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

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

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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
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
 
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
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
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