Master's in Management

Week 1 

• Discovery Week

1^st Semester (30 ECTS)

• Mandatory Courses
• Electives
• Professional Development Modules
• Study Trips
• Career Development Program - Mastering Your Career
• Mentoring Program
• Regular Seminars, Networking Events, Business Forum, Conferences
   

2^nd Semester (30 ECTS)

• Mandatory Courses
• Electives
• Professional Development Modules
• Study Trips
• Regular Seminars, Networking Events, Business Forum, Conferences

3^rd Semester (30 ECTS)

• Work Project
• Regular Seminars, Networking Events, Business Forum, Conferences
  
   

In addition to the regular program, international programs such as the CEMS MIM, Double Degrees, and Exchange may require an additional semester.

* Please note that for the academic year of 2021/2022 this information may be subject to changes.

• Finance
• Human Resources
• Marketing
• ​Statistics
• Strategy

* Please note that for the academic year of 2021/2022 this information may be subject to changes.

Accounting and auditing

Would you like to work in Management Accounting and Control, Auditing and Corporate Taxation areas? Take a look at these courses:

• Applied Corporate Finance
• Auditing
• Financial Management
• Financial Statement Analysis
• International Taxation
• Management Control Systems
• Managerial Accounting

Business and data analytics 

Data is shaping the digital future. For today's business executive is crucial to understand and interpret data to find better business solutions. A strong background in mathematics and applied statistics is required so that students will be able to analyze large data sets and translate them to support grounded strategic decisions.

• Computational Thinking and Data Science
• Data Curation 
• Data Visualization
• Introduction to Programming
• Machine Learning   
• Numerical Methods and MatLab

Digital Business 

Digital is a core strategic tool. You will get your mind (and hands) in different areas in which managers can leverage from technology to improve sales, performance, and productivity in core areas.

• Big Data Analysis
• Digital Marketing
• Digital Strategy and Transformation
• E-Commerce
• Innovation and Value Creation Wheel
• Introduction to Programming
• Open Innovation
• Technology Strategy

Financial management

Financial resources, cost efficiency and effectiveness, are management subjects that make you work better and harder. Check the following courses for a career in Corporate Finance.

• Applied Corporate Finance
• Auditing
• Banking
• Entrepreneurial Finance & Venture Capital
• Financial Management
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Futures and Options
• Mergers, Acquisitions, Restructuring
• Private Equity

Hospitality & Service Management, in partnership with the Westmont Hospitality Group 

With this new area of expertise our students will be able to develop and manage organizations with unique customer experiences and to understand current trends in terms of hospitality industry and customer behaviour and their impact in service management.

Hospitality & Service Management students will have access to leading hospitality partners that will teach them solid management skills and offer field experiences through immersion programs and partnerships in hotels and other corporate entities.

This innovative integrated approach, balancing theoretical skills with a strong industry connection and hands on experience will give the students the right set of tools to pursue a global career in hospitality and service management.

Do you wish to learn how to incorporate hospitality and service management principles into business operations and how to generate and to develop new ideas and services to enhance the customer experience, through an innovation program? Take a look at the mandatory courses for this area:

• Brand Management for Hospitality
• Customer Experience and Service Excellence
• Hospitality Operations
• International Events Management
• Introduction to Hospitality Industry
• Revenue Management

• The Hospitality & Service Management Area of Expertise integrates an innovation program, which will guide students through an entrepreneurial journey where they can develop creativity and entrepreneurial skills, develop their own projects, and even potentially start their own businesses. 
• Throughout the program, students will attend 2 Bootcamps to help them focus and develop their projects, 6 Pitch sessions to practice their communication skills, and more than 20 hours of mentoring that will provide them a deep understanding on the methodologies and keep their motivation up and thriving. Each pitch challenge will be a networking event introduced by a startup corporate partner.
• The Westmont Institute of Tourism & Hospitality team will support the students in the development of their innovation projects through regular contact with relevant corporate partners.  
• This area is only available for students that submit their application on the Fall intake, and got accepted on it.
• This area cannot be coupled with a Double Degree, CEMS MIM, exchange and/or other areas of expertise.
• If you wish to know more please contact the Student Recruitment & Admissions Office and, when applying, do not forget to tick your interest in this area of expertise.

Innovation and entrepreneurship 

Do you want to be the next Richard Branson or Elon Musk? These courses will help you start your career as an entrepreneur. Test whether an innovative idea, product or processes will be demanded by customers, how to finance start-up ventures and innovation projects, and how to sell and market new products and services into national and international marketplaces.

• Applied Entrepreneurship
• Applied Social Entrepreneurship
• Business Model Innovation
• Digital Strategy and Transformation
• Entrepreneurial Finance & Venture Capital
• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation and Value Creation Wheel
• Innovation Management
• Open Innovation
• Product Design and Development
• Science-Based Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Venture Simulation

Marketing 

If you like to communicate, launch and improve products and services, deliver superior customer value, the Marketing expertise area may be the right one for you. Take a look at the following courses:

• Advanced Branding and Brand Development
• Brand Management
• Brand Management for Hospitality
• Brands and Marketing in Asia's Emerging Markets
• Consumer and Managerial Decision Making
• Consumer Behavior
• Cross-Cultural Issues for Marketing
• Customer Relationship Management
• Digital Marketing
• Digital Strategy and Transformation
• E-Commerce
• Innovation and Value Creation Wheel
• Integrated Marketing Communications
• International Marketing Strategy
• Luxury and Fashion Marketing
• Marketing Analytics
• Methods for Applied Business Problems
• Product Design and Development
• Sales & Retailing
• Social Media Marketing
• Special Project L'Oreal Brandstorm
• Tourism Marketing
• WPP Master Class

Operations management 

Can you develop and implement techniques to improve business processes and production? With these courses, you will. Tackles such issues as business process re-engineering, quality management, improving customer service, inventory systems, managing manufacturing, supply chain management, and project management.

• Global Supply Chain Management
• Hospitality Operations
• Innovation and Value Creation Wheel
• Modeling Business Decisions for Operations 
• Operations Management
• Operations Strategy
• Project Management
• Quality Management
• Service Management
• Technology Strategy

Strategy and international business 

Do you see the world as a big marketplace? This expertise area will help you understand customers and competitors, their strengths and weaknesses, the complex business and institutional environments, and the existing resource constraints, on an international scale.

• Brands and Marketing in Asia's Emerging Markets
• Business Model Innovation
• Business Strategy and Practice
• Competition Policy
• Corporate Strategy and Transformation
• Digital Strategy and Transformation
• Doing Business in China
• Doing Business in Emerging Markets
• E-Commerce
• Family Business
• Geoeconomics and International Relations
• Global Supply Chain Management
• Innovation and Value Creation Wheel
• International Business
• International Events Management
• Negotiation
• Persuasion and Negotiation
• Small Business Management
• Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning
• Strategy Consulting
• Strategy Implementation
• Sustainable International Business
• Technology Strategy

*Please take note of the following:
— Students can qualify for only one area of expertise, but it is not mandatory for students to choose one. 
— Areas of expertise and respective courses might be subject to change from one academic year to the next. 
— Some courses might not be offered every academic year. 
— Students may attend elective courses from other Master’s programs, subject to availability.
— Please note that for the academic year of 2021/2022 this information may be subject to changes.

Streams in some areas of expertise

Streams in Entrepreneurship, Integrated Marketing Communications, Luxury Management and Strategy.

The Streams allow students to deepen their knowledge and experience in a particular area while taking the core courses of the Master’s in Management curriculum. In the first two semesters, the Streams combine functional areas of knowledge, such as strategy, marketing, finance, HR and statistics, allowing students to develop an integrated perspective of Management, with essential Courses for the Stream’s area. The third semester is dedicated to the FIELD LAB Work Project that students develop in the field of the Stream with a supervisor expert in the area. This project is called a FIELD LAB and students work in groups to study a company/sector, with full time dedication to the project. Streams also may involve additional curriculum components such as special classes, seminars, and activities exploring current issues and new trends in the Stream’s field.

The Stream in Integrated Marketing Communications

The Stream in Integrated Marketing Communications is a unique offering in the Marketing Field. It combines a set of courses where students develop their capabilities in Marketing Communications and then apply them intensively to real-world projects. It is delivered in cooperation with our Corporate Partner WPP, the largest creative transformation company group in the world comprised of Grey Global Group, Ogilvy, Young & Rubicam, J. Walter Thompson, and Hill & Knowlton (among others).

The Stream entails a sequence of cohesive blocks - Marketing Master Courses, Masterclasses taught by the Senior Management Team from WPP Companies, and Field Labs involving projects from several different companies (recent examples include FOX Networks Group, Sumol + Compal and EDP). Stream students have automatic and priority access to Marketing Field Labs. 

This Stream prepares students for positions in the Marketing Field both in-Agency and Client-side (manufacturing, service provider, or retailer).
 

The Stream in Luxury Management
Directed by Professor Catherine da Silveira, the Stream in Luxury Management trains students in the Luxury, Fashion, and Premium fields while they complete the Master’s in Management. It is designed for students who aspire:

1) to leverage their creative skills;
2) to explore different business models;
3) to a deeper and consistent learning experience on the luxury, premium and fashion areas.

The Stream offers a deep dive into these specific sectors with a focus on marketing strategy, branding, and retailing, through a fixed study plan associated with a prearranged final work project. 

The study plan includes courses such as Brand Management, Integrated Marketing Communications, Luxury and Fashion Marketing, and the Luxury Seminar exclusive for the Stream’ students and taught by luxury and fashion international executives and experts.  

Students develop their work project under the supervision of one of the experts involved in the Luxury Seminar together with the Stream’s coordinator, Prof. Catherine da Silveira.

Example of topics for the work project:
What is the future of luxury in China?
What would be a Portuguese business model of luxury?
How should luxury brands address the challenges of environmental and social responsibility? 

*Please note that for the academic year of 2021/2022 this information may be subject to changes.
*The Workstreams students cannot combine it with Double Degree, CEMS, Exchange and/or other areas of expertise
*The workstreams are only available for students that got admitted and will start their Master's on the Fall intake.

• Applied Corporate Finance
• Applied Entrepreneurship
• Applied Social Entrepreneurship
• Auditing
• Banking
• Big Data Analysis
• Brand Management
• Brand Management for Hospitality
• Building Companies Based on Science
• Business Model Innovation
• Business Models for Sustainability
• Business Strategy and Practice
• Competition Policy
• Competitive Strategy: an analytical approach 
• Computational Thinking and Data Science (includes Applied Statistics) 
• Consumer and Managerial Decision Making
• Consumer Behavior
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Corporate Strategy and Transformation
• Creating and Managing Entrepreneurial Ventures (Starters Academy)
• Cross-Cultural Issues for Marketing
• Customer Experience and Service Excellence
• Customer Relationship Management
• Data Curation 
• Data Visualization
• Digital Marketing
• Digital Strategy and Transformation
• Doing Business in China
• Doing Business in Emerging Markets
• E-Commerce
• Economics of Education
• Economics of Health and Health Care
• Entrepreneurial Finance & Venture Capital
• Entrepreneurship
• Evidence-based practices for wellbeing
• Family Business
• Financial Crises in History
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Futures and Options
• Geoeconomics and International Relations
• Global Supply Chain Management
• Hospitality Operations
• Impact Investments
• Innovation and Value Creation Wheel
• Innovation Management
• Integrated Marketing Communications
• International Events Management
• International Marketing Strategy
• International Taxation
• Introduction to Hospitality Industry
• Introduction to Programming
• Leadership and Change Management
• Leading Social Enterprises with impact in International Development
• Luxury and Fashion Marketing
• Luxury Seminar
• Machine Learning   
• Management Control Systems
• Management of Non-Profit Organizations
• Managerial Accounting
• Marketing Analytics
• Marketing Management
• Mergers, Acquisitions, Restructuring
• Methods for Applied Business Problems
• Modeling Managerial Decisions 
• Negotiation
• Numerical Methods and MatLab
• Open Innovation
• Operations Management
• Performance and Progress
• Persuasion and Negotiation
• Private Equity
• Product Design and Development
• Project Management
• Quality Management
• Real Estate Finance
• Revenue Management
• Sales & Retailing
• Science-Based Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Service Management
• Small Business Management
• Social Marketing
• Special Project L'Oreal Brandstorm
• Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning
• Strategy Consulting
• Strategy Implementation
• Sustainable International Business
• Sustainable Smart Mobility
• Talent Development
• Technology Strategy
• Value-Based Health Care
• Venture Simulation
• WPP Master Class

* Please note that for the academic year of 2021/2022 this information may be subject to changes.

• Quantitative skills

Learning to analyze data.
 

• Ethics

Thinking about ethical challenges.
 

• Corporate links/internationalization

Building knowledge about business environment and international careers.
 

• Communication and creativity

Thinking outside the box and improving communications skills.

* Please note that for the academic year of 2021/2022 this information may be subject to changes.