Courses from Mannheim Business School:
- Leading Organizational Renewal
- Managing Functions
- The Fundamentals of Management
- Understanding Environment and Establishing Policy
Mannheim Business School

ESSEC & MANNHEIM Executive MBA
Master Program: Leading Organizational Renewal
Learning purpose
Organizational Design and Change Management
This course seeks to address the way organizations change, the role of managers in leading change, resistance mechanisms and methods to overcome them. The various levers of change at the disposal of managers are treated, with special emphasis on corporate culture and personal change strategies.
Strategic Management and Planning Systems
One of an executive's roles is to track the progress of strategy throughout the organization. This course looks into the ways managers can identify key indicators for the implementation of strategic plans and how corrective measures can be quickly put into place. Both traditional and recent approaches to strategic planning are examined here.
Leading and Managing Change (Madrid Residency)
This course further develops ways of sucessfully implementing change strategies in an organization. It provides the necessary tools and best practice examples for doing so.
Corporate Strategy
There is no patent remedy for how to generate good corporate strategies. However, economic models of competition show certain patterns of behavior in markets. In this course strategies are derived from economic models and theories, such as game theory: It also gives examples of best practice strategies.
E-Business
Covering numerous aspects of technological and executive issues surrounding eBusiness and eCommerce in the corporate setting, so as to seek to utilize IT and MIS as the strategic weapon for the company.
Ethics
This course will cover the relationship between state of the world and individual responsibility. The underlying idea is that the problems related to the largest level of the world (the earth, the environment, etc.) and those concerning the smallest level (personal or individual issues) are correlated.
Geopolitics
This course will address the transformation of the world, with a vision of where events are taking us, through an historical perspective.
