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MCE Mini MBA

Moving from Technical Expert to International Business Manager

MCE Mini MBA

Get equipped with the practical, operational and managerial skills you need to become a great manager & boost your career.

The Key Issues

You’re great at solving technical problems. But now, you’re expected to do more. You manage people, sit in budget meetings, align with marketing and operations, and make decisions that impact the business. And no one taught you how to do that.

The MCE Mini MBA is built for professionals like you—engineers, scientists, and technical specialists transitioning into managerial roles. This 5-module programme gives you a complete, practical understanding of how businesses run. You’ll learn to manage people, speak the language of finance, understand commercial priorities, and contribute to strategy. You’ll walk away with tools, confidence, and clarity to make better decisions, lead teams, and align across functions.

Business Fluency: Understand key functions—finance, operations, sales and marketing
People Management: Lead teams with a focus on results, but also with empathy, clarity, and confidence
Decision-Making: Make smarter decisions and conclusions using business data and context
Change & Alignment: Contribute to strategy and align cross-functionally

Key Competences

The Key Issues

Business
Fluency

People Management

Key Competences

Decision-Making

Change & Alignment

The Right Programme for You

Engineers, scientists, and technical experts leading teams
First-time or mid-level managers in international roles
Technical professionals needing business fluency to align with other departments
Functional managers who want to improve business proficiency

Highlights

360° understanding of how business functions work together

Practical tools for managing people, projects, and priorities

Financial and commercial fluency for technical managers

Peer learning and support from other international managers

Hands-on activities for real-world application and practice

Learn, Practice and Use

Programme Details

The MCE 5-Day Mini MBA focuses on the following 5 key areas:

Leadership Development – key competences, building self awareness, leading others and the organization through change. This also includes self profiling, daily reflection and feedback from the facilitators and peers to develop emotional intelligence
Strategy – building a strategy (the changing world and its impact, internal analysis, differentiation etc), and strategy execution (organizational and individual)
Business Finance – the fundamentals that underpin business success including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow and Investment decision-making
Marketing & Sales– knowing the customer (needs and segmentation) and achieving success with the customer (targeting, Customer Value Proposition, sales etc)
Supply Chain – its importance in delivering the Customer Value Proposition

A Business Simulation will be used throughout the programme and will cover activities of five financial reporting years.

You will work in teams of 3 to 4 people and your objective will be to maximise profitability and ROCE over the strategic 5 year period.

Five Programme Modules

1 | Managing People and Leadership

Transition from expert to manager: what it means for you in your role
Discover your leadership style in today’s business world
Build trust across cultures and remote teams
Learn about leading organizational capabilities
Explore different leadership styles and emotional intelligence (Goleman model)
Build your awareness of DEI, hybrid, and cross-cultural team dynamics

2 | Business Strategy & Innovation

Analyze your market using inside-out and outside-in strategic tools
Apply strategy models like BCG and McKinsey Matrix in your role
Learn to evaluate trends and turn them into business opportunities and strategies
Build value propositions through innovation and customer-centric thinking

3 | Performance, Budgeting and Accounting

Understand core financial principles: P&L, balance sheets, KPIs
Learn budgeting, cost control, and performance analysis
Use financial insights and data analytics to make decisions
Build confidence in business conversations involving numbers and ratios

4 | Commercial & Operational Excellence

Understand how marketing, sales, and operations drive business value
Learn about segmentation, targeting, and positioning fundamentals
Explore how supply chains and customer value intersect
Identify and optimize your team’s contribution to the value chain

5 | Navigating Change

Learn frameworks for strategy execution and change management
Understand different change management models and how to navigate transformation
Practice stakeholder communication and change leadership situations
Consolidate your overall learning with simulations and a personal action plan

Faculty

Bettina
Hausmann

Learn, Practice
and Use

Programme Details

The MCE 5-Day Mini MBA focuses on the following 5 key areas:

Leadership Development – key competences, building self awareness, leading others and the organization through change. This also includes self profiling, daily reflection and feedback from the facilitators and peers to develop emotional intelligence
Strategy – building a strategy (the changing world and its impact, internal analysis, differentiation etc), and strategy execution (organizational and individual)
Business Finance – the fundamentals that underpin business success including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow and Investment decision-making
Marketing & Sales– knowing the customer (needs and segmentation) and achieving success with the customer (targeting, Customer Value Proposition, sales etc)
Supply Chain – its importance in delivering the Customer Value Proposition

A Business Simulation will be used throughout the programme and will cover activities of five financial reporting years.

You will work in teams of 3 to 4 people and your objective will be to maximise profitability and ROCE over the strategic 5 year period.

Five Programme Modules

1 | Managing People and Leadership

Transition from expert to manager: what it means for you in your role
Discover your leadership style in today’s business world
Build trust across cultures and remote teams
Learn about leading organizational capabilities
Explore different leadership styles and emotional intelligence (Goleman model)
Build your awareness of DEI, hybrid, and cross-cultural team dynamics

2 | Business Strategy & Innovation

Analyze your market using inside-out and outside-in strategic tools
Apply strategy models like BCG and McKinsey Matrix in your role
Learn to evaluate trends and turn them into business opportunities and strategies
Build value propositions through innovation and customer-centric thinking

3 | Performance, Budgeting and Accounting

Understand core financial principles: P&L, balance sheets, KPIs
Learn budgeting, cost control, and performance analysis
Use financial insights and data analytics to make decisions
Build confidence in business conversations involving numbers and ratios

4 | Commercial & Operational Excellence

Understand how marketing, sales, and operations drive business value
Learn about segmentation, targeting, and positioning fundamentals
Explore how supply chains and customer value intersect
Identify and optimize your team’s contribution to the value chain

5 | Navigating Change

Learn frameworks for strategy execution and change management
Understand different change management models and how to navigate transformation
Practice stakeholder communication and change leadership situations
Consolidate your overall learning with simulations and a personal action plan

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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customized learning solutions

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MCE Mini MBA

MCE Mini MBA

The Key Issues

Key Competences​

The Key Issues

BusinessFluency

People Management

Key Competences​

Decision-Making

Change & Alignment

The Right Programme for You

Highlights

Practical tools for managing people, projects, and priorities

Financial and commercial fluency for technical managers

Peer learning and support from other international managers

Hands-on activities for real-world application and practice

Learn, Practice and Use

Programme Details

Five Programme Modules

Faculty

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

Learn, Practice and Use

Programme Details

Five Programme Modules

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

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Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

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Key Competences

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Key Competences

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Hausmann

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