Academics

Capabilities-focused Curriculum Design

Read more about the Global MBA's future-focused curriculum and why “soft skills” are in demand for senior roles in management, business, or sales development.

Understanding "Stackability"

It’s not just what you learn that makes the Global MBA so innovative – it’s how you learn, with a “stackable” format that offers unprecedented flexibility and affordability for a graduate degree, online or otherwise. Learn more by reading our blog post: Why “Stackability” Matters for Macquarie University’s Global MBA

Global MBA Curriculum

The Global MBA is made up of six capabilities - Strategising, Leading, Analysing, Influencing, Adapting, and Problem Solving. There are four units of study under each capability. Students admitted to the degree need to successfully complete all 24 units (i.e. achieve 120 credit points) in order to graduate. Each unit is worth 5 credit points.

Leading

Great CEOs know how to leverage talent as well as technology to transform the way business gets done.

Courses:

• GMBA8001 Know your people
• GMBA8002 Know your organisation
• GMBA8003 Adapt your leadership style
• GMBA8004 Become a meaning maker

Strategising

In the midst of today’s fast-changing challenges and opportunities, leaders need to adapt and respond quickly.

Courses:

• GMBA8011 Be competitive
• GMBA8012 Be global
• GMBA8013 Be disruptive
• GMBA8014 Be sustainable

Analysing

Data, and the skills needed to analyse information and generate insights, are more central than ever to business success.

Courses:

• GMBA8021 Know your numbers 1
• GMBA8022 Know your numbers 2
• GMBA8023 Generate insights
• GMBA8024 Know your customers

Influencing

Leaders need to be adept at using power and politics to shape the decision-making process and bring about change.

Courses:

• GMBA8031 Communicate with impact
• GMBA8032 Manage change
• GMBA8033 Negotiate and resolve conflict
• GMBA8034 Engage the board

Adapting

Changes to technology and culture are transforming the meaning of work. Courses in “Adapting” will help students navigate this landscape with confidence and purpose.

Courses:

• GMBA8101 Your career, your life
• GMBA8102 Build personal resilience
• GMBA8103 Improve yourself, always
• GMBA8104 Become a global citizen

Problem Solving

In this capstone Specialisation, Global MBA students apply their problem-solving skills to real-world projects with guidance from Macquarie’s faculty and industry leaders.

Courses:

• GMBA8121 Advise
• GMBA8122 Be curious
• GMBA8123 Applied immersion 1
• GMBA8124 Applied immersion 2

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Leading: Human Resource Management and Leadership

• Organisational design: Know your organisation - taught by Senia Kalfa

• Organisational behaviour: Know your people - taught by Rebecca Mitchell

• Adapt your leadership style - taught by Tess Howes and Lara Tolentino

• Visionary leadership, identity & motivation: Become a meaning maker - taught by Abas Mirzaei

Strategising: Management for Global Competitive Advantage

• Supply chain management: Be global - taught by Peter Shi and Fei Guo

• Innovation and emerging technology: Be disruptive - taught by Amer Khan

• Global sustainability and corporate social responsibility: Be sustainable - taught by Debbie Haski-Leventhall

• Strategic management: Be competitive - taught by Ralf Wilden

Influencing: Storytelling, Change Management and Governance

• Leading transformations: Manage change - taught by Richard Badham and Brenda Santiago

• Storytelling and influencing: Communicate with impact - taught by Lawrence Ang

• Risk governance: Engage the board - taught by Elizabeth Sheedy

• Negotiation skills: Negotiate and resolve conflict - taught by Andrew Heys

Analysing: Numeric and Digital Literacies

• Management and financial accounting: Know your numbers 1 - taught by Carmel Emanuel

• Corporate finance: Know your numbers 2 - taught by Keith Woodward

• Marketing analytics: Know your customers taught by Syed Rahmen

• Business intelligence and data analytics: Generate insights - taught by Smit Rahore and David Pitt

Adapting: Career Development

• Cultural intelligence: Become a global citizen - taught by Francis Chang

• Professional development: Improve yourself, always - taught by Paul Nesbit

• Career planning: Your career, your life - taught by Alena Soboleva
• Build personal resilience - taught by Alena Soboleva

Problem Solving

The ability to solve work-related challenges is crucial to adapting and growing in a changing market. This capstone will develop your lateral thinking, and prepare you to address workplace problems in a creative and effective way. Please note that these units are only available once you complete the previous 20 units in program. Learn more about the problem solving capstone units.

• Be Curious - taught by Catherine Rickwood

• Advise - taught by Craig Fleisher

• Applied Immersion 1 & Applied Immersion 2 taught by Lan Snell