Oxford MBA Fundamentals

This 10-week programme is for ambitious professionals seeking to accelerate their career growth, or entrepreneurs and business owners who want to grow their organisations effectively.

You can balance your professional and personal commitments, with flexible online delivery and support from a dedicated team.

The programme will help you enhance your leadership approach to drive business performance, lead with confidence and stay ahead of the competition. You will be taught by world-renowned Oxford faculty, gaining practical tools you can immediately apply to your organisation.

The programme covers not only core disciplines such as strategy, finance, marketing, operations and leadership, but also forward-looking topics like innovation and entrepreneurship, business impact, business analytics and organisational design. These unique modules are designed to give you a distinctive advantage in tackling today’s evolving business challenges.

Weekly live, cohort-based sessions and real-time collaboration ensure an engaging and connected learning experience.

The orientation module will stand you in good stead as you embark on the rest of your programme.

Learning time is estimated at 8-10 hours per module. Each module has three units.

This unit provides you with answers to the following questions:

This unit enables you to explore real-life examples and case studies. It shows you how the concepts covered in unit one are applied in organisations and also allows you to apply the concepts from unit one in practical exercises.

This unit presents topics through a future-oriented lens. You will learn and consider up-and-coming issues and developments in the discipline. This unit refers to the latest research from Saïd Business School.

Modules

This module aims to prepare you for the rest of the programme and will:

You will learn to leverage strategic frameworks and innovative thinking to formulate and communicate strategic recommendations, while embracing new trends beyond conventional methods.

This involves understanding an organisation's strategic context and resources, crafting strategic advice accordingly and acknowledging the evolving landscape of strategic planning.

Discover how vital marketing is to an organisation's strategic objectives, emphasising customer-centricity as a growth driver.

You'll explore:

Module three will demonstrate to you that entrepreneurship requires resilience and adaptability to tackle challenges such as securing funding and navigating market unpredictability.

You'll delve into the use of critical frameworks for assessing the viability of business ideas. This module will also emphasise the importance of innovation and scalability, equipping you with the knowledge to disrupt and succeed in dynamic markets.

We will teach you to generate value in operations by ensuring they align with your business strategy.

You'll learn to adopt a process view for a detailed analysis of business processes, enabling you to identify and eliminate waste. This approach not only streamlines operations but also aligns them more closely with strategic goals, emphasising the critical role of efficient operations in achieving business success.

You will explore the value of business analytics for organisations, understand various data-driven techniques and learn to integrate analytics effectively.

You'll also examine the challenges of implementing these tools and reflect on the future of analytics in shaping business strategies.

A focus on mastering fundamental finance skills, including valuation principles and financial modelling.

You’ll learn how to engage in impact investing and maximise your outcomes.

In particular, you’ll enhance your ability to conduct valuation analysis, build financial models and apply these principles in real-life scenarios.

We will enable you to recognise your own leadership style and identify how you persuade and influence others.

You’ll also analyse the different phases that teams move through in order to understand motivation and team development.

Above all, you’ll understand the assumptions, values and artefacts that characterise an organisation’s culture and sub-cultures.

This module will lead you to the strategy that best suits your organisation’s needs and works to the strength of its team members.

You’ll review the key organisational strategies and how to match the right people and processes to optimise impact for the longer term within an ever-changing organisational context.

During this final module, you will bring together what you have learnt in order to tackle global business challenges.

From the individual level, through business impact and into the wider world, you will begin adopting approaches that suit your business context and create value.