Professional Certificate (MBA (Sustainable Business))

The course is designed to prepare students in the field of sustainability management and investment. The main focus of the course is to provide a strong understanding of sustainability concepts and how firms can integrate its practices into their business decisions. The course will expose the students to cutting-edge policies that can help firms comply with or support sustainability agendas.

Entrepreneurial vision has led to the majority of advancements over the last decade. This course discusses the evolution and dimensions of entrepreneurship as they advance into start-ups and how they recognise opportunity. Beyond the creativity and ideation, the course covers execution including financing ventures and using sustainable business practice to maximise profits.

This course covers the aspects of ethics and professionalism critical for developing leadership, governance and management skills. It includes understanding key aspects and applying concepts, principles, codes and standards of ethics and professionalism for effective governance and sustainability of organisations as corporate citizens.

The course is designed to improve your accounting and financial knowledge to make better business decisions and enhance business performance in a competitive environment. The course covers topics that will enable you to analyse company financials and make recommendations for matters related to cost management, capital expenditure and valuation. In addition, you will be equipped with the latest financial toolkits, such as value-based management and corporate valuation.

The purpose of this course is to improve students’ analytical skills. The course will provide students with the knowledge and skills to apply fundamental and advanced quantitative and qualitative techniques to analyse and develop solutions to contemporary business challenges. At the beginning of the course, students will learn the foundation of analytical tools. The students will apply them to analyse real-world issues. The course will conclude with the challenges and opportunities of big data. In addition, this course is a preparatory course for candidates to undertake their Project Papers and other assignments

Students are expected to appreciate the environment of the economic and business life space in which the provisioning process makes sense to members of society. The decisions and behaviour of individuals and firms as economic agents and their rationales are provided within the framework of economic thinking and sensibilities. Students will be exposed to values and worldviews that underlie business entities’ norms and expected behaviour in pursuing their purpose and goals defined differently under different environments and worldviews.

This course focuses on the foundations of organisational behaviour and management, emphasising understanding the people management issues students are likely to encounter in a business context in the pursuit of individual, team and organisational goals. The course exposes students to a manager’s core functions, including leading, motivating, planning, decision-making, organising, negotiating, mentoring, monitoring and influencing. The topics covered in this course are designed to contribute to developing a student’s skills in becoming a better manager of oneself, teams and organisations. These skills are further demonstrated in other courses offered in the program through team and individual projects and assignments, specifically in the Action-Based Learning course.

This course provides students with a sufficient grounding in the core disciplines of business strategy development and how to apply them. Students examine the strategic concepts and tools that facilitate understanding the business environment’s challenges and opportunities, strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. This course equips students with the practical concepts and tools for analysing organisational strengths and weaknesses as well as market opportunities and threats.

This course covers the aspects of ethics and professionalism critical for developing leadership, governance and management skills. It includes understanding key aspects and the application of concepts, principles, codes and standards of ethics and professionalism for effective governance and sustainability of organisations as corporate citizens.

The course exposes students to the halal supply chain. Students are exposed to the unique components of the halal economy and its value chain in a globalised market. Issues in integrating sustainability in supply chains are covered, with specific reference to the halal ecosystem.

This course critically examines the socio-economic challenges facing communities and nations globally. It assesses how Islamic finance instruments such as zakat, sadaqah, waqf and takaful may be used with modern technology to alleviate hardship and develop communities, aligning with the Maqasid al Shariah and the UN goals for sustainable development.

Entrepreneurial vision has led to the majority of advancements over the last decade. This course discusses the evolution and dimensions of entrepreneurship as they advance into start-ups and how they recognise opportunity. Beyond creativity and ideation, the course covers execution, including financing ventures and using sustainable business practices to maximise profits.