Strategy is concerned with the long-term success of defining an organization’s direction and scope to gain competitive advantage. Strategic management has been developed to help top managers make better strategic decisions with concepts and tools. This course which combines a high standard of academic rigor with a practical approach will help you to understand, in depth, the whole process of strategic management.

The industry of financial technology provides a new solution to offer a better product and even an alternative channel for those uncovered by financial institutions by utilising technologies to reduce unnecessary cost. The course is focussing on digital payment, digital lending, InsurTech, and RegTech. Particularly, how digital payment could build up the robustic system to ensure the stability and security. Also, how digital lending industry could leverage the big data and mitigate the risks of their loans.

This course focuses on China’s Belt Road Initiative (BRI) and how Beijing is leveraging its preponderance of material power in pursuit of global leadership through the implementation of ‘development as grand strategy’ that places special focus on developing regions. China's economic position, coupled to an astute use of finances flowing from its neo-mercantilist policies, has enabled it to become the leading trading partner and a significant investor in the developing world (or Global South).

The industry of financial technology has been rapidly growing up globally in the last decade because of the expanding penetration of the internet and the mobile. The course is focussing on financial inclusion, transformation of a financial institution, cryptocurrency, and RegTech. Financial inclusion is one of the main purposes that financial authorities made efforts on FinTech to cover those were underbanked or unbanked. This course also aims to see how financial institution is transforming their business models and adopt FinTech.

The main purpose of this course is to improve the writing level and overall quality of iMBA dissertations, and to strengthen academic norms and academic ethics education. Emphasis is placed on the following topics: requirements and processes of iMBA dissertation topic selection, formulation of research schemes, research methods, structure and layout of papers, paper opening reports, writing methods and language style of papers, standardization requirements of paper format, academic misconduct avoidance, academic ethics and ethics requirements, review and reply of papers.