International Business Development - Fast Track ESCE Business School

Overview

The world is changing considerably due to endogenous and exogenous shocks with strong effects on enterprises and their management. It always does. Nothing stands still.

At  ESCE Business School , we recognise we live in challenging times, facing pressures of rapid technological innovations, increasing globalisation as well as regionalisation, dwindling natural resources, and the need to generate economic growth that delivers greater well-being for society. This likely reshaping of the international expansion of enterprises is driven by both managerial and political factors. To deal with those changes, managers have to be flexible and adaptive, they need to broaden their horizons and develop new skills with the aim to anticipate and better meet the challenges of this rapidly changing business environment.​

At ESCE, we tackle the challenges international business faces through analytical, sharp analysis and thought-leadership. It is part of the ESCE DNA.

The goal of the International Business Development - Fast Track MSc is to respond to the expectations of enterprises by allowing the acquisition of solid knowledge and skills required to occupy decision-making roles and to succeed as an international manager. 

At the end of the studies the student will be able to :​

• Have critical awareness of discipline-based concepts and approaches to understand the complexity of managing an organisation in the global business aren
• Understand how acquired theoretical knowledge can be applied in practical international business situations​
• Set up and develop an export department, and deal with distributors and the main internal and external stakeholders​
• Acquire and analyse data and information, to evaluate their relevance and validity, and to synthesise a range of information sources needed to develop a sophisticated understanding of a rapidly changing international business context​
• Carry out interdisciplinary analyses, drawing upon different empirical sources, analytical perspectives and sub-disciplines within management studies​
• Lead international projects, collaborate and negotiate in an intercultural environment​
• Communicate effectively and convincingly, working in teams, managing time and planning work assignments.​