The course portfolio provides a large selection of courses within: Management Control, Business Analysis and Decisions, Technology & Operations Management and Sustainability Management.

You may choose to specialize in one area by picking all elective courses from this area, or you may choose a broad competence by picking courses from several areas.

1. Management Control

Management control is about the gathering and use of information to aid and coordinate organisational behaviour and decisions. This includes how to organise and plan activities, evaluate performance, implement strategies and manage risks. The design and use of dynamic control systems and control packages is an important topic.

2. Data-driven analytics and decisions

In a digital world with abundant data access, firms increasingly rely on managers with expertise in transforming a broad set of data into decision- relevant information. This subject area focuses on leveraging data analytic tools in both strategic and operational business decisions. There are several courses on decision making, including thorough analyses of for example “make or buy”, pricing, product mix, customer portfolio, and investment alternatives.

3. Technology & Operations Management

Operations management deals with the design and control of the business processes that best enable a firm to produce and deliver the goods and services specified by the business strategy. This task includes selecting activities and resources and combining them to meet customer requirements as efficiently as possible. Key elements are managing inputs and outputs, flow units, and information structure. With the large availability of data and development of information technologies, operations management is currently at the core of many organizations that attempt to convert digital resources into a more efficient matching of supply with demand.

The courses in this area offer the opportunity to learn about conceptual contents in operations management, as well as analytical methods and computational tools to support decision making within organizations.

4. Sustainability Management

Firms operate in a complex world, where investors, governments and other stakeholders demand and expect firms to adopt new strategies to secure sustainable and ethical business practice. Therefore, companies are increasingly evaluated based on their performance along non- financial performance dimensions such as social and environmental sustainability performance and compliance with regulatory requirements.

The increasingly important function of sustainability management comprises identifying, measuring and managing non-financial performance dimensions as well as integrating such concerns into the design and innovation of business models. Sustainability management also requires compliance with an increasing specter of international rules and regulations for the protection of markets and society (e.g. corruption, tax compliance, competition law).

Electives in Sustainability Management

• ACC413 Sustainability & ESG Reporting (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS442 Competition - Law and Economics (N) (7.5 ECTS)  
• BUS443 Fraud Detection (not offered) (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS446 Sustainable Business Models (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS452 Corruption - Incentives, Disclosure and Liability (7.5 ECTS)  
• BUS465 Detecting Corporate Crime (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS469 Corporate Liability and Sustainable Markets (7.5 ECTS)  
• ETI450 Corporate Social Responsibility (7.5 ECTS)

Master's Thesis

• BUSTHE Independent work/thesis (30 ECTS)

Upon successful completion of the major, the candidates:

KNOWLEDGE

K1: have an extensive, updated knowledge of relevant theories for business analysis, performance management.

K2: have a solid competence in empirical methods for business analysis and performance management.

SKILLS

S1: are able to work independently on advanced issues in business analysis and performance management.

S2: are able to use relevant theories, methods and tools to analyse decisions that have as a goal to increase value creation in organisations.

S3: are able to update skills on their own throughout their career.

GENERAL COMPETENCE

G1: have the ability to communicate business analysis and performance management issues with both specialists and a wider audience.

G2: have the ability to reflect on and take into account ethical aspects, sustainability and corporate social responsibility when making decisions in an organisation.

You are required to take at least 7.5 ECTS in Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainablity (ERS). You can choose any course at NHH’s list of ERS courses. You can choose whether to fulfill the ERS requirement within your major, or as part of your minor, or as one of your elective courses.

BUS446, BUS465 and ETI450 are included in the BUS major.

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As an NHH student you have excellent opportunities to gain valuable international experience during your studies through semester exchange, the Double Degree program, CEMS, Engage.EU, Intern Abroad, and summer courses.

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By taking BUS, you will be well prepared for a wide range of jobs. In jobs asChief Financial Officer (CFO),Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) or Chief Operating Officer (COO) your competence will be highly appreciated, not only in ensuring business analysis of high quality but also in ensuring performance evaluations.

Your competence will also be crucial in jobs where you prepare and make strategic decisions, e.g. pricing or investments. Therefore, your competence is highly useful if you plan to work in consulting or investment companies, but also if you want to work in smaller start-ups or larger organizations.

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The following courses in the BUS major are particularly relevant in relation to sustainability:

• ACC413 Sustainability & ESG Reporting
• BUS446 Sustainable Business Models
• BUS452 Corruption, compliance and sustainable issues
• BUS465 Detecting corporate crime
• ETI450 Corporate Social Responsibility

Remember that the ERS course can also be one of your elective courses.

MINOR IN BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

CORE COURSES - MINIMUM ONE COURSE

• BUS400E Management Control (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS400N Management Control (N) (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS401E Strategic Profitability Analysis (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS401N Strategic Profitability Analysis (7.5 ECTS)

Electives in Management Control

• BUS428 Organizational Economics (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS451 Dynamic Management Control (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS472 Management Control in the Digital Age (7.5 ECTS)

Electives in Business analysis and decision making

• BUS422E Capital Budgeting (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS422N Capital Budgeting (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS429 Pricing Analytics and Revenue Management (7.5 ECTS)  
• BUS438 Strategic Organization and Competition (N) (7.5 ECTS)  
• BUS456 Behavioral Business Strategy (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS470 Retail Analytics (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS475 Competition Strategy (N) (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS 477 Business Consulting (7,5 ECTS)

Electives in Technology and Operations Management

• BUS403 Supply Chain Management (7.5 ECTS)  
• BUS432 Operation Management (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS466 Commercial Real Estate: Investment and Management (N) (7.5 ECTS)  
• BUS467 Management of the Procurement Function (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS473 Platform-based Business Models (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS474 Innovation and Intellectual Property (7.5 ECTS)

Electives in Sustainability Management

• BUS442 Competition - Law and Economics (N) (7.5 ECTS)  
• BUS443 Fraud Detection (not offered) (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS446 Sustainable Business Models (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS452 Corruption - Incentives, Disclosure and Liability (7.5 ECTS)  
• BUS465 Detecting Corporate Crime (7.5 ECTS)
• BUS469 Corporate Liability and Sustainable Markets (7.5 ECTS)