Sustainable Management and Finance MSc

The aim of this module is to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of stakeholder engagement and governance of ESG, appropriate for the level of an MSc. It provides hands-on learning experience, allowing you to apply theoretical concepts to real life situations and incentivizes you to work as a team - you will work in small groups to complete your coursework.

This module will help you to analyse social, environmental and governance (ESG) issues, and the impact of these issues on financial risk, financial performance, and investment decisions. It offers essential resources you to work on sustainable finance, or responsible investment, as well as understand how environmental and social issues affect the financial world, and what financial market can enable green transition and the delivery of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

The aim of the module is to provide you with an overview of the current issues and prospects related to the expectations of society towards business, and with an understanding of the contemporary social and environmental issues in global business. This includes the understanding of ethics and good governance in decision-making, the complexities of supply chains and the importance of leadership in dealing with these issues.

The aim of this module is to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the potential impact of climate change, poverty, inequality, and corruption in businesses and the responsibilities of modern businesses and other organizations to tackle them. It will do so by building the knowledge and the critical thinking necessary to move beyond the current status quo and transform organizations. It will serve to set the scene of the challenges current organizations are facing to think collectively about and the potential solutions and opportunities.

This module has both short-term and long-term educational aims. The short-term objective is preparing you to craft your final projects in the pursuit of an MSc degree, by providing the essential methodological tools necessary for conducting the empirically-based projects. The long-term objective is offering a set of analytical and methodological tools that will be fundamental to your future career, whatever research project based on empirical data you will be called to do in your future job.

The aim of the module is to explore how companies are responding to the need to define new strategies, provide new secure, affordable products while and engaging with its key stakeholders to minimising its environmental impacts and work towards the mitigation of climate change. It will do so by building the knowledge necessary to understand how businesses are transforming towards climate change reduction and adaptation. It will put special emphasis in the role that innovation and technology plays in this transformation.

This module aim is to provide you with an understanding of the structure and functioning of the asset management industry of ESG. The module will make it possible for you to acquire an understanding of the principal objectives and constraints of asset management in the ESG field.

This module provides strategic, technical, and applied understanding of accounting, accountability and governance processes essential to ethical business conduct and sustainable transition.

To train you to undertake individual research within the context of an industry-related problem or issue and to provide you with an opportunity to specialise in a contemporary business or finance topic related to your future career aspirations.

Any business needs key research and professional skills and, to be successful, any business needs methodologically sound and rigorous research. This module allows you to demonstrate, on an individual basis, your ability to integrate and apply concepts and techniques you have learned in an in-depth study of a topic of your choice, and to organise your findings in a report. All conducted within a given time limit.