Business and Management (Accelerated Degree)

Core Modules

Year 1

• International Business Strategy and Trade

  This module will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of how businesses operate and grow in a global context. It explores the strategic decisions made by MNEs, the institutional and geographical factors shaping foreign direct investment, and the role of business in driving socially and environmentally responsible practices. The module also introduces students to the core principles of global financial flows and trade policy instruments, enabling them to critically assess how factors such as exchange rates and cross-border financial dynamics influence international business operations and the broader economic environment.

  Students will develop an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates business strategy, sustainability, and global trade, preparing them to engage thoughtfully with the challenges and opportunities of doing business in a complex and interconnected world.

• Employability Bootcamp 1: CVs, Networking & AI Job Search

  The module aims to prepare London-based undergraduate students for an effective job search in the competitive UK job market. The module equips students with essential knowledge of career strategy and employability skills such as CV and cover letter writing, personal branding, effective networking, and AI-assisted job search techniques.

• Business Analytics and Decision Making

  This foundational module introduces students to the essential role of data and analytics in modern business decision-making. It provides practical knowledge of how organisations use data to drive strategic and operational decisions. The module emphasises the managerial aspects of business analytics rather than technical implementation. Students explore how business data is collected, processed, and interpreted to support decision-making across organisational functions including marketing, operations, finance, and human resources. The curriculum covers fundamental concepts such as data quality and basic analytical techniques with a strong focus on real-world business applications.

  The module utilises accessible analytical tools and visualisation software to provide hands-on experience, ensuring students develop practical skills alongside theoretical understanding. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking about data limitations, interpretation challenges, and balancing quantitative insights with qualitative business judgement.

• Introduction to Business and Management

  The purpose of this module is to educate the fundamental business and management concepts and launches the entire degree. Learners will get familiar with the core concepts, language and analytic habits that are essential for future modules. They will also gain their ability to think critically, articulate understanding by grasping information from a range of sources and formats and create new content by using digital tools.The purpose of this module is to educate the fundamental business and management concepts and launches the entire degree. Learners will get familiar with the core concepts, language and analytic habits that are essential for future modules. They will also gain their ability to think critically, articulate understanding by grasping information from a range of sources and formats and create new content by using digital tools.

• Introduction to Financial Management

  This module introduces the context, nature, and purpose of investment and financing decisions in business. It covers key theories and practical techniques for appraising investment opportunities and financing choices.

  Students will examine concepts of risk and uncertainty in investment decision-making, along with approaches for assessing and managing risk in straightforward scenarios. The module explores a range of long-term financing options and the role of capital markets in enabling business access to funding.

  Students will learn how to estimate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and evaluate its relevance to both investment and financing decisions. The module also emphasises the importance of effective working capital management, including techniques for managing receivables, payables, inventory, and cash through the use of financial ratios and analysis of the operating cash cycle.

• Marketing and Digital Branding

  The module aims at developing students theoretical and practical understanding of building and managing a brand's identity using digital platforms. Students develop a deeper understanding of key strategies including social media marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), influencer marketing and online brand communities to create a consistent, engaging, and trustworthy image of a brand in the digital space.

• Work-Based Learning Project: The Small Business Studio

  This innovative module offers a studio-based consultancy experience, simulating real-world engagement with small London-based businesses. Students work in rotating roles across a series of curated case studies, applying business theory to dynamic challenges under time-bound sprints. Instead of relying on live clients, the studio provides structured, simulated challenges rooted in real business contexts, enabling all students to build professional confidence, critical consultancy skills, and a deeper understanding of work-based learning principles.

• Entrepreneurship in London: Startup Ecosystem

  This module explores the dynamic landscape of startups in one of the world’s leading innovation hubs. Through a design thinking lens, students will engage with real-world challenges, collaborate with local entrepreneurs, and develop creative solutions that reflect the complexities of launching and scaling ventures in London. The module emphasises human-centric innovation, rapid prototyping, and iterative development, preparing students to thrive in fast-paced entrepreneurial environments.

• People and Organisation

  This module introduces you to the founding principles of organisational behaviour, focusing on the dynamics of work relations and the management of individuals and groups in contemporary workplaces. You will examine different approaches to managing individuals and teams, using case studies, industry data, and historical examples to understand how work relations have evolved across time and cultures. You will also evaluate he ethical challenges managers face and how their decisions impact how people interact within organisations and how management practices shape those interactions in ethical and effective way.

• Power, People, and Purpose: Managing in the Public and Health Sectors

  This applied module explores the realities of public management in the health and wider public sectors, where professionals must navigate institutional complexity, workforce constraints, and competing policy agendas. Through live case studies, site visits, and consultancy work with London-based public organisations, students will investigate how public value is delivered through HR practices, organisational governance, and service innovation.

• Supply Chains in Action: Principles, Practice and Disruption

  This module will provide the essential foundation to supply chain and equipping students to adopt a supply chain approach while analysing businesses. It will explore how adopting a supply chain approach is essential for competing in today’s environment as it helps to identify both weakness and opportunities. You will explore how to design supply chain network and appreciate the use of digital tools to improve supply chains.

• Strategy and Business Models

  This module explores how organisations formulate strategies and design business models to stay competitive in fast-changing London business environment in the age of information technology and growing importance of AI. Students will learn the main methods of formulating and implementing a successful strategy, analyse their advantages and limitations, and apply them effectively to real organisations. The module introduces essential theoretical knowledge and offers opportunities to apply it in practice, helping students to develop insights into how London-based businesses respond to market changes, technology shifts, and competitive dynamics.

• Academic Integrity

  This module will describe the key principles of academic integrity, focusing on university assignments. Plagiarism, collusion and commissioning will be described as activities that undermine academic integrity, and the possible consequences of engaging in such activities will be described. Activities, with feedback, will provide you with opportunities to reflect and develop your understanding of academic integrity principles.

   

Year 2

• Big Data and AI in Business

  This module explores how big data and artificial intelligence transform modern business operations and strategy. Students gain hands-on experience with AI tools and data analysis platforms through intensive workshops and live business projects using real datasets from London-based and global companies. The module covers machine learning applications, predictive analytics, customer behavior analysis, and AI integration into business processes. Students examine both opportunities and challenges of digital transformation, including data privacy, algorithmic bias, cybersecurity, and ethical AI deployment.

• Sector Specialisation

  This module enables students to develop deep insight into a sector of their choice through applied research, expert engagement, and live analysis. Students apply frameworks across marketing, innovation, and strategy to understand current and emerging issues within their chosen field.

• Employability Bootcamp 2: Negotiation & Career Acceleration

  This module equips students with the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed to navigate and accelerate their careers in today’s dynamic and competitive job market. It is well suited to students aiming for careers in professional settings across a wide range of industries. Focusing on employability development and career planning, students will critically explore concepts such as career self-management, personal branding, and communication in organisational settings. Through lectures, interactive workshops, and practical activities, they will develop practical skills in negotiation, communication, and career decision-making to enhance their long-term career sustainability and progression.

• London Business Live: Inside the Ecosystem

  This intellectually stimulating and creatively structured module introduces students to London’s dynamic business landscape. Through curated industry engagement and a self-directed deep dive into a chosen organisation from their specialisation sector (Finance, Creative Industries, Tech, Social Enterprise, or Luxury Retail), students will explore how purpose, place, and strategy shape business practice in London. The module culminates in a creative insight portfolio and a personalised London Business Map, which together develop critical thinking, reflective insight and urban business literacy.

• Leadership and Change Management

  Change is a constant in today’s dynamic business environments, and effective leadership is essential to navigating and driving that change. This module explores the critical relationship between leadership and change, focusing on how leaders adapt, influence, and transform organisations in the face of evolving challenges. You will examine the mindset and capabilities required to lead change, analysing real-world case studies where adaptability, resilience and creativity are crucial to business success. You will also assess your own leadership style and develop strategies to lead high-performance teams to execute change initiatives. The module will support you engaging in the continuous learning to thrive as a change-oriented leader.

• London Impact Lab

  In this immersive, 30-credit module, students will become consultants-in-residence for London itself, a global business hub facing pressing challenges and opportunities. Working with a partner organisation or client (e.g., social enterprise, startup, NGO, or public-private partnership), students will research, analyse and recommend strategies that align business innovation with London’s evolving role in the global economy. From inequality to climate resilience, fintech to inclusive entrepreneurship, students will gain real-world experience in applying their business knowledge to projects with purpose.

• Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability: Leading for the Future

  This module invites learners to explore how contemporary leaders respond to global sustainability challenges—and how their decisions influence the kind of futures we create.

  Learners will investigate the strategic tensions that arise when organisations navigate complex and sometimes competing environmental, social and economic priorities. Through the lenses of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), ethical leadership, and long-term strategic thinking, the module considers what it means to lead with impact in times of disruption and transformation.

  Rooted in real-world practice, the module draws on vivid examples from London and other global contexts, exploring how organisations interpret, pursue, and sometimes struggle with sustainability in diverse ways. Learners will engage with current debates and case studies to explore how leadership shapes not only outcomes, but narratives of responsibility, justice, and innovation.

  A central thread running through the module is systems thinking—a powerful approach for understanding how local decisions connect to global effects, and how change unfolds across networks of influence. Learners will be challenged to examine issues from multiple perspectives, anticipate future consequences, and reflect on the values and assumptions embedded in leadership choices.

  Working with recognised sustainability frameworks and leadership tools, learners will develop practical capabilities in critical analysis, ethical reasoning, stakeholder engagement, and strategic communication. The module supports learners to navigate complexity and uncertainty with purpose, and to lead in ways that are thoughtful, future-focused, and grounded in social and environmental responsibility.

• Professional Placement 3

  This module will have some structured lectures and seminars to prepare, guide and supervise students before, during and after the mandatory four weeks of professional placement attendance. This module enables students to synthesize the knowledge and understanding gained from theory into practical application to gain and enhance skills required of a competent and reflective practitioner. The focus will be on experiential learning supported by reflection and critical analysis. The Professional Placement3 will focus on equipping the students to lead, manage and facilitate change in health settings and set targets for own development towards professional career. Evidence of skills gained (certificates of completion, induction records, project plans), an updated SWOT analysis and Personal Development Plan (PDP) will be collated into an E- Portfolio.

• Business Project or Startup Accelerator

  This module provides students with the opportunity to undertake a substantive piece of applied research that addresses a real-world business challenge. Drawing on established frameworks and theories from the business and management disciplines, students will work either individually or in teams to deliver practical insights and recommendations to an organisation or business sector.

  The capstone project enables students to demonstrate their mastery of business knowledge and research skills, consolidating learning from across their degree programme. Through authentic, hands-on engagement with real organisations, students will explore complex business issues and develop viable, evidence-based solutions.

  To enrich the learning experience, the module includes guest lectures and mentoring from industry professionals, ensuring students are exposed to current business practices and leadership perspectives.

  By the end of the module, students will have produced a rigorous, professionally relevant research report that reflects critical thinking, analytical ability, and an understanding of how business and management theories apply in practice.

All modules are core