School of International Business and Entrepreneurship
Successful companies recognize the role played by innovation as a key success factor in meeting the challenges of growth, globalization and competitiveness. They also understand its importance in addressing the demands of the future. But to meet these demands, companies need committed and professional staff and managers who have shaped their long-term career and skills development through a master’s degree which dovetails with their work at the company. The School of International Business and Entrepreneurship (SIBE) provides employees working at forward-thinking, innovative enterprises with master’s degrees aimed at pinpointing and realizing growth and globalization potential in domestic and foreign markets. SIBE has become the hallmark of successful knowledge transfer and systematic skills development by marrying science and academia with business. Its focus lies in business, public bodies and organizations seeking professional, entrepreneurial high-potentials with a fl air for international thinking and action. SIBE’s degree programs are offered on open enrolment or as closed corporate programs. A defining feature of SIBE is emphasis on international degrees and its partnerships with leading overseas universities.
One notable thing about SIBE is the Saphir institute. Saphir focuses on the recruitment, selection and placement of young high potential graduates, as well as services in the field of competence management. Saphir gives companies access to a comprehensive pool of pre-screened applicants for selection as their next generation of managers. In keeping with this, SIBE research centers on business growth, globalization, entrepreneurship and competence management.
SIBE’s Growth Management GeneralMBA and Master of Arts in Management provides students with a solid grounding in all key aspects of business administration theory and the latest tools of management. The SIBE Master of Arts in Management provides young, inexperienced graduates with the ideal start to their career. Graduates from all backgrounds with at least two years’ experience after their first degree can study for the GeneralMBA in preparation for interdepartmental management responsibility or more senior management duties encompassing several functions.
The Master of Science in International Management degree is targeted specifically at young graduates with a business administration degree. Students are charged with the supervision of a project to exploit market potential on behalf of companies of an international nature or with international aspirations. University graduates from outside Germany with business experience are given the opportunity to build on their skills by helping a German company enter or build business in international markets. As part of the Globalisation Management InternationalMBA, the School of International Business and Entrepreneurship works with foreign partners in Beijing, Pune in India and São Paulo.
SIBE’s corporate programs are offered in partnership with each individual company in keeping with its specific aims and needs. These allows companies to tackled strategic challenges and undertake projects with its own up-and-coming managers.