Management and Artificial Intelligence MSc

The aims of this module are to:

Examine the distinctiveness of national business systems

Investigate the context of management in comparative perspective

Identify the challenges facing companies that manage across nationally distinct business systems

Appreciate the pressures towards convergence and divergence in the nature of managerial work

The aim of this module is to provide the students with an understanding and programming skills for for solving practical problems in different applications.

The aim of this module is to give students an opportunity to explore grand challenges facing our global society and to propose imaginative solutions to specific challenges in one or more country.

Students will critically reflect on the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals and think about how Loughborough University's Creating Better Futures. Together Strategy might contribute to them.

Students will engage with ideas and approaches to possible solutions from their own programme and gain diverse insights from Loughborough University London's interdisciplinary ecosystem. This will involve solution-oriented thinking and a balance between criticality and possibility, leading to a deep understanding of grand challenges and imagining creative responses to them.

The aims of this module are to:

Introduce students to the foundational concepts of data processing and their use in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Enable students to gain background knowledge necessary to understand and develop different algorithms in AI and Data analytics.

The aim of this module is to examine the evolving societal consequences of A.I. and to explore how governments, international organisations and civil society groups are trying to create safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence systems.

The aims of this module are to equip students with a working knowledge of typical quantitative and qualitative research methods used in the research undertaken in the different institutes at Loughborough University London.

The aims of this module are to give the student the opportunity to study a subject, business problem or research question in depth and to research the issues surrounding the subject or background to the problem.

The module will equip the student with the relevant skills, knowledge and understanding to embark on their individual research project and they will be guided through the three options available to them to complete their dissertation:

A desk based research project that could be set by an organisation or could be a subject of the student's choice.

A project that involves collection of primary data from within an organisation or based on lab and/or field experiments.

A full professional placement within an organisation during which time they will complete a project as part of their role in agreement with the organisation (subject to a suitable placement position being obtained).

Students will achieve a high level of understanding in the subject area and produce a written thesis or project report which will discuss this research in depth and with rigour.

The aims of this module are to:

provide students with a broad understanding of the basic concepts in accounting and financial management with an emphasis on decision-making;

develop students' technical and analytical skills in aspects of accounting and financial management;

equip them with the financial awareness necessary for further study in all aspects of business and management.

The aims of this module are to equip students with background knowledge of business planning and strategy execution with simulated experience of running a company.

We will look at a variety of frameworks for assessing entrepreneurs, products, markets, industries and operations to understand (1) the importance of thorough market/product analysis and (2) the operation of a new venture and the dynamic nature of strategy.

Conceptual foundations are matched with practical training to enable students to formulate and execute their business strategies.

The aims of this module are to:

Provide students with an opportunity to be exposed to project-based teamwork in diverse settings (understood in this context as involving a range of multidisciplinary, multicultural and demographic elements in differing configurations), aiming to strengthen their cooperative and collaborative working skills and competence, while raising awareness and appreciation of diversity itself.

Provide students with hands-on experience of identifying, framing and resolving practice oriented and real-world based challenges and problems, using creativity, critical enquiry and appropriate tools to achieve valuable and relevant solutions.

Support the development of students' ability to engage in critical enquiry and individual reflection, as well as to apply individual strengths and skills, building on their own educational backgrounds.

Provide students with opportunities for networking with stakeholders, organisations and corporations, aiming to enhance the competence and skills needed to connect to relevant parties and build up future professional opportunities.

The aims of this module are to:

Equip students with the necessary academic skills to understand the role corporate governance plays in generating financial and economic development.

Equip students with a working knowledge of governance and corporate governance frameworks; be able to critically assess alternatives.