EMBA is a postgraduate degree in business that is designed for professionals and executives with significant work experience. EMBA programs aim to provide students with the knowledge and skills to advance in their careers, often to executive leadership and senior  management positions. This is an important part of EMBA programs as students can bring their on-the-job knowledge to the learning environment. Students earning their EMBA come from the private, non-profit, and government sectors, and from a multitude of industries. The coursework for EMBA degree will include the foundations of business, such as strategic management, finance, marketing, and accounting, and may include an emphasis on leadership and management in different business sectors. 

EMBA Program is to provide senior managers, execitives and professionals with an opportunity to learn and develop the management skills that will enable them to excel in today’s competitive environment and strive to become top leaders for their organization. Courses are taught by an enthusiastic faculty who have as their goal the students’ growth and success. Our professors are academically qualified professionals involved in the field, providing students with the best of two worlds: they comprise full-time and part-time professors with an in-depth knowledge of business theory and philosophy, all with advanced degrees, who work in the field and share their knowledge and experience in the classroom. Graduates of the executive MBA program will be able to:

• Work effectively in teams
• Sell their ideas
• Apply theory to understand real practical situations
• Think “outside the box” and develop novel solutions
• Integrate the functional department issues into a coherent strategic whole
• Analyze and synthesize problems
• Manage the development of their own careers

In addition, Graduates will be knowledgeable about:

• Current international and global issues
• Ethical and diversity issues
• Current technology and environmental issues
• Leading change in an organization
• Current management trends

Major: Executive Master of Business Administration

Course Description

MGT 530         Governance, Management and Leadership Dynamics

This is an upper level course of management and leadership which looks at how managers and leaders behave and make a decision to deal with an organizational change and a crisis situation. Students will be expected to actively participate in the debate on studies relevant to the themes such as advanced management skills, leadership dynamics and leadership styles. The subtheme on Effective Governance is also introduced for the course followers in order for them to increase an understanding about responsibility, decision making and accountability in the field of management and leadership. A combination of readings and class discussions with hands-on exercises will familiarize students with the variety of approaches one might take to management and leadership. To advance the students’ knowledge in the discipline, case studies on corporations, business firms and public institutions are incorporated into the course.

MGT 570         Negotiations and Conflict Resolution

This interdisciplinary course examines various formal and informal methods of conflict resolution, which are often used in business, law, diplomacy, politics, and in everyday life. The course also focuses on developing effective strategies and techniques in negotiation for reaching different agreements. It emphasizes economic, cultural, psychological, and ethical areas essential to conflict resolution and negotiation.  The course compares and contrasts the traditional methods and styles of conflict resolution used in Cambodian society with the methods and styles commonly used in Western countries.

MGT 575         Strategic Human Resource Management

This course covers various strategies from grand strategies to tactics used in effectively managing human resource. It brings empirical studies relevant to institutional capacity, governance, human capital enrichment and HRM issues. The course compares the empirical studies from different workshops and participatory approaches from students’ group discussion and debate in a panelist format. It also tries to address a problem solving skill in HRM involving skills in counseling, scenario formulation, simulation, negotiations and crisis management techniques.

FIN 550           Managerial Finance

The course will provide students the language and tools of finance and will give students the capacity to understand the theory and application in real world situations, the techniques that have been developed in corporate finance. The course discusses the main principles that guide corporate managers in maximizing firm value. The major topics of the course include the role of corporations and financial managers such Time Value of Money, Valuation, Capital Budgeting, Capital Structure, and Dividend Policy. The course will also help students to make better decisions in financial matters, through analyzing cases, as well as completing assigned exercises and problems. Students will further develop and strengthen own financial management skills required to meet the challenges facing today's complex organisations.

MGT 560         International Corporate Management

International corporate management course focuses on management methods employed by corporations in business expansion and bringing in higher profitability for their shareholders. The course includes consulting services, structure of corporation, management styles of corporation and strategic competitive edge of corporate enterprises. Empirical studies of successful corporations, i.e. Microsoft, Wall Mart, Del and Sony are realized to enhance further knowledge in the corporate management of the modern days. It ultimately looks into management by a corporate enterprise in the context of new acquisition and merging.

FIN 574           Financial Markets

The course is to assist students to be acquainted with a financial market condition and structure. The knowledge in the field enables them to be active participants in the financial market of Cambodia. Importantly, the course incorporates the international capital market playing a vital role in long-term financing for business firms/corporations, money market, product market, factor market and stock market as a lever for the corporation establishment and activation in the context of Cambodia. It also focuses on a weight of foreign exchange, commodity exchange and various hedging strategies available in international capital markets and stock exchange. Empirical studies enhance an understanding of comparative domestic capital markets and the practice of international capital market operations and stock.

MKT 580         Marketing Management and Strategy

Marketing Management is designed to provide an introduction to key concepts, principle and practices that constitute the Marketing discipline. Participants in this unit would be expected to recognize that marketing is a total system of business action and should be seen as the key element in running any business. This unit should enable students to better appreciate the role of marketing in individual firms as well as the wider community. This unit also examines how a business can make effective use of marketing concepts to achieve an understanding of the objectives of both its competitors and its customers, and to make appropriate buying, selling, pricing and investment decisions. At last, contemporary Principles or Marketing issues are examined to determine their influence upon households, firms, and industries.

MGT 550         Total Quality Management

Quality management is essential to any business and enterprise. This course, following the path of top quality achievement, seeks to explore a process of quality control in production, a concept of total quality management (TQM) with a focus on its practical aspects, Six Sigma-based quality, ISO quality format as well as a quality system. It will enable students to well assimilate quality control, quality as a top priority in business and production and its value as a long-term foundation for competition. The case studies on Japanese-style quality management and on major enterprises, i.e. Philips, Nokia, Motorola, Intel, Toyota automobiles and Ford automobiles are provided to motivate students to discuss the outcomes of adherence to the principles of quality from corporation to corporation, respectively.

MGT 565        Strategic Management and Business Policy

This course will provide students with an opportunity to apply concepts, skills, and techniques to real-world corporate problems and build on existing knowledge in management, hence advancing it to the use of strategies to better manage business and work. The course explains concepts and theories useful in understanding the strategic management process and strategic vision, strategic positioning of a business firm, strategy formulation and implementation. It delves into diamond strategy from Michael Porter, strategy theories and application of strategies for competitiveness and establishing a market niche. Case studies on successful grand business strategies are introduced to broaden further knowledge in strategies used in management assisting managers to achieve the organizational goals successfully and within the given time frame and budget.

MGT 576         Project Management in Business

The course designed for the provision of the evolution and update about business projects in a changing international business enables financial and business managers to be well prepared and ready to manage various projects. It focuses on project planning, project scope, Gann Chart, PERT Analysis, project proposal, project implementation and evaluation. Case studies on private projects, i.e. NGOs/firms and public projects are to enhance debate and analysis of projects from a practical aspect. In the end, the students are able to formulate project proposals, manage business projects and contribute to bringing in profits and benefits for their firms.

MGT 580         Human Behaviors in Organizations

The course analyses employees’ behavior at workplace. It thoroughly examines relationship among employees, employers, customers, stakeholders and end users within and outside the organization. The course specifically elaborates themes on staff performance, motivation theories, socialization, interpersonal communication, organizational objective setting, working environments, team building and allocation of resources. Case studies about certain organizations will be introduced to discuss in detail the behavior of personnel, staff, employer and customers necessary for the effectiveness of an organization. The course members, in the end, are able to develop self-motivation from intrinsic and extrinsic factors to promote efficiency and effectiveness of an organization as their future career or one of their professions. They better understand an organization from structure to the outcome so that communication flows are decentralized. 

ECON 515       Fundamentals of Economics

This course, in its traditional sense, does not deal with economic issues. It focuses on the principles of economics necessitated for practical applications in the economics. The course also provides basic knowledge in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics used as economic tools of analysis. This is to be accomplished by raising certain key problems or issues relevant to the economics principles, teaching the tools necessary for analysis, and finally applying these tools to analyze the problems.

MGT 535         Human Resource Management

HRM uses a workshop approach to explore day-to-day management issues, with specific focus on the management of human resources.  Specifically, the course will examine staff and managerial issues from an international and national business perspective. This course covers job evaluation, recruitment, selection, orientation and training, compensation management, performance appraisal, labor relations, and employment standards. It also enhances the students’ knowledge from a practical aspect through case studies dealing with underuse or overuse of resource in the personnel management sector.

FIN 540           Quantitative Methods in Decision Making

This course introduces the graduate student to the basic methods of empirical inquiry in the social sciences. The major studies focuses on testing hypotheses, empirical models, predictions and estimating policy impacts based on quantitative or statistical analysis. This course provides a basic introduction for students ranging from quantitative approaches for research and policy analysts to qualitative ones. It also provides a solid foundation in statistical inference, enabling the student to become a competent producer of basic statistical research. In addition, the skills acquired from the course enable the students to become a more sophisticated consumer of advanced research methodologies.

FIN 545           Financial Management

Students can gain further knowledge in finance from the course of financial management. The themes of the course incorporates the revision of bond and stock valuing, present value and future value, corporate strategies in financing investments, dividend policy, common stock versus preferred stock and weighted average cost of capital. It also looks at how a firm applies its debt policy in exchange for capital to invest, and differentiates among short-term, mid-term and long-term financing and liabilities. It finally examines the essence and use of accounting principles in managing financial operations and transfers in a particular corporation, and compares the difference and similarity of a smart financial manager with a financial rule-oriented manager in solving real world business issues.

BUS 555          International Business

This course explores the implications of global economic integration in a world of national differences, focusing on corporations and business global firms that operate in several countries. The emergence of a world economy has also produced unparalleled opportunities to test theories developed in a single national border relative to other trading nations. The course examines the growth of the multinationals and international trade theories linked to practical cases differing from country to country. It also deepens an understanding of basic human behavior and is to find out practical world business elevating real academic value relevant to the disciplines of politics, business, economics, psychology, and sociology. Due to the fact that the world has become more and more open in terms of economics, politics and culture, students can pursue their research studies in countries with widely divergent cultures, economic systems and political institutions so as to broaden their understanding and knowledge in international business.

ECON 555       Economic Development

Economic development is an endgame of any national economic interest in the pursuit of an increase in national wealth. The Development Economics course pays much attention to various concepts of economic development, Lucas’s development theory and dual economy. It also includes economic growth factors, such as population, production factors, trade, national income, agricultural policy and industrial policy. It tries to find out ways to break a cycle of national poverty from analyzing poverty theories and applying solution to the root cause of poverty, built upon from community development, transfer of financial assistance from the central government to the local community. It finally investigates the issue of economic sustainability from three pillars, i.e. social development, economic development and environmental preservation.

MGT 555         Managing Change and Innovation

Organizations today operate in a world of accelerated change. Change is not a new phenomenon, but is a process and not something extraordinary. Ability to well cope up with change, a business firm is capable to stay competitive in a marketplace. This course covers approaches to deal with change from planned change, predicted change to emergent change and unplanned one. It also explores strategies utilized by firms to undergo changes successfully, and studies roles of change agent, the preparation for effective management of change and the external as well as internal environmental scanning for means and implementation of managing change effectively. With an understanding of the nature of change from the course, the students will be able to explore conceptually the implications of change, and can develop their skills in change management with effectiveness.

ECON 570       Public Finance

This course treats public finance as one of the key economics that deals with budgeting the revenues and expenditure of a public sector entity, usually government. It analyses two objectives of budgetary policy as an efficient allocation of resources subject to a fair distribution of income and a stable macroeconomic environment. It also studies the interaction, cooperation and coordination of the private and public sector in the management of public finance, i.e. provision of public goods and social welfare. In addition to that, the course covers regulation of competition, the operation of public enterprises, and the conduct of monetary policy that associated with the economics of budget policy will be in part of the importance of this course. Finally, case study on the United States of America in the area of public financial system is introduced in comparison with public finance of Cambodia.

ECON 575       Industrial Organizations

Today, most of economies are oriented by industry that provides jobs and raise national welfare. The course is to develop a better understanding of industry’s value in national productivity, economic performance and promoting social progress. This course examines the use of industrial policy by the government in increasing exports and stimulating GDP growth. It also includes an analysis of industrial roles in bringing about balanced economic growth, the government’s management of economic transition from agriculture to industry, relative to the empirically economic studies of Cambodia.

ENTR 580      New Venture Creation

This course is designed for students who are interested in entrepreneurship. The focus is on entrepreneurship as generic activity. It explores the opportunities and challenges face by individuals who seek to start a new venture and the probable career development paths that are available. For those who may be interested in starting or running a new business, the course will provide an essential foundation for this process, identify the skills and resources required, and explore the opportunities available to the young entrepreneur.

ENTR 582      Entrepreneurship and Small Business

The Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management discusses the different steps in the entrepreneurial and small-business process, such as opportunity recognition, gathering resources, strategic planning in smaller companies, managing the venture, and growth, exit or failure of the business. It also introduces different types of entrepreneurship, such as social, academic and corporate venturing, as well as the theories that are important within this research field. The course aims to introduce students to the world of start-ups, SMEs and corporate venturing. The course is to acquaint students with concepts and theories that are relevant in the process of setting up and managing an own business. Besides, the course will illustrate how entrepreneurial behavior in large companies can positively influence multiple individual and firm-level performance variables. At the same time, the course will offer the students a ‘learning-by doing' environment in which they can practice certain fundamentals of the entrepreneurial process such as value creation, opportunity recognition and creativity. Finally, this course aims to bridge theory and practice illustrating how the theories in this course are applied in their specific business context.

ENTR 586      Social Innovations and Entrepreneurship

The course aims to provide students with a new orientation and way of thinking to organize and lead sustainable development, namely through social innovation and entrepreneurship. Sustainability encompasses many dimensions, including the long-term maintenance of responsibility, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions. This course focuses upon ways in which social innovation and entrepreneurship are driving the delivery of social (including environmental) value in communities, and the way in which this (accelerating economic) relationship drives social changes, both globally and locally. The course will help you to develop awareness and critical understanding of the accelerating economic relationship between the government, business and the third (non-for-profit) sectors, in areas of social innovation and entrepreneurship.

EMBA 599      Graduation Paths by Professional Report/Thesis

This course is designed for students to complete the Executive MBA by Thesis or Professional Business Report. The students take this graduation path, they are required to successfully complete all the required courses for 33 credits and thesis/professional business report for 12 credits totaling 45 credits. Prior to the thesis writing, students are required to complete the required courses for 33 credits (9 foundation courses + 12 basic courses + 12 core courses).