Professionals around the world consider an MBA program to be an excellent stepping stone as they move onwards within their careers. This MBA in Business Administration and eCompany program is the ultimate preparation for the challenges of  senior management.

What can students expect from the WUACADEMIA MBA?
Expect to learn how to be a successful leader, and you will. Building on your educational and professional background, the WUACADEMIA MBA in Business Administration and eCompany will allow you to perfect your leadership skills, while broadening your understanding of the business world.

The Wuacademia MBA in Business Administration and eCompany develops the managerial capabilities of exceptional individuals without interrupting their careers

The program is structured to provide an ideal balance between academic and practical experience.

The skills you gain at WUACADEMIA will enable you to easily and rapidly adapt to the increasingly unpredictable world of international business.

The international diversity of our student body (students from over 70 countries) makes WUACADEMIA unique. Over 85 per cent of our students are from outside the Netherlands.

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Objectives of Philosophical MBA
The objective of the Philosophical MBA : To enhance the managerial capital of young professionals and senior managers:

• By providing them the basic knowledge of the main managerial disciplines, with both a philosophical, scientific, environmental and cultural approach to management :

1. Economics, Finance, Accounting and Valuation
2. Management, Strategy and Marketing
3. The Arts and Creativity & Innovation management
4. Organizations, Institutions, and Human Resources
5. Philosophy, Political Science and Environmental management.

• By providing a truly global education through the diversity of participants, faculty, and courses contents.
• By putting the firm in a coherent perspective with regard to the economic, social, political, ecological, philosophical and legal environment.

Goals of the Wuacademia MBA Program:
The Wuacademia Philosophical MBA is an academically rigorous, 12 (or 24) month program with a general management orientation and Political Philosophy. It seeks to develop sound business judgement, the ability to work effectively in a variety of cultural contexts, and the knowledge, skills and attitudes for on-going professional success in the field of international business.

Mission: Our mission is to transform business through management education and leadership development, creating a better world by creating better leaders.

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What can students expect from the Philosophical MBA?
Expect to learn how to be a successful leader, and you will. Building on your educational and professional background, the Philosophical MBA will allow you to perfect your leadership skills, while broadening your understanding of the business world.

The Philosophical MBA develops the managerial capabilities of exceptional individuals without interrupting their careers.

The program is structured to provide an ideal balance between academic and practical experience.

The skills you gain at WUACADEMIA will enable you to easily and rapidly adapt to the increasingly unpredictable world of international business.

The international diversity of our student body (students from over 70 countries) makes WUACADEMIA unique. Over 85 per cent of our students are from outside the Netherlands.

Rafael's School of Athens, depicting Plato's Academy (This fresco is in the " Chamber of the Signature " to the Palace of Vatican)

You pay for 1 MBA program and you will get 2 diploma (an MBA Diploma and an Philosophical MBA Diploma).

Curriculum

• How Businesses Work (Value-Creation, Marketing, Sales, Value-Delivery, Finance)
• How People Work (The Human Mind, Working with Yourself, Working with Others)
• How Systems Work (Understanding Systems, Analyzing Systems, Improving Systems)
• Economic Environment of Business: gives an insight into the complex interaction between an organisation and its environment
• Quantitative Platform for Business: investigates the qualitative as well as the quantitative methods available for problem solving within an organisation
• Organisational Behaviour: an understanding of the human aspects of management through the analysis of human behaviour in organisations
• Managerial Accounting: commences with a refresher on book-keeping principles, before concentrating on managerial accounting, financial statement analysis and the decision-making process based on cost/benefit analysis 
• Management Science: provides insight into the use of management science and operations research by presenting analytical models from a managerial perspective
• Strategic Management: looks at the strategic management process in which corporate objectives are determined and strategic decisions taken, including the implementation and control of these strategies  
• Operations Management: the focus is on the design, planning, direction and control of facilities, processes and activities that are required to transform labour, capital, materials and energy into goods and services 
• Human Resource Management: is designed to take an in-depth, critical look at the effects of environmental change on organisational culture and structure and in doing so, increase knowledge of the various levers organisations pull to influence behaviour and performance  
• Marketing Management: gives an introduction to the marketing concept, the strategic importance of marketing for the development and implementation of marketing plans, and an analysis of buyers' behaviour and the instruments of the marketing mix 
• Financial Management: the objective is to provide an introduction to the principles of financial management, in particular develop an understanding of the concepts of economic profitability, return and value, under conditions of uncertainty and inflation  
• Business and Society Management: addresses the big picture by looking at corporate social responsibility, business ethics and sustainability as well as business and the environment
• Advanced Finance: deals in depth with the tools of financial decision-making such as option analysis, corporate valuation and value-based management and risk management
• Advanced Marketing: will expose you to the latest marketing issues, knowledge, skills and tools in 21st century market environments. It will facilitate your growth in areas such as confidence, critical thinking, creativity, and your ability to be accountable, rigorous and ethical
• Advanced Strategy: employs a strategic analysis framework to investigate competition and competitive advantage in a dynamic global business environment
• Negotiating & Contracting: It is vital that any business executive entering into an international commercial transaction should know how to successfully negotiate an agreement that will actually satisfy his or her needs
• Supply Chain Management: explains some of the basic frameworks for understanding supply chain dynamics. You will learn how to assess supply chain performance, and how the use of analyses can improve this chain
• Leadership: The purpose is not to provide a single, ‘correct’ perspective, but to be a catalyst for personal reflection and insight as a platform for career and personal success
• Entrepreneurship: Starting a new business requires sacrifice, hard work, and financial risk. Each student will develop an understanding of what this means to them personally and the basic steps in starting a new venture
• Strategic Sourcing: for students interested in pursuing a career in a management function in firms that rely on external suppliers for goods and services, and any knowledge providers that offer products and services to those firms
• Business Ethics: students will familiarise themselves with the nature and dynamics of debates about moral issues in the context of international business
• Advanced Information Technology: covers principles, concepts and techniques used for modelling and solving contemporary business problems with a view to looking at advanced solutions
• Geopolitics & Global Power Play: will endeavour to guide participants in an understanding of trends in different regions; to think in a global context rather than in national segments; and to anticipate future developments
• International Finance & Economic Analysis: covers the major theories and concepts of international finance, and their applications by multinational corporations (MNCs)
• International Investment Management: focused on managing equity portfolios and introducing participants to the asset management industry
• International Finance & Pacific Asia: facilitates an understanding of what is going on in this exciting region (esp. Japan, China and India), focusing on economics and financial market developments
• Strategic Finance & Value Creation: provides practical insight into strategy and corporate financial theory and is structured around several cases in various international settings
• Financial Engineering: deals with enlightening subjects within finance such as balance sheet consolidations and fiscal engineering
• Strategic Management Accounting: examines management accounting techniques that can assist managers in understanding the economic consequences of alternatives
• Sales & Key Account Management: explores modern ways of managing both a sales force and key accounts
• Managing Marketing & Communication: Modern marketing requires comprehensive understanding of sellers-buyers’ communication and persuasion processes. This includes the planning and evaluation of communication campaigns  
• International Advertising: focuses on understanding international advertising strategy in the global marketplace with a strong emphasis on the impact of culture
• Analysis of the Economic Environment
  
• Corporate Finance
• Energy Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Information Technology Management
• IT Information Technology
• Procurement Management (e-Procurement)
• Enterprise Resources Planning ERP
• Customer Relationship Management CRM
• Business Automation & Workflow
• Business Intelligence BI
• VoIP Enterprise Telephony
• International Business
• Investment and Portfolio Management
• Management
• Marketing
• Operations and Logistics Management
• Project Management
• Management by Exception
• Accounting & Finance for Managerial Decisions
• Internet Sales & Marketing, e-Commerce
• Group Performance
• Strategic Management
• Crisis Management
• Leading change in international organizations and companies (Corporate restructuring and change management, Corporate social responsibly and ethics , Managing and structuring organizations)
• Accounting for managers (The concepts, processes and institutions in the financing of business enterprise or other forms of organization, The concepts and applications of accounting)
• Global corporate strategy
• Managerial economics (Micro economics, Industrial organization)
• Reearch methods (Quantitative research methods, Qualitative research methods)
• Business and politics in the global arena (Globalization, International relations; trends and issues (= global macro-economics), Trade and investment, The impact of legal systems on organizations, Sustainability issues, Political risk and contemporary processes of regionalization, emerging markets, global governance)
• Interorganizational cultural diversity and gender
• Media Management
• Tourism Management
• Marketing in a global context
• Global supply chain management
• Innovation and new business ventures
• Corporate finance
• Global organizational Strategy (Strategy formation, Strategy implementation, Trust and control)
• Business Administration & e-Company
• Risk Management
• Public Administration & e-Government
• Business plan
• The Arts and Creativity & Innovation management
• Environmental management
• Social sciences for Manager
• Economics
• Political Science for Manager
• International Relations, Government and Society
• Philosophy for Manager
• Political philosophy for Manager
• Philosophy of economics for Manager
• Exam script and portfolio