Executive MBA, EMBA

Seminars

Leadership and Team Building Seminar - Fort Myers, Florida - One Week

This seminar develops and refines your team leadership skills. It combines classroom activities with the experiential, competitive challenge of team sailboat racing creating an intense team experience that integrates theory and practice.

Global Business Seminar- London and Paris- Spring Semester- One Week

Develop and present strategic recommendations to international organizations through multiple flash consulting engagements to gain critical economic, political and cultural perspectives on doing business globally.

Public Policy Seminar- Washington, D.C.- Summer Semester- One Week

This one-week immersion provides first-hand exposure to the link between public policy development and organizational strategy. Meet with lobbyists and leaders at think tanks, regulatory agencies, national associations, and other organizations that influence public policy development.

Curriculum

17 Courses

45 Credits

Program Length: 16 months

Fall I Semester (12 Credits)

EMBA-610	Organizational Behavior	3
EMBA-640	Corporate Financial Reporting and Control	3
EMBA-645	Introduction to Business Analytics - Principles and Technology	1.5
EMBA-780	Managing in the Global Environment	1.5
EMGOB-860	Leadership & Team Building Seminar	3

Spring Semester (12 Credits)

EMBA-622	Operations & Data Analysis	3
EMBA-630	Economic Analysis for Managers	1.5
EMBA-740	London & Paris Travel Seminar	3
EMGES-801	Business Opportunities	1.5
EMGOB-855	Conflict and Negotiation	3

Summer Semester (12 Credits)

EMBA-650	Value Based Financial Management	3
EMBA-660	Marketing: Challenge of Managing Value	3
EMBA-670	Information Management for Competitive Advantage	3
EMBA-770	The Washington Policy Seminar	3

Fall II Semester (9 Credits)

EMBA-680	Managing in the Ethical & Legal Environment	3
EMBA-800	Strategic Management	3
EMBA-899	Program Capstone	3

EMBA Learning Goals and Objectives

Learning Goals	Learning Objectives
Be able to effectively apply analytical and critical reasoning skills to solve organizational challenges. (Analytical Reasoning)	1. Identify the problem and related issues. 2. Identify key assumptions. 3. Generate salient alternatives. 4. Examine the evidence and source of evidence. 5. Identify conclusions, implications, and consequences.
Effectively articulate the role of ethics in management. (Ethics)	1. Identify conflicts of interests and pressures that could lead to unethical conduct. 2. Understand what kinds of questions are helpful to ask oneself when confronting an ethical dilemma. 3. Demonstrate the ability to identify and take into account the interests of different stakeholders. 4. Understand how business strategies that facilitate “doing good” can be made consistent with profitability. 5. Understand that what is legal may not always be ethical and that what is ethical may sometimes not be legal. 6. Appreciate that ethical norms vary across different countries and cultures.
Indicate an understanding of how culture, economic and political issues differ across countries. (Global Awareness)	1. Articulate fundamental challenges of global business. 2. Analyze financial impacts of operating a global business. 3. Apply the analysis to global management situation. 4. Identify challenges of an international workforce. 5. Demonstrate cultural awareness of external constituents.
Be able to effectively communicate in oral form. (Oral Communication)	1. Organize the presentation effectively. 2. Deliver the presentation with attention to volume, clarity, grammatical correctness and precision. 3. Develop the topic. 4. Communicate with the audience. 5. Use communication aids effectively. 6. Summarize the presentation.
Be able to effectively communicate in written form. (Written Communication)	1. Develop a topic with supporting details. 2. Organize written communication effectively and logically. 3. Use correct word choice and effective sentence structure. 4. Employ normal conventions of spelling and grammar. 5. Provide examples and supporting evidence. 6. Communicate accurate quantitative information.
Assess their personal leadership style, qualities and abilities while at the same time indicating a plan for moving forward in their professional development to enhance their career paths. (Leadership)	1. Describe leadership and fellowship theories and use them to analyze a variety of situations. 2. Demonstrate the ability to conceptualize why and how the theories function through the analysis of human behavior.

Advising

If you have questions regarding the Executive MBA Program, please contact Tammy MacLean, PhD, Director of the Center for Executive Education, at 617-573-8659 or by email.