Management – (M.Sc.)

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The degree has a coherent intellectual core around two compulsory management courses, one in each year. In the first year, this core course will concentrate upon a small number of major intellectual developments in management, to establish how the gamut of management fields evolved from the application of frameworks and concepts in different disciplines to particular management problems. In the second year, students will be exposed to contemporary research into the factors that determine company behaviour - strategy, organisation and innovation.

We will accept students of the highest intellectual quality from a broad spectrum of academic backgrounds that might include natural sciences, engineering or humanities. Students graduating from the programme will have a broad and critical understanding of the various elements of modern management theory and methods. The course is designed to lead students to management jobs in major industrial and financial companies as well as consultancies, allowing them to enter at a higher level and on a faster track than undergraduate recruits.

CEMS route

CEMS is a consortium of 17 European Management Schools of which LSE is the UK representative. In addition to completion of academic studies on the MSc, CEMS students must also participate in further compulsory components in order to obtain the CEMS MIM degree. These include the ability to demonstrate competence in three languages, a one week minimum blocked seminar prior to the start of the MSc, skills seminars, a significant professional internship and the business seminar. It is a prerequisite that selected students will have studied management/business related subjects - this requirement will be covered by the first year of study on the two year MSc Management.

Students wishing to follow this route should apply during their first year of study and will spend the first term of their second year at the partner institution.

Year 1

Compulsory courses (* half unit)

* Managerial Economics*
* Organisational Behaviour*
* Foundations of Management
* Quantitative Analysis in Management* †
* Qualitative Analysis in Management*

† Students who have already taken statistics at university level covering quantitative analysis can choose a half unit course from:

* Techniques of Operational Research*
* Quantitative Analysis II: the Generalised Linear Model*
* Quantitative Analysis III: Applied Multivariate Analysis*

Options Choose to the value of one full unit from:

* Global Political Economy and Development I*
* Global Political Economy and Development II*
* History and Theory of European Integration*
* Globalisation, Gender and Development
* International Political Economy*
* Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications (Media and Power)*
* Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications (Processes of Mediation, Identity and Change)*
* Open Innovation*
* European Models of Capitalism*
* Patterns of Economic Integration in Europe*
* Concepts in Political Economy*
* The Political Economy of Transition and EU Accession in Eastern Europe*
* Globalisation and Democracy*
* Comparative Employment Relations and Human Resource Management*
* International Political Economy of the Environment
* Economic Diplomacy*
* Politics of Money in the World Economy*
* Comparative Political Economy*
* The Future of the Multinational Firm*
* Finance I*
* An outside option (with approval)

Students will have the opportunity to undertake an internship of around ten weeks, normally during the summer vacation in their first year.

Year 2

Compulsory courses

* Cross Cultural Management* (CEMS only)
* Strategy, Organisation and Innovation*
* Dissertation*

Options

Choose a total of two full units (CEMS 1.5) from the following:

* Accounting, Strategy and Control*
* Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management*
* Management of Human Resources: Strategies and Policies*
* Financial Reporting and Management: Management Accounting, Strategy and Control*
* Financial Reporting and Management: Financial Reporting*
* International Marketing: A Strategic Approach*
* The Future of the Multinational Firm*
* Thinking Strategically*
* Finance I*
* Advanced Behavioural Decision Making*
* Operations Management*
* Innovating Organisational Information Technology*
* Strategy for the Information Economy*
* Finance II* (Finance I is a prerequisite for this course)
* International and Comparative Human Resource Management*
* Negotiation Analysis*
* Incentives and Governance in Organisations*
* Design and Management of Organisations*
* Public Management: a Strategic Approach*
* Techniques of Operational Research*
* Systems Dynamics Modelling*
* Principles of Decision Sciences*
* Innovation and Technology Management*
* Entrepreneurial Strategy*
* International Business and Governance*
* Personal Economics*
* The Dark Side of the Organisation*
* Organisational Theory*
* Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards*
* Reward Systems: Key Models and Practices*
* Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice*
* Firms, Markets and Crises*
* Business Model Innovation at the 'Base of the Pyramid'*
* An outside option (with approval)
* Optional courses from Year 1

Please be aware that due to excessive demand popular courses may be capped, and some option combinations are likely to clash