It requires not only the ability to influence a group of people toward achieving a common goal but also continuously adapting to new information and circumstances. Effective leaders earn the respect of employees and can inspire, energise, and motivate high levels of performance even as the organisation faces dynamic changes in competition, opportunities, and resources.

Leading individuals, groups, and organisations effectively is key to managerial excellence. Yet, it may pose the most difficult challenges for managers. This module will provide you with a framework for increasing individual, group and organisational performance. It will also help you understand and acquire critical leadership knowledge and skills required to shape and manage the behaviour of people in organisations. Through self-reflection of your own practice at work, you learn to relate the relevance and usefulness of the concepts and management practices discussed in class to your work experiences.

Build up your Analytical Quotient (AQ) to thrive in the Industry 4.0 era. Acquire hands-on experience applying descriptive, prescriptive and predictive analytical tools to pertinent data in order to extract insights for smart decisions in an uncertain environment. Routinely apply a holistic methodology to cases arising in various organisational settings including finance, marketing, supply chain, HR, and government.

This module integrates digital and social media marketing as well as social purpose (CSR and sustainability) with core marketing strategy concepts and tools. Asian and global case studies are effectively utilised to enhance marketing decision making rigour ranging from market entry strategy, new product marketing, branding and customercentricity. Projects are specifically designed to encourage participants to integrate a social purpose when developing and executing marketing and branding strategies which impact positively on brand equity and benefit both society and business outcomes.

Explore how microeconomic analytical tools can be applied to business practices. Analyse the functioning of markets, the economic behaviour of firms and other economic agents and their economic/managerial implications through a selected set of topics that are motivated by real-world observations of business operations.

Apply the analytical tools of macroeconomics extensively to Asia. Analyse business cycles and the role of stabilisation policy. Explore key issues such as the determination of exchange rate in the short- and long-run, how currency risk can be hedged, how economic “shocks” are transmitted internationally and what policy can achieve in response, determinants of economic growth in the long run with lessons from Asia, challenges facing the Chinese economy, and perspectives on financial crises and financial regulation.

Strategy is shaped not only by the underlying market and competitive conditions that prevail in an industry, but also by the resources as well as by the firm’s internal structure, systems, and culture. This integration of the external and internal perspectives provides the basic framework for strategic thinking, and opens the door for more strategic analysis in a variety of context.

Understand the principles of accounting and financial management, including uses and limitations of accounting information for decision making and performance evaluation; knowledge of financial resource management; role of managers in maximising the financial value of the firm; standard techniques of financial analysis and control; financial markets and the environment in which businesses operate; valuation and capital budgeting; capital structure and the cost of capital; the choice of sources of financing; and management of current assets and liabilities of the firm.

Discover how firms can leverage their Value Chains, Logistics and Operations to limit both the incidence and consequence of supply-demand mismatches. Use cases from a wide range of industries to understand how firms that employ these techniques to better match supply with demand enjoy a significant competitive advantage and deliver superior value.

Understand the ways in which firms can create value for their shareholders by applying appropriate financial strategies. Topics covered include time value of money, relationship between risk and return, valuation of bonds and stocks, the bond market and the stock market in Asia and globally, evaluation of investment projects, payout policy, capital structure, capital raising strategies, the IPO process, and the initial issues market.

Our wide range of electives offers you the ability to customise your EMBA learning and gain expertise in areas that matter most to you – from digital transformation, AI, ESG strategies, to fintech and more. Conducted in in-person format (during segments), and online and hybrid formats (in between segments), this gives you greater flexibility over when and how you learn. Elective classes are typically attended by participants from both the NUS Executive MBA and UCLA-NUS Executive MBA progarmmes, enabling you to further expand your network with other like-minded peers and tap into a wider, more diverse pool of experiences and perspectives. View the list of electives and their schedule.

Global exchange opportunities

Through our short global exchange programmes, participants are able to take up select electives offered by our partner schools and locations have included Peking University, China; Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley, USA; Yale School of Management, USA; WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany; IMD Business School, Switzerland; and IE Business School, Spain.