Course options in 2025
This course explores the framework for influencing and negotiation in international business and organisational development. The content incorporates business strategy, management psychology, legal, intellectual property, marketing, and supply chain perspectives. The course activities include seminars and discussions, accompanied by practical experience in preparing for, and participating in a range of face-to-face negotiations.
Block Course Format – Friday 6 June, Saturday 7 June, Friday 13 June, Saturday 14 June (9am-5pm)
Strategy is about making purposeful, explicit choices on how to build a sustainable competitive advantage and sustainable long-term profitability or impact. In this course, we will discuss various ways of thinking about organisational strategies, what tools are available to guide your thinking, and the importance of data and analytics for both the selection and implementation of such strategies. This course will prepare participants to think strategically, to ask the right questions, to identifying what data is needed to answer those questions and how to transform data into meaningful insights in order to support decision-making.
Weekly lectures commencing Tuesday 27 May through to Tuesday 12 August (5pm – 8pm)
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Block Course Friday 18 July and Saturday 19 July (9am – 5pm)
This course explores how the analysis of a range of financial information is used to enhance managerial decision-making. It will look at how organisations raise capital and assess the performance of projects and investments. The course will provide students with a framework necessary to understand how important financial decisions are determined within a corporation. It will explore how a range of financial information is used to gain insights and enhance managerial decision-making. The course will also examine how value is created for shareholders and other stakeholders in a firm through investment and financing decisions. It will look at the ways organisations raise capital and assess the performance of projects and investments. The course will also emphasise cases for good corporate governance practice. The course blends theoretical aspects of managerial finance with industry practice, case studies, discussions, and financial modelling. The emphasis of the course will be on applying financial concepts, tools, and techniques to solve real-world problems. Some working knowledge of Microsoft Excel will be useful for this course.
Weekly lectures commencing Monday 26 May through to Monday 11 August (5pm – 8pm)
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Block Course Friday 8 August and Saturday 9 August (9am – 5pm)
Design Thinking is a people centric, collaborative, optimistic and experimental way of working to drive innovation and create customer value. It is a pragmatic approach that aims to nurture deep curiosity about an issue, unleash creativity in how to approach it, and ensure clarity when it comes to implementing solutions. In these sessions we introduce a process that can be used to approach problems with this new perspective. We work with a lot of new tools and techniques that will help teams collaborate in more creative ways. And we use these to address live business/organisational issues to show how this method can be practically applied.
Weekly lectures commencing Wednesday 3 September through to Wednesday 19 November (5pm – 8pm)
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Block Course Friday 10 October and Saturday 11 October (9am – 5pm)
The course embodies the growing need for organisations to embrace a change oriented culture - with a heightened focus on organisational digital maturity in its processes, products/services, business models and its people. In doing so, the organisation's digital strategy must integrate a range of technologies that support a breadth of functions ultimately offering a superior user/customer experience. The course will explore and provide hands-on opportunities, in collaboration with industry, for participants to engage with technologies such as blockchain, IoT, AI etc. Furthermore, to be able to influence, participants will also familiarise themselves with the strategic use of business cases and risk assessment.
Weekly lectures commencing Tuesday 2 September through to Tuesday 18 November (5pm – 8pm)
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Block Course Friday 3 October and Saturday 4 October (9am – 5pm)
Marketing and Strategic Intelligence is designed to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of marketing principles and the strategic application of business insights. Throughout the course, you will delve into the world of marketing principles, market research, and explore various data collection and analysis techniques, with a focus on quantitative methods. You will gain insights into consumer behaviour, competitive intelligence, and the development of effective marketing strategies, encompassing segmentation, targeting, positioning, biases, and the marketing mix. Students are expected to leverage business, consumer, and market insights to make well-informed, data-driven business decisions. This course develops marketing expertise and cultivates the ability to synthesise data into meaningful information that can inform business decision-making. As part of preparing students for working in a treaty partnership and equity context, and aligning with the UC Pasifika Strategy, the course facilitates applying marketing principles to ensure the lens and values of the communitywe’re reaching are recognised.
Weekly lectures commencing Monday 1 September through to Monday 17 November (5pm to 8pm)
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Block Course Friday 31 October and Saturday 1 November (9am – 5pm)
