The Oxford Brookes Global MBA uses live in-module projects throughout the core modules delivered online and face-to-face to deepen your understanding and apply the theory to commercial practice, providing you with a more dynamic, real time experience on the online modules. You thereby learn from your own decisions rather than from others' and widen your exposure to a range of live scenarios outside of your own organisation.
For example, the Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development Module involves an Enterprise Intensive Action learning trip which exposes you to entrepreneurship and enterprise development skills.
Taking place in the UK Brecon Beacons, in South Wales, the module has a social enterprise focus. Students respond to a brief and develop strategies for sustainable business diversification for a range of regional enterprises. This is designed to immerse MBA students to real-time, real-business, time-bound, action-learning in a context of uncertainty and ambiguity. It requires creativity, innovation, pragmatism and business knowledge to address issues and solve a diverse range of problems.
Students have developed strategies to grow revenue. Previous clients on this module have included Talgarth Mill in Brecon, Wales, a fully restored mill, powered by the River Ellywe and run as a community social enterprise. Another client has been Twizy Cars run by Eco Travel Network, a fleet of electric vehicles targeting domestic and tourist use.