MBA – Leadership and Coding track

This module helps participants to adopt a broad strategic view of (digital) organizations, considering both external and internal factors. They will develop and strengthen their strategic mindset, i.e. their capacity to tackle complex strategic challenges and formulate wise and consistent strategic solutions and plans, at various functional and corporate levels. Participants develop a well-rounded view of the organization and leverage functional knowledge to make managerial choices influencing both organizational performance and organizational sustainability These tools will help them to be effective business leaders, entrepreneurs or consultants.

This module helps in understanding issues associated with the exercise of leadership in digital organizations for a sustainable future. They consider complex organizational challenges that they are likely to face as they progress towards top-level leadership positions in various sectors. In addition, the module strives to enhance personal skills and capabilities that are needed to function as effective leaders. It explores the challenges of functioning as an ethical changemaker in top managerial and leadership positions.

To thrive in an age of disruption and digital transformation, a changemaker’s mindset is needed, to operate at the individual, collective and organizational levels. In this module, participants become more adept at using Design Thinking, Lean Start- Up, Business Model Innovation, Digital Marketing, and to manage the process of turning new ideas into reality, and build organizational capability to adopt customer-centricity, iterative experimentation, and cultures that support rapid learning cycles.

They also consider the potential of Emerging Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science to fuel disruptive innovation in different sectors and lead not only in managing innovation but also in adequately executing it with a hand-on practical approach driven from real issues that companies are facing.

This module enables participants to adopt a focused approach and sharpen their capabilities in select areas that are highly relevant for digital organizations. Through a range of electives, participants explore, a wide array of topics that include FinTech, Cybersecurity, Business Analytics, Lean Management, Negotiation, etc. Participants can select those that best suit their career projects and leadership ambitions in multinational companies.

Participants also take part in a final applied integrative project with Le Wagon.

In this module, participants explore the big societal challenges that deeply affect business. Businesses need to respond to them through various initiatives at sectoral, organizational and stakeholder levels. The exercise of leadership in the current global context calls for a deep understanding of these issues to pursue equitable, sustainable strategies that contribute to building a better a world. This module responds to this challenge by exposing participants to the complexities involved in addressing these grand challenges.

In this module participants will focus on the important idea of transformation that is a central concern in the exercise of leadership. The current business context is characterized by a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) environment. This makes it necessary for leaders to be able to initiate and manage complex changes.

In response to this imperative, the module focuses on tools and techniques to lead effective and desirable change at multiple levels. Participants will have opportunities to engage in practical activities to apply their learnings in specific simulated and real-life scenarios.

The program offers participants various support components that can be pursued in a customized way according to their personal and professional projects. Participants can attend selected language courses according to their specific levels (beginner, intermediary or advanced). Moreover, there are opportunities to participate in and sometimes lead various activities and events. Some of these involve interactions with area experts or industry leaders in emerging fields exposing participants to new business trends and developments.