Drawing upon the Department of Management's areas of research expertise, this programme provides a solid grounding in key aspects of business and management while allowing students to specialise through a range of option modules focusing on business innovation.

Students will gain a broad knowledge and expertise in the design and implementation of strategy at different levels of the corporate organisation and of other types of organisation such as public, not-for-profit and cooperative. Specialist options will equip students with theories, principles and tools for analysing and coping with the new economic and managerial challenges raised by technological change and the digital economy.

Students will then use their critical analysis and independent judgement skills to write a dissertation setting out solutions to complex managerial problems in all types of organisation.

This Master's Management with Business Innovation programme Birkbeck, University of London differs from the typical MBA in that it covers fewer subjects but in more depth. Students will learn more than just the current management fashions and buzzwords: students will also learn about the evidence upon which management theories are based.