ASB MBA Launchpad
MBA Thinking
Without the
MBA Commitment.
Experience MBA-level learning through an intensive three-day program designed to sharpen business thinking, strengthen leadership capabilities and develop future-ready talent.
3 Days
Intensive learning experience
6 Masterclasses
Curated around organisational priorities
30 Learners
Per cohort
Certificate
Awarded upon completion
Overview
A Focused Introduction to
MBA-Level Learning.
MBA Launchpad is an intensive learning experience designed for professionals ready to sharpen their business thinking, broaden their leadership capabilities, and experience the quality and rigour of MBA level learning – without committing to a full MBA programme.
Over three focused days, participants complete six masterclasses selected from a range of core business and elective topics, complemented by digital and experiential learning.
From AI and finance to leadership, strategy, operations and sustainability, the programme can be curated around the capabilities that matter most to your organisation and your people.
With just 30 learners per cohort, MBA Launchpad provides a focused environment for learning, application and collaboration – while giving organisations an opportunity to identify high-potential talent for future development and potential progression towards the Executive MBA.
Build the Learning Journey
Build One Powerful Learning Journey.
Select six areas to create a holistic learning experience aligned with your organization’s priorities and talent-development objectives.
AI for Business Leaders
Empower strategic growth by leveraging AI technologies such as neural networks, transformers, and LLMs. Tackle business challenges with practical tools, foster collaboration with technical teams, and lead responsibly with a focus on ethics and real-world applications.
Operations Management
Recognize the pervasive role and various types of operations within organizations. Learn the fundamental concepts, frameworks, and models used to manage operations effectively, and explore key Operations Management approaches through the lens of these principles and methodologies.
Corporate Finance
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the financial implications of business decisions. This distinctive approach to Corporate Finance integrates AI and gamification to create an engaging learning experience, equipping learners with a strong foundation in financial principles while addressing contemporary challenges in strategic financial decision-making.
Financial Accounting
Leverage accounting insights to analyze financial statements, assess organizational health, and support strategic decision-making. Strengthen financial acumen to align performance metrics with business objectives and drive more informed business outcomes.
Organizational Behavior
Tackle leadership challenges using evidence-based frameworks to enhance performance, shape team dynamics, and strengthen collaboration. Drive meaningful organizational outcomes by understanding human behavior at work and applying effective strategies for success in diverse and evolving environments.
Managerial Economics
This course aims to build a working knowledge of the analytical tools used to make strategic business decisions. It draws on microeconomic theory to analyze firm behavior across different market structures. By applying these frameworks, business leaders can better navigate market power dynamics, optimize decision-making, and enhance long-term competitive advantage.
AI for Business Leaders
Empower strategic growth by leveraging AI technologies such as neural networks, transformers, and LLMs. Tackle business challenges with practical tools, foster collaboration with technical teams, and lead responsibly with a focus on ethics and real-world applications.
Operations Management
Corporate Finance
Financial Accounting
Leverage accounting insights to analyze financial statements, assess organizational health, and support strategic decision-making. Strengthen financial acumen to align performance metrics with business objectives and drive more informed business outcomes.
Organizational Behavior
Managerial Economics
Portfolio Management
Gain expertise in portfolio and risk management through real-world applications in valuation, multifactor models, and liquidity strategies. Experience hands-on learning through simulations, industry insights, and collaborative projects designed for personal investors and aspiring asset managers.
Scenario Planning
Systems Optimization
Tackle complex challenges with optimization techniques to model, analyze, and drive data driven informed decisions. Whether you’re streamlining personal tasks or solving a problem at work, this course will empower you with the skills to identify, model, and solve problems effectively.
Platforms: Marketplaces & Digitization
Technology & Innovation Leadership
This course prepares students to anticipate, lead, and manage technological change within organizations. It covers knowledge creation and adoption, technology’s role in business strategy, organizational capabilities for innovation, and the global innovation landscape, while focusing on emerging-market contexts.
Sustainability for Business Leaders
Integrate sustainability into core strategies using ESG principles to address climate change, resource scarcity, and social inequities. Leverage theoretical frameworks, case studies, and industry insights to drive innovation, mitigate risks, and align business goals with sustainable impact.
Portfolio Management
Gain expertise in portfolio and risk management through real-world applications in valuation, multifactor models, and liquidity strategies. Experience hands-on learning through simulations, industry insights, and collaborative projects designed for personal investors and aspiring asset managers.
Scenario Planning
A strategic framework for navigating uncertainty in global markets. Participants analyse long horizon investments, organizational capabilities, and market entry or exit decisions under shifting geopolitical, economic, and technological conditions. Builds foresight to anticipate disruption, stress- test strategies, and position organizations for resilience and advantage in volatile futures.
Systems Optimization
Tackle complex challenges with optimization techniques to model, analyze, and drive data driven informed decisions. Whether you’re streamlining personal tasks or solving a problem at work, this course will empower you with the skills to identify, model, and solve problems effectively.
Platforms: Marketplaces & Digitization
Technology & Innovation Leadership
This course prepares students to anticipate, lead, and manage technological change within organizations. It covers knowledge creation and adoption, technology’s role in business strategy, organizational capabilities for innovation, and the global innovation landscape, while focusing on emerging-market contexts.
Sustainability for Business Leaders
Wealth Management
Southeast Asian Economies
Explore Southeast Asia’s economic structures, growth trajectories, and development challenges, focusing on key trends like trade, industrial transformation, and ASEAN’s evolving global role.
Data Driven Decision Making
Entrepreneurship
Mindset Lab
Action Learning
Wealth Management
Bridge traditional financial planning and institutional asset management. Learn to decode macroeconomic shifts and engineer resilient blueprints that protect, scale, and secure multi-generational legacies.
Southeast Asian Economies
Explore Southeast Asia’s economic structures, growth trajectories, and development challenges, focusing on key trends like trade, industrial transformation, and ASEAN’s evolving global role.
Data Driven Decision Making
Go from beginner to data analyst by using AI to design studies, write code, and turn business questions into actionable, evidence-based recommendations.
Entrepreneurship
Learn the entrepreneurial mindset and tools to spot opportunities, test ideas quickly, and create new value in startups or large organizations.
Mindset Lab
Understand the behavioral science that supports mindset development, self-awareness, team dynamics, and driving change within a group.
Action Learning
Build business and collaboration skills by analyzing primary data to solve real-world challenges and generate actionable insights across the rapidly evolving Asian landscape.
Designed for Organisations
Build Your Leadership Pipeline for Tomorrow.
Create a targeted development experience for your people by selecting the six areas most relevant to your current business and talent priorities.
Curated Learning
Select the topics most relevant to your organisation's strategic priorities.
Identify High-Potential Talent
Use the experience to recognise motivated and committed employees ready for further development.
Create a Development Pathway
Give promising talent exposure to MBA-level learning and a potential pathway towards the Executive MBA.
Learning Experience
MBA Launchpad combines academic learning with digital and experiential learning, creating an applied and engaging experience where ideas are tested, discussed and put to work.
Select 6 Masterclasses
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Apply
Collaborate
Earn Certificate
Continue Your Development
Build Your MBA Launchpad Experience
Create a three-day learning journey tailored to your organization’s priorities and the capabilities you want your people to develop.