Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London

Executive Evening MBA

From the start of term, the Careers Team will be available to support you throughout your journey at Bayes. Through one-to-one coaching, professional development workshops, and the 'Achieving Your Potential' weekend, we'll work with you to explore and achieve your professional goals and develop your executive presence.

Our team brings invaluable expertise to your journey, drawing from their real-world experience in diverse commercial backgrounds such as recruitment, occupational psychology, coaching, and leadership across various industries.

Our support is tailored to your individual needs and career aspirations. Through our self-assessment sessions, we help you evaluate your strengths, motivations, and values, aligning them with your professional development objectives.

Based on this assessment and your interests, you can select from a variety of workshops, sector overviews, online resources, and coaching sessions to tailor your experience and develop key skills. Additionally, you can meet with our career coaches to refine your future career plans.

Career management workshops

Our wide range of workshops form the backbone of any serious career strategy. They provide opportunities to develop invaluable employability skills in a highly focused, professional environment.

Some of the professional development workshops you can expect on the MBA course include:

Increasing Executive Presence

Discover the essence of Executive Presence and its significance in your career journey. Unlock the secrets to standing out and making a lasting impression in any professional setting. Learn to elevate your personal impact and master the art of managing your impressions and relationships through effective communication with words, voice and body. Delve into strategies for navigating status and power dynamics, and gain experience in implementing all you have learned.

Achieving Your Potential Programme

Escape the typical work or study environment with our off-campus programme. Explore the 'Science of Happiness at Work' and discover strategies to boost performance, and productivity, and unlock your potential. Learn to align your energy, strengths, and motivations with your career aspirations whilst gaining insights into defining your purpose, understanding your calling, and 'job crafting'. Consider potential career transitions by reflecting on past experiences, where you want to be and how to manage the journey.

Deploying strengths for career and team success

Discover how to leverage your strengths and practical strategies to achieve your career goals, build productive habits and maximise personal performance. Learn how to focus on adopting a more positive, solutions-based mind-set to help you learn faster, and feel more engaged and energised at work. Additionally, develop insights into understanding the strengths and risks within your project team, learning how to effectively use team strengths while mitigating potential risks.

Advanced Presentation Skills

Delve into a range of techniques designed to increase your confidence and elevate your presentation skills. Explore the psychology of 'profiling' an audience and methods to maximise attention. Receive personalised coaching on voice, including cadence, tenor, emphasis, modulation, breathing, and pace. Understand key messaging concepts such as content cascade, burden of proof, use of advocacy, and subliminal messaging to enhance persuasion.

Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Positive emotion produces amazing results in the workplace and emotionally intelligent leaders know how to get the best out of others, even in the toughest situations. The challenge is to understand the difference between reaction and response. Develop your emotional literacy, agility and ability to cope with demanding people and contexts. Learn to understand and analyse components of EI such as, self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.

A high-touch programme offering an immersive experience focused on face-to-face and experiential learning. The evening format is delivered in person:

• Twice weekly (Tuesday and Thursday) teaching sessions focus on face-to-face conversations and group discussions allowing for real-time sharing of experiences and knowledge.
• On-campus teaching focuses on a combination of theory, class-based discussions, case studies and group work. It is also an opportunity to develop your connections and network with your and other cohorts.
• The in-person sessions are designed to provide a more immersive learning environment.

The EMBA curriculum is current and reflective of today’s rapidly changing technological landscape. It’s designed to build on your current expertise, to develop new skills in management and core business principles, empowering you to lead with confidence and make informed, strategic decisions.

We place a strong emphasis on enhancing self-awareness and professional skills needed for senior leadership through workshops and one-to-one support. Throughout the two years, you will benefit from our careers and professional development curriculum specially tailored for seasoned executives and professionals.

Course objectives

The Bayes Evening Executive MBA will equip you with advanced leadership skills, strategic thinking, and a global perspective, enabling you to navigate complex business challenges and drive meaningful immediate impact in your organisation.

Apply new theories, frameworks, and skills to your current role immediately and witness the direct impact your learning can have on both your organisation and the broader business landscape. The programme will help you understand the bigger picture and drive impactful change.

Engaging in continuous learning and development through career-enhancing opportunities on the Executive MBA will prepare you with the skills and knowledge needed to advance professionally, stay competitive, lead effectively, and navigate complex business environments.

Offered 2 evenings a week (Tuesday and Thursday) the evening format allows you to balance your career, personal commitments, and studies. If this format isn’t right for you, why not consider the modular (monthly weekend) format.

Delivered in person, allowing you to take advantage of London's spirit of innovation and creativity.

Pre-course

July: Pre-programme activities

Once you have accepted your offer this is the first step that officially makes you part of the Bayes Business School Community.

Pre-study modules covering mathematics and statistics will be available to you prior to the start of the programme. This ensures all students have the basic knowledge and skills required for the start of the program.

There is also a range of pre-programme activities for you to complete including pre-reading and other useful information to help you prepare for student life.

Career accelerator course

The online career accelerator course provides early access to insights and resources, preparing you to maximise the careers and professional development curriculum once you start the programme.

September: Induction

You want to make the most of every moment of your Executive MBA. We have designed an induction comprising of three evenings and a weekend to let you do just that.

You will spend the evenings getting to know your fellow classmates and discovering the resources available to you as a student of the MBA and wider University. You will meet your Course Director, and faculty and start to get to grips with the case method – a core learning tool in your Executive MBA. At the weekend, you will focus on careers and professional development activities such as increasing your executive presence.

Induction sets you up for the academic challenges that lie ahead and ensures that you and your classmates have a strong and shared knowledge base.

Core modules

• September: Principles of Marketing
• September: Organisational Behaviour
• October: Operations Management
• October: Accounting & Financial Reporting
• October: Strategic Leadership
• December: Analytics for Business
• January / February: Human Resource Management
• January / February: Business Economics
• February / March: Financial Markets and Instruments
• March / April: New Venture Creation
• March / April: Corporate Social Responsibility
• March / April: Digital Technologies & Business Innovation
• May/June: Corporate Finance
• May/June: Corporate Strategy
• July: Leadership and Performance

International consultancy week

This module is the integrating element of the Executive MBA core teaching, bringing together the theoretical elements of the programme so far in a practical experience, enabling you to draw out the principles from the core modules. You will be asked to apply your classroom learning to some very demanding problems often in a challenging business consultancy environment.

Consultancy is undertaken to bring added value to the client and the temporary nature of the field trip projects stands in contrast with classroom teaching and as such requires the development of distinct research skills, organisation and interpersonal skills.

The projects typically focus on developing solutions for business development strategies, marketing, HR, finance or operational challenges. Throughout the data collection and analysis stages you will have the opportunity to test your MBA learning in the real world by applying it to real business problems as well as reflect on your own skills as a consultant, leader and team player in a new market, unfamiliar industry and culture.

You have one week to work with the company face-to-face and then a further four weeks to provide a full set of recommendations to the company which is assessed.

Electives

You can choose to study a wide range of electives or focus on a concentration in one specific area. These modules are offered from across our Executive and Full-time MBA portfolio of classes, some electives will run in the evenings and over weekends as well as during the day.

This list of electives is only an indication of the range of subjects on offer and is subject to change. Note that international electives are subject to a specific allocation process, which will be explained during the programme.

You can choose to study a wide range of electives or focus on a concentration in one specific area.

These modules are offered from across our Executive and Full-time MBA portfolio of classes, some electives will run in the evenings and over weekends as well as during the day.

This list of electives is only an indication of the range of subjects on offer and is subject to change. Note that international electives are subject to a specific allocation process, which will be explained during the programme.

Elective modules

• Advanced Analytics for Business
• Leading Strategy Execution
• Advanced Corporate Finance
• Advanced Corporate Strategy for a Globalising World
• Applied Corporate Finance
• Applied Financial Analysis for Managers & Investors
• Advanced Strategy and Business Models
• Behavioural Finance
• Branding & Advertising
• Capturing Value from Technological Innovation
• Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund Project
• Competitive Edge with Digital Technologies
• Consulting to Management
• Design Thinking
• Digital Marketing and Social Media
• FinTech’s Disruption or Synthesis
• Forecasting
• Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• International Financial Management
• Intrapreneurship
• Investment Strategy & Practice
• Leading Al and Industry 4.0
• Leading Digital Transformations
• Leading in Challenging Situations
• Leadership
• Managerial Decision Making
• Managing Strategic Change
• Managing Value Creation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• The New Strategic Landscape
• New Venture Creation
• Private Equity
• Storytelling in Business
• Strategies of Fast Track Venturing
• Succeeding in Professional & Financial Services
• Supply Chain, Finance and Risk
• The Wealth Management Industry

International electives

Please note that the destination and content of international electives are indicative, based on what has previously run and are subject to change. Some additional costs are required to cover items such as flights and any travel visas.

• The Netherlands - Sustainability: Business Challenges and Opportunities
• South Korea - Innovation and Technology
• UAE - International Study Tour
• UK - The London Symposium
• Italy - Strategic Marketing in Action: Exploring Location Brands
• USA - Silicon Valley - Digital Innovation in Action

Business Mastery Project

During the second year, you will draw on the many elements of the programme in the Business Mastery Project, a major piece of self-managed work. It is an opportunity to demonstrate expertise and a skill set gained during the programme and transition into the next stage of your career.

It can be presented in multiple ways; a research project on your organisation; addressing a strategic problem for a specific industry; a business plan. All geared towards you taking the next positive step in your career path, you tap into the Bayes Business expertise from our faculty over 9-12 months and deliver an industry-specific project.

Recent projects have included:

• An exploration in Blockchain and syndicated lending operations
• How to create shareholder value performance through strategic mergers and acquisitions
• Undertaking an empirical analysis of capital structure and Government debt in Europe
• Focusing on cleantech in European and U.S. venture capital: a comparison of investments and exits across industries and countries
• The impact of digitisation and insurtech on the London insurance market
• Understanding ‘ethical political leadership’ in Mauritius
• Comparing sectors commitment to renewable energy
• Entrepreneurship culture and co-working spaces.