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Are you looking for an international career? Are you attracted by supporting companies to develop their international business? Do you feel inspired by working with people from different cultures? Then the Master in International Management (MIM) is just for you!
The Master in International Management (MIM) is a full-time degree over two years, entirely taught in English and designed for International and French university graduates.
The Master offers high quality teaching from internationally renowned professors, a truly multicultural work environment with students coming from all over the world, and close relationships with the business world thanks to strong partnerships built over ten years.
Since the beginning of the Master, students from 35 nationalities have graduated and constituted a vivid network of more than 300 alumni.
By the end of the Master in International Management, students will be able to:
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ECTS : 6.00
HCM : 33.00
Language of instruction : English
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Master the concepts of strategy and be able to mobilize the various disciplines of management (HR, finance, accountancy, marketing, etc) to understand a company strategy.
- Understand the bonds between diagnosis, strategic choices and strategic implementation.
- Apply strategic management tools to real organizational situations.
- Make credible recommendations.
Managerial skills outcomes
- Analytical capacity through case study exercises
- Competitive and business intelligence skills
- Team work and decision making in groups
- Lead a debate or discussion
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The introduction course is positioned at the beginning of the first year of the master. It is designed for the student to get a holistic vision of strategic management. After this introduction to business and corporate strategy, during the second semester of the first year, the students will develop a finer-grained knowledge of international strategy in the “International Strategy” course. In the second year of the master, they will gain refine their knowledge in strategy in the “Advanced Strategy and International Business Development” course.
Bachelor level in management.
ECTS : 6.00
HCM : 21.00
HTD : 18.00
Language of instruction : English
This course is designed to assist students in developing a clear understanding of quantitative data analysis and interpretation techniques. The aim of this course is to give a coherent view of quantitative methods that are used in government agencies, large firms, consulting firms and academic research. Quantitative analysis is essential for business decision-making. This course provides students with an understanding of the purposes and limitations of quantitative analysis. They will become familiar with some of the core concepts and tools of statistical analysis and will learn to use the open source package R. During TD sessions, students get the opportunity to gain practical experience and apply these topics to data. For the group project, students will collect, present and analyze data.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
Managerial Skills:
Once in a firm, graduates should be able to choose the appropriate statistical technique in order to analyse different quantitative problems. They will be able to run the statistical analysis with R software and provide clear recommendations based on the results of the quantitative analysis. Moreover, they should be able to criticize any quantitative analysis and check the robustness of any empirical project they could be faced with.
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The techniques acquired in this course will help the students for future courses such as "Finance" or "Introduction to Research". They will also be useful for the "Company Projects" and the "Internship Thesis".
The open source package R is required for this course. It is free. You can download the software from http://www.r-project.org/. The site has plenty of additional resources to help you get started. A useful guide for beginners is "Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics", a PDF of which will also be deposited in your Google drive folder.
There is a learning curve for R, but it is not steeper than that for proprietary alternatives such as SAS or SPSS, and its capabilities far exceed those of Excel. You may struggle a bit at the beginning, but this is part of the learning process.
ECTS : 6.00
HCM : 21.00
HTD : 18.00
Language of instruction : English
The objective of this course is to provide the student an understanding of specific financial accounting and information issues in order to be able to perform a critical analysis of the financial information provided in annual financial reports. In accordance with this general purpose, specific learning outcomes are assigned to each of the two parts of the course (accounting and auditing).
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
1. Identify and comment the main parts of financial statements of an entity: define items of Statement of Comprehensive Income, Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Cash Flows and Notes.
2. Manage the issue of international accounting differences and of the international accounting harmonization process: explain the main causes and nature of differences and describe the process of harmonization.
3. Explain the links between local, consolidated and reporting financial statements of groups and companies.
4. Describe internal control, concept procedures and requirements
5. Define and understand the statutory/consolidated audit purposes, the importance of auditing and get an overview of the audit methodology (principles, audit phases, assessments, risk approach…).
Managerial Skills:
Bachelor in Management or Economics
ECTS : 6.00
HCM : 33.00
Language of instruction : English
Course description
This course aims to prepare the students for understanding what organizations are, why they exist, how they are structured, and to focus on cognition and behaviour of individuals and groups, in order to give students some guidelines for managing people in several organizational contexts.
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)
Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:
• Apply organizational theories in order to describe and understand the diverse organizations they will face
• Critically analyze the organizations of labour and to carry out improvements
• Understand the impact of individuals, groups and structure on organizational efficiency
• Identify and interpret components of organizational culture
• Deal with conflicts, job satisfaction, and motivation
• Understand the concept of leadership, leadership styles, traits, and types, and the evolution of leadership behaviours
• Understand that effective leadership is a foundation for organizations to achieve goals
• Apprehend organizational change situations, be able to analyse and comprehend focal issues
Managerial skills
• Analytical capacity through academic articles analysis
• Train in conducting collective discussion and managing conflict through role play
• Oral presentation skills including answering questions and managing interruptions and time keeping
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This course builds on topics covered in the course Strategic Management and prepares students for the courses in Cross-cultural management and International Human Resource Management during the second year of the Master.
Bachelor degree in Management or Economics
ECTS : 6.00
HCM : 15.00
HTD : 24.00
Language of instruction : English
Intended Learning Outcomes
Working in an organization involves dealing with a digital information system, whatever function the students may get involved in after graduation.Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to be informed actors in the design of digital information systems in their company: they will be acquainted with management information systems, and will have a good understanding of designing and querying a database.
Managerial outcomes
By the end of the module students will be able to:
- Propose solutions to inform data management in organizations
- Design and query a database within the framework of a precise activity
- Team work and project management skills
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This course is design to help the students handle their "Company Projects" in the second year of the programme. The technics seen during this course will also be useful for the module "International Management Control" in the second year of the programme.
Confidence with Windows operating system and basic Office pack.
ECTS : 2.00
HCM : 18.00
Language of instruction : English
As companies often require interns to master the advanced functions of Excel, the course aims at training students on the use of Excel for professionals.
Intended Learning outcomes and Managerial skills
This module is designed to be highly practical and upon its completion students should be able to:
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This course prepares students to further courses on International Management Control in the second year of the programme. This course is also highly relevant in preparation for the first and second year internships.
Basis master of Excel.
ECTS : 5.00
HCM : 33.00
Language of instruction : English
This course aims to provide students with an introduction to some fundamental principles of finance, such as the evaluation and pricing of risk, project evaluation and capital structure decisions. The course will develop the principles from a theoretical perspective and then apply them to numerous practical examples.
Intended Learning Outcomes
Managerial Skills
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This course builds on the "Accounting" and "Quantitative Data Analysis Module" of the first year of the programme and prepares students for the course "International Management Control" of the second year.
Basic knowledge of accounting, financial analysis, mathematics.
ECTS : 5.00
HCM : 33.00
Language of instruction : English
Course description
This Marketing course is meant to introduce the students to the language and issues of marketing with an emphasis on learning to develop responsive marketing strategies that meet customer needs. Topics include market segmentation and positioning, product development, pricing, distribution and promotion. By working simultaneously on both theoretical and practical levels, this course aims to deliver operational marketing skills.
Intended Learning outcomes
After this course, students should be able to:
- Understand the role of marketing within the firm and society.
- Understand and use the two parts of a marketing strategy: the target market and the marketing mix.
- Identify and leverage the four basic variables in the marketing mix: product, promotion, price, and distribution.
- Manage a new product/service launch strategy.
Managerial skills
- Manage a brand new product/service launch
- Prepare documents, presentations, or products in professional manner for a client
- Oral presentation skills
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This course covers the basics of marketing in preparation for the International Marketing course in the Master 2. It is also complementary to the International Strategy course taught during the second semester of the first year.
Bachelor degree in Management or Economics. Students with no knowledge in management will take advantage of the first session to get introduced to the principles of Marketing.
ECTS : 5.00
HCM : 33.00
Language of instruction : English
This course aims to equip students with core conceptual and analytical skills required to advise on, develop, or lead the international strategy of a company, business unit or cross-border team by revolving on four fundamental questions in international strategy: “What products”, “where to go”, “where to locate”, and “how to organise”.
Intended Learning Outcomes
On successfully completing this course, students will acquire how to:
Managerial Skills
Write a meaningful, applied international business strategy report
Advise startups, SMEs and large MNC on their international development
Analytical capacity through case study exercises
Conduct collective discussion and debating issues
Oral presentation skills including answering questions and managing interruptions and time keeping
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This course builds on the concepts, frameworks and tools seen in the first semester in the "Strategic Management Module". This couse also prepares students to master "Advanced Strategy and International Business Development" and "Export and International Commerce" in the second year of the programme.
1. Core concepts and rationales on strategy management
2. General knowledge on strategy assessment
3. General knowledge on strategy formulation
4. General knowledge on strategy implementation
5. Some knowledge on international trade theory (preferred not mandatory)
ECTS : 5.00
HCM : 33.00
Language of instruction : English
Course description
The management of innovative project is today a very widespread process in firms that consist in developing new ideas and accompanying their shaping-up transversally until they reach their market. It is equally essential in the most entrepreneurial forms of companies, as well as an approach shared by business developers.
In this course, students will not only be presented with the necessary tool kit for the management of innovative projects, and presented with the state-of-the-art approaches used in companies therefore, but they will be offered the possibility to actually learn by using these tools, develop their own project, benefit team-building and working experience, coach follow-up, and enjoy numerous feedbacks at different stages of their work.
They will be offered the possibility to communicate their ideas at different stages of maturity and through different communication formats, as well as get used to interacting on the basis on these oral presentations. The main stages and components necessary to build an innovative project will be presented, including through a few invited guest talks by practitioners, then implemented, with an special emphasis on the strategic dimension of innovative projects. Team work is the basis of this course, to favor cross-students know-how exchange and more widely guided methodological reflection, in the sense of the reflective practitioners advocated by Donald Schon in his book on managers.
The intended learning objective is thus that students acquire the principle of innovative project management tools and methods with an experience of practical and guided implementation.
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)
After this course, students should be able to:
- Explain the overall culture of innovation in firms and the world’s most innovative firms
- Discern major issues associated with companies implementing innovation processes
- Understand and discuss the strategic dimension of projects
- Recognize the conditions for success needed for new product development
- Think dynamically about company strategy
Managerial skills
- Analytical capacity and ability to link real situations to concepts through case studies
- Ability to discuss, debating issues, make collective decisions, and allocate tasks in a group
- Ability to understand and problematize a case study, organize and collect additional information when useful
- Improved ability to talk to an audience, to deliver a message convincingly in a short time, to handle questions and remarks
- Develop PowerPoint presentation to convince an audience
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This course builds on the concepts, tools and frameworks seen in the "Strategic Management" course and prepares students for further strategy courses ("Advanced strategy and International Business Development") as well as the company projects in the second year of the programme.
Courses in finance, accounting, strategic management, marketing will all be useful and used by students in this course.
ECTS : 2.00
HCM : 12.00
Language of instruction : English
Course presentation:
This course aims at introducing students to the nature, scope, and significance of academic research in management and to familiarize students to fundamental research methods.
Students will complete an individual research proposal based on a business topic of interest, using selected scholarly and peer reviewed sources. The topic for the essay will have to be linked to ERS issues (Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability). Prior to the course, students will have to take the SULITEST (www.sulitest.org) to start evaluating their sustainability literacy and get familiar with ERS topics.
Intended Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able:
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This course builds on "Quantitatve Data Analysis" and prepares students to write their Internship Report (First year) and their Internship Master Thesis (Second year). This course also help students to decide whether they are interested in following Msc in International Management and Strategy as a second year of the programme.
Bachelor level.
Students will have to take the SULITEST prior to the first lecture. Their score obtained for this test will be discussed and served as a base for deciding on which topic they want to write their essay about. To take the SULITEST, students will receive an email with login and password information prior to the first lecture. The SULITEST takes on average 30-40 minutes and thanks to the web-based platform, students will be able to prepare and take the test from home prior to the beginning of the course.
ECTS : 2.00
HCM : 12.00
HTD : 24.00
ECTS : 2.00
HTD : 24.00
Language of instruction : English
The aim of this module is to:
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
HCM : 12.00
Language of instruction : English
This module is open to student registered in the Double-Degree "International Management in European Context" with KU Leuven.
As part of the first year of the double-degree, students have to participate in the International Study Visit (ISV) on European Union and Firms. ISV is a one-week programme (from the 18th of March until 22th of March 2019) consisting of lectures and company visits organized for students. Both the European institutions, recent developments in the European trade policy (such as Brexit, EU trade barriers, etc) and entrepreneurship within the EU are discussed.
Intended Learning Outcomes
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This International Study Visit is a first contact with KU Leuven faculty and the Brussels Campus for the students registed in the double-degree to get prepared for their second year there.
None. The study visit is mandatory for students registered in the double-degree "International Management in European Context" (IMEC) and open to other MIM students in a limit of 10 sits.
ECTS : 6.00
Language of instruction : English
Students are required to do an internship in an international company, either in France or abroad, during a minimum of 3 months.
The internship is meant to:
- Apply the concepts/tools seen in class.
- Develop professional skills
- Build up and /or strenghten the student's professional project
All courses from the Master 1 in International Management.
Prerequisites applicable to all candidates
→ Successful completion of 180 ECTS
→ An English language test for non-English speakers (C1 required)
→ Examination of candidate’s application and possible interview
I chose the Master in International Management because I wanted to understand deeply how international companies perform their operations and take decisions. The best of this Master is its people, especially my international colleagues, coming from really different backgrounds. In all the courses there are team projects and presentations to push you hard to cooperate with your colleagues and improve your communication skills, which, from my experience, are essential in the professional world.
David SANTANA CORCHUELO - Class 2017/2018
PhD Student at TSM Doctoral Programme
Following the first year, the second year of the Master International Management (MIM) offers students various training paths, in the form of three tracks: