About the course
The AMBA-accredited Hull Executive MBA (EMBA) transforms you into a strategic and responsible leader through our business relevant, internationally recognised programme. You will be challenged to think critically to enhance your effectiveness both personally and professionally, developing the skills and understanding required to operate in a complex global business environment.
Teaching is informed by globally recognised research and led by academics with industry experience. Having access to excellent facilities across the University, you and your fellow EMBA students will remain together as a team throughout the programme, learning from each other and enlarging your professional network.
With modules taking place in three day blocks (Wednesday to Friday), every 6 weeks, this allows you to fit your studies around work and other commitments.
The Hull Executive MBA is taught throughout the year on a rolling carousel system with start dates around every nine months. This means you will be studying some modules, possibly with students from both the traditional and degree apprenticeship routes, who started earlier, and with those that join at a later stage. As a result, you will benefit from being able to build relationships within your own cohort, as well as network with other groups, creating more opportunities to develop your industry contacts.
Our AMBA accreditation confirms our quality, and as a Hull EMBA student, you will:
- Become a strategic and responsible leader who can think critically to enhance personal and professional effectiveness.
- Develop the skills and understanding required to operate in a complex global business environment.
- Develop a deeper understanding of the complexities of modern organisations through our holistic approach, driven by our distinctive expertise in systems thinking.
- Forge excellent links with industry through real world consultancy projects.
- Gain experience of a broad range of industries and sectors with our diverse cohort.
- Transfer new knowledge and skills direct to the workplace
- Flexibility of traditional and degree apprenticeship models, with the option of tailored ‘pathways’ to suit industry needs.
International partnerships
As well as the Executive MBA that is taught on campus at Hull, we have a number of international partnerships in key locations across the world.
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What you'll study
The Hull EMBA prepares you for senior leadership roles in today's complex world. Designed to develop high-level skills in all the functional aspects of business such as marketing, supply chain management and human resources, it also develops an awareness of the relationships between them and their contribution to the organisational whole.
This distinctive holistic approach of the Hull EMBA facilitates communication across boundaries – both cultural and organisational - and in so doing enhances personal effectiveness and performance.
You will be challenged to relate your learning to your own experiences and be encouraged to step outside your existing areas of expertise to appreciate the broader context.
Based on both theory and its practical application, the Hull EMBA concentrates on three core ideas:
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Lead Responsibly - Leaders must recognise the responsibility they hold, and discharge it skilfully, ethically, and responsively.
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Connected Thinking - Organisational sustainability requires sustainable business eco-systems both locally and globally, where multiple cause-and-effect relationships are acknowledged and accounted for.
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Complexity and Ambiguity - The rapidly changing world cannot be fully understood through old ideas and traditional thinking; we must lead creatively to manage the changes that are driven by complexity and ambiguity.
Teaching takes place in three day blocks, normally Wednesday to Friday, every six weeks. Face-to-face class contact is enhanced by online learning in the weeks before and after the blocks. All participants take eight core modules, and then choose from two different pathways studied over two years, organised so that learning in one area deepens understanding in all the others. This focused approach gives you a powerful set of tools for succeeding in today’s complex world.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
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Strategic Management
This module considers the nature of strategy. You study strategic group analysis, innovation and entrepreneurship, strategic choices and decisions, and organising for strategic advantage.
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Human Resource Management
Students study the conceptual and theoretical frameworks that underpin and shape HRM, as well as HRM practices including talent management, performance and development.
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Marketing
This module covers a range of marketing skills including analysis, strategy, planning and implementation, as well as the impact, value, and use of digital marketing.
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Accounting & Finance
This module focuses on the analysis and use of financial information, rather than the collation and processing of data. Topics range from company financial statements to crypto-currencies.
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Understanding Organisations and Organisational Change
You will be introduced to a range of topics including power, motivation, organisational culture, and how these interact with leading and managing organisational change.
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Systemic Management & Complexity
In this module, you’ll investigate topics including complexity theory in relation to systemic management, systemic interventions, conflict in organisational life and managing complexity in organisations.
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Leadership
Here, you will discuss the theory and practice of leadership, learn how to develop leadership skills and consider the political and ethical aspects of leading teams and organisations in a complex world.
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Operations and Supply Chain Management
Beginning with the broad concepts of how to design and manage the operations of any organisation, this module will explore how to develop ‘fit for purpose’ supply chains.
Your choice of pathways
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
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Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise
Learning in this module centres around understanding individual and organisational dimensions to creativity, and the psychology of creativity/invention, explored from a general, and an industry-specific perspective.
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Management Consultancy
Working on real business problems, you will gain an understanding of the skills needed to manage complex projects, and how to guide others to do so in your own context.
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Economics
This module covers a range of topics, from understanding the basic principles of how markets behave, to the under-pricing of natural, ‘free’ resources.
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International Business
You study topics including macroeconomic theory in internationalisation, national and global economies, international trade and investment flows and emerging economies.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
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Management Consultancy
Working on real business problems, you will gain an understanding of the skills needed to manage complex projects, and how to guide others to do so in your own context.
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Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise
Learning in this module centres around understanding individual and organisational dimensions to creativity, and the psychology of creativity/invention, explored from a general, and an industry-specific perspective.
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Leading and Managing Health and Social Care - Policy Perspective
You will develop a critical understanding of political concepts related to recent policy initiatives and their implications in the field of health and social care.
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Quality Improvement in Health and Social Care
Students explore how quality is ‘driven’ within health and social care and how improvement might be effectively promoted and managed within and across sectors.
This pathway is delivered in collaboration with the Faculty of Health Sciences, benefitting from their extensive expertise in the health sector.
Both pathways include a Research Methods & Dissertation module, based on a business and management topic of your choice, which may take the form of a consultancy report or a traditional academic format.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
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Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise
Learning in this module centres around understanding individual and organisational dimensions to creativity, and the psychology of creativity/invention, explored from a general, and an industry-specific perspective.
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Infrastructure Management
This module provides systematic methods and techniques to design, integrate and manage efficient, agile and cost effective technological infrastructures.
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Cyber Security and Organisational Resilience
You will learn about complex security related obligations, and the barriers, procedures and controls needed to protect organisations from threats such as fraud and money laundering.
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Enterprise Systems and Business Intelligence
This module explores the theory and practice of enterprise systems and business intelligence used in business management operations. It combines critical themes that have become crucial in business management operations, and recognises that these combinations are critical in a ‘big data’ business environment.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
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Infrastructure Management
This module provides systematic methods and techniques to design, integrate and manage efficient, agile and cost effective technological infrastructures.
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Enterprise Systems and Business Intelligence
This module explores the theory and practice of enterprise systems and business intelligence used in business management operations. It combines critical themes that have become crucial in business management operations, and recognises that these combinations are critical in a ‘big data’ business environment.
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International Trade, Global Logistics and Sustainable Network Design
Looking at the global structure of supply chains, you will consider issues such as international procurement, international transport, and international distribution. You'll also explore the legal, financial and security aspects of international trade and logistics.
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Sustainable Procurement in Supply Chains
Explore how the effective management of global procurement processes is crucial to the development of ethical and responsible organisations and supply chains.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
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Public Administration and Outsourcing Strategies
How can state-run authorities outsource functions and retain effective management? In this module, you'll develop an overview of the policy and regulatory processes of public-private co-operation and explore approaches to creating successful partnerships.
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Anti-trust, Competition Regulation and the Public Sector
Develop a deeper understanding of the conditions under which the freedom of economic actors can be curtailed, legal policy grounds for intervention and approaches to reaching agreements with collaborators and competitors.
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Public Procurement Regulation
Procurement regulation is an indispensable component of public sector management. Develop your understanding of creating tender processes to ensure transparency.
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Probity, Ethics and Corruption in the Public Sector
Explore issues in relation to corruption and how ethical dilemmas might be managed. You'll consider the knowledge gaps that exist in terms of corrupt characteristics and practices and analyse the extent to which the fight against collusion and fraud at government level can be translated into a system of regulation.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
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Shipping and Trade Market Dynamics
Studying statistics and econometrics, you'll develop an understanding of key indicators - modelling and interpreting economic data to consider their relevance and influence on decision making.
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Innovation, Technology and the Advanced Shipping Practitioner
Explore contemporary themes of the maritime industry including technology, environment and climate change, security and infrastructure.
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Shipping Law and Regulation
Examine case histories and the development of common law that underpins commercial shipping agreements, alongside key topics such as operations, dispute resolution, compliance and increasing regulatory burden.
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Shipping Finance
Here, we focus on financial management, analysing markets including public debt markets plus public- and private-equity markets. You'll explore other key topics such as risk management; debt financing; mortgages and security; plus mergers and acquisitions.
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
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Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Develop the skills and analytical framework to assess the strength of an entrepreneurial opportunity. You'll benefit from an enhanced ability to assess the strength of ideas or opportunities in starting a new business, or implementing new products or services within an existing business.
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Entrepreneurial Ventures - Establishment and Growth
We'll focus on implementing a business plan with particular reference to managing and growing a new business or an existing small business. You'll develop the management skills for sustaining entrepreneurial behaviour and understand the tools to implement a business plan,
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Business Planning for the Entrepreneur
This module is designed for existing and future entrepreneurs who are not financial managers but want a simple and practical approach to understanding entrepreneurial finance.
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Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise
Learning in this module centres around understanding individual and organisational dimensions to creativity, and the psychology of creativity/invention, explored from a general, and an industry-specific perspective.
Assessment
Most modules are assessed by individual assignments, such as essays and reports. Two modules are assessed by examination, and some may require group project work and the delivery of a presentation.
On successful completion of all modules, students will undertake an end-of-programme, 15,000-word work-based project or dissertation focusing on a business and management topic of their choice.
*All pathways are subject to sufficient student numbers in order to run.