Strategic Management

Why Strategic Management?

Student profile

Our student is typically an ambitious, dynamic, intelligent and motivated individual who opts for a programme with both qualitative and quantitative elements, is eager to learn more, is very curious, possesses the ability to work long and hard and is able to combine the skills of listening to others with articulating his / her own take on things. Given our Department?s international orientation, an increasing number of students tend to be from out-side the Netherlands, resulting in an interactive, multi-cultural learning environment.

Core Courses

The Strategy Process

This course takes one through the evolution of strategy perspectives seeking to reveal how a firm can gain a sustainable competitive advantage. Participants take home not only vital new knowledge and insights, they also sharpen their skills in terms of analysing complex problems quickly, developing and articulating team-based solutions and defending their stance with skeptical peers bent on promoting alternative solutions.

Strategy & International Business

As firms internationalise and compete with global firms, they face a new set of dynamics and challenges. This course arms students with the newest scientific understanding and practical wisdom essential for deftly managing multinational corporations. The topical managerial issues addressed in this course include the determination of effective global organisation-structures, management of international value-chain relationships and international-business strategy.

Managing Inter-organizational Strategies & Networks

A range of environmental, technical and economic factors are driving companies big and small to form alliances and networks. This course prepares students for a promising business career by handing out to them frameworks and tools that enable the making of critical strategic decisions such as whether to compete or cooperate, how to choose alliance partners, which alliance governance-structures to use and how to coordinate partnership networks like Keiretsus and Chaebols.

Research Clinic in Strategic Management

All MScBA students are required to write a thesis that familiarises them with the method of science as a basis for not only examining and solving problems but also developing and applying managerially useful knowledge. To provide students a solid foundation for their thesis, the Strategic Management programme has pioneered the much acclaimed Re-search Clinic course. During this unique course, each student in close cooperation with one of the staff members prepares a Research Proposal, which eventually becomes the first chapter of the thesis and identifies the problem to be analysed, the goals of the investigation and the research design. Importantly, unlike other programmes, our students can expect not to be left swimming alone when preparing the Research Proposal as staff members are keen on helping students complete their thesis on time.

Admission with Dutch Diploma

You are eligible if you hold an:

• RSM Erasmus University Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
  
• Bachelor degree in Business Administration or Business Economics from another Dutch university 

You are required to submit the results of a GMAT (very few students have scores below 600, < 570 not much change to be admitted) a TOEFL score with a minimum of 575 (paper-based) / 233 (computer-based) / 90-91 (internet-based) or IELTS score with a minimum 6.5. The institutional code for GMAT is QK8-CX-52. The institutional code for TOEFL is 7199.

You are exempt from an English test if your university education has been in English for at least 3 years.

Wiith a Dutch university (bachelor or master) degree other than in Business Administration or Business Economics, you may apply for the 2-year MSc General Management.

With a Dutch HBO degree, you may apply for a pre-master programme.

Application with a Dutch diploma

RSM Erasmus University bachelor graduates go to SIN.   

All other MSc applicants are subject to a check by the Examination Board and need to send an application package containing the following documents:

• Application Form
  
• Copy of your passport
  
• Certified copy of your secondary education diploma and grades  
  
• Certified copy of your university or HBO (higher professional) or vocational training education diploma and grades
  
• Any other certificate or diploma relevant to your application
  
• GMAT results (if applicable)
  
• TOEFL or IELTS results (if applicable)
  
• Curriculum Vitae
  
• Two letters of recommendation
  
• Motivation letter

To:

RSM Erasmus University

MSc Admissions Office

Room T05-12 

P.O. Box 1738       

3000 DR Rotterdam

The Netherlands

Admission with Non-Dutch Diploma

You are eligible if you hold a:

• Non-Dutch university Bachelor degree in Business Administration or Business Economics that equals the Dutch university Bachelor of Science degree

You are required to submit the results of a GMAT (very few students have scores below 600, < 570 not much change to be admitted) and  a TOEFL score with a minimum of 575 (paper-based) / 233 (computer-based) / 90-91 (internet-based) or IELTS score with a minimum 6.5. The institutional code for GMAT is QK8-CX-52. The institutional code for TOEFL is 7199.

You are exempt from an English test if your university education has been in English for at least 3 years in an English native speaking country.

If you obtained a university (Bachelor or Master) degree other than in Business Administration or Business Economics, you may apply for the 2-year MSc General Management.

If you obtained a Bachelor degree at a different level than the Dutch university Bachelor of Science degree, you may apply for the Bachelor programme in International Business Administration.

Application with Non-Dutch diploma

All students with a non-Dutch, Bachelor or Master diploma, need to send an application package containing the following documents:

• Application Form
  
• Copy of your passport
  
• Certified copy of your secondary education diploma and grades    
  
• Certified copy of your university or higher professional or vocational training diploma and grades
  
• Official GMAT score (institutional code for GMAT QK8-CX-52)
  
• Official TOEFL or IELTS score if applicable (institutional code for TOEFL 7199)
  
• Any other certificates relevant to your application
  
• Two letters of recommendation
  
• Curriculum Vitae
  
• Motivation letter

Career Prospects

The MScBA Strategic Management nurtures capable students who are avidly sought after by a wide range of top recruiters looking for graduates with superior cutting-edge organisation-environment knowledge and skills necessary for managing and leading teams of ambitious professionals.

The MScBA Strategic Management provides a solid foundation for a variety of career opportunities in a diverse range of settings. Graduates of this programme can for example be found in:

• Entrepreneurial start-ups
  
• Family owned or self-launched businesses
  
• Governmental & regulatory agencies
  
• Management consultancies
  
• Multinational enterprises
  
• Non-profit organizations
  
• Private & public firms

Employers include

ABN-AMRO, Accenture, Ahold, Akzo Nobel, BCG, BP, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, General Electric, Getronics, Heineken, ING, KLM, KPN, McKinsey, Mexx, Organon, Philips, Rabobank, Reuters, Roland Bergers, Shell, Unilever.

Positions include

Account Manager, Alliance Manager, Business Analyst, Business-unit Manager, Customer Insights Advisor, Entrepreneur, General Manager, Innovation Manager, Junior/Senior Consultant, Planning Specialist, Project Manager, Research Analyst, Strategy Advisor, Venture Manager.

Current positions of some of our graduates