Our Masters of Science

MSc in Marketing

Key points

Duration : 18 months including 4-6 months of internship or professional experience
Intake : once a year in September
Mode : Full time
472 hours from October to May
From June to December : Master Thesis and 4-6 months minimum of professional experience : internship or job in France or abroad
Credits : 90 ECTS
Language : entirely taught in English
Certified by the label “Conférence des Grandes Ecoles”
Location : Montpellier Business School campus
Tuition fees : 13 900 €

Requirements

A Bachelor degree or equivalent
English test : a minimum score of TOEFL 80/120 or TOEIC 785/990 or IELTS 6/9 or MBS English test B2 (free)
Relevant professional goals

Admission Process

You will have to complete the online application form (which can be saved and completed over time)
Selected applicants will be scheduled for admission interviews via videoconference or at Montpellier Business School

Requested documents

Copy of passport
One passport photograph
Curriculum vitae/resume
Copies of highest diploma obtained
Copies of transcripts of records from the past three years. Please provide an english translation of your documents if they are written in other languages than French and English
Proof of English Language Proficiency : minimum score of TOEFL 80/120, IELTS 6/9 or TOEIC 785/990 or Montpellier Business School english test (free) B2. Candidates with previous English studies are exempted.

Calendar

Online registration : From October 8^th 2018 to July 2019

Deadline for registration :

July 1^st 2019 for non EU applicants
July 31^st 2019 for EU applicants

Job opportunities

Marketing Manager, Operational Marketing Manager, Strategic Marketing Manager, Product Manager, Brand Manager, Manager International Development, Communication Manager, Mechandising Manager, International Marketing Manager…

Programme outline

The MSc in Marketing is one of Montpellier Business school’s programmes in which you can foster your professional skills and find a way to stand out from the crowd. It provides the specialist tools and techniques to increase your strengths on the international arena.

Marketing helps a firm in creating value by better understanding the needs of its customers and providing them with innovative products and services. This value is communicated through a variety of channels as well as through the firm’s branding strategy.

Our faculty addresses a broad array of topics in all of these areas there are several new developments in marketing that offer opportunities for us to make important contributions in the future. The current economic crisis is changing consumers’ current and future purchase and consumption patterns. The programme contains an ideal balance between theory and practice, and the curriculum bring knowledge to life instead to keep it to the books mainly through the practical side of Marketing within different industries like Luxury, cultural, food & wine and services.

We will provide you with tools and techniques to foster your marketers’ skills, allow you to master the marketing processes to find new solutions for problems with ethics and values, the foundation of doing businesses with global responsibility: honesty, fairness and integrity, are underlying all courses.

French courses are provided during the academic year and cultural and company visits are organized during the programme.

Through one year of training, you will meet professional experts and develop solid know-how ready to confront challenges of your future career (with serenity).

Why choose this programme ?

Top level faculty
An innovative pedagogical method
A truly international environment
An excellent employability rate for our Montpellier BS graduates : 70% of students from our programmes are hired before they even graduate
Unrivalled networking opportunities
An AACSB, EPAS and AMBA accredited School

PROGRAMME COURSES (1rst and 2nd semester)

BEHAVIOURAL FOCUS
In this course students will learn to analyse complex workplace situations from conflict resolution to motivational team dynamics and how to implement strategic solutions.

INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MARKETING
Students will learn how to successfully conduct marketing activities in an international setting and enhancing their capacity to analyse and target global marketing opportunities, select the best market-entry strategies and to design an integrated marketing-mix strategy.

ADVANCED STRATEGIC MARKETING
Students will explore the tools and models that guide managers involved in creating marketing plans. This course will develop students’ abilities to critically analyse managerial situations for the purpose of formulating relevant and creative marketing strategies.

DIGITAL MARKETING
This course offers training to project leaders and future company managers on e- commerce, digital marketing and on-line communication. Students will learn the skills needed to realise marketing strategies, analyse the Eco-web system, manage and control an e-commerce venture and bond a community networks, manage an on-line campaign and how to analyse indicators.

MARKSTRAT
It is a campus wide competition via a business simulation that allows students and professionals a risk-free platform to test theories and make decisions. Competitor actions and reactions, new product launches, sales and distribution strategies will all define how teams manage their own product portfolio, R&D, positioning and pricing strategy.

INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION
This course will focus on developing professional communication in the workplace. Students will apply critical thinking and problem solving skills to effectively implement appropriate responses to communication issues.

LUXURY MARKETING
This course will develop a framework for understanding the essential ingredients of effective marketing of luxury brands and services. The course will help students understand the demands and challenges in this sector.

FOOD AND WINE MARKETING
In this course there will be a focus on the gastronomic and oenology sector. Students will examine the relationships between consumer behaviour and marketing strategies in the wine and food market.

CRM BIG DATA
Utilising business intelligence systems can turn data into decision-ready insights. The objective of this course is to introduce ways a marketing manager can implement strategy and how to organise flows of information into Marketing Information System.

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND BRAND COMMUNICATION
The objective of the course is to teach students how to communicate messages to consumers with graphic design, and to introduce concepts of semiotic theory to understand the visual communication phenomena. They’ll learn what the different variables marketers use to communicate with consumers through designing their logos, websites, advertising and packaging.

SOCIAL IMPACT MARKETING
The course aims to contribute to ethics and responsibility awareness.
Students will implement and evaluate an ethical and responsible approach to maximising economic, social and environmental performance.

CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR AND PSYCHOLOGY
Understanding the consumer psyche is important to marketers as they formulate their marketing plans. In this course students will evaluate the consumer decision making process and how these impact strategy.

FRENCH COURSES
It is not necessary for incoming students to speak French as all courses are offered in English. However, French language courses will be offered to students in order for them to have a more engaging cultural experience.

MASTER’S THESIS
Students will be asked to write a master’s thesis in order to graduate from this programme. This represents an important component of the MSc learning experience. The objective is to investigate in depth an international business issue and to open doors for contacts and networking.

3rd Semester

4 to 6 months professional practice, internship or job

ENTREPRENEURIAL PROJECT

Teams of students from various cultural and academic backgrounds will embark on this entrepreneurial journey drawing on each other’s’ specialties to create a viable business. The objective of this project is to create a new and innovative company. To aid in their collaboration students will be exposed to experienced entrepreneurs and tools across various dimensions such as innovation, logistics and marketing. Finally they will be asked to conceive all of the financial aspects and pitch their project to an academic panel and potential investors.

CAREER ADVANCEMENT SEMINARS

Throughout their year of study students will be assigned a career coach and attend seminars that will prepare them in seeking the right career opportunities, how to be successful and learn from industry leaders on CV preparation, interviewing skills and contract negotiation.

MSc in Finance

Key points

Duration : 18 months including 4-6 months of internship or professional experience
Intake : once a year in September
Mode : Full time
472 hours from October to May
From June to December : Master Thesis and 4-6 months minimum of professional experience : internship or job in France or abroad
Credits : 90 ECTS
Language : entirely taught in English
Certified by the label “Conférence des Grandes Ecoles”
Location : Montpellier Business School campus
Tuition fees : 13 900 €

Requirements

A Bachelor degree or equivalent
English test : a minimum score of TOEFL 80/120 or TOEIC 785/990 or IELTS 6/9 or MBS English test B2 (free)
Relevant professional goals

Admission Process

You will have to complete the online application form (which can be saved and completed over time)
Selected applicants will be scheduled for admission interviews via videoconference or at Montpellier Business School

Requested documents

Copy of passport
One passport photograph
Curriculum vitae/resume
Copies of highest diploma obtained
Copies of transcripts of records from the past three years. Please provide an english translation of your documents if they are written in other languages than French and English
Proof of English Language Proficiency : minimum score of TOEFL 80/120, IELTS 6/9 or TOEIC 785/990 or Montpellier Business School english test (free) B2. Candidates with previous English studies are exempted.

Calendar

Online registration : From October 8^th 2018 to July 2019

Deadline for registration :

July 1^st 2019 for non EU applicants
July 31^st 2019 for EU applicants

Job opportunities

Investment banking careers, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, securities analyst and sales, capital markets trading, structured products, risk management and corporate restructuring, corporate treasury, project financing…

Programme outline

The MSc in Finance offers both substantial theoretical knowledge and comprehensive practical applications. The programme embodies both courses in corporate finance, in financial markets and international banking. It also suits students who seek to acquire international professional certificates (CFA, FRM).

In a frame definitely international and orientated to the professional world, the MSc in Finance will prepare you to act dynamically and creatively whether as a member or a leader of a team. You will acquire the necessary competencies to start a career in finance after an internship of at least 4 months. It is a life changing experience. In addition, through the master thesis, you will also have the opportunity to tailor your curriculum according to your career objectives. In a competitive and intense job market, this MSc in Finance at Montpellier Business School is certainly a way for you to make the difference.

The MSc in Finance offers comprehensive case studies, simulations and real-world exercises. Participants are challenged, supported and prepared to create innovatively and act dynamically via team building and team-leading exercises. Faculty lead classroom discussions and case-study practical problem assessing and solving applications through dynamic team. The MSc in Finance at Montpellier Business School prepares students to act dynamically and creatively whether as a member or a leader of a team. Through the master thesis, students have the opportunity to tailor their curriculum according to their individual career objectives.

French courses are provided during the academic year and cultural and company visits are organized during the programme.

Why choose this programme ?

Top level faculty
An innovative pedagogical method
A truly international environment
An excellent employability rate for our MBS graduates: 70% of students from our programs are hired BEFORE they even graduate
Unrivalled networking opportunities
An AACSB, EPAS and AMBA accredited School

PROGRAMME COURSES (1rst and 2nd semester)

ADVANCED STRATEGIC FINANCE
Develop methods and insights on how to understand key problems and how to implement the corresponding financial strategy. Learn about valuation for different businesses and projects through various methods.

FOUNDATION OF RISKS AND ASSET PRICING THEORY
This course is designed for students to understand and apply risk management techniques. We begin with a review of the risks a corporation may face and the way these risks are assessed and measured. Students will also investigate different ways contracts can be used to control the firm’s risks.

INTRODUCTION TO BIG DATA AND BUSINESS ANALYTICS
Utilising business intelligence systems can turn data into decision-ready insights. The objective of this course is to introduce ways a manager can implement strategy and how to organise flows of information into a Financial Information System.

FIXED INCOME OPTIONS DERIVATIVES
This course is intended to analyse the fixed income securities markets and its implications for investments. It will analyse the market characteristics, instruments, selling techniques, pricing and valuation issues, floating rate instruments, relations with money market instruments, risk and return of fixed income securities. The course also aims to develop an understanding of the importance the institutional structure of the markets on which they are traded as well as developing the analytical tools necessary to price such instruments.

MICROFINANCE
This course provides students with a multidisciplinary approach to the opportunities and challenges facing the micro- finance sector today. Understanding the design of financial and non-financial products offered by micro finance institutions (MFIs). Students will also be able to explain how these products meet the needs of micro-borrowers and what types of existing problems in the financial markets these products can solve.

BEHAVIOURAL FOCUS
In this course students will learn to analyse complex workplace situations from conflict resolution to motivational team dynamics and how to implement strategic solutions.

TOPICS ON VALUATION
This course is designed to provide students with state of the-art knowledge in valuation methods. The focus will be on the interactions between financing decisions and the valuation method. Students will master the different valuation techniques and the technical issues encountered when applied in the real world to understand the concept of real options and know how to recognise the different types of real options.

CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT
In this course you will be introduced to commonly used market instruments and different types of market risks such as FX risk, interest rate risk and credit risk. Students will understand how to measure market volatility and lessons from financial disasters.

FINANCIAL MODELLING
In this course students will learn to build financial models and modelling techniques for financial forecasting used in many areas of finance such as derivatives, valuation, and deal structuring and portfolio management.

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
This course is an introduction to international financial concepts and multinational financial management practices. Emphasis is placed on corporate finance for international firms and topics included in the course are: the economics underlying the determination of exchange rates, their parity relationships and balance of payments, the foreign exchange markets and the tools that can be used to hedge exchange rate risks such as options, futures and swaps contracts.

ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS & ETHICS IN FINANCE
This course is designed to provide financial professionals with an extensive foundation of knowledge in traditional and alternative investment vehicles including hedge funds, venture capital, commodities, managed futures, real estate and private equity.

FINANCIAL SIMULATION
The objective of this course is to enable students to acquire a good understanding of the way financial markets work in practice. Different notions seen in other courses of the Master of Finance are revised with a focus on the way they may be used in a portfolio management environment. Strategic aspects of trading as well as interactions between traders in financial markets are also covered.

3rd Semester

4 to 6 months professional practice, internship or job

BLOOMBERG TRADING ROOM : working with real-time data

Students benefit from the access we offer to specialist financial and business databases with Bloomberg Terminals – the world’s most powerful platform for finance professionals who need real-time data. This hands-on learning tool develops valuable practical skills in analysing the finance industry that will help you to stand out in the job market.

ENTREPRENEURIAL PROJECT

CAREER ADVANCEMENT SEMINARS

MSc in International Business

Key points

Duration : 18 months including 4-6 months of internship or professional experience
Intake : once a year in September
Mode : Full time
472 hours from October to May
From June to December : Master Thesis and 4-6 months minimum of professional experience : internship or job in France or abroad
Credits : 90 ECTS
Language : entirely taught in English
Certified by the label “Conférence des Grandes Ecoles”
Location : Montpellier Business School campus
Tuition fees : 13 900 €

Requirements

A Bachelor degree or equivalent
English test : a minimum score of TOEFL 80/120 or TOEIC 785/990 or IELTS 6/9 or MBS English test B2 (free)
Relevant professional goals

Admission Process

You will have to complete the online application form (which can be saved and completed over time)
Selected applicants will be scheduled for admission interviews via videoconference or at Montpellier Business School

Requested documents

Copy of passport
One passport photograph
Curriculum vitae/resume
Copies of highest diploma obtained
Copies of transcripts of records from the past three years. Please provide an english translation of your documents if they are written in other languages than French and English
Proof of English Language Proficiency : minimum score of TOEFL 80/120, IELTS 6/9 or TOEIC 785/990 or Montpellier Business School english test (free) B2. Candidates with previous English studies are exempted.

Calendar

Online registration : From October 8^th 2018 to July 2019

Deadline for registration :

July 1^st 2019 for non EU applicants
July 31^st 2019 for EU applicants

Job opportunities

Head of import-export, , International Project Manager, Business Developper, Key Account Manager, International Product Manager, Head of Market Research, Consultant in Strategy…

Programme outline

The MSc in International Business is a foremost and innovative programme designed to give you a specialist insight into the area of international business, a strategic global vision to accelerate your access to key positions of responsibility in companies and organisations. Whether you seek an international position with good responsibility, wish to start your own business or would like to work abroad, the MSc in IB will help you achieve your project, give new impetus to your professional development and boost your talent to challenge today’s globalized businesses.

Through a one-year training programme, which combines the theoretical and practical course-work focused on innovative management, you will be equipped with necessary tools to broaden your skills to face your professional challenges with confidence. By sharing your experience in a multicultural class, in contact with internationally recognised professional instructors and faculties you will gain a great capacity for the global market and open up to new horizons of career opportunities.

Technical innovations may be important to a company’s success, but not as much innovative management. That is why we have made managerial innovation in the MSc in International Business the basis of all our teaching.

We will provide you tools, techniques and international legal standards to foster your Management’s skills, to find new opportunities and limit the risks. Ethic and values, the foundation of doing businesses with global responsibility: honesty, fairness and integrity, are underlying all courses.

French courses are provided during the academic year and cultural and company visits are organized during the programme.

Why choose this programme ?

Top level faculty
An innovative pedagogical method
A truly international environment
An excellent employability rate for our MBS graduates: 70% of students from our programs are hired BEFORE they even graduate
Unrivalled networking opportunities
An AACSB, EPAS and AMBA accredited School

PROGRAMME COURSES (1rst and 2nd semester)

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
This course introduces the major topics in international business, including comparative environmental frameworks, governmental and economic influences, import/export, and organisation of international business. The course emphasises the pervasive repercussions of global issues on contemporary business management and the role of the business owner or executive manager.

INTERNATIONAL MARKETING
Students will learn how to successfully conduct marketing activities in an international setting by enhancing their capacity to analyse and target global marketing opportunities, selecting marketentry strategies and designing integrated marketing-mix strategies.

INTRODUCTION TO BIG DATA AND BUSINESS ANALYTICS
Utilising business intelligence systems can turn data into decision-ready insights. The objective of this course is to introduce ways a manager can implement strategy and how to organise ows of information into a Business Information System.

BEHAVIOURAL FOCUS
In this course students will learn to analyse complex workplace situations from conflict resolution to motivational team dynamics and how to implement strategic solutions.

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
The aim of this course is to describe how careers and career management have evolved over the last several decades. Managing one’s career within a changing workplace has become increasingly challenging for the individual contemporary worker. The course will focus on individual career and career navigation from an international point of view. Students will be encouraged to build individual career development plans related to their career goals.

INTERNATIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
In this course students will understand the problems and complexities faced by operations and supply chain managers. From the decision making process associated with supplier selection to process transformation students will uncover different systematic approaches to be taken in order to implement solutions in a supply chain.

MARKSTRAT
A campus wide competition via a business simulation that allows students and professionals a risk-free platform to test theories and make decisions. Competitor actions and reactions, new product launches, sales and distribution strategies will all define how teams manage their own product portfolio, R&D, positioning and pricing strategy.

3rd Semester

4 to 6 months professional practice, internship or job

ENTREPRENEURIAL PROJECT

CAREER ADVANCEMENT SEMINARS

MSc in Global Business

Key points

A new programme for Montpellier Business School approved by the French educational organisation “Conférence des Grandes écoles”

An astonishing international adventure: three countries, three continents and an international internship.

The Master of Science (MSc) in Global Business (MGB) of Montpellier Business School is an innovative programme with three prestigious AACSB-accredited universities around the world.

You will start your studies at the University of Victoria (Uvic), Canada then you will continue the programme at Montpellier Business School, France, and finally at the Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Seoul, South Korea. 3 months in each university and anywhere you want for the 4 to 6-months professional practice.

In a globalised world which is constantly changing, the MSc in Global Business will develop your knowledge, skills and more importantly, your international agility by spending one year in an intensive global business environment, dealing with different cultures and real-world business experience. The Master in Global Business will give you an open mind-set.

The MGB programme offers you an access to a wide network of professors, students and alumni who will help you adapt to new cultures and meet the challenges that come with new experiences, gain confidence and develop a global mind-set you won’t find in the pages of textbooks, business theories or a typical classroom setting.

Key points

A unique and cross-cultural experience in three different countries :

Designed for recent graduates holding a Bachelor’s degree in business, commerce, economy or management,
Innovative curriculum delivery,
A mobile and diverse programme,
First-hand experience,
Support through your journey,
A global mind-set and skill-set,
Language: entirely taught in English,
Intake: last week of August,
Credits: 90 ECTS,
Degree: MSc in Global Business from Montpellier Business School,
Tuition Fees: 16 500 €

Requirements

A Bachelor degree or equivalent in commerce, business administration or management.
Good English level : a minimum score of TOEFL 80/120 or TOEIC 785/120 or IELTS 6/9
Clear and relevant professional goals.

Admission Process

You will need to complete the online application which can be saved and completer over time.
Selected applicants will be scheduled for admission interview via videoconference or at Montpellier Business School.

Requested documents

Copy of passport
One passport photograph
Curriculum vitae/resume
Copies of highest diploma obtained.
Copies of transcripts of records from the past three years. Please provide an english translation of your documents if they are written in other languages than French and English.
Proof of Language proficiency : TOEFL, IELTS or TOEIC.

Calendar

On line registration : From the 8th of October 2018

Number of places : 12

Programme outline

The MSc in Global Business is one of Montpellier Business school’s programmes in which you can foster your international professional skills and find a way to stand out from the crowd. It will provide you the specialist tools and techniques to increase your strengths on the international arena.

In addition to business fundamental courses, you can benefit from Chinese or French language courses. Company visits are also organised on each continent during the programme.

During the entire programme, you will meet professional experts and develop solid know-how which will make you ready to tackle all the challenges you will face during your future career with serenity.

Many reasons to choose this programme

3 top international universities and a unique opportunity to spend 3 months in 3 continents,
3 accredited schools,
An innovative pedagogical method,
Differentiate yourself by joining a truly international programme,
An excellent employability rate for our Montpellier BS graduates: 70% of students from our programmes are hired before they even graduate,
Networking opportunities.

PROGRAMME COURSES (1rst and 2nd semester)

THE NORTH AMERICAN BUSINESS CONTEXT
This course examines the socio-economic and legal factors that impact on doing business in North America. Topics include the Canadian business context, legal system, human rights and employment legislation, labour practices and taxation issues. In addition, students are exposed to the trade relationship between Canada, the United States and Mexico (NAFTA).

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
This course is an examination of international financial markets and the financial decision making of multinational firms. Topics include international monetary systems, exchange rate determination, foreign currency derivatives, risk management techniques, and investments, financing and operating in global markets.

INTERNATIONAL MARKETING AND GLOBAL STRATEGY
This course is an examination of the strategic challenges facing businesses in an international context, with a focus on marketing issues. Topics include the problems associated with controlling and co-ordinating activities in multiple markets, managing in diverse markets, responding to consumer and competitor differences, understanding the impact of different institutional structures, and coping with market consolidation.

INTERNATIONAL LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
This course examines the issues involved in managing global supply chains and logistic flows. Topics are developed around the risks and opportunities of global sourcing. They include designing and implementing global supply chains, foreign manufacturing, inventory management, coping with security concerns, outsourcing, service standards, transportation options and performance evaluation.

THE EUROPEAN BUSINESS CONTEXT
This course provides an overview of corporate governance structures, legal and economic systems and environmental sustainability issues in the European Union and beyond. The course will prepare students to apply their knowledge and global perspective to solving business issues and challenges.

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AND CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
An examination of the various dimensions of culture and cross-cultural leadership and management. Topics include how cultural intelligence and global mind-set impact teamwork, conflict management, negotiations, motivation and overall leadership in international settings. The course compares how people from the three regions of the Master in Global Business programme modules (e.g. North Americans, Europeans, and Asians) are similar and how they differ along these dimensions. This includes the challenges resulting from these differences and how to resolve them.

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS AND THE ASIAN BUSINESS CONTEXT
This course is an overview of business operations in industries such as steel, food processing, ship building, fishery, petroleum and high tech. In addition, the course examines how firms in these industries deal with threats and opportunities in a global setting as well as in an Asian business context.

CONSULTING METHODS AND PRACTICE
This course provides an overview of the process of management consulting; introduces students to consulting methods to help them gain knowledge of consulting and to highlight specific consulting and research skills. To practice the application of these methodologies, student teams will examine an issue or problem being faced by their assigned overseas organizations, and provide them with consulting advice. In addition, this course will ultimately prepare students for the “International Research and Consulting Project”.

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND CONSULTING REPORT
This project consists of an individual or group consulting report. Participating students are placed into small teams and under faculty supervision, and maintain a consulting/client relationship with a corporate sponsor. The students examine a problem of current interest to the sponsor and prepare detailed written recommendations.

ENTREPRENEURIAL PROJECT
Students will create their own viable enterprise in the form of a business plan. In groups of 3 or 4, students will be asked to find a concept and formulate a proposal using their learning on creativity and innovation, then to develop a strategy and a marketing campaign using in-the-field studies. Finally they will be asked to handle the financial aspects and pitch the project to potential partner bankers, capital investors and « Business Angels ».

CONSULTING PROJECT
This pedagogical exercise, included in the term of teaching in South Korea, will be based on a real case study focusing on the issues of a company. This study will take place within a local company such as Samsung or LG. Students working in groups have two months to complete this mission. Some examples of issues: « Which market should we choose for this innovation?» « Which price should we sell this product for? », « How can we re-motivate the personnel? »,

LANGUAGE COURSES
Chinese language courses will be offered to French speaking students, and French language classes to the others. This course will be all along the programme.

3rd Semester
4 to 6 months professional practice, internship or job.

CAREER ADVANCEMENT SEMINARS

Throughout their year of study students will be assigned a career coach and attend seminars that will prepare them in seeking the right career opportunities, how to be successful and learn from industry leaders on CV preparation, interviewing skills and contract negotiation.

Job opportunities

Director and/or Manager of international Operations
Director and/or Manager of Transport
International project manager
International brand manager
Supply chain director
International marketing director
International Product manager
International events director
Purchaser, Purchase Manager, Purchase Director
Director and/or Manager of international Operations
International Human resource manager

In addition, the programme will support the participants if they want to start their own company locally and internationally during or after the MSc.

MSc in Digital Management

Key points

Duration : 18 months including 4-6 months of internship or professional experience
Intake : once a year in September
Mode : Full time
472 hours from October to May
From June to December : Master Thesis and 4-6 months minimum of professional experience : internship or job in France or abroad
Credits : 90 ECTS
Language : entirely taught in English
Certified by the label “Conférence des Grandes Ecoles”
Location : Montpellier Business School campus
Tuition fees : 13 900 €

Requirements

A Bachelor degree or equivalent
English test : a minimum score of TOEFL 80/120 or TOEIC 785/990 or IELTS 6/9 or MBS English test B2 (free)
Relevant professional goals

Admission Process

You will have to complete the online application form (which can be saved and completed over time)
Selected applicants will be scheduled for admission interviews via videoconference or at Montpellier Business School

Requested documents

Copy of passport
One passport photograph
Curriculum vitae/resume
Copies of highest diploma obtained
Copies of transcripts of records from the past three years. Please provide an english translation of your documents if they are written in other languages than French and English
Proof of English Language Proficiency : minimum score of TOEFL 80/120, IELTS 6/9 or TOEIC 785/990 or Montpellier Business School english test (free) B2. Candidates with previous English studies are exempted.

Calendar

Online registration : From October 8^th 2018 to July 2019

Deadline for registration :

July 1^st 2019 for non EU applicants
July 31^st 2019 for EU applicants

Job opportunities

Digital Project Manager, Digital manager, Digital Strategy Consultant, E-marketing and e-business manager, Digital and social media director, Director of Web agency, Web Contractor, Digital transformation consultant, Digital design project manager, Digital business analysis,…

Programme outline

The MSc in Digital Management is one of Montpellier Business school’s programmes in which you can foster your professional skills and find a way to stand out from the crowd. It provides the specialist tools and techniques to increase your strengths on the international arena.

It is a unique program that gives an opportunity to the students to understand the impact of digital on leadership and organisation, master new models of creating and distributing value and agile methods of project management and performance. The modules include digital strategy, applied big data (a one-week case on company data), agile project management (expecting delivering, dates and estimated budget), change management, digitisation of business processes and web marketing. Throughout the year, students will also foster the “entrepreneurial spirit” alongside with the open-innovation techniques adapted to large groups to spread the “start-up” spirit.

With an original pedagogical approach, which will involve the participants from diverse profiles and put them together on common projects, where each of them will brings their experience and competence to generate the “know-how” to work together. The Creativity and innovation are essential for the success of any digital transformation project and the sustainability of both public and private organisations.

French courses are provided during the academic year and cultural and company visits are organised during the programme.

Through one year of training, you will meet professional experts and develop solid know-how ready to confront challenges of your future career (with serenity).

Why choose this programme ?

Top level faculty
An innovative pedagogical method
A truly international environment
An excellent employability rate for our MBS graduates: 70% of students from our programs are hired BEFORE they even graduate
Unrivalled networking opportunities
An AACSB, EPAS and AMBA accredited School

PROGRAMME COURSES (1rst and 2nd semester)

MODULE 1 : DIRECTION AND MANAGEMENT IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS

Integration, team building and behaviour focus
In this course students will learn to analyse complex workplace situations from conflict resolution to motivational team dynamics and how to implement strategic solutions.

The impact of digital on financial companies
Retail banking and insurance must embark on a vast process of digital transformation to adapt to the new characteristics of their market. Four areas are concerned: optimising the customer experience, redesigning business processes, modifying internal operating modes and transforming the business model.

Organisational behaviour and change management
This course is designed to empower students to use complex diagnostic models, familiarise them with the theories behind these models, identify key issues related to organisational change, and develop change management programmes.

MODULE 2 : STRATEGY, OPERATION AND DIGITAL PROCESSES

Strategic management
A good strategy is the key to the performance of a company.
Through case studies, students will learn in this course to analyse a situation related to the digital revolution and to reflect on possible strategic choices to be implemented.

Innovation management
The goal is to develop the innovation skills in student business models and prepare them to become innovative managers by giving them an understanding of how to be innovative. Elements are supported by relevant examples of the academic literature or the professional world.

Lean management and digital transformation
Technological advances have created opportunities that did not exist a decade ago and it is clear that new developments will occur at an ever faster pace. The objective of this course examines the extent to which successful companies are benefiting from operational excellence and digital advantage. It aims to provide a compelling picture of each of these elements (process improvement, business digitalisation and management of both) to help companies eliminate waste and improve processes and services.

Agile project management
In this course, students will take ownership of agile project management methods and Scrum principles by focusing on the role of the beneficiaries. Students learn how to develop a vision of the project, then the resulting roadmap, identifying user roles and writing user reports. Other topics include stakeholder identification, organization, team development, planning, communication, quality, risk and change management.

Digital change
The course focus on the main issues that a company must address in order to successfully complete its digital transformation, including the organisational and cultural aspects that often lead to such transformations. We discuss how these transformations require managers to acquire a good technical culture to enable them to make organisational, management and marketing decisions.

Information technology and value creation
The role of digital in the creation of new forms of organisations, the transformation of existing work practices and the change in the way we communicate with others have implications at different levels and can create different sources of value if they are managed appropriately. This course provides concepts, frameworks and tools to understand the potential impact of information technology on business value.

MODULE 3 : CREATIVITY AND ENTRENEURSHIP INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

Design thinking
It is a subject applicable in all disciplines of management.
This course allows students to take ownership of Design Thinking methodologies to produce pragmatic solutions and ideas for innovative products and services. Following this course, participants will learn how to apply a Design Thinking model to solve or eliminate a real-life problem by developing innovative and creative ideas from imagination to prototyping.

MODULE 4 : DATA and ANALYTICS

Statistics
This course aims to develop the quantitative skills that can be mobilised in the professional world and in particular for the analysis of Big Data. Students need to collect, process, analyse and use quantitative data to make decisions, present and argue them.

Big data and analytics
This course aims to make students aware of the questions and techniques related to the use of big data. Through examples of classroom implementation, students will learn several ways to analyse the relationships between variables.

MODULE 5 : DIGITAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Digital marketing
Students will acquire the skills necessary to define a digital marketing strategy, analyse the web eco system, manage and pilot an e-commerce project, develop, animate and federate a community on social networks, pilot an online marketing campaign, measure And analyse performance indicators (SEOs). Specifically, at the end of the course, students will be able to define KPIs, measure multi-channel performance, achieve strategic objectives, monitor, measure and analyse a marketing approach on the web, monitore strategy (competitive, e-reputation …), to understand new trends and to identify opportunities for innovation.

Blog Project
In the world of today, the professional expertise is more and more communicated online and collaborative learning challenges the individual learning project. In addition, acquiring excellent social media skills is a standard requirement of all career opportunity seekers.

Digital communication & social Media
This course examines the relationship between current society and the computerised communication technologies known as “social media,” including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and more. Students will gain practical knowledge of social media: understanding the landscape, learning “best practices” and using different social media technologies to create and disseminate content.

Organisational behaviour and change management :
This course is designed to empower students to use complex diagnostic models, familiarise them with the theories behind these models, identify key issues related to organisational change, and develop change management programs.

French courses
It is not necessary for incoming students to speak French as all courses are offered in English. However, French language courses will be offered to students in order for them to have a more engaging cultural experience.

Master’s thesis
Students will be asked to write a master’s thesis in order to graduate from this programme. This represents an important component of the MSc learning experience. The objective is to investigate in depth an international business issue and to open doors for contacts and networking.

3rd Semester

4 to 6 months professional practice, internship or job

ENTREPRENEURIAL PROJECT

CAREER ADVANCEMENT SEMINARS

MSc in Lean Operations Management

Key points

Duration : 18 months including 4-6 months of internship or professional experience
Intake : once a year in September
Mode : Full time
472 hours from October to May
From June to December : Master Thesis and 4-6 months minimum of professional experience : internship or job in France or abroad
Credits : 90 ECTS
Language : entirely taught in English
Certified by the label “Conférence des Grandes Ecoles”
Location : Montpellier Business School campus
Tuition fees : 13 900 €

Requirements

A Bachelor degree or equivalent
English test : a minimum score of TOEFL 80/120 or TOEIC 785/990 or IELTS 6/9 or MBS English test B2 (free)
Relevant professional goals

Admission Process

You will have to complete the online application form (which can be saved and completed over time)
Selected applicants will be scheduled for admission interviews via videoconference or at Montpellier Business School

Requested documents

Copy of passport
One passport photograph
Curriculum vitae/resume
Copies of highest diploma obtained
Copies of transcripts of records from the past three years. Please provide an english translation of your documents if they are written in other languages than French and English
Proof of English Language Proficiency : minimum score of TOEFL 80/120, IELTS 6/9 or TOEIC 785/990 or Montpellier Business School english test (free) B2. Candidates with previous English studies are exempted.

Calendar

Online registration : From October 8^th 2018 to July 2019

Deadline for registration :

July 1^st 2019 for non EU applicants
July 31^st 2019 for EU applicants

Job opportunities

Programme outline

The MSc in Lean Operations Management is a foremost and innovative programme designed to give you a specialist insight into the area of Lean Management, a way for you to become highly competent on how to contribute both effectively and efficiently to continuous improvement and transformation initiatives that appear more and more within the industrial and service. Thus to accelerate your access to key positions of responsibility in companies and organisations.

Programme

The objectives of the programme are to enable students to :

Focus on customers’ needs by identifying their expectations translated in measurable requirements;
Rely on various structured approaches (Lean Operations Management, Six Sigma) to improve organisational processes by removing wastes and non-value added activities;
Prepare and facilitate with enthusiasm and dynamism improvement workshops (Kaizen events) by engaging stakeholders;
Lead and support change through continuous improvement initiatives while assuring the process of implementation within quality and time constraints;
Formalise management practices identified during Kaizen workshops into work procedures
Rearrange the workplace to facilitate continuous improvement (5S approach) ;
Develop managerial skills on how to engage colleagues on improvement matters;
Master and communicate quality management tools within the organisation ;
Efficiently communicate improvement and transformation milestones ;
Set up performance measurement indicators to track improvement activities ;
Foster a culture of continuous improvement at various levels in an organisation (e.g. voice of the customer, valuable processes).

Why choose this programme?

Top level faculty
An innovative pedagogical method
A truly international environment
An excellent employability rate for our MBS graduates: 70% of students from our programs are hired BEFORE they even graduate
Unrivalled networking opportunities
An AACSB, EPAS and AMBA accredited School

PROGRAMME COURSES (1rst and 2nd semester)

MODULE 1: PROCESSES

ADVANCED OPERATIONS & SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
In this course, students will learn to design, manage and improve processes in order to create and deliver valuable goods and services to meet and exceed clients’ expectations. Students will understand management issues associated with decision making processes that Operations and Supply Chain managers face in today’s global society.

LEAN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Students will examine the philosophy and key principles of Operational Excellence, learn how to map value streams in order to identify and eliminate waste within organisational processes, and become familiarised with the creation of a continuous improvement culture.

STATISTICS
This course will allow students to review fundamentals of statistics applied to management and prepare them to better understand Lean Six Sigma approach. Students will be able to carry out any basic statistical study: how to sample, how to analyse the samples, and how to process data by statistical tools.

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Throughout this course, students will analyse real business initiatives in the areas of operational excellence and digital transformation, in order to understand the associated challenges and learn managerial insights from them. In addition, students will understand how digital transformation leads to new business models, modifies value chains, and causes changes more disruptive and rapid changes than ever before.

LEAN SIX SIGMA
This course introduces the principles, tools and techniques of Lean Six Sigma and highlights the broad implications related to strategic management issues and how the Lean Six Sigma impacts continuous improvement programmes within organizations.
The DMAIC (Define / Measure / Analyse / Improve / Control) methodology, the use of statistics to support managerial decisions (SPC Statistical Process Control method), and the importance of data collection and data analysis for process improvements in the context of industrial and service organisations will also be covered.

MODULE 2: CHANGE

DIGITAL CHANGE
This course focuses on the main issues that a company must address in order to successfully achieve its digital transformation, as well as the organisational and cultural aspects that often lead to unsuccessful transformations. Based on various examples, this course places special emphasis on transformations that are caused by advanced digital technologies. We discuss how these transformations require managers to have a sound understanding of digital culture to enable them to make organisational, management and marketing decisions.

COMMUNICATION & TEAM MANAGEMENT
The course’s motto is “Working better together”. The objective is to improve students’ communication skills at business meetings and to improve the effectiveness of work within teams. To this end, the course covers the following topics: team-building (team building, group dynamics, intercultural management) and communication skills during group work (participation in meetings, interpersonal communication, crisis communication).

AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
In this course, students will learn agile project management methods and Scrum principles by focusing on the role of team members. Students will learn how to develop a vision of the project and its associated milestones, then identify user roles and write user reports. Other topics include stakeholder identification, organisation, team development, planning, communication, quality, risk and change management. Participants learn by using their own project for most of the proposed activities.

MODULE 3: INNOVATION

MANAGERIAL INNOVATION
The objectives of this course are to familiarise students with the concept of innovation and more specifically with the concept of managerial innovation. It will be an opportunity to relate the concept of managerial innovation with the values of Montpellier Business School (e.g., ethics, openness and diversity, global responsibility and overall performance) by illustrating with specific and concrete examples the way in which Montpellier Business School values can be examined by the concept of innovation and more particularly in the concept of managerial innovation.

INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
The goal is to develop the innovation skills in students businesses models and prepare them to become innovative managers by giving them an understanding of how to be innovative. Elements are supported by relevant examples of the academic literature and the professional world.

DESIGN THINKING
It is a subject applicable in all disciplines of management. This course allows students to learn Design Thinking methodologies to produce pragmatic solutions and ideas for innovative products and services. At the end of this course, participants will learn how to apply a Design Thinking model to solve or eliminate a real-life problem by developing innovative and creative ideas from imagination to prototyping.

ENTREPRENEURIAL PROJECT
Teams of students from various cultural and academic backgrounds will embark on this entrepreneurial journey drawing on each other specialties to create a viable business. The objective of this project is to create a new and innovative company. To aid in their collaboration, students will be exposed to experienced entrepreneurs and tools across various dimensions such as innovation, logistics and marketing. Finally they will be asked to conceive all of the financial aspects and pitch their project to an academic panel and potential investors.

MODULE 4: CUSTOMER FOCUS

CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR & PSYCHOLOGY
In this course, students will learn from the latest findings in the field of Consumer Research. To do so, this course addresses the main themes of consumer behaviour such as motivation, attitudes and preferences, emotions and purchasing experiences, and persuasion processes.

BUSINESS ETHICS
How can corporate ethics be managed? The main objective is to increase the general knowledge of students in the management of ethics and the management of sustainable enterprises. Students will learn to apply ethical principles to moral dilemmas encountered in the decision-making processes of modern economics.

COLOUR CODES / MANAGERS PROFILES
The course’s motto is “The better you know yourself, the better you manage.” This course allows students to understand their own internal dynamics in order to better understand their relationship with others and to determine their behavioural strategies, and to develop their potential to put it into action and develop their leadership skills. This course incorporates the ‘Couleurs Arc-en-Ciel’ method, which is a behavioural analysis tool which allows students to get to know each other better and to understand others in the case of group work or in project mode.

INTEGRATION, TEAM BUILDING & BEHAVIOUR FOCUS
This course, which is focused on behaviours, aims to equip students with behavioural skills and skills related to collaborative work. The purpose is to use its own interdisciplinary and transversal competencies in order to have a global vision of a problem and the context in which it fits, and then to contextualise this problematic in order to provide an appropriate response. Overall, students will learn how to come up with individual and collective solutions and how to formalise them with other students.

MODULE 5: CULTURES

EUROPEAN BUSINESS CONTEXT
This course provides an overview of corporate governance structures, legal / economic / and environmental systems in the European Union and beyond. The course will prepare students to apply their learned skills to solving business issues and challenges, and will develop their understanding of the European economic and business environment and its associated changes.

Semester 3

4 to 6 months professional practice, internship or job

CAREER ADVANCEMENT SEMINARS