The study program contains 90 ECTS credits:

  • 12 compulsory modules General Management (36 ECTS)
  • 3-5 elective modules General Management (15 ECTS)
  • Specialization modules (24 ECTS)
  • MBA Thesis (15 ECTS)

Compulsory Modules

Fundamentals of Management (MA)

Contents
  • General Management
  • Accounting
  • Cost Accounting
ECTS-Points

3


Single module bookable

Fundamentals of Economics (EC)

Contents

 

  • Microeconomics: Decision theory
  • Supply and demand
  • Macroeconomic theory
  • Macroeconomic policy
ECTS-Points

3

Controlling & Reporting (CR)

Goals

Participants will be able to

  • reproduce selected aspects of corporate accounting and financial reporting in the context of planning accounting,
  • explain and illustrate the process of budget compilation for practice-oriented planning accounting,
  • carry out the planning of profit, liquidity and balance sheet,
    carry out essential (planning) key figure calculations.
Learning Results

Participants should understand the main accounting/controlling context consisting of Profit Plan, Finance Plan and Budgeted Balance Sheet

They should be able to draw up a budget / a Business Plan for a company

Participants should be able to calculate and to interpret ratios / key figures of a company

ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 22/11 - 23/11/2023
German: | 13/12 - 14/12/2023

Corporate Financial Management (FN)

Goals

After successful completion of the module, students should be able to:

  • be able to name the basic principles of corporate finance as well as investment appraisal and apply their methods on the basis of practical examples.
  • be able to use instruments that support financial decision-making.
  • be able to evaluate financing instruments such as bonds and shares.
ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 24/11 - 25/11/2023
German: | 15/12 - 16/12/2023

Strategic Management (SM)

Goals

At the end of the module, students will have the following skills and abilities:

  • link key concepts of strategic management and strategic business and environmental analysis.
  • select and apply strategic analysis tools.
  • combine external and internal analyses, interpret them and develop recommendations for action.
  • critically discuss case studies and develop solution scenarios.
  • weigh current social challenges on a strategic management level and design strategic options.
ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 11/10 - 12/10/2023
German: | 18/10 - 19/10/2023

Marketing Management (MM)

Goals

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

  • Understand marketing approaches and marketing strategies
  • Apply instruments of strategic marketing
  • Design operational marketing instruments in a targeted manner
  • Develop a marketing plan.
  • Explain marketing developments in the area of gender & diversity and other ethical issues.
Learning Results

On successful completion of this module the students will be available to:

  •  Demonstrate an understanding of core marketing principles (K)
  • Practically apply marketing models, theories and concepts (K, T)
  • Evaluate and write marketing plans (C, P)
  • Decision-making skills in relation to marketing management (T)

Key: C-Cognitive/Analytical, K-Subject Knowledge, T-Transferable Skills, P-Professional/Practical skills

ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 13/10 - 14/10/2023
German: | 20/10 - 21/10/2023

Human Resources Management (HR)

Goals

After completing the module, students will be able to ...

  • explain the basics and the (strategic) importance of HRM for the organization,
  • plan meaningful measures in the essential fields of action of HRM,
  • structure personnel selection and personnel and competence development from an organizational psychological perspective in an application-oriented way,
  • evaluate central demands from the HR trend literature in a context-related manner.
  • to classify aspects of (gender) diversity in corporate HR work.
ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 28/02 - 29/02/2024
German: | 10/04 - 11/04/2024

Leadership (LS)

Goals

After completing the module, students will be able to ....

  • apply central concepts and models of leadership in organizations to operational problems,
  • analyze their own leadership behavior on the basis of the models and concepts they have learned,
  • identify ethical challenges of leadership,
  • explain the causes and effects of destructive leadership behavior.
ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 01/03 - 02/03/2024
German: | 12/04 - 13/04/2024

Research Methods (RM)

Goals

After successful completion of the module, students should be able to ...

  • be able to independently develop both quantitative and qualitative research designs to answer research questions and create or test hypotheses.
  • know the basic principles of descriptive and inferential statistics in order to be able to conduct statistical data analyses based on them.
ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 10/01 - 11/01/2024
German: | 23/02 - 24/02/2024


Single module bookable

Business Ethics (BE)

Goals
  • Students are able to describe the most important approaches to ethics and apply them to companies.
  • Students will be able to weigh the complex consequences of their decisions for the multitude of stakeholders involved.
ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 12/01 - 13/01/2024
German: | 21/02 - 22/02/2024

Business Analytics (BA)

Goals

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to ...

  • understand the tasks and core aspects of business intelligence and analytics and distinguish them from related concepts (e.g. Big Data).
  • correctly formulate concrete questions for data-driven decision making.
  • identify, clean, validate, and prepare for analysis the enterprise data needed to answer them.
  • select appropriate analysis methods and visualize results.
  • understand success factors in the development and implementation of business analytics strategies.
  • know and critically reflect on trend topics in business intelligence and analytics.
ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 24/04 - 25/04/2024
German: | 19/06 - 20/06/2024

Managing Complexity & Project Management (CP)

Goals

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

 

  • differentiate between causal and complex patterns of thought and action.
  • explain recent systems theory approaches (cybernetics, archetypes of systems modeling and chaos research)
  • analyze complex systems in a business context           
  • to perform methods for dealing with complex systems
  • assess the contribution of projects and programs to business strategies
  • design processes, structures & roles of an organization in relation to "project orientation".
ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 26/04 - 27/04/2024
German: | 21/06 - 22/06/2024

Elective Modules

Transformative Management (TM)

Goals

After completing the module, students will be able to 

  • identify drivers of digital and sustainable transformation, and analyze and combine their impact on business models and business functions.
  • evaluate the importance of ambidextry and dynamic capabilities for business.
  • evaluate transformation approaches and derive recommendations for action.
  • differentiate digital and analog business models and develop transformation strategies.
  • evaluate core concepts of sustainable and/or digital business model innovations.
  • evaluate case-based questions in selected fields of action of digital transformation.
ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 12/06 - 13/06/2024
German: | 11/09 - 12/09/2024

Knowledge Management & Innovation (KM)

Goals

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

  • Explain the business benefits of managing knowledge and innovation in organizations
  • Identify the key success factors and barriers to knowledge transfer in organizations
  • Outline the concept of the "learning organization", the "knowledge spiral" and that of "core competencies", for the business context
  • To differentiate between different types of innovation opportunities in the corporate context
  • To formulate the characteristics of innovative organizations and the DNA of innovators.
ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 14/06 - 15/06/2024
German: | 13/09 - 14/09/2024

International Business (IB)

Goals

After completing the course, students will be able to 

  • understand the complexity and challenges of an international environment.
  • name basic theories of internationalization.
  • understand the influence of culture on actions and examine it on the basis of cultural dimensions.
  • name the different internationalization strategies and examine their relevance for corporate success.
  • distinguish between international organizational forms and structures and classify their influence on or interaction with corporate strategy.
ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 18/09 - 19/09/2024
German: | 22/05 - 23/05/2024

Managerial Economics (VWL)

Goals

After successful completion of the module, students will be able to                                                                    

  • to describe core topics of microeconomic theory and to apply them to practical problems
  • to differentiate between different market forms and to derive the optimal entrepreneurial decisions in each case
  • to evaluate strategic behavior
ECTS-Points

3

Events

English: | 18/09 - 19/09/2024
German: | 22/05 - 23/05/2024

Business Planning (BP)

Goals

The students will be able to 

a. describe the planning approaches of success, liquidity and balance sheet,
b. create a business plan (with a focus on financial planning) on the basis of integrated profit and financial planning,
c. create, discuss and defend independent planning scenarios.

ECTS-Points

3

Business Simulation (BS)

Goals

Students will be able to

  • identify business management (entrepreneurial) tasks,
  • work out strategic and operative decision alternatives and implement them in the game (deal with conflicting goals),
  • deal with divergent (team) assessments under time pressure, 
  • Prioritize decisions under uncertainty in a holistic networked approach (simulation).
ECTS-Points

6

Applied Business Law (WR)

Goals

Upon completion of the module, students will be able to:

  • Understand the basic concepts and structure of civil law and apply this knowledge to classify and solve simple cases and legal issues.
  • Identify and understand the distinctive features of corporate law as compared to general civil law and, in particular, recognize the interrelationship with general civil law.
  • Understand the basic structures of important ancillary laws of corporate law and use them to solve practical and cross-territorial case studies in corporate law.
  • Explain the most common forms of partnerships and corporations encountered in practice.
  • To independently identify and evaluate typical corporate law problems arising in legal practice.
  • To present and apply the basic structures of labor and social legislation and to categorize the institutional actors of labor life.
ECTS-Points

6

Navigating in a World of Flux

ECTS-Points

6

Specialization Subjects (German)

Specialization Subjects (English)

Faculty

The international and multicultural faculty of Danube Business School consists of both, renowned professors from our partner universities and top consultants: 


Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Brenner, University for Continuing Education Krems, Autsria
Alessandro Cavelzani, PhD. PsyD.; International Therapist Directory, Italy
Mag.a. Dr. Neha Chatwani; The Workplace Atelier, Austria
Dr. Arne Floh, MSc. PhD; University of Surrey
Felix Holzmeister PhD; Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Prof. Dr. Klaus North; Wiesbaden Business School, Germany
Prof. Dr. Werner Seebacher, Seebacher Unternehmensberatung GmbH; München, Deutschland und Graz, Austria
Prof. Dr. Mathias Schüz; ZHAW, Switzerland
Assistenz Prof. Dr. Markus Wabnegg, MSc MIM; Universität für Weiterbildung Krems, Österreich
Dr. Daniel Wintersberger, University of Birmingham, UK

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