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MBA - Master of Business Administration
Nottingham Trent University
Part Time
Sep 2026
2 Year
Organisations today demand leaders who can create impact in their organisation while understanding the global picture. The Global Executive MBA at Nottingham Business School is designed for experienced professionals like you — whether you’re developing your career in the UK or leading teams across borders — helping you lead with greater confidence, think more strategically, and make a lasting impact. You’ll have the flexibility to study around your work and personal commitments, with online learning supported by live sessions that you can join from anywhere in the world virtually, or attend in person on our Nottingham campus. That means you can build new knowledge in a way that works for you, while still benefiting from real-time discussion with your tutors and cohort. Your learning is strengthened by residential weeks, with opportunities to travel between Nottingham, France and South Africa. These immersive experiences bring the course to life through change management, strategic business planning and global consultancy projects with local organisations.
Successful organisations win by putting the customer at the centre of strategy. In this module, you will explore marketing as a catalyst for growth in complex global markets, learning how to craft strategies and build brands that resonate across cultures. The focus is on shaping customer experiences that inspire loyalty and long-term value, while applying advanced marketing thinking to the real challenges faced by international leaders today.
Great leaders don’t just manage people—they inspire performance, shape culture, and create resilience in times of change. This module challenges you to reflect on your own leadership practice while drawing on insights from across disciplines to understand how organisations succeed in a global context. You will strengthen your ability to lead with impact, adapt to complexity, and drive sustainable results through people.
Long-term success depends on leaders who can balance profit with purpose. This module develops your ability to integrate ethics, governance, and sustainability into strategic decision-making, equipping you to lead organisations that are both commercially successful and socially responsible. You will cultivate a mindset that sees sustainability not as an obligation, but as a powerful driver of innovation, resilience, and global impact.
In an era defined by disruption and uncertainty, the ability to craft and execute strategy is a defining skill for senior leaders. This module equips you to analyse complex challenges, navigate shifting global markets, and make bold decisions that secure long-term organisational success. You will strengthen your capacity to think strategically, lead with confidence, and create value in the face of change.
Delivered in Nottingham, this immersive campus-based module places you in the role of consultant to an organisation navigating complex change. Working with your MBA peers, you will design solutions to real transformation challenges while deepening your understanding of how change unfolds in practice. Set against the backdrop of the UK’s globally respected business and management environment, the experience builds both consultancy expertise and the leadership skills required to deliver change with confidence.
Breakthrough ideas drive competitive advantage, but it takes skilled leadership to turn innovation into lasting impact. This module develops your ability to foster creativity, manage risk, and translate bold ideas into strategic outcomes. You will learn how to lead and embed innovation within complex global organisations, equipping you to stay ahead in fast-changing markets and inspire a culture of continuous progress.
Sound financial judgment underpins every effective business strategy. This module equips you with the tools to interpret and evaluate financial information, assess corporate performance, and make informed decisions that shape long-term success. By building both confidence and competence in financial analysis, you will be able to align strategic choices with financial realities and create sustainable value for your organisation.
Every successful organisation depends on effective systems and resilient supply chains. This module deepens your understanding of how operations create value and how supply networks support the delivery of strategic objectives on a global scale. You will learn to evaluate and optimise these critical processes, equipping you to lead organisations that are agile, sustainable, and capable of competing worldwide.
Set in Stellenbosch, South Africa, this immersive campus-based module places you and your MBA peers at the heart of a live case study, working with an organisation to address a real strategic challenge. Alongside developing a robust business plan, you will gain first-hand insight into one of the world’s most dynamic and complex markets, sharpening your ability to adapt strategy across diverse cultural and economic contexts. The experience equips you to think boldly, act decisively, and deliver solutions with genuine global impact.
In a world awash with information, the real advantage lies in knowing how to turn data into insight. This module equips you to cut through the noise of big data, manage complexity, and address the ethical, legal and privacy considerations of data use. You will learn how to leverage analytics to inform strategically important decisions, unlocking opportunities for innovation and strengthening your impact as a global leader. This, in turn, will help you to ensure you can deliver value to your organisation from the investments it makes in data solutions.
Effective governance is at the heart of sustainable, resilient organisations. This module prepares you to operate with confidence at board level, shaping the values and behaviours that guide decision-making and organisational culture. By exploring governance from structural, behavioural, and organisational perspectives, you will develop the insight and capabilities needed to influence strategy, ensure accountability, and lead with integrity as a senior global leader.
This is your opportunity to apply the full breadth of your learning to a challenge of real significance. Focusing on an issue directly relevant to your organisation and your role as a senior leader, you will design and deliver a rigorous, research-based project that generates actionable insights and measurable impact. This experience sharpens your ability to investigate complex problems and translate evidence into strategic solutions.
Leading in the digital age means more than adopting new technologies - it requires reimagining how organisations create and deliver value. This module explores the strategic and operational challenges of digital products and services in a global context, equipping you with the vision, skills, and capabilities to drive transformation. You will learn how to harness emerging technologies to build agile, future-ready organisations that thrive in a constantly evolving landscape.
Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this intensive campus-based module immerses you in one of the world’s most dynamic and fast-growing economies. Across a week-long consultancy project, you and your MBA peers will work with international collaborators to address a real business challenge, gaining first-hand experience of strategic management in an emerging market renowned for its innovation, entrepreneurship, and global influence. Alongside sharpening your consultancy and project leadership skills, you will develop the cultural agility and market insight needed to operate with confidence across borders.
Running throughout the MBA, this spine module is designed to accelerate your growth as a reflective, resilient, and effective global leader. You will develop the habits of continuous professional development, using critical reflection to enhance both personal performance and organisational impact. Guided by your Academic Mentor and supported by an Executive Coach, you will set and pursue leadership goals tailored to your career ambitions—ensuring you graduate not only with new knowledge, but with the clarity, confidence, and momentum to take your next steps as a senior leader.
