the functional strategies, according to the principles and methods of the main management systems.
- Combine the main perspectives on and approaches to quality management and recognise and understand the opportunity to apply ISO and EFQM models.
- Organise and plan the activities of a marketing department in the business environment and in coordination with the other functional areas of the organisation.
- Manage the processes in the distribution channel efficiently and make decisions in the field of integral logistics.
- Integrate the international dimension of the economic activity into the business strategy.
