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We carefully select each cohort to ensure Pre-MBA employment industry What do you stand for as Linking theory with practice Client Engagement
diversity in terms of gender, country of a leader? Do you manage Organisational complexity and uncertainty Leader, IBM
origin, work experience and industry sector. Consultancy 9% yourself effectively? within business require strong leadership Distance Learning
Finance / Accounting 20% How can you lead, manage and direction. You will engage in meaningful MBA (2014)
and influence other explorations of the theories behind
General Management 28%
36 43
traditional and emerging approaches to
IT 4%
people successfully?
leadership and practice.
Marketing / Sales 15% These are some of the Interactive workshops aim to provide you
Average age Countries Operations / Logistics 11% questions you will be with a better understanding of leadership
of participants represented
Engineering
challenged with during your concepts, and will consider the effectiveness “I was a Global Consultant,
3%
required module – Leadership. of popular frameworks and models in relation I didn’t really have a good
Legal 2% to the needs of organisations. The focus is idea of where I was going
Human Resources 2% on past experiences, business context and to be on any given month.
different levels of understanding of how The distance learning
Other 6%
leaders behave and lead, their strengths
really provided a blended
and weaknesses. You will improve your
32/68
approach, being able to be
leadership and decision-making skills and
flexible with how I studied.
Average years’ work experience prior consider your leadership values and ethics
to the Distance Learning MBA in a real world context. The thing that I enjoyed
the most about studying
Female/male split 6% Finding your own style at the Business School
2% 15%
To make the most of the module you are was the group of people
encouraged to reflect on your own leadership that I interacted with and
18% styles, to participate fully in the sessions the friends that I’ve made.
4–5 years
and actively integrate and engage within When I’m facing a business
6–10 years your learning teams. You also have the challenge that is new to
12
11–15 years opportunity to supplement your learning me I can call upon a class
with optional workshops provided by the member and get their input
16–20 years
CareersPlus team which have recently on how to deal with that
21–25 years covered the following topics: particular situation.
26+ years 31% ■■ The Challenge of Leadership: I’m glad I’ve done the
Leading self / leading others MBA at Warwick. It’s
■■ Presenting with charisma really instilled a sense
28% ■■ Client and stakeholder influencing skills, of confidence in my
and navigating organisational politics understanding of what
Organisations that have recently recruited graduates
business is and how I can
from the Distance Learning MBA include: ■■ Pitching the idea
navigate the business
■■ Accenture ■■ Citigroup ■■ HSBC ■■ NHS ■■ Media training. environment to achieve
better outcomes, both for
■■ Amazon ■■ Deloitte ■■ IBM ■■ PricewaterhouseCoopers
my clients, and for myself.”
■■ American Express ■■ E.ON ■■ IKEA ■■ Verizon
■■ ASOS ■■ eBay ■■ J.P. Morgan ■■ Virgin Media
■■ AT&T ■■ Ernst & Young ■■ Jaguar Land Rover ■■ Vodafone
■■ Barclays ■■ GE Healthcare ■■ Kia Motors ■■ Volkswagen
■■ Cap Gemini ■■ Heineken ■■ KPMG
■■ Caterpillar ■■ Hewlett Packard ■■ Morgan Stanley
Ali Smith
Marketing Our CareersPlus team will Inclusive Service Online resources Building your network Case competitions
Communications support you throughout your Our services are tailored for you and ■■ WBS CareersPlus website packed with As part of each Warwick Week there will You may have the opportunity to participate
Manager, Copyright MBA and beyond to ensure planned around our Career Management resources covering all aspects of career be pre-planned networking sessions with in case competitions organised by students
Clearance Center you achieve your full potential. Cycle. Designed to fit in with your studies, development a lecture delivered by a business leader. here and at other leading business schools.
Distance Learning they are delivered when you are here for LinkedIn groups and discussion forums are These intensive challenges increase your
You’ll connect your goals ■■ Online interview simulation via Sonru
MBA (2017) residential modules and online via webinars, an active part of your learning. exposure to leading companies, new sectors,
and values and discover the ■■ Going Global (international careers
resources or specially designed courses. You’ll industry specialists and other MBAs from
influencing, communication also have access to career consultations, information) and Workmaze career
You will also have unlimited access to our
around the world and provide the ideal
and leadership skills you Professional Networks. Current networks
executive coaching and the opportunity development and information guides opportunity to showcase your critical thinking
include:
need to actively manage and to sign up to join our award-winning ■■ Pay Negotiation video workshop and problem solving skills. Recently WBS MBA
“I wanted to stay immersed accelerate your career. mentoring programme. ■■ Entrepreneurial network students beat off competition from business
in the industry that I’m ■■ 360 degree online feedback tool to raise schools including London Business School,
All our Distance Learning MBA students have ■■ Finance network
currently working in and I your self-awareness Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus
felt the Distance Learning access to the services listed below. ■■ Global Energy network
■■ 15 lesson online Career Management University (RSM), Saïd Business School, and
MBA programme gave me module ■■ Life Sciences & Healthcare network SDA Bocconi School of Management to
Coaching & career
that opportunity. In order development support secure a £5,000 prize in the WBS Healthcare
■■ Business journals and databases such as ■■ Professional Women network
to be successful you really Challenge, of which they donated a
■■ One Executive Coaching session with an Marketline and Mintel Oxygen via the
need a dynamic and full ■■ Strategy & Consulting network proportion to dementia research.
Executive Career Coach drawn from the University of Warwick Library
toolbox and I thought that ■■ Technology network.
WBS Coaching Panel Please ensure that you have read the
an MBA was the perfect ■■ VMock CV preparation platform.
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opportunity to enhance ■■ One career consultation with one of Additional Services includes important information about our
our highly trained CareersPlus experts Recruiter events & opportunities
my skills and give me the If you’d like to focus further on your career, programme, and web links to terms and
experiences I needed to be available at any time during the ■■ Recorded and streamed recruiter conditions that you should consider
you can choose to access enhanced career
really successful. programme to suit your needs. You may presentations – your chance to find out before applying.
services for an additional cost:
also extend your coaching relationships by about upcoming opportunities. Previous
The format of Warwick purchasing further sessions companies have included Deloitte, Jaguar ■■ Additional executive coaching with a coach
Week is great because it’s Land Rover and Capco from our WBS Coaching Panel
conducive to all types of ■■ Skills webinars covering topics such as
Salary Negotiation, Assertiveness Skills, ■■ Recorded and streamed practitioner ■■ Additional bookable career consultations
learning styles. There’s a
Managing Workplace Politics, The 2 Hour lectures covering topics such as leadership with a WBS Careers Manager
large lecture format with
Job Search, The First 90 Days. and influencing. Recent presenters include ■■ One-to-one sector specialist consultations.
the entire cohort, there are
Jon Hendry Pickup, Chief Operating Experts have a range of experience in
seminars in smaller groups Expert insights Officer of Travelodge; Wasim Khan, CEO areas such as consulting, entrepreneurship,
and then there’s individual
Sector Specialist presentations - Experienced of Leicestershire County Cricket Club; and banking and finance, science and
group work. Simon Owen, CEO Deloitte, Switzerland.
guest speakers share first-hand industry technology
I chose Warwick Business insights. Recent sectors have included You are also welcome to attend these events ■■ Access to our award-winning Alumni
School for two reasons. One, Finance, Consulting, Marketing, Energy, face-to-face if you are nearby. Mentoring Scheme which has recently been
the international presence I FMCG and Manufacturing.
accredited by Investors in People (IIP)
felt would be phenomenally
useful in opening up my ■■ Face-to-face masterclasses including
perspectives, and secondly Dealing with the Media, Effective Business
the ethos of looking at things Presentations and a Comedy Workshop, all
differently really resonated to ensure you’re fully equipped to manage
your career for the long-term.
with me.”
Sharmil Ghouse
The academic year Consultancy project Flexibility Our online learning platform, For each module, there is a dedicated Country Manager,
my.wbs, lets you take control welcome page with a text introduction and Domino Printing
Our Distance Learning MBA comprises Your consultancy project will allow you to You have up to four years to complete
welcome video from the module leader,
eight required modules, your choice of four apply what you have learned during your your MBA, but we recommend a period of of your learning, access Sciences
providing you with an overview of which Distance Learning
electives, and a consultancy project. There MBA to a real management issue in practice, around two years part-time. Making time webinars, participate in topics will be covered.
are 30 teaching hours for each module, 40 usually from your own organisation. It for work, family and friends is important so MBA (2015)
group work and communicate
hours of guided self-study and 30 hours of enables you to explore a business issue take advantage of our flexibility; sometimes Every module consists of ten lessons which
with your lecturers and
independent self-study. thoroughly from multiple perspectives and taking longer to complete your studies is the are delivered through a mixture of text, video,
make practical recommendations drawing on best way to achieve your long term aims. If
programme team. screencasts (audio over slideshow), activities,
Modules the theories, concepts, frameworks and tools you extend your studies beyond three years, Watch our film on my.wbs webinars and assessments.
Included in your tuition fee is one optional that you have learnt about during the course. there is an extension fee of £930 payable for wbs.ac.uk/go/my.wbsmba You can even test yourself with multiple
each year or part year of extension.
“The MBA complemented
face-to-face residential module with teaching You can choose to explore an issue in your choice quizzes and receive immediate my engineering education.
over four to five days. You can decide when own workplace, a competitor or another feedback to keep your learning on track.
How we assess your work I moved from Cambridge
to take this, and several locations will be sector, and engage in either quantitative or You will work with your group online and
to Singapore and I
available. If you want, you can take a qualitative research, or both. Your learning will be assessed through a take part in a WBS built simulation where
transitioned from an R&D
second face-to-face residential module at variety of methods. There are online practice you can complete tasks as if solving real life
an additional cost (£945 for academic year
At WBS, we can support you both in carrying
tests, individual written assignments, group
role to a commercial role.
company issues.
out the practical research that your chosen The MBA really helped me
2017-2018). work presentations and reports, and exams.
project demands, and in exploring the Additionally, for each module, you will have upskill myself and improved
The two modules that are assessed by
Examples of residential required modules: relevant literature regarding the theories, access to the core text book online via your my confidence levels in a
examination will be undertaken on campus at
■■ Marketing (outside the UK, in locations concepts, tools and frameworks that VitalSource digital bookshelf, providing you commercial sense.
Warwick during each of the teaching weeks.
such as Berlin, Athens and Rome where underpin your investigation. The output for with immediate access without having to
If you need to re-sit an exam and cannot I think one of the key
participants’ engagement with the local your degree from your consultancy project wait for it to arrive in the mail. Much of the
travel to campus, the University can arrange positive value propositions
environment is integral to this module) will be a 15,000 word dissertation. online content is downloadable and can be
for you to take it at an approved exam centre of Warwick Business
viewed whilst travelling.
■■ Organisational Behaviour (outside the Previous participants have explored: nearer home.
School was the my.wbs
UK, in locations such as Dubai and my.wbs is built to be compatible with any
■■ Equity Crowdfunding and its Role in Future platform, even though I
Venice where participants’ engagement type and size of device, all you will need is an
Startup and Small Business Finance was part of the distance
with the local environment is integral to internet connection and up-to-date browser
■■ Formulating a donor loyalty framework for versions to access learning materials. It is
learning cohort, there were
this module) many opportunities to
Islamic Relief UK recommended that you use headphones,
■■ Strategic Advantage (Boston, USA, where microphone and a webcam to contribute to interact with the academics
■■ Stakeholders Risk Ratings: A Risk
participants study alongside postgraduate webinars through wbsLive. directly, one-to-one. It’s
Assessment Framework, Methodology and
students at Boston University Metropolitan easy and straightforward to
Rating Scale for the Modern Corporation
College). use so I really enjoyed the
■■ Implementation of a Knowledge content delivery.
Management Strategy in a Business
Critical Group. The MBA adds value, it
opened me up to a whole
new dimension in terms
of my career, so it was a
fantastic experience.”
Jan Online induction University closed for Christmas Jun Online induction 2 x Revision weeks
Mar Aug
Innovation & Marketing 2 x Revision weeks Careers activities and events 2 x Revision weeks
Creativity in 10 weeks 3 weeks
Jul Organisations Dec
Dissertation Dissertation
10 weeks 27 weeks 27 weeks
University closed for Christmas
Aug Jan
Organisational Strategic
Oct Behaviour Advantage Mar
6 weeks 6 weeks
2 x Revision weeks
Nov Apr
2 x Revision weeks Warwick Week 2
Warwick Business
School faculty
are extensively
involved in As well as undertaking eight
required modules, you will
Distance learning only
Distance learning modules are online only
Face-to-face residential
You also have the option of studying some of
designing and have the opportunity to
select four electives. These
with no face-to-face teaching. This means
your interaction with your classmates and the
the same elective modules as our Executive
MBA participants at our Warwick campus
leading the modules can be studied either online,
face-to-face at our Warwick
teaching team will be online via webinars and
discussion boards. Choose up to two elective
over four days (Wednesday to Saturday):
■■ Digital Innovation for the Healthcare
modules from each group:
campus, face-to-face at an Industry
international location or as a Group one
■■ Behavioural Sciences for the Manager
combination of all three. ■■ International Business
■■ Project Management
■■ Operations Strategy
■■ Managing Organisational Performance
■■ Corporate Finance
■■ Corporate Governance
■■ Human Resource Management
■■ Entrepreneurial Finance
■■ Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation
■■ Psychology of Investing & Financial
“The Distance Learning ■■ Modelling & Analysis Management Decisions
At WBS, you will engage with Nicola Burgess Tamara Friedrich Nick Lee Frances O’Brien Sandra Pereira
and be taught by some of the Associate Professor Associate Professor of Professor Associate Professor of Teaching Fellow
world’s best researchers and of Operations Entrepreneurship and of Marketing Operational Research Organisation
business teachers. Our faculty Management Innovation Marketing group Operational Research & HRM group
is made up of world-leading Operations Entrepreneurship & Management
Management group & Innovation group Sciences group
experts from every field of
business and management.
With more than a third of our Nicola’s research activity is focussed Tamara is an Associate Professor of Prior to joining WBS in 2016, Nick was Frances has experience in the development Sandra has been in academia for the best
staff from countries outside in healthcare, conducting a number of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Warwick Professor of Sales and Management Science and use of frameworks, modelling and part of the last 20 years. Side by side with
the UK, our faculty is truly projects in the NHS in the areas of service Business School. She was previously an at Loughborough University, and Professor analytical approaches to supporting the academic path, Sandra worked in the
international. improvement, patient safety, patient Assistant Professor of Management at of Marketing and Organisational Research at organisational strategic development. In corporate sector for more than 10 years, as
involvement, organisational learning, Savannah State University where she co- Aston Business School. Nick’s work connects particular, scenario planning for assessing Head of HR and COO for an international
All of our academics are knowledge brokerage and leadership. founded and served as the Director of the theories from social psychology, cognitive future uncertainty and visioning approaches network, having also played relevant roles in
research active, producing Nicola has led a number of case studies and Center for the Advancement of Creativity neuroscience, economics, and philosophy, for developing organisational direction. Her Institutional Communication. Sandra holds
cutting-edge theories with evaluations across the NHS under the broad and Entrepreneurship (ACE Center). Tamara’s to advanced measurement and modelling consultancy experience includes working a PhD from Warwick Business School and a
real-world impact. spectrum of service improvement including research covers how organisational leaders methods, in order to solve important with senior management teams in education, Masters on Socio-Organisational Systems
an Evaluation of Lean implementation across may initiate, support, and sustain innovative problems in sales management, professional recruitment and not-for-profit sectors. of the Economic Activity at Universidade
We have also established a the English NHS. Currently Nicola is the efforts through hiring, performance selling, organisational psychology, social Frances is a board member and chair of the Tecnica de Lisboa, having previously
new cadre of Professors of Research Fellow for an NIHR HS & DR funded management, and creating a climate for science research methodology, philosophy of events committee for the UK Operational completed a degree in Management at
Practice who are all successful project: The knowledge brokering role of creativity. She has also conducted research science, and business ethics. Research Society. Portuguese Catholic University.
senior business and industry middle level managers in service innovation: on leadership in a collective context and
Managing the translation gap in patient how leadership is influenced by the social
practitioners, who are experts safety for elderly care. environment around them.
in facilitating research.
Please ensure that you have read the
Essential Information on page 27. This Panos Ben Knight Camilla Maclean Pinar Ozcan Dimitrios
includes important information about our Constantinides Professor of Practice Senior Teaching Associate Professor
Spyridonidis
programme, and web links to terms and
Associate Professor of Economic Modelling Fellow of Strategic Associate Professor
conditions that you should consider
Information Systems & Forecasting group Organisation Management of Leadership
before applying.
Information Systems & HRM group Strategy & Entrepreneurship
& Management group International & Innovation group
Business group
Panos is an Associate Professor of Ben is a Professor of Practice in Economic Camilla is a Senior Teaching fellow at WBS. Pinar is Associate Professor of Strategic Dimitrios is an Associate Professor of
Information Systems. Previously, he Modelling and Forecasting at WBS. He Prior to higher education, she spent many Management at Warwick Business School. Leadership. Prior to joining Warwick
held positions at Lancaster University’s specialises in the teaching of global business years in public health and in managing She specialises in strategy, entrepreneurship, Business School, Dimitrios was at Imperial
Management School (LUMS), and the and personnel economics on undergraduate, community and youth development projects and the emergence of new technology College London and Henley Business School
Judge Business School at the University of MBA and executive programmes. He is the in Southern Africa, Central and South markets. She completed her PhD at the where he taught leadership and leadership
Cambridge, where he also earned his PhD. author of many articles in professional America and enjoyed the juncture between Stanford Technology Ventures Program at development around the globe including the
His research is focused on the development journals in economics, the economics of theory and practice. Her current research the Stanford University Management Science UK, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, South Africa,
and governance of digital infrastructures business strategy and also employment lies in Corporate Social Responsibility, and Engineering Department. Pinar’s work Malaysia and Hong Kong. Dimitrios’ research
and platforms, including the associated relations, and has written the book ethics, Southern Africa, MNCs, mining experience includes management consulting and teaching focuses on new forms and
challenges of collective action. He is Unemployment: An Economic Analysis. and minerals development, corporate at Siemens Corporation in Munich, Germany, practices of leadership with a strong emphasis
particularly interested in research that seeks He has recently carried out research on community investment and community and strategy consulting with technology on organisational change and innovation.
to address business and social problems with the use of macroeconometric models in health, governance, decision-making, and ventures and venture capital firms in the
the possibilities generated by IT. corporate strategy and is currently working International Development. Silicon Valley.
on a study of economic ‘cost vulnerability’
and firm performance.