During the first term, you will become familiar with the fundamentals and gain a solid general management foundation by studying a selection of core courses. Examples for those courses are:

• Decision Analysis
• Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
• Marketing Fundamentals
• Economics
• Corporate Finance
• Strategic Management

Additional soft skill courses at Mannheim (exemplary):

• Team Building
• Leadership/Entrepreneurship
• Intercultural Competence
• Presentation Training

In order to complement your personal profile, in the second term you will be able to choose from a variety of elective courses. This will enable you to further enhance your professional development by focusing on the special competences of your business school.

Example core courses:

• Operations Management
• Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Managerial Accounting
• Organizational Design & Change Management

Example elective course:

• Responsible Business Negotiation
• Applied Corporate Finance
• E-Business & IT-Entrepreneurship
• Innovation Management
• Non-profit Management
• Consumer Behavior

In the third term, you will choose from elective courses with a European and international perspective at Mannheim Business School, rounding off your academic training. These courses enable you to acquire more specific business, economic and legal knowledge.

Example elective courses:

• Cross-cultural Management
• States and Markets
• European Taxation
• International Marketing
• Strategic Leadership
• Challenges of Strategic HRM
• Global Information Management
• Strategic Management of the Global Corporation
• Supply Chain Management
• Corporate Mergers & Restructuring in the U.S. and Europe

To foster participants' innovative spirit is an important part of the Mannheim MBS Program. Therefore, you will have the opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge you have acquired in a challenging company project in the final term of your MBA program: Together with a team of fellow participants you will act as consultants for an international company or develop your own business plan.

The team project will be your ultimate challenge and stepping-stone: It will truly bring to light your strengths and achievements. It is not a mere case study but rather the 100 % application of all the knowledge and skills you will have gathered during the MBA program and a huge career development opportunity. Jointly with partner companies and through Alumni initiatives, Mannheim Business School each year composes a portfolio of real-life projects dealing with challenging general management topics that the teams can apply for.

Your team project can be a new venture, a major corporate innovation, the development of a business strategy for a multi-national corporation or the creation of your own business plan. It is also the basis for your master thesis, which concludes term 4.

Renowned companies will ask you to propose a solution to an existing business challenge. You will act as a consulting group taking care of everything from initial research to the presentation of your results in front of a jury of executives and professors. While you strive to make your team's work a success, project management, intercultural and leadership skills will be of utmost importance.

Both the company and your team will profit immensely from this project – can there be a better introduction to a potential employer? Apart from generating invaluable business contacts for your career, projects serve to raise your profile with companies interested in new ideas or specific data and might even lead to publications in renowned journals.

Examples of Team Projects

The Social Project aims to foster a sense of social responsibility and to enhance team spirit. The project is realized during the first three terms of your studies and meant as a concerted group effort. It is up to each Multi-Competence Team to decide on the aim and scope of their project – it can be humanitarian, social, educational or ecological. However, it has to be implemented in Mannheim or the Mannheim region. The Social Project will

• Train your ability to work in a team
• Improve your project management skills
• Allow you to give back to the community