International MBA in English

You will analyze and practice the competencies necessary to achieve results through and with people: ethics and sustainability, cooperation, adaptive thinking, self-awareness and self-directed learning, personal leadership, and leadership models and styles (including online and remote), teamwork, conflict treatment and management within the organization, crisis management, negotiation, motivation, communication, and skills for leading meetings and presentations, and business communication skills, with a strong emphasis on practical exercises and role-playing. This course also includes a segment focused on acquiring skills and competencies to deliver successful public presentations, as well as individual and personalized coaching sessions with an expert coach specializing in profiles like yours. Additionally, you will have individual and personalized sessions with a career advisor from our Career Services Department, specializing in MBA profiles, to help you manage and develop your professional career in line with your goals and concerns.

You will gain insight into business management by integrating various functional areas, linking short-term perspectives with long-term ones. You will analyze how companies adapt to their environments by proposing solutions to interpret competitive situations and market trends. You will understand the impact of organizational change and examine strategic implementation.

This course focuses on quantitative techniques that aid in making business decisions in complex situations. It covers topics such as linear programming, multicriteria models, queueing theory, network analysis, and decision models.

You will learn and understand the economic fundamentals of business activity through the analysis of approaches, decisions, and the evolution of the firm from an economic perspective, including exchange relations and contracts among all involved parties.

The purpose of this course is to engage you in making business decisions. You will decide on the future trajectory of an organization by managing resource allocation in a series of exercises to achieve its objectives. This course also develops managerial skills and teamwork capabilities.

You will learn to calculate the costs of products, services, departments, activities, and processes of any company, as well as to develop budgetary and management control.

You will delve into conducting pre-marketing plan analyses and various applications of market research. Additionally, you will address sales management and the elements defining marketing strategy, aiding in the creation of a marketing plan.

Referencing product design and process selection in production and service companies, this subject will delve into total quality management (TQM), capacity planning, location methods, inventory management, forecasting, time series analysis, independent demand, economic order quantity, and dependent demand: MRP and JIT, among other topics.

Recognizing the paramount competitive advantage that people's roles currently hold in a company, you will delve into planning and organization, selection, training, and promotion, job analysis and evaluation, performance appraisal, and compensation systems. These elements allow understanding the functioning of this area and designing a policy suitable to the company's needs.

The aim is to master various planning tools and project viability analysis, as well as analytical techniques of financial statements in the study of annual accounts. You will be able to diagnose the economic-financial situation and evolution of companies and will develop and interpret provisional balances, generated cash flows, and cash flow budgets. The subject also covers alternatives to access financial resources and delves into the various investment options available to top management: stock market, financial futures, financial options, and fixed-income investment alternatives.

This subject describes the main information technology and telecommunications resources available to businesses. You will understand information processing and its impact on functional areas and organizational processes, decision support systems, integration with strategy, and its relationship with the human team.

Its core is the analysis of global and specific aspects of product, market, and channel strategies in consumer, industrial, and service markets. You will analyze comprehensive marketing strategies and plans of various companies, sectors, and environments, and their relationship with the organization's overall strategy.

Tools for analyzing a company's operations are used to align its outputs with top management's strategic choices. Different levers available to Production Management to improve processes are analyzed. Specifically, topics such as operations in service companies, purchasing systems, and international operations are addressed. You will understand the strategy and methods of aggregate planning, short-term scheduling, project planning and control, distribution network logistics, transportation planning, information systems, and applications for operations management, interaction with other functional areas, and integration into the strategy.

This subject deals with the opportunities and threats of managing a company in different countries. You will learn about topics such as the internationalization process of the company, competition in globalized environments, cross-cultural interactions, and collaboration in multidisciplinary teams.

You will delve into investment and financing fundamentals and their relationship with macroeconomic aspects, as well as the criteria for integrating financial concepts into business strategy and planning.

In the context of the cross-curricular subject Leadership and Managerial Development, the Full Time MBA includes in this third trimester a weekend getaway at a mountain hotel, where team-building activities will be carried out with the aim of identifying roles and leadership qualities, and enhancing managerial and team management skills.

Takes place at one of the international business schools with which UPF-BSM maintains collaboration agreements. This week will give you the opportunity to experience an international setting and learn about business in different environments.

At the beginning of the program, you will define the individual project (TFM) that you will work on during the Full-Time MBA. It should address a real business challenge and allow you to develop skills in business analysis and diagnosis, as well as formulate viable proposals for implementation.