Specialisation in Management Control

Specialisation in Management Control

To practise the best possible management, take the best possible decisions and increase the value creation in your company require both accounting and analytic skills.

About the programme

ECTS Credits
90
Degree
Master of Business Administration
Application period
January-September 2025
Study start
September 2025

Combined with knowledge of strategic analysis, competitive scenarios, leadership, and societal development, the study equips you with the understanding of how to analyse and comprehend value creation in businesses, and how to contribute to enhanced sustainable value creation through decisions, governance, and leadership. An EMBA with a specialisation in management control provides you with the comprehensive competence required to excel as a leader.

Throughout your studies, you will also work with specific problems related to your own business.

The study offers you:

  • Research-based knowledge spanning a broad spectrum of strategy, economics, and management subjects, emphasising key developmental trends in sustainability, technology, and globalisation.
  • Proficient analytical skills in areas such as strategic analysis, profitability analysis, accounting analysis, investment analysis, valuation, and more.
  • Up-to-date knowledge on how various management tools can be strategically utilised to enhance a company's value creation, considering new technological opportunities and challenges.
  • Proficiency in applying theories and tools by addressing real-world business issues.
  • Methodological knowledge and skills to initiate and conduct an independent research project.
  • Opportunities to establish networks for learning and development, both within and outside the educational setting.

Target group

The specialisation targets both people with management experience and people with ambitions to become managers. The specialisation attracts participants from a wide range of industries both in the private and the public sector. Your outcome will be a wide-ranging skill set for working as an advisor, middle manager, top executive, or board chairman/member in private industry and public administration.

Build a network

In the specialisation, you will meet some of NHH's foremost researchers and guest lecturers from business and society. You and your fellow students represent a wide range of Norwegian business and administration. A diverse group of participants with complementary skills and backgrounds provides a unique learning environment and helps to promote different perspectives on business problems. The synergy effect between theoretical knowledge and the participants' practical experience creates an intensive, effective and engaging learning process.

Close and personal guidance

To ensure consistency and quality of the specialisation, and a close and personal guidance of all participants, a dedicated academic director will follow the participants from the very beginning until the end. The academic director maintains a high academic level, has a strong commitment and a large degree of involvement in you and your learning.

Professor Trond Bjørnenak. Foto: Joakim S. Enger

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About the programme

ECTS Credits
90
Degree
Master of Business Administration
Application period
January-September 2025
Study start
September 2025

Practical Information

  • Language of instruction: Norwegian
  • Four subject modules over a period of two year

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NHH EXECUTIVE

NHH Norwegian School of Economics is one of the leading business schools in Europe. NHH has an internationally recognised research environment and is the first choice for students who want to study business administration in Norway.

In close cooperation with the business community and society, we are developing new knowledge and creating values for a sustainable future.

NHH has an international profile and cooperates with 195 universities and business schools in more than 50 countries. We have approximately 3,500 students and 400 employees.

NHH Executive hosts executive education with a long tradition in offering MBA specialisations. NHH Executive is strongly anchored in the Norwegian business world and a top choice for executive education in Europe.

Programme structure

Module 1: Strategic profitability analysis and customer orientation

Quality Hotel Leangkollen, Asker
Introduction to managment and control

NHH Campus Bergen
Profitability understanding
  Zoom - case and guidance

Thon Hotel Slottsparken, Oslo
Customer and market strategies
  Zoom - case, exam preparation and supervision
  Submission of group assignment
  Home exam 1st subject module, 6 hours
Module 2: Strategy, managment and accounting
 

NHH Campus Oslo
 Strategic analysis  

Quality Hotel Leangkollen, Asker
Financial reporting  
  Zoom - lecture and exam preparations  
  Home exam 2nd subject module, five days  

Thon Hotel Slottsparken, Oslo
Sustainable business models and ESG reporting  
  Zoom - assignment submission  
  Submission of semester assignment (group) sustainability  
Module 3: Innovation, change and finance

NHH Campus, Bergen
Digitalization management, HRM and change management

Bocconi, Milano
Study trip: Differentiation strategies
  Submission of reflection note

Thon Hotel Slottsparken, Oslo
Project analysis and research methods

NHH Campus, Bergen
Technology and innovation
  Zoom - case, exam preparatio
  Home exam 3rd subject module, 6 hours
Module 4: Valuation and general management and control

Quality Hotel Leangkollen, Asker
Finance

NHH Campus, Oslo
Valuation
  Home exam 4th subject module, 8 hours

NHH Campus, Oslo
Management

NUS, Singapore
Study trip: Doing Business in Asia
  Submission of project assignment, part two
  Semester assignement (group)