Core courses

Lay the groundwork for your learning before term starts. Our mandatory online modules in accounting and quantitative methods are designed by LBS faculty, utilise rigorous testing and integrate seamlessly with the rest of your core work.

Analyse the two key goals of the financial function: to invest wisely and to finance a company effectively. Examine the investment decisions companies make and financial market decisions such as capital structure.

Learn how to ensure that a business acts ethically, and with integrity and professionalism, by adhering to standards and creating your own.

Develop the tools to make informed data-reliant decisions. Discover data analytics on a practical level focusing on concepts and reasoning.

Accurately evaluate the impact of risk on your business to improve your decision-making and performance.

Explore how an individual's personality, motivation and leadership style effect their working relationships. Examine macro-organisational issues and apply diagnostic analysis.

Examine the unique challenges involved in leading an entrepreneurial venture or innovating within your company.

Develop your interpersonal skills and apply core leadership techniques to persuade others and drive change. Group exercises show you how to make the best of your potential as a leader.

Master the financial accounting skills that every executive needs to be able to communicate company results and make accounting choices. This includes computing and interpreting basic financial ratios, and exploring the reasons behind international differences in reporting.

Examine basic accounting techniques and the impact of strategic and organisational change on accounting information. Learn about accounting for delegated decision-making.

Study how organisations behave under different market structures by exploring the logic and language of microeconomics, focusing on prices, markets, incentives and optimal decision-making.

Learn about branding, brand management, targeting and positioning, pricing strategies and segmentation.

Master methods to lead operations in changing business environments with a productivity and customer service focus.

Strengthen your strategic thinking abilities, enabling you to evaluate options and anticipate and execute strategic change.

View your role in the wider context of society and consider how creating an effective working environment benefits economic and social progress. Highlighting the professional challenges and responsibilities you face, this course delivers a framework to draw on your own experience.

Study the forces that shape the corporate environment, the context within which firms operate and the importance of understanding macro-organisational issues.