Bachelor of Business
Administration
Master of Business
Administration
International Business
Management
- Info Session February 23 2015
Who am I?
• Diane ARIJS
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diane.arijs@kuleuven.be
• Professor at KUL-campus BRUSSELS
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Teaching
• Family Businesses (master Dutch programme HW)
• Entrepreneurship & Policy (MBA—International Business Management)
• Business Research Methods (prep Master of International Business Economics &
Management)
• Supervising students’ master thesis:
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Business projects in family businesses: e.g. succession planning; developing strategic mission for business
family and family business, …
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Master thesis: engaging students in research topics on entrepreneurship (e.g. second chance
entrepreneurship; case study of entrepreneurial policy in home country,…) and on family businesses (e.g.
entrepreneurial orientation of family businesses; leadership in family businesses, ..)
Research
• Fundamental research
• Practice and policy oriented research (SVO)
• Focus: family businesses, business families and entrepreneurs
The Important Question
• Why enroll in the BBA/MBA at KULeuvencampus Brussels?
• Our Faculty of Economics & Business –
campus Brussels is renowned for its
BUSINESS ORIENTATION
Your Education = Investment
• Consider yourself a human
capital investment project
• Why? Because the labor
market looks at you like that
Basic diploma = KNOWLEDGE
• Demonstrates that you KNOW
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Applied economics / commercial sciences
International orientation= SKILLS
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Team work
International and intercultural sensitivity
Role playing
Skills!
• Employers care about general
business skills that you will develop
o Analytical skills
o Communication and language skills
o Information processing skills
• They don’t care that much about
specific skills (can be learnt on site)
o E.g. PricewaterhouseCoopers’
approach to perform a financial or
IT audit
Extra = ATTITUDE
• “companies hire for attitude” (and train eventually for extra
skills)
• Signaling commitment towards an international programme
is always a plus
Career
• From a career perspective, you have
two major options
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Become a specialist in a functional
discipline
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Become a generalist and
understand the links between
various disciplines
Generalist or Specialist?
• The BBA-MBA/IBM offers both
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This is a great experimentation
opportunity
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You can still specialise afterwards
Our Programme
Is designed to take a helicopter view of a wide range of
intensive and specialized courses in all fields of relevance
to managers. It helps you acquire the hands-on
qualifications you need to pursue
o a management career in business or public service
o an entrepreneurial path
Job perspectives?
• In the first stage of their careers, graduates are mainly
employed in financial, administrative, and commercial
departments of organizations and companies (e.g.
companies in the financial sector and management
consultancy firms). In the further stages of their careers,
they start to work on middle and higher management
levels.
• Some employers: Government – Banking Sector – Final
Four Audit & Consulting – International companies (CocaCola – Toyota/Honda – IBM – P&G/Unilever - SD Worx –
Siemens – Samsonite …) – own business
Academic programme
• Based upon academic research
• No superficial fads and fashions
• Requiers a good load of quantitative and analytical thinking
WITH Business Orientation
• Is not exactly the same as “practical”
• Is not opposite to theory
• “Nothing is as practical as a good theory”!!!
HOW?
• Business seminars
• Guest speakers
• Company visits
• Interactive teaching
• Business projects on your curriculum
3rd year of BBA: choosing an orientation
3rd year
General Courses
STRATEGY & BUSINESS SCIENCES
Principles of human resource management
General management & corporate strategy
Business Project: management game / international study visit
Principles of management accounting
Corporate finance
ECONOMICS & INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
International economics
European policy
International research in economics and business
English III
French intensive III or
Dutch III/ French III / German III / Spanish III (choice of two)
RESEARCH & METHODS
Research project economics and management
Statistics for business economists III
HUMAN BEHAVIOUR, LAW & SOCIETY
Social law
TOTAL CREDITS
Credits
Semester
3
4
3
4
5
2
2
3
3
3
3
6
3
1
1
1
2
1
1
4
4
2
1
3
48
2
1
1
3rd year of BBA: choosing an orientation
Orientation Courses
BUSINESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Application development
Databases
ICT infrastructure
Project management
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Credits
Semester
3
3
3
3
2
1
2
2
Logistics management
3
1
Sales management
3
2
3
1
3
2
3
3
3
3
12
2
2
2
2
Business projects: International Business Economics Research /
business plan / company project
Management accounting II
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Introduction to international and European law
History of European Integration
International socio-economic analysis
Introduction to international relations
TOTAL CREDITS
MBA/IBM: Standard Learning Path
MAJOR: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Analytical Skills
• Which plant to invest in if you have
information on the following:
o fixed cost for each plant
o variable cost estimates for each plant
o demand estimate of xxx units/year
• To take the right decision, you must
understand the relationship between your
outputs and your costs, both in the short
run and in the long run
Information Processing Skills
• The broad program of the MBA/IBM is
a great simulation of today’s
international work environment: case
studies, group work…
• Many different situations in quick
succession
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Be able to analyze and judge the situation quickly
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Take the right decisions
Communication & Language Skills
• English-taught program: but not a language
programme!
• Interactive courses within the limitations of the
class setting
• Intense use of ongoing evaluations (presentations,
papers, group discussions…)
• !!! One can only practice these when present in class.
Combination of work and study discouraged.
Master Thesis
• Is the ultimate (and often underestimated) proof of sound
academic thinking and practical relevance
o Company project: this is unique!
o Theoretical paper
• Demonstrates ownership of a project
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Independent work
Analytical skills and sense for synthesis required!
You are responsible for the end result
We Help You To Perform; ALSO IN MBA-IBM
• FEB-campus Brussels is renowned for its student-centric
approach
• Support and service for students
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Infrastructure (ICT, library…), counseling, scheduling of
classes…
• Low threshold towards professors (direct access!)
• Academic skills: ‘Research Proposal’ to support you in
writing your Master thesis
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