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Managing enterprises sustainably The increasing complexity and uncertainty in the management of enterprises creates new challenges and opportunities. Activities on executive boards and in their staffs and consultancy are becoming more and more demanding. This leads to a progressive professionalisation of management and places a higher premium on corporate development strategies.
Owing to the diversity of enterprises, these tasks will also be of great value in the future – or even increase in significance. With their degree, MUG students will to a certain extent be positioning themselves in a growth market.
The Master in Business Management is especially suitable for students who are aiming for a generalist management career after graduation. Later fields of activities are numerous, ranging from management and specialist tasks in strategy and corporate development, supply chain management, management accounting and corporate social responsibility to start-ups as well as succession in family businesses. In addition, careers in research and teaching at universities and universities of applied science are also conceivable.
The Master’s programme is aimed at students who would like to become acquainted with well-founded theoretical concepts and to apply their knowledge in practice. The MUG is a programme with demanding subjects, which requires a great deal of dedication from students. However the University of St. Gallen also offers students room for personal development outside the curriculum, in numerous student initiatives and associations, the environmental economics organisation oikos is one example of all the possibilities for student involvement.
Students will be able to choose from among the specialisation areas Corporate Development, Entrepreneurship, Family Business and Sustainability Management. “In the new Master’s programme, we With the new Master’s programme in Business want to prepare students optimally for management Management (MUG-HSG), the University of and specialist tasks that involve a great deal of St. Gallen is staying abreast of these changes. The responsibility – for instance in strategy and corporate HSG thus continues its classic positioning in the development,” says Günter Müller-Stewens, Academic German-speaking area and will offer the GermanDirector and Professor of Strategy language programme for the first time in Autumn Semester 2012. Thinking entrepreneurially, and Organisation at the University of St. Gallen. In this Master’s programme, acting ethically “In the specialisation area Sustainstudents will deal with present and and sustainably ability Management, our students future challenges of sustainable will deal with one of the greatest management. The programme is challenges of our time,” says Thomas Dyllick, characterised by a strongly entrepreneurial way Professor of Sustainability Management. The MUG of thinking, regardless of whether start-ups will open up an innovative approach to the challenges or enterprises are discussed. Ethics and sustainability and strategies of entrepreneurial sustainability have a particular value in this Master’s management. programme.
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