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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Part Time MBA Curriculum

The HKUST MBA curriculum is designed to develop your ability to operate successfully in a global economy, and manage effectively in the Asian context. There are two main components: required cores (~65%) and advanced electives (~35%).

Required Cores
The required cores cover areas in
Accounting,
Economics,
Finance, Marketing,
Operation Management,
Organization Behavior,
Strategy, Communications,
Business Laws and Ethics.
They are arranged in three tiers - foundation,
function, and integration - to provide a foundation for further study in chosen areas.

Advanced Course
The advanced electives comprise over 35% of the HKUST MBA curriculum, allowing participants to strengthen their expertise in chosen areas.

Course Delivery and Assessment
Course delivery methods range from lectures, discussions, seminars and case analysis to simulation, individual and group projects, and presentations. Assessment may include class participation, individual assignments, group projects and presentations, quizzes and exams, depending on the nature of the course. Faculty members select the appropriate mix of delivery and assessment for the best teaching results.

The language of instruction is English.

Required Coures
The required cores are arranged in three tiers - foundation, function and integration. These provide fundamental management knowledge and a foundation for further study in chosen areas.

Foundation Cores
Financial Accounting Foundations
Helps you master the art of accounting, from reading and analyzing financial statements to understanding incentives in selecting different accounting methods.

Introductory Statistics for Business
The statistical concepts essential to business decision-making. Covers probability models, sampling and estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression.

Managerial Accounting Foundations
Applications of management accounting concepts and principles that help firms make value-creating decisions. Real-world cases explore planning, control, investment, contracting and performance evaluation.

Managerial Communication
Improves communication skills with the focus on five critical areas: active listening, productive meetings, professional interviewing, high-impact presentations and effective writing. Uses group work, simulations and role-play.

Managerial Microeconomics
Introduces the economic concepts and tools every manager must understand: demand and supply, monopoly and competition, pricing policy and game theory. Cases and project work focused on decision-making applications.

Managerial Problem Solving
The first core course hones your skills in problem-solving, case analysis and presentation, team-building and leadership. Includes dynamics of group decision-making and provides personal insights through assessment of leadership style and experiential learning.

Function Cores
Corporate Finance
Analytical framework for the major types of investment and financing decisions made by firms. Includes corporate investment decisions and how firms decide between alternative sources of financing.

Fundamentals of Information Technology Management
Application of IT to various business models and processes to create and sustain competitive advantages. Balanced perspective on opportunities and challenges, together with a sampling of technology.

Management of Organizations
Concepts of effective management and leadership in a rapidly changing world. Focuses on individual and group decision-making, effective motivation of employees, negotiating skills, managing organizational culture and directing change.

Marketing Strategy and Policy
Provides understanding of the decisions facing managers at the marketing operations level. Develops skills in marketing analysis, marketing mix strategies, monitoring and controlling marketing action plans.

Operations Management
Key concepts, tools and best practices related to managing operations in a globalized world. Examines process analysis, supply chain, inventory management and quality management.

Integration Cores
Business Law and Ethics
Builds understanding of the legal environment and sharpens legal sense for business decision-making. Looks at different legal systems on issues, such as contracts, corporate governance and conflict resolution in an international context.

China in the Global Economy
Develops understanding of the Chinese economy in a macroeconomic context, with frequent cross-cultural comparisons. Builds skills to anticipate changes in the macro economy and economic policy, and introduces tools to evaluate the impact of these changes on the business environment.

Strategic Management
Examines successful strategies to help firms achieve superior performance and create value for shareholders. Analysis of competitive advantage a central theme

Advance Course
Advanced courses provide students with more in depth knowledge which allow them to develop additional expertise in areas such as Information Technology Management, Operations Management, Marketing and Financial Services.

Below are samples of advanced courses offered for Shenzhen MBA program in recent years (subject to change by the program office):
Business Optimization
Global Supply Chain Management
Global Macroeconomics
Investment Analysis
International Management
Business Simulation Game

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Requirement

Regular attendance of courses is required. Methods of assessment for each course, including examinations, individual assignments, class participation and group projects, vary according to the needs of individual courses. Faculty generally assigns High Pass (HP), Pass (P), Low Pass (LP) or Unsatisfactory (U) as grades to students.

Participants are required to complete 30 credits including 12 core courses (24 credits) and 4 pre-selected electives (6 credits). Upon successful completion of the program, participants are awarded an Executive Master of Business Administration degree by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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Typical curriculum

Module 1
Financial Reporting Systems
Strategic Marketing

Module 2
Individual and Group Behavior in the Organization
Corporate Governance

Module 3
Managerial Finance
Innovation Strategy & Management

Module 4
Operations Management
Organizational Design

Module 5
Law and Corporate Manager
Financial Information for Management Planning and Control

Module 6
Statistical Decision Analysis
Global Macroeconomics

Module 7
Strategic Financial Management
Marketing Analysis

Module 8
Entrepreneurship and Family Business
Building a Powerful Consumer Brand in China
Customer Insight Tools

Module 9
Contemporary Issues in Chinese Politics
Leading Across Diversity
Understanding Consumers

Module 10
Management of Organizational Change
Strategic Management Foundations

Module 11
Managing Human Resources in Asia Pacific
Learning from Leaders

The doctoral candidate must make a periodic conclusion on the progress of the dissertation preparation in the medium-term evaluation (a year or so after the dissertation prospectus), which will declare the finished work and period achievements as well as the difficulties and methods or thoughts about how to overcome these difficulties. At the same time, the published research papers should also be included in the medium-term report, accompanying the plan of research paper publication and the papers that will be published in the next period. The medium-term report must be submitted in written medium. The supervisor will give comments on the report, including comments on the finished work, the fulfillment of the planned work and expectation of the future plan.
In general, the evaluation group for the medium-term report should be the same as the direction group in charge of the dissertation prospectus. The evaluation group should make assessments on the periodic achievements of the dissertation preparation according to the medium-term report and the comments of the supervisor.
The dissertation progress report can be combined with the candidate’s seminar report or special research report.

6Pre-evaluation of Dissertation
The original edition of the dissertation audited by the supervisor should be handed in to three professors or scholars in the related research fields in other universities to experience “double-blind” pre-audit. Approved by more than 2 pre-auditors, the doctoral candidate can apply for the answer examination. Otherwise the paper should be revised for the next pre-evaluation.

Requirements for Publishing Research Papers

1 Before the dissertation defending, the doctoral candidate should have published at least three research papers on the designated periodic journals (the published papers must be closely related to the contents of the dissertation), among which at least two papers should have been published and one can be a notice of having been adopted. In these three papers, at least one paper should be published in the foreign periodic journals or the important domestic journals.
2 The affiliated organization of the author must be Huazhong University of Science & Technology in these published papers.
3 At the end of the third academic year, all the full-time doctoral candidates without special ascriptions and the college teachers must publish at least one research paper in the important international journals before the answer examination and the published paper must be closely related to the dissertation. If the candidate fails to meet this requirement, a research paper published on the designated important journal may also be acceptable, but the candidate can’t apply for the answer examination until the end of the fourth academic year.

Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Business Administration

The instruction program attends to improve the quality of the education of the doctoral candidates and strengthen the standardized management of Ph. D. educating program. Approved by the School of Graduate, this program is designed for Business Administration and Technical Economics and Management as the first-grade discipline.

I. Educational Objectives
This Ph. D program aims to
1.train students to have a scientific attitude and style in pursuit of precise and truth, to have aspirations after the truth and innovations and good ethics for scientific research, and also to qualify the students with the ability to do the research independently;
2.lead students to profound and broad theoretical foundations as well as systematic and in-depth professional knowledge;
3.lead students to creative achievements in one’s own major or professional techniques;
4.qualify students with the ability to do research independently.II. Research Fields
1. Financial Management and Investment Decision 2. Marketing Management
3. Human Resource Management 4. Enterprise Strategy Management
5. Corporate Governance 6. Financial Risk Management
7. Technological Innovation Management 8. Intellectual Property
9. Technological Strategy and Policy

III. Length of Schooling and Credits
Full time Ph. D candidates usually spend 3 or 4 years finishing their studies. They may get their degrees earlier but not less than two and a half years, or get their degrees later but not more than 6 years. The specific length of schooling will be decided by supervisor according to the student’s case. For those students who get direct entry into Ph.D study from master period, they usually spend 4 or 5 years finishing their studies.

IV. Requirements for Ph. D Candidates
1The education of doctoral candidates will follow the policy of “supervisor in full charge”, and organize a direction group with the supervisor as the monitor. The direction group together is responsible for the education and evaluation of the doctoral candidates.

2．Interdisciplinary Courses
1 The cross first-grade-disciplinary courses refer to graduate courses which are not defined in Business Administration. The students who select these courses must attend the classes and take the final examination.
2 The selected cross-disciplinary courses should not be the same as or similar to the courses taken during the periods as master candidates.

3．Seminars
Seminars are of importance for cultivating the comprehensive ability and leading the candidates into the advanced research fields. Within the professional fields specified by the supervisor, the doctoral candidates should participate in the special research reports given by others or take classes. The candidates should then review the most recent research papers according to the special report or the content of the course, and compose a research report and give the report in public seminars. The candidates can get 6 credits from the special seminars. The allocation of the credits is 2 credits for Methodology of Management Research, 2 for advanced courses in the profession and 2 for seminar

Disciplined teaching, professional service, enlightened conversations and creative exercises are the core benefits of the Cheung Kong EMBA. Our world-class faculty combines Western management theories with Chinese applications in the classroom. Students are encouraged to develop their individual potential while bonding with each other through teamwork.

Innovative Course Scheduling and Design
The program lasts 20 months, with classes meeting once a month on a four day weekend, thus minimizing intrusion into a regular work schedule.
The curriculum is designed on the basis of modules to facilitate simultaneous learning. Students are required to spend extensive time at school in order to become familiar with learning tools and each other.
Classes held on different campuses are independent from each other, but a portion of all courses are held at the Beijing Campus for networking purposes.
A broad range of electives are offered to complement the core curriculum.

Collaborative Teaching and Learning Environment
The main working language is Chinese, with simultaneous translation and printed bilingual materials provided for those taught by non-Chinese speaking faculty members.
Teaching methods include lectures, cases, computer simulations, group discussion, and seminars, with a strong emphasis on communication between students as well as between students and faculty.
At the conclusion of each class, the students will be asked to evaluate the faculty member’s performance to ensure the quality of teaching.
While the majority of the courses offered at the Beijing campus will be local, 2 to 3 weeks are set aside for field trips which include studying the local economy, visiting well-known local companies, and engaging in discussions with local business and government leaders. The purpose of these field trips is to provide solutions for the problems faced by the local economy and its businesses.
In addition to the course offerings, numerous industry-specific organizations and geography-specific alumni associations provide additional opportunities for exchanges and networking.

A Program with Global Vision
The 15-day International Residency Program (optional and non-credit granting) offered in collaboration with other top business schools includes classroom learning and visits to some of the world’s best known companies.
“Learning with the Masters”, and “The Cheung Kong EMBA Forum” provide additional platforms for students to develop their individual learning potential, leadership skills, entrepreneurial spirit and humanistic values.