Part-Time Mba

The part-time MBA in Milan will help you see the world in a different way, as a place where creativity, resilience, and real experience play a key role in success.


Overview:

Vision, Innovation and Leadership are the foundation of future-oriented managers. The Luiss Business School MBA Part-Time Programme is designed to surface the leadership potential within so you may position yourself among the protagonists of the business community in the pursuit of a richer understanding, more creative tactic and a smarter solution-oriented approach.

You will experience a newly designed MBA – built around the concepts of Hyper-Personalisation, Business Impact and Innovation.


Objectives:

Focussed with the aim to ensure sound personal skills and competencies to tackle the complexity and the uncertainty of global competition, the program is based on 3 main pillars.

- Hyper-Personalisation. Students customize their learning journey, to accommodate each individual's professional objectives, by leveraging the Tailored component of the learning model.

- Impact. Students widen their international network by interacting and engaging with peers during the many international initiatives thus impacting their global reach while also participating in impactful challenges where they propose solutions to Real Company Business Cases in a tangible and pertinent context.

- Innovation. The opportunity to engage with an innovative learning model, designed to optimise the Sync and Async experience and leverages the hybrid model of teaching (on-campus/online), allows students to experiment with the innovative technology and explore boundless opportunities of learning.


Target Audience:

The programme is open to students from around the world, with a wide range of career backgrounds in various industries and functions, and to managers, entrepreneurs, start uppers and professionals who want to invest in themselves and boost their professional careers.

The programme is designed for professionals who are ready to expand their current career prospects without sacrificing their present work and life commitments.


Personal Transformation:

Personal Transformation is a key element of the MBA journey, as it is devised specifically to empower and develop existing leadership skills, align personal and professional objectives and meet job market challenges, thereby striving to achieve a fulfilling professional path.

For detailed information, download the brochure.


Leadership Development Plan:

The leadership development plan aims at building a personal growth strategy, through the employment of awareness tools and specific coaching strategies.

- Personality Assessment: an in-depth personality test (OPQ) to assess personality preferences
- Coaching Program: a unique personal experience and a partnership between students and professional coaches
- Self-Empowerment: techniques to manage stress and improve overall personal and professional performance


Career Development Plan:

The career development plan aims at supporting, advising and unveiling the MBA students' career potential, through the use of tools and specific paths.

- Competence Assessment
- Career Advisory: to increase their employability and define their career-development paths and goals
- Mentoring: to build & strengthen relational skills and develop a leadership outlook
- Community Engagement & Networking: workshops, discussion forums, expert panels focused on different thematic areas to foster community engagement, during and after the programme
- Project advisory: managers, consultants or professors who support and advise students during the Smart Project
- Luiss BS Connect: social media platform dedicated to the Luiss Business School Community


Skill Labs:

The Skill Labs are online laboratories held on weekday evening slots, accommodating working hours. They are characterised by a highly experiential and practical methodological approach and aim to enhance soft skills and transversal skills.

The goal is to achieve an overview of the business scenario and to acquire useful tools for personal and professional growth. The Skill Labs provide applicable tools aimed at improving the skills and transversal competencies relating to academic and professional background, stimulating an overall vision of the business situation and enhancing the skills useful to achieve a leadership position. Participants may choose from an array of Skill Labs that better fits their requirements from among the pool proposed.

By their transversal nature, the Skill Labs cut across two main categories: Megatrends and Life Skills. Laboratories may be subject to change to keep up with the changing business dynamics.


Megatrends

Megatrend Labs investigate all those exogenous factors of change that redesign the economic, financial and technological landscape and that can influence the daily operation of organisations as well as planned and implemented strategies.

- Blockchain Garage Thinking
- Business Ethics
- Data Driven Organisation
- Design Thinking for Digital Business Model
- Digital Experience
- Forecasting Scenario
- Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence @Work
- Machine Learning in Python
- Social Impact
- Go to Market


Life Skills:

Life Skill Labs aim to train and strengthen all those cognitive, emotional, and relational skills that equip the participant with the tools required to operate effectively on an individual and social level within the organisation and in relevant contexts.

- Decision Making under time constraints
- Diversity Management
- Drive Collaboration & Results
- Drive for Discontinuity
- Effective Communication
- Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Leadership in Action
- Multicultural and Diversity
- Negotiation
- Personal Branding
- Professional Writing Skills
- Public Speaking
- Remote Leadership
- Resilience
- Self-Awareness, Personal Initiative

The 16-month curriculum offers the opportunity to achieve a highly personalised learning experience centered around the personal and professional development of the MBA participant.

Divided in 5 terms with lessons held every other weekend, the architecture of the programme builds on and leverages two main pillars:

- Core programme
- Tailored programme


For detailed information about the curriculum download the brochure.

Core Programme:

Induction
- Ice-Breaking Activities
- Workshops, Seminars and Presentation
- Design Thinking Session
- Introduction to School Services


Essentials:

The Essentials are meant to provide the basics of economics for the entire MBA and are preparatory for the Core Courses.

- Accounting
- Business Analytics & Statistics
- Quantitative Methods for Finance
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Economics of Strategy        


Core: 

Core Courses are designed to strengthen participants' managerial competences.

- Strategy I: Strategy in the Age of Digital Disruption
- Accounting, Planning & Control I: Management Accounting
- Finance I: Corporate Finance
- Marketing I: Marketing Management & Customer Engagement
- Organisation I: Design Organisations for Digital Transformation


Core-Pro:

Core Pro Courses focus on enabling students to gain a practical understanding of the real business world.

- Strategy II: Empowering Growth and Mastering Strategy Execution
- Accounting, Planning & Control II – Planning & Control
- Finance II: Financial Valuation
- Marketing II: Marketing Intelligence
- Organisation II: Leading People and Getting Things Done
- Leading Strategic Innovations and Change
- Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation
- Technology Operations Management
- Corporate & Investment Banking
- Project Management


Digital Emphasis:

The Part-Time MBA programme offers the opportunity to develop fine-tuned skills and special attention is dedicated to digital innovation.

Courses that focus on digital innovation:

- Digital transforming business model
- Digital Experience Lab
- Consumer Insight
- Big Data Baseline
- Digital Transforming Organization and People
- Data driven transformation
- Digital transforming operating model
- Big Data monetization
- Marketing and Sales effectiveness
- Customer service effectiveness


Tailored Programme

Electives

Students customise their journey as they choose to focus on certain industries and tracks, to gain knowledge of the chosen sector, identify key players, and explore cutting edge trends. Electives may be subject to change to keep up with the changing business dynamics.

- Aerospace
- Banking
- Consumer Products and Retail
- Digital Markets
- Energy
- Family Business
- Fintech
- Food & Wine
- Health and Pharmaceuticals
- Hospitality
- Infrastructure
- Luxury and Fashion
- Media and Entertainment
- Smart Mobility


Skill Labs:

During the MBA programme, participants may attend the laboratories provided in the learning trajectory choosing between Megatrends and Life Skill Labs.

The Skill Labs are characterised by a highly experiential and practical methodological approach that aim to enhance soft skills and transversal skills. The goal is to achieve an overview of the business scenario and to acquire useful tools for personal and professional growth.


Smart Project:

As part of the part-time MBA journey, students have the chance to work on business challenges launched by Luiss Business School's Corporate Partners. These projects represent a fundamental part of the part-time MBA programme and give students a unique opportunity to put their learning into practice while collaborating with academic supervisors and highly experienced managers.

Admission requirements:

- Undergraduate degree in any discipline
- At least 3 years of work experience
- Admission test
- Proficiency in English