Economics and Management

CAS Management Challenges in the Global Context

The program offers deep insights into decision-making issues that recently emerged in the global environment, such as managing across sectors or balancing social and commercial priorities and provides participants with a variety of perspectives and tools to effectively address these challenges.
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Information

Period

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18 ECTS credits
144 Teaching hours

Language

English

Format

On-site – switch over to online-learning if required

Contact

Lorine BARRIER
+41 (0)22 379 98 81
io-ngo(at)unige.ch

Location

Uni-Mail, Geneva

Registration

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Fees:

CHF 9'500.-
CHF 1'800 / module

Contribution to the SDGs

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

Objectives

  • Master advanced management skills and practices applicable to intergovernmental, public and non-profit organizations
  • Strengthen your skills in leadership, communication and team management
  • Access an extensive network of professionals and build strategic connections in a competitive international environment
  • Bridge the gap between corporate business and international cooperation and examine out-of-the box approaches

Audience

The program is designed for professionals who work for – or aspire to work for – IOs, NGOs, NPOs or Social Enterprise in managerial positions as well as professionals from the private sector looking for a career shift

Learning outcomes

  • Develop your leadership and management skills and increase your team or organization performance
  • Apply fundamental concepts of management in complex organizational settings
  • Outline key factors in successful global partnerships contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Programme

6 modules divided as follows:

6 core-modules (mandatory modules):

  • Advocacy and Fundraising
  • Governance, Leadership & Change in the UN system
  • Global Strategy and Innovation
  • International Law / International Trade
  • Practice of International Relations
  • Social Entrepreneurship

Director(s)

Prof. Judith SCHREMPF-STIRLING and Stéphane MERGENTHALER, Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM), University of Geneva

Coordinator(s)

Lorine BARRIER, University of Geneva
The executive degree "Management Challenges in the Global Context” offers deep insights into decision-making issues that recently emerged in the global environment, such as managing across sectors or balancing social and commercial priorities. The interdisciplinary design of the program provides participants with a variety of perspectives and tools on how to effectively address these challenges.

ADVOCACY & FUNDRAISING

Speakers

Prof Gregor Henneka and Prof Jürgen Seitz

Description

How to develop and establish appropriate strategic fundraising solutions? What can advocacy achieve? And how are all of these connected to each other?

GOVERNANCE, LEADERSHIP & CHANGE IN THE UN SYSTEM

Speakers

Prof Bruce Jenks

Description

The course provides a conceptual framework and an empirical basis for examining governance and management practices in the UN system. The course focuses both on the specific characteristics of intergovernmental decision making and on the practical aspects of management. The method of work will focus on group work and case studies.

GLOBAL STRATEGY & INNOVATION (BLENDED LEARNING)

Speakers

Dr Tina Ambos

Description

Organizations – for-profit or non-for-profit ones – need to develop strategies how to act in the global environment. This course aims at developing strategic thinking in a global context. We introduce you to the domain of global strategy, gain understanding of the processes of strategy analysis and formulation, and then apply them in a global setting.

The course blends input sessions with tools and frameworks as well as interactive discussions and assignments. We will work on a case study in real-time and interact with the organization’s management

Learnt concepts are applied in a simulation scenario about strategic decisions taking for several markets.

 

INTERNATIONAL LAW / INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Speakers

Prof Drazen Petrovic and Prof Simon Evenett

PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Speakers

Prof Sebastian Buckup and Prof Stephan Mergenthaler

Description

The growing intensity, and velocity of global interactions requires new approaches to studying the practice of international relations. This course combines theory and case study practice to make sense of an increasingly complex global actor and issue landscape. The course is based on highly interactive and participatory group learning and puts an emphasis on presentation and discussion skills.

 

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Speakers

Dr Katherine Milligan

Description

Social entrepreneurship refers to the practice of combining innovation, opportunity and resourcefulness to address some of our most challenging social, economic and environmental problems. While social entrepreneurship is generally focused on the creation and growth of new ventures, social innovation is a broader concept that applies these same principles wherever our career paths take us, in the public, commercial, academic or citizen sector. This course will examine the evolution of the practice of entrepreneurship that focuses on transforming systems and practices that affect communities and ecosystems and the growing number of entities that are supporting its disruptive potential.

 

Assessment

Each module is subject to an assessment, including one or a combination of the following: in-class exam, classroom presentations, take-home assignments and group works.

Diploma awarded

Students who successfully complete the programme (18 ECTS credits) will be awarded the CAS Management Challenges in the Global Context by the Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM) of the University of Geneva.

Admission criteria

  • A Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • At least 3 years of managerial experience
  • English proficiency required

Steering committee

  • Professor Judith Schrempf-Stirling, GSEM, University of Geneva
  • Stephan Mergenthaler, Head of Knowledge Networks and Analysis, WEF

Number of participants

Max. 20 participants

Contribution to the SDGs

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development