Luxembourg School Of Business

Weekend MBA

The duration of the program is 24 months, with classes taking place two weekends per month* (Fridays from 6 pm to 9 pm, Saturdays from 9 am to 5 pm).

The curriculum is divided into six modules. Throughout the program, students engage in a “leadership journey” which allows them to nurture their leadership styles. For this, each module opens with a different leadership course, providing students with various tools.

*On some occasions it is possible to have 3 weekends of class in a month.

Year 1

Pre-courses will take place before the start to support students with the onboarding to the program.

Module 1

• Corporate Strategy (3 ECTS)
• People & Organizations (3 ECTS)
• Performance Measurement (3 ECTS)
• Leadership (1 ECTS)

Module 2

• Operations & Supply Chain (3 ECTS)
• Marketing (3 ECTS)
• Behavioral Finance (3 ECTS)
• Leadership (1 ECTS)

Module 3

• Negotiation (3 ECTS)
• Data Analysis & Decision Making (3 ECTS)
• Macroeconomics & Financial Markets (3 ECTS)
• Leadership (1 ECTS)

Year 2

Module 4

• Business Law (3 ECTS)
• Digital Strategy (3 ECTS)
• Corporate Finance (3 ECTS)
• Leadership (1 ECTS)

Module 5

• Cross-Functional Management (3 ECTS)
• Customer Strategy in the Digital Age (3 ECTS)*

**Entrepreneurship (3 ECTS)

Finance Electives

The Weekend MBA program allows you to gain a deeper understanding of Finance with electives in M&A and Restructuring, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Risk Hedging & Investor Relations.

M&A and Restructuring (1.5 ECTS)

This course covers the relevance and importance of growing by acquiring and merging other companies. It explains how to translate Corporate Strategy into M&A strategy and how to identify targets for value propositions and synergies including the basics of M&A, target search, transaction process, and valuation techniques as well as the evaluation of factors for success and failures in the M&A business.

Private Equity and Venture Capital (1.5 ECTS)

The course is focused on the analysis of the private equity and venture capital industry from the perspective of financial intermediaries dedicated to scouting, advisory, arranging, and financing activities. Particular attention is dedicated to providing students with a deep understanding of the mechanism underpinning the management of a PE/VC firm and the financial and non-financial support coming from private investors. Students will understand the risks and rewards for a private equity investor, and learn how to assess a good investment.

Risk Hedging (1.5 ECTS)

The course deals with the importance of liquidity and treasury management in the context of a corporation covering the fundamentals of derivatives instruments. The course illustrates how the use and planning of derivatives serve as a lever in corporate risk management. Students will understand the valuation techniques of basic derivative contracts adopting a practical approach thanks to real-world case studies.

Investor Relations (1.5 ECTS)

This course will help students learn how to optimize the time and resources spent engaging and retaining investors. Understand the rules governing price-sensitive disclosure and utilize shareholder value-enhancing strategies, metrics, and messaging.

• Learning goal 1: LSB learners will have internalized a value system where ethics and corporate social responsibility are important.
  • Objective: The students will be able to identify the problems of ethics and corporate social responsibility, as well as forecast the costs and benefits of good ethical conduct related to a company’s business.
• Learning goal 2: LSB learners will have the capacity for critical and analytical thinking.
  • Objective: The students will discover problems and offer possible solutions, as well as identify possible risks of a proposed solution.
• Learning goal 3: LSB learners will have the capacity for adaptation, which is necessary for doing business in the global environment.
  • Objective: The students will identify key global trends in their discipline and discuss the influence of those trends on the entire activity of a company.
• Learning goal 4: LSB learners will communicate effectively in an appropriate way for management positions.
  • Objective: The students will develop communication skills needed in business, such as oral, written, and presentation skills, together with the use of new technologies to communicate in an effective manner.
• Learning goal 5: LSB learners will be able to understand how to motivate and influence others.
  • Objective: The students will identify an appropriate leadership approach to every context.