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
Professional EMBA guidance
Our experienced supervisors will gladly assist you in the process. Send us your CV, and we will get in touch to arrange a counseling session.
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Practical Information
- Four subject modules, over a two-year period
- Locations: Oslo, Bergen, Milano and Singapore
- Language of instruction: Norwegian
- Tuiton fee: NOK 545,000
Contact
NHH EXECUTIVE
NHH Norwegian School of Economics is a triple-crown accredited leading business school strongly anchored in the Norwegian business world and a top choice for Executive education 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 200 universities and business schools in more than 50 countries. We have approximately 3,670 students and 473 employees.
NHH Executive hosts executive education with a long tradition in offering MBA specialisations.
Programme structure
Module 1: Strategic profitability analysis and customer orientation |
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25.09.-27.09.205 NHH Campus Bergen |
Introduction to managment and control |
16.10.-18.10.2025 Quality Hotel Leangkollen, Asker |
Profitability understanding |
30.10.2025 Online |
Lecture and case |
13.11.-15.11.2025 Quality Hotel Leangkollen, Asker |
Customer and market strategies |
20.11.2025 Online |
Lecture, exam preparation and guidance |
27.11.2025 | Submission of semester assignment |
08.12.2025 | Home exam, six hours |
Module 2: Strategy, managment and accounting |
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08.01.-10.01.2026 NHH Campus Oslo |
Financial reporting | |
05.02.-07.02.2026 Quality Hotel Leangkollen, Asker |
Strategic analysis | |
19.02.2026 Online |
Lecture and case | |
05.03.-07.03.2026 NHH Campus Berge |
Sustainable business models and ESG reporting | |
19.03.2026 |
Submission of semester assignment | |
26.03.2026 Online |
Case and exam preparation | |
10.04.-15.04.2026 | Home exam, five days |
Module 3: Innovation and change |
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07.05.-09-05.2026 NHH Campus Oslo |
International economics and change management |
08.06.-12.06.2026 HEC Paris |
Study trip: Broaden business perspectives in a changing environment |
02.07.2026 | Submission of semester assignment |
13.08.-15.08.2026 NHH Campus Bergen |
Project analysis and research methods |
17.09.-19.09.2026 NHH Campus Oslo |
Technology and innovation |
01.10.2026 Online |
Exam preparation |
26.10.2026 | Home exam, six hours |
Module 4: Finance and international management |
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12.11.-14.11.2026 NHH Campus Oslo |
Finance |
10.12.-12.12.2026 NHH Campus, Oslo |
Valuation and team managment |
21.12.2026 | Submission of progress plan and team contract for the master's thesis |
07.01.-09.01.2027 Quality Hotel Leangkollen |
Managment |
21.01.2027 Online |
Exam preparation |
15.02.2027 | Home exam, eight hours |
08.03.-12.03.2027 NUS Singapore |
Study trip: Doing Business in Asia |
07.04.2027 | Submission of semester assignment |
08.04.-10.04.2027 NHH Campus Oslo |
Integration |
20.05.-21.05.2027 NHH Campus Oslo |
Develop your leaderships, and working on your master's thesis |
09.07.2027 |
Submission of master's thesis |
19.08.-20.08.2027 NHH Campus Bergen |
Defense of master's thesis, current topics and conclusion |
20.01.2028 |
Graduation |