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.
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
Contact
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |