Postgraduate Courses

The following courses are restricted to HKUST EMBA students only. All courses are graded HP/P/LP/U/Y.

• IMBA 5010

  Managerial Problem Solving

  [2-0-0:2]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 501

  Exclusion(s)

  MGMT 5210

  Description

  This course will help students understand concepts of management, basic modes of decision making by individuals and in groups. This course includes self-assessment tools to help students understand personality, decision-making styles and career choice.
• IMBA 5020

  Management Strategy

  [2-0-0:2]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 502

  Exclusion(s)

  MGMT 5410

  Description

  Concepts and techniques for competitive environment analysis, SWOT analysis, strategic options; corporate strategy formulation and implementation, sustainability; competitiveness; dynamics of corporate strategy.
• IMBA 5030

  Accounting Foundations

  [2-0-0:2]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 503

  Exclusion(s)

  ACCT 5100, ACCT 5150

  Description

  Provides essential foundation tools of financial accounting and analysis from a management perspective, including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, accrual concepts, revenue and expense recognition, asset and liability accounting.
• IMBA 5040

  Managerial Economics

  [2-0-0:2]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 504

  Exclusion(s)

  ECON 5110

  Description

  Demand and cost analysis; competitive market; market power; pricing strategy; games and strategic thinking, asymmetric information, corporate governance.
• IMBA 5050

  Marketing Strategy

  [2-0-0:2]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 505

  Exclusion(s)

  MARK 5120

  Description

  Strategic marketing decision making at the corporate, business, and functional levels affecting competitive advantage and long- and short-term performance of the firm. Strategic analysis, strategic planning across life cycle stages, implementation and control.
• IMBA 5060

  Accounting for Decision Making and Control

  [2-0-0:2]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 506

  Exclusion(s)

  ACCT 5210

  Description

  This course covers the use of accounting information in decision-making, planning, control, and performance evaluation for managers of the corporation. It also discusses the use of accounting information in valuation and credit analysis for users external to the corporation.
• IMBA 5070

  Corporate Finance

  [2-0-0:2]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 507

  Exclusion(s)

  FINA 5120

  Description

  Explores the strategic financial decisions an organization makes for value creation. The topics include an analysis of capital spending, capital structure, risk management, financial statement analysis and forecasting, corporate restructuring, and understanding and impact of financial institutions on financial decisions.
• IMBA 5090

  Management of Organizations

  [2-0-0:2]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 509

  Exclusion(s)

  MGMT 5230

  Description

  An introduction to organizational and management concepts and theories with special attention to the functions of management, individual and group behavior, perception, motivation, influence processes, interpersonal communication, and international issues.
• IMBA 5100

  Statistical Decision Analysis

  [2-0-0:2]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 510

  Exclusion(s)

  ISOM 5510

  Description

  This course introduces the applications of elementary probability theory in business decision-making under the conditions or uncertainty and explores the method of regression analysis and the use of sample data for the purpose of modeling, estimating, forecasting, and decision-making.
• IMBA 5110

  Operations and Value Chain Management

  [2-0-0:2]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 511

  Exclusion(s)

  ISOM 5700

  Description

  This course introduces some of the most important concepts in operations management and value chain management. Topics include process analysis, quality management, just-in-time systems, inventory management, demand and supply variability, information sharing and coordination in a value chain.
• IMBA 5120

  Technology and Knowledge Management

  [1-0-0:1]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 512

  Exclusion(s)

  ISOM 5020

  Description

  This course aims to provide business executives with a comprehensive understanding of IT management in organizational contexts, particularly from the perspective of business and management. The specific topics include Information Economy, Management of R&D and Innovations, Strategic Use of Information Technology and Knowledge Management. The course will survey the economically most important applications of technology in business today and briefly present the underlying technologies, their resource requirements, their application, and the operational, tactical and strategic management imperatives dictated by these applications.
• IMBA 5170

  Business Simulation

  [2-0-0:2]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 517

  Description

  A computer-based business simulation where students operate as teams simulating corporate management and compete against each other (groups). The game involves group decision making on a wide range of functional areas, such as finance, marketing, manufacturing, and human resource management, to develop and implement a strategic plan in a competitive market.
• IMBA 5190

  Decision Making and Leadership

  [1-0-0:1]
  Medium of Instruction

  [PU] Putonghua

  Reading Material

  [C] Require Chinese reading

  Description

  The course aims to provide a decision making framework to make responsible decisions to achieve organizational goals and prepare students to articulate, defend and implement the management decision. It will cover three elements in the decision content quality and decision process quality respectively through lecture, case analysis and role plays.
• IMBA 5200

  Mergers and Acquisitions

  [1-0-0:1]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 520

  Prerequisite(s)

  IMBA 5070

  Exclusion(s)

  EMBA 5500 (prior to 2012-13)

  Description

  This course provides a broad understanding of the role that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) play in corporate strategy. It develops a framework for making and evaluating M&A transactions from the perspective of their impact on shareholder value.
• IMBA 5210

  Consumer Psychology and Advertising

  [1-0-0:1]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 521

  Exclusion(s)

  EMBA 5460

  Description

  This course will give students an appreciation of how getting inside the mind of the consumer enables the marketing manager to design better, more effective marketing strategies. It focuses on the customer as an individual, with a particular emphasis on how consumers react to marketing information provided about a product.
• IMBA 5270

  Scientific Selling Methods and Management

  [1-0-0:1]
  Description

  This course will systematically convert Customer Relationship Management (CRM) into a science to help the sales cadre construct a scientific selling methodology and framework. The framework includes selection of key customers, opportunity assessment, organizational strategy, CRM loyalty analysis and selling strategy. The course will also emphasize the adoption of a Solution Selling Mindset by the sales cadre instead of the traditional Product Selling Mindset.
• IMBA 5280

  Cross Cultural Management

  [2-0-0:2]
  Description

  The course aims to equip students to lead the diverse workforce to achieve organizational goals with higher personal satisfaction. It will introduce the challenges of cross cultural management and the leadership requirements in the diverse workplace; it will also discuss the framework for managerial decision making in leading across diversities. Students will have the opportunities to practice leading across diversities through role plays.
• IMBA 5290

  Global Macroeconomics

  [2-0-0:2]
  Description

  The course aims to introduce the macroeconomic concepts, in particular fiscal and monetary policies and help students to understand important insight in the labour, output, money and foreign exchange market to explore the change in the macroeconomic environment.
• IMBA 5300

  Innovation Management

  [1-0-0:1]
  Description

  The course aims to enhance students' innovation capability in the increasingly intense business competition. It will illustrate the basic concepts of innovation management, interpret the implication of innovation, highlight how to integrate internal and external resources to enhance innovation capacity and analyze the innovation modules in the post-modernization era.
• IMBA 5310

  Corporate Restructuring

  [1-0-0:1]
  Description

  The course aims to examine different ways in which firms can create value by restructuring their assets and liabilities. It will focus on a deeper understanding of the sources of value in restructuring transactions including mergers and acquisitions, asset sales and spinoffs.
• IMBA 5320

  Creating Entrepreneurial Ideas for Future Business

  [2-0-0:2]
  Description

  The course is designed for executive leaders, from the perspective of entrepreneurs and corporate innovators, to help them experience and engage with the disruptive technology, and eventually prepare them to respond to this revolutionary force. It will be a mix of lectures, field study of technology companies, extensive group discussion and an entrepreneurship project.
• IMBA 6100

  Global Field Trip Study

  [2-0-0:2]
  Description

  This course aims to provide students with an opportunity to explore the global business environment. It is delivered in a variety of ways including: partnerships with world-class institutions; collaboration with leading companies; dialogues with local corporate and community leaders. The course may be repeated for credits if the visiting country and theme of the trips are different each time.
• IMBA 6900

  Special Topics

  [1-2 credit(s)]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 690

  Description

  Coherent collection of topics selected from the business management. A student may repeat the course for credit if the topics studied are different each time.
• IMBA 6910

  Current Issues for Businesses

  [1-0-0:1]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 691

  Description

  This course is specially tailored to provide the latest market update and analysis for current hot topics relevant to the business world, in particular to address the challenges and opportunities in the context of China. Topics include but not limited to corporate governance, crises management, risk management, innovation, entrepreneurship, intellectual property rights, etc..
• IMBA 6920

  Project on Current Issues

  [1-2 credit(s)]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 692

  Prerequisite(s)

  IMBA 5180 (prior to 2015-16) or IMBA 6910

  Description

  The project aims to help students integrate what they have learnt from the latest topics/issues in the business world and reflect those learning in their own business. Guided by a faculty member of the corresponding topics, the students will have a more thorough analysis of the latest topics/issues which can help with their companies' future planning and strategy.
• IMBA 6970

  Independent Study

  [1-2 credit(s)]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 697

  Description

  Study of selected business issues under the supervision of a faculty member. (Special permission from the Academic Director is required for IEMBA students to take this course.) The course may be repeated for credit.
• IMBA 6980

  Research Project

  [1-2 credit(s)]
  Previous Course Code(s)

  IMBA 698

  Description

  An independent research project on a business topic carried out under the supervision of a faculty member. The course may be repeated for credit.