Master of Business Administration
Asia School of Business. One transformative year in Kuala Lumpur. A lifetime of consequence.
Curriculum
Sept–Dec, Jan–Apr, Apr–Aug
Including three Action Learning engagements
Confirmed in Trimester 2; the list grows
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The shape of the year
Classroom work and live corporate work alternate throughout the year. Every stretch of theory is followed by a project where it has to hold up.
Semester 1 · Sept–Dec
8 core courses
Global learning journey in Middle East/Asia
Semester 2 · Jan–Apr
5 core + Business Dynamics
On-site, lean operations
Semester 3 · Apr–Aug
Choose your depth
Team, then individual
■ Classroom ■ MIT Sloan Immersion sits inside Semester 2 ■ Action Learning (Inside a real company)
The full course list
Integrative Management: Sustainability Strategy
Read a complex global business case from every angle at once, then integrate those readings into one coherent set of actions.
Business Research Methods
Evidence-based management: how to ask a question, gather data, and know how much weight the answer can carry.
Operations Management
Operations excellence treated as a source of competitive advantage, not a back-office function.
Quantitative Methods
The quantitative floor beneath everything else you will do at ASB.
Managerial Economics
Supply, demand, market power, and the game theory of competing when your rivals are thinking too.
Data, Models & Decisions
Structure the decision before you solve it. Uncertainty made explicit rather than assumed away.
Organizational Behaviour
Leading people is likely the hardest thing you will do as a manager. This is the evidence base for it.
Financial Accounting
Read a set of accounts as a decision-maker, not a bookkeeper.
Corporate Finance
Valuation, capital structure, and where the money should actually go.
Negotiations & Communications
Craft the message, hold the room, and find the outcome both sides can sign.
Competitive Strategy
Why some firms earn more than others, and what a general manager can actually do about it.
Business Practicum
Lean operations principles, applied on-site, inside a real company.
Marketing Management
Theory, cases, and then a concrete marketing plan of your own.
Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
The grey-area decisions, examined through an economic, legal and ethical lens at once.
Business Dynamics at MIT Sloan
Three weeks in Cambridge as a visiting student, not a visitor.
Building Successful Careers and Organizations
Who you are as a leader, and how you will spend the next few decades.
Capstone Projects
An interdisciplinary team project with senior leadership, and a deliverable that has to hold up.
Summer Program (ALSP)
An individual off-campus placement. The closest thing to trying a career on before you commit.
AI for Business Leaders
Enough of the machinery to talk to your technical team, and the strategy to lead the initiative.
Portfolio Management: Institutional & Personal Investing
Model-based portfolio and risk management, with an Asian-strategy research brief of your own.
Platforms: Marketplaces & Digitization
Market design, auctions, and game theory when you cannot see your competitor’s hand.
Customer Experience Strategy
Frameworks in the morning, applied to real service and retail problems in the afternoon.
Political Economy
Most MBA courses train you to be a manager. This one prepares you for the C-suite.
Technology & Innovation Leadership
Anticipating and leading technological change, aimed at emerging-market contexts.
Sustainability for Business Leaders
Where the industry landscape and the firm’s own activities meet, and profitability is decided.
Systems Optimization
Operations research technique, applied and then interpreted like a manager rather than a modeller.
Scenario Planning: Preparing Supply Chain for Surprises
A half-century-old method for deciding under a future you cannot forecast.
Energy: Markets, Public Policies & Sustainability
Technical, business and policy lenses on the industry politics shapes more than most.
Integrative Management: Sustainability Strategy
Read a complex global business case from every angle at once, then integrate those readings into one coherent set of actions.
Business Research Methods
Evidence-based management: how to ask a question, gather data, and know how much weight the answer can carry.
Operations Management
Operations excellence treated as a source of competitive advantage, not a back-office function.
Quantitative Methods
The quantitative floor beneath everything else you will do at ASB.
Managerial Economics
Supply, demand, market power, and the game theory of competing when your rivals are thinking too.
Data, Models & Decisions
Structure the decision before you solve it. Uncertainty made explicit rather than assumed away.
Organizational Behaviour
Leading people is likely the hardest thing you will do as a manager. This is the evidence base for it.
Financial Accounting
Read a set of accounts as a decision-maker, not a bookkeeper.
The Asia School of Business may update course offerings, descriptions, and schedules at its discretion to reflect faculty availability and program needs.
Corporate Finance
Valuation, capital structure, and where the money should actually go.
Negotiations & Communications
Craft the message, hold the room, and find the outcome both sides can sign.
Competitive Strategy
Why some firms earn more than others, and what a general manager can actually do about it.
Business Practicum
Lean operations principles, applied on-site, inside a real company.
Marketing Management
Theory, cases, and then a concrete marketing plan of your own.
Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
The grey-area decisions, examined through an economic, legal and ethical lens at once.
Business Dynamics at MIT Sloan
Three weeks in Cambridge as a visiting student, not a visitor.
The Asia School of Business may update course offerings, descriptions, and schedules at its discretion to reflect faculty availability and program needs.
Building Successful Careers and Organizations
Who you are as a leader, and how you will spend the next few decades.
Capstone Projects
An interdisciplinary team project with senior leadership, and a deliverable that has to hold up.
Summer Program (ALSP)
An individual off-campus placement. The closest thing to trying a career on before you commit.
The Asia School of Business may update course offerings, descriptions, and schedules at its discretion to reflect faculty availability and program needs.
AI for Business Leaders
Enough of the machinery to talk to your technical team, and the strategy to lead the initiative.
Portfolio Management: Institutional & Personal Investing
Model-based portfolio and risk management, with an Asian-strategy research brief of your own.
Platforms: Marketplaces & Digitization
Market design, auctions, and game theory when you cannot see your competitor’s hand.
Customer Experience Strategy
Frameworks in the morning, applied to real service and retail problems in the afternoon.
Political Economy
Most MBA courses train you to be a manager. This one prepares you for the C-suite.
Technology & Innovation Leadership
Anticipating and leading technological change, aimed at emerging-market contexts.
Sustainability for Business Leaders
Where the industry landscape and the firm’s own activities meet, and profitability is decided.
Systems Optimization
Operations research technique, applied and then interpreted like a manager rather than a modeller.
Scenario Planning: Preparing Supply Chain for Surprises
A half-century-old method for deciding under a future you cannot forecast.
Energy: Markets, Public Policies & Sustainability
Technical, business and policy lenses on the industry politics shapes more than most.
The elective list is not exhaustive, and the program will confirm final offerings in Semester 2 once the program begins. The Asia School of Business may update course offerings, descriptions, and schedules at its discretion to reflect faculty availability and program needs.
Business Practicum
Lean operations principles, applied on-site, inside a real company.
Capstone Projects
An interdisciplinary team project with senior leadership, and a deliverable that has to hold up.
Summer Program (ALSP)
An individual off-campus placement. The closest thing to trying a career on before you commit.
Action Learning
Between and through these competencies runs Action Learning, the ASB signature. Every period of classroom work is followed by a live project inside a real organisation, where all three competencies must operate simultaneously. This is the mechanism by which ASB is reshaping how business leaders are formed in Malaysia, across Asia, and increasingly worldwide. Not by teaching more, but by insisting that everything taught is immediately made real. Our collaboration with MIT Sloan sharpens that education.
2027 Intake is now Open for Application
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