Combine Your PhD With MBA-Level Knowledge That Is Required For Management Positions In Industry

Module #1 – MBA Foundations (Part 1)

In Module #1, you’ll discover the basics and grasp the concepts of sales and marketing, organizational behavior, quantitative analysis, economics, and ethics.

Using 5 different library topics, 5 quizzes, 2 case studies, and 1 exam, you will have a vast knowledge of…

• Scarcity, microeconomics and macroeconomics, and behavioral economics.
• How to leverage marketing with the 4 P’s — product, price, promotion, and place.
• Advertising and selling principles — micro-level, meso-level, and macro-level behaviors.
• How to leverage Google and Amazon.
• The difference between connection and output.
• How to gather, analyze, and use big data and mathematical modeling for major industries, such as telecom and banking.
• The ins and outs of Value-at-Risk and From-Bench-to-Bedside.
• How to maximize efficiency and profit.
• The difference between Just-in-Time and Just-in-Case manufacturing.

Module #2 – MBA Foundations (Part 2)

In Module #2, you’ll master the second half of MBA Foundations.

During Module #2, you will get a firm grasp on…

• Corporate strategy and how to manage a big business.
• Management consulting.
• The blunders and successes of small businesses.
• The differences between personal and corporate banking.
• Financial products in accounting and corporate strategy.
• Financial statements, such as balance sheets, income statements, cash-flow statements, investing, and operations.
• The meaning and importance behind “Cash is King.”
• Ethics mastery, including enforceable laws and frameworks, corporate social responsibility, and business policy and regulation.
• Company culture guidelines for startups and corporations.
• Human resources and talent acquisition.

Module #3—Industry Structure

In module #3, you’ll discover the structure of the world’s biggest and highest paying industries that need PhDs who have business acumen.

In this module, you will master…

• Industry hierarchy, including organizational hierarchy levels and the difference between managers and workers.
• Formal and collaborative methodology.
• Corporation types, which include monopolies, for-profits, and nonprofits.
• How to implement measuring management with respect to budgeting and deadlines.
• The ins and outs of private companies, including size and structure, equity, hiring, and operations.
• Analysis of cost versus benefits.
• The anatomy of public companies, including size and structure, shareholders, management, bureaucracy, salary caps, and regulation.
• Government industries, including the services and drivers.
• Electoral cycles, societal fairness, and funding.
• The problem with the lack of innovation and rate of change in funding.
• The difference between startups and small companies.
• Securing investors and venture capital.

Module #4—Management Activities

Module #4 prepares you for the daily activities and operations performed once you land your new management position.

You will discover…

• Mergers and acquisition techniques.
• Merger partners, target companies, and the problem with redundancy.
• Employee effects of mergers — including pay rate.
• Why acquisitions occur, examples of acquisitions, and how to negotiate.
• Target company management and acquiring company management.
• Restructuring companies relative to the economy and corporate strategy.
• Examples of successful and failed corporate restructuring.
• Restructuring goals, including profitability and competitiveness.
• Friendly and hostile takeovers.
• The difference between public and private takeovers—including shareholder considerations.
• Bankruptcy laws, insolvency, liquidation, creditor considerations, and chapter 11.
• Why startups often fail.

Module #5—Management Networking (Part 1)

When it comes to climbing the corporate ladder quickly, it’s not what you know but whom you know that matters.

Module #5 removes the guesswork of networking. You will discover…

• Why networking is vital and how to get good at it.
• Confidence indicators and quality communication traits.
• Networking scripts.
• Relationship-building techniques.
• Online, offline, and social media networking strategies.
• Maintaining rapport with professional communities.
• Following up with prospects.
• Networking through personal websites.
• LinkedIn growth and statistics.
• Building a quality LinkedIn profile, including photos, headlines, secondary connections, introductions, keywords, and common mistakes.
• Email networking  — including how to speak with current and new contacts, canned emails, and
• reconnecting with cold contacts.
• Phone networking, which include finding the numbers of hiring managers and recruiters, cold calling, and phone introduction.
• Professionalism, voice, and tone.

Module #6—Management Networking (Part 2)

They say that “relationship riches” are the best form of currency. That’s true in the world of industry.

In Module #6, you’ll discover…

• How to do event networking, including event mindset, navigating webpages, following up, and adding value.
• How to use your existing communication abilities.
• How to combine strength with warmth.
• Your personal tics.
• When to execute the elevator pitch and how to answer the questions of “who are you?” and “what do you want?”
• How to establish a unique selling proposition.
• The difference between a proposition and a pitch.
• Determining the right proposition, including differentiation and specialty.
• Your personal value proposition.
• How to conquer public speaking once and for all — including your purpose and audience identification, delivery, clarity, organization, and the “rule of three.”
• How to engage and ease an audience, pause for effect, establish a conversational tone, and overcome anxiety.

Module #7—Management Resumes

There’s a big difference between an academic CV, entry-level resume, and a management resume.

In Module #7, you will learn how to…

• Write a persuasive resume.
• List your achievements and job duties.
• Establish a visual center and professional summary.
• Outline your work experience and education.
• Find the purpose and audience.
• Work your way around how industries filter candidates, including tracking software, eye-tracking studies, keywords, and job advertisements.
• Leverage existing transferable abilities, such as people, product, and information management, as well as market knowledge.
• Use competitive intelligence, industry trends, and commercial acumen.
• Create results versus responsibilities and demonstrate outcomes.
• Learn from the best-example structures — including situation, complication, and resolutions.
• Stand out in the recruitment process.
• Leverage your technical knowledge with keywords and industry jargon.

Module #8—Management Interviews & Offers

Now it’s time to learn what to do with an offer and how to interview.

In Module #8, you will gain the MBA-level knowledge required to…

• Use referral statistics, phone screens, site visits, presentations, and the Management-STAR method to your advantage.
• Prepare for your interview and know the corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, department restructuring, and culture.
• Leverage your talking points and internal sponsors.
• Follow up the right way and use referral workflow.
• Interview your interviewer.
• Make a positive first impression with the correct body language, pitch and proposition, and questions.
• Avoid desperation and many other mistakes.
• Handle credential questions, opinion questions, behavioral questions, and the difference between situational and subjective responses.
• Ace personality tests, stress tests, and competency questions.
• Negotiate your job offers with the correct attitude and approach.
• Discuss your salary and benefits.
• Ask open-ended questions and offer counters when appropriate.
• Know when to reject or accept an offer.