International Business Management & Sustainability

Double Degree

Students have the opportunity to participate in a double degree agreement. The selection is made after application for a double degree study place by the chairperson of the examination board and the selection committee. The double degree agreement provides for semesters 3 and 4 to be carried out at the partner university. After successful completion of semesters 3 and 4 at the partner university as well as the master's thesis, which can also be done abroad after consultation with the chairperson of the examination committee, the graduate is awarded a double degree.

OUR PARTNER FOR "DOUBLE DEGREE

IBS has a partnership with British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Vancouver offering students the option of a "double degree". The BCIT Global Leadership Program focuses on leadership with an approach that embraces diversity and inclusion.

The program is designed to provide a systematic understanding of global leadership by starting with a solid foundation of personal leadership skills, extending leadership theory to organizations, and then applying cultural intelligence to strategic leadership decision-making and implementation.

This program aims to enhance critical analysis skills, problem solving, effective team building, change management, and cross-cultural communication.

The BCIT program flyer is attached in the download section.

For admission to the "Double Degree" please contact the Dean of Studies, Prof. Dr. Barbara Niersbach ( Barbara.Niersbach@rwu.de ).

Study tour

OTHER COUNTRIES, OTHER BUSINESS? - INTERNATIONAL STUDY WEEK AS PART OF THE "INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PROJECT" MODULE

For you as a future manager, it is not only important to grasp the management of a company in Germany. Many companies today are internationally networked and conduct their business on global markets. As an employee you have to face the following challenges: What is the culture of the country and which intercultural circumstances do I have to consider? What is happening in this foreign market and what is possible here? And how do I reach my international business partners with my product or service?

In the MBA program International Business Management & Sustainability we offer you an exciting insight into another country within or outside Europe. Our program is an interesting mix of business, culture and academic teaching. During the International Study Week, you will have the opportunity to get in touch with German and international companies in the target country. By visiting universities, you will also learn about teaching contents from the target country. A colorful cultural program with city tours, museum visits and culinary experiences rounds off our program. The goal of the International Study Week is to provide you with the competence to approach a new and perhaps unknown country skillfully and to act competently in it.

Our target countries include Canada, Hungary, Estonia, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, USA and India. We offer a travel date once a year. Each year we alternate between a European destination country and a non-European destination country. The International Study Week is led and organized by the International Representative of the Faculty of Technology and Management and Dean of Studies, Prof. Dr. Barbara Niersbach. For the International Study Week you will receive a certificate with a list of the exact program points for your records.

Innovation Lounge

Dialog platform "Innovation Lounge" established as a complementary strategic program format in the part-time MBA program International Business Management & Sustainabilitiy (IBS).

At the start of the summer semester 2021, master students were invited to the first online "Innovation Lounge".

"From Idea to Innovation" was the title of the evening "Lounge" with H. Dr. Hans-Jürgen August, member of the senior management team of the technology company TTTech Group, headquartered in Vienna.

"We want to offer our MBA students, some of whom are already working as executives themselves, another opportunity to acquire future-ready skills that will help them in their personal development and professional careers. To this end, executives and consultants from various industries will report on their challenges and experiences in the Innovation Lounge," says Professor Dr. Eberhard Hohl, who developed the new format together with Dean of Studies Professor Dr. Barbara Niersbach.

Innovation as a strategic success factor in global competition

The purpose of the newly established dialog platform is, on the one hand, to provide supplementary information on current and future competencies required for the successful design of management, change and innovation processes in companies.

On the other hand, an effective contribution is to be made to the establishment or further development of a professional exchange of experience in a powerful network of top performers, experts, executives and IBS students - as well as IBS alumni.

The Innovation Lounge has proven to be a new format in the MBA program curriculum and will continue on a monthly basis online as well as on-site. We will report on the guest lectures, initiatives and networking projects within the "Innovation Lounge" on our IBS homepage.

What makes tomorrow's managers tick?

Coaching Seminar "Leadership & Personality" at Heiligkreuztal Monastery

As part of the module "Behavioral Science & Leading Yourself", you will experience a weekend of a "special kind" at the Heiligkreuztal Monastery in the MBA program "International Business Management & Sustainability" (IBS). The former Cistercian monastery Heiligkreuztal, founded in 1227, has been creating an ideal setting for a study-integrated personality seminar as a conference center and, above all, as a place of reflection and retreat for over 10 years. This coaching seminar "Leadership and Personality" was established there by Prof. Dr. Eberhard Hohl and has been led by him ever since. In his "Leadership Workshop", as a partial component of the seminar, he also practices "Coaching in the Team" in which situations from the students' everyday business life are dealt with in a resource and solution-oriented manner.

Heiligkreuztal

For the target group of the part-time MBA program, the monastery offers an inspiring atmosphere for personal reflection and vision work as well as for team development. In addition to coaching situations from the students' everyday working lives, the weekend seminar will also focus on leadership and personality development. Among others, topics such as personal position determination and role clarification, values and career anchors, personality preferences, behavioral styles as well as the "secret of inner strength" (resilience as a success factor) will be addressed. Students will have the opportunity to have a personal consultation with Prof. Dr. Hohl on their own professional development. In addition, the coaching also focuses on the topic of "Assessment Center" with practical exercises and feedback in the circle of participants.

Heiligkreuztal

"Through the seminar, I was able to learn a lot about my own and others' perceptions, how important feedback is for personal development, and what constitutes innovative, appreciative leadership. The Heiligkreuztal monastery was ideal for the seminar; it provided a protected setting for the challenging tasks and reflections, one was able to get to know fellow students better, and the group dynamics were promoted by the intensive time spent together as well as the practice-oriented exercises." This is how Felix Tuchscherer, a student of the MBA program IBS, describes the "monastic seminar". This makes coaching as part of the leadership module a good opportunity to put thinking and behavioral routines to the test as well as to strengthen personal competencies and develop new options for action. Individual coaching, in which students can work out solutions for their personal professional situation, is another important component of our MBA program. Whether it's about planning the next career steps, improving self-marketing or positioning oneself in the company - our experienced coaches offer professional "clarification assistance" that is specifically directed at individual concerns and life situations.

Prof. Dr. Eberhard Hohl

• Studies of economics and social sciences with doctorate (Dipl. oec./Dr. rer. pol.) in Augsburg and Munich
• Complementary studies in Adult Education (University of Philosophy S. J. Munich) and Post Graduate Management Program (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and University of Texas in Austin/USA)
• Advanced trainings: Business Coaching, NLP, Scrum Master (scrum.org.)
• Consultant, coach, trainer as well as network coordinator (international) in the areas of management and business development. Industrial experience in leading HR functions at BMW, EADS and ZF. Publications on topics of human resources and corporate management
• Main areas of work as professor and lecturer: International and Intercultural Management, Human Resources Management, Leadership and Coaching, Change and Innovation Management, Agile Project Management

Topics and fields of action as a business coach:

Based on a self-developed and published role and competency model of leadership, coaching focuses on reflection and possibilities for action of the coachee in the future ("Fit for the job"/"Fit for the career"). At its core, it is about potential development and performance enhancement ("Coaching for Personal Excellence & Performance"):

• personal position determination, challenges and goals
• rethinking, changing / expanding one's own frame of reference
• strengthen thinking and acting in options
• get "clarification help" on current (leadership) situations in everyday work life
• Improve personal impact on the basis of "self-image / external image comparison" (reduce the "blind spot" through feedback)

Simone Huhnen

• 20 years of professional experience in sales (B2C), both actively in the field and in various management positions
• Many years of experience and extensive expertise in the areas of personnel management, personnel development, sales management, budget and sales responsibility, process optimization, conception, development and realization of trainings, management of conferences and events, development of a new sales department
• Business trainer and coach

• Topics and fields of action as a business coach

  The further development of one's own personality and the handling of challenging situations in everyday business life are the focus of coaching:

• Personality development, role change and self-marketing
• Communication and dealing with conflicts
• Motivation, appreciation and positive psychology
• Leadership role and leadership responsibility
• Dealing with opportunities and setting and achieving goals
• Women in the business environment

Dr. Jutta Nübel

• Doctor of Philosophy with majors in sociology, linguistics, computer science
• 20 years of management with responsibility for 100 employees in six teams in America, Germany, India
• 10 years as a representative of senior executives on a supervisory board
• Leadership & Diversity Management
• Technical Communication
• Systemic Business Coach - Certification KÖRBER Kommunikation, Steinbeis+Akademie

• Topics and fields of action as a business coach:

  Solution-oriented, systemic support and consulting for (prospective) executives forms the basis of coaching:

• Coaching on topics such as communication in business and career counseling for women.
• "Get fit for the working world of today and tomorrow".
• Leadership Mindset - Diversity and Inclusion as Driver for Performance
• Empowerment of women in (aspired) leadership positions

Thomas Steinmeier

• 25 years of experience in leading positions in the pharmaceutical industry
• Responsibility of the Key Account Management Hospital at Sanofi in Berlin
• Technical focus: among other things, the development and strategic integration of key account management in group structures, negotiation and contract management as well as product placements with the operative implementations in the market
• Head of the European Center of Excellence: development of instruments for the implementation and optimization of KAM structures in the European healthcare market (with KAM managers from 22 European countries)

Topics and fields of action as a business coach:

Among other things, the coaching serves to accompany (prospective) managers into new positions as well as to advise on contract negotiations. In addition, the coaching focus is also on sales, especially key account management:

• First steps as a manager

• Development from sales to strategic account management
• Transfer from sales to key account manager
• Negotiation and contract management
• Team design and creation of a "team spirit
• Interface management within the organization