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Curriculum

4 phases, 12 months: the new MBA curriculum, for the right balance between career and life.

The SDA Bocconi MBA is an ambitious undertaking. While it requires drive and motivation, it offers you a unique opportunity to improve, personally and professionally. From day one and throughout the Program, you will be plunged into a very intensive period of full-time work that progresses in set stages.
It is demanding, sometimes stressful, but it is also sustainable, allowing to set a proper balance between career aspirations and personal life.

The SDA Bocconi MBA: an integrated and innovative curriculum.

  • is based on real world management knowledge;
  • draws directly on our faculty's current research work;
  • blends together the analytical and social dimensions of managerial issues and instills ethical values;
  • takes place in a unique learning environment: academic as well as practice-based; diverse, teamwork oriented; open to the outside world and fostering interpersonal communication.

The MBA also involves you outside the classroom and after hours: extra-curricular activities actually belong to the mainstream program and offer an unrepeatable opportunity to make life-long friends and to network.

PROGRAM TIMETABLE

 
 
Optional phase
Pre-courses
Acquire a common knowledge base may be required for those without a background in economics and finance.
September
Phase 1
Towards Managerial Excellence
5 paths to develop management knowledge, models and tools.
October - End of March
Phase 2
Full-spectrum Management Skills
"Soft skills" development in 6 areas
Applied Decision Making, Project Management, Entrepreneurship and Business Planning, Leadership and Change Management, Business Law and Corporate Governance, Corporate Citizenship.
April - May
Phase 3
Action Learning.
The Project
Putting the analytical tools and knowledge to the test in the field
June - August
Phase 4
Concentrations

An in-depth view of the complementary subjects you are most interested in.
September - October
International Exchange Program Alternative option for Phase 4
September - December*
Commencement Day 14 December 2012

* Owing to the varying schedules of partner Unversities, outgoing students may be involved in the Exchange Program starting from September/October and ending in November/December.


 
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