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Master in Business Administration (MBA)
AIM’s 16-month Master in Business Administration (MBA) converts students into professional managers not by teaching them concepts, but by sharpening their thinking and analytical skills.
AIM is known for its boot-camp, participative-learning approach. Students use the case method of teaching almost exclusively. Cases are real-life business situations. These cases force students to analyze complex, ambiguous problems, and make decisions under time and resource constraints. AIM MBA students read over 800 cases and work 80 hours per week. Such intensity and rigor develops tough minded, action-oriented managers.
This learning experience is enhanced by group projects, presentations, and field work. AIM also provides an unparalleled Asian context to the MBA learning experience.
Students learn behaviors and market cultures of the West and Asia. Students’ understanding of cultural diversity is deepened in teamwork with fellow students from different Asian countries.
The First 10 Months: Curriculum Skills and Knowledge Enhancement
In the first eight months of the AIM MBA, students build a strong foundation of management skills and knowledge.Students undergo a curriculum of economics, operations, finance, marketing, accounting and control, management communication, enterprise development and strategy.
Students improve their management communication skills and learn micro-consumer behavior, macro-industrial analysis, and quantitative analysis. Students develop entrepreneurial and strategic thinking needed to make decisions in a complex, fast-moving environment, even with vague and chaotic information. They learn to understand human behavior in organizations and the peculiarities of different markets.
The Last 6 Months: Finishing, Broadening and Deepening
In the second half of the program, students can choose to broaden their learning with a diverse mix of electives, or deepen their corporate specialization towards finance, marketing, or entrepreneurship. For example: a student preparing for a banking career might take a load of five finance electives, and pursue FRM (Financial Risk Management) or CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) certification.
At the end of the course, each student demonstrates the integration of all skills by completing a required Management Research Report (MRR)Track, a graduate thesis that may take the form of an action-based feasibility study, a corporate strategy, an entrepreneurial venture, or a case series.
