MBA (Entrepreneurship) (with Professional Experience)

Anglia Ruskin University

Entrepreneurs are often overwhelmed by the task of value creation, frustrated by unproductive meetings and misaligned teams, and involved in bold projects that blow up, leading to the disappointment in the failure of a good idea. Using value proposition design principles, you'll invent and improve value propositions,

In this module, you'll undertake a project focused on understanding and supporting entrepreneurial action in practice. This could be an applied/engaged research project, an enterprise consultancy project which addresses an opportunity or challenge faced by an entrepreneurial organisation or researching and developing a new business proposition or idea.

Entrepreneurship is underpinned by a specific set of practices such as play, empathy, creation and experimentation. Yet, fundamental to the process of entrepreneurship is the practice of reflection. Whilst reflection is required in play, empathy, creation and experimentation, it is often overlooked, and given its importance in synthesising theory and practice, there is a need to focus specifically on this practice.

Management decision making is a complex subject involving many variable factors. The primary objective of this module is to provide a conceptual and analytical framework for looking at organisations operating in capital, financial and operational markets. You'll explore the financial element contained in decisions and the techniques that may be used to assist informed management decisions.

The Intrapreneurial Action module will allow you to gain real world experience of management within an existing firm. An intrapreneur is someone who is self-motivated, proactive and action oriented. This module encourages you to take the initiative within a firm or incubator with the development of innovative products and services. This placement module allows you to spend 10 weeks in the work place and is assessed by portfolio, artefacts where appropriate, and the development of entrepreneurial skills.

Within this module you'll explore the fields of management and strategy, noting how strategic analysis and formulation contribute to an organisations performance. You'll explore practically relevant ideas and frameworks that facilitate strategy design and implementation, dealing with the craft of strategy, identifying and choosing superior competitive position, how to analyse strategic situations and how to create the organisational context to make the chosen strategy work. Practical and problem-oriented, this module places emphasis on the application of concepts and exploration of frameworks to assist you in analysing and gaining insight into competitive situations and strategic dilemmas.

Human Resource (HR) professionals and managers operate within increasingly complex and changing organisational and contextual circumstances in the public, private or third sectors. This is exacerbated by the variety of organisational types and size that contribute to national wealth creation in terms of the services and goods they provide and produce. This module provides you with understanding of market and business contexts in the operational, tactical, and strategic HR function, along with issues of the modern organisation.

In a competitive job market, understanding how the professional work place functions, along with well-developed employability skills, are key to a post graduate securing employment. The work placement gives you the opportunity to put into practice what would have been learned in the post graduate programme and with the insights of their practical experience in the field. During this module you will undertake a work-based learning internship with a company or organisation where they will be supported in developing effective professional practices through guidance in generic and specific employability skills and through developing independent reflective learning practices to enhance your continuing professional development in the context of your own working environment.