2023-2024 Catalog

Executive MBA

Seminars

Global Travel Seminar- 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.- Fall 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

27 Courses

45 Credits

Program Length: 16 months

Fall I Semester (12 Credits)

EMBA-701The Leadership Opportunity

1.5

EMBA-702Value Based Decision Making

1.5

EMBA-640Corporate Financial Reporting and Control

3

EMBA-704Analytics Fundamentals

1.5

EMBA-710Entrepreneurship

1.5

EMBA-706Managing Teams and Organizations

1.5

EMBA-707Financial Analysis for Business Decision

1.5

Spring Semester (12 Credits)

EMBA-709Business Opportunities

1.5

EMBA-705Leading Innovation

1.5

EMBA-711Managing in the Global Environment

1.5

EMBA-712Principles of Marketing: Planning Implementation & Measurement

1.5

EMBA-713Operations Management

1.5

EMBA-716Economic Analysis

1.5

EMBA-740Global Travel Seminar

3

Summer Semester (12 Credits)

EMBA-714Storytelling Using Data

1.5

EMBA-717Change Management

1.5

EMBA-718Digital Foundations of Business Innovation

1.5

EMBA-719Conflict and Negotiation

1.5

EMBA-720Strategic Management: Societal & Industrial Impact

1.5

EMBA-721Digital Foundations for Global Enterprise

1.5

EMBA-722Promises of Financial Technology

1.5

EMBA-723Marketing in Context

1.5

Fall II Semester (9 Credits)

EMBA-770The Washington Policy Seminar

3

EMBA-724Strategic Management: Firm-Level Resources and Approaches

1.5

EMBA-725Regulatory Environment of Business

1.5

EMBA-899Program 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

Students are required to attend all in-person class meetings. Not attending all classes will result in course failure unless extenuating circumstances apply.

Class absence requires permission in advance, from both the faculty and the EMBA Program Director. It is the student’s responsibility to reach out to both the faculty and the EMBA Program Director to discuss the extenuating circumstances that would allow for missing a class. What constitutes extenuating circumstances, is situational and determined on a case-to-case basis, and at the discretion of the EMBA program director.

If you have questions regarding the Executive MBA Program, please contact Mark Almeida, Executive MBA Program Director, msalmeida@suffolk.edu.