Executive MBA

• Seminars
• Curriculum
• EMBA Learning Goals and Objectives
• Policies

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-701	The Leadership Opportunity	1.5
EMBA-702	Value Based Decision Making	1.5
EMBA-640	Corporate Financial Reporting and Control	3
EMBA-704	Analytics Fundamentals	1.5
EMBA-710	Entrepreneurship	1.5
EMBA-706	Managing Teams and Organizations	1.5
EMBA-707	Financial Analysis for Business Decision	1.5

Spring Semester (12 Credits)

EMBA-709	Business Opportunities	1.5
EMBA-705	Leading Innovation	1.5
EMBA-711	Managing in the Global Environment	1.5
EMBA-712	Principles of Marketing: Planning Implementation & Measurement	1.5
EMBA-713	Operations Management	1.5
EMBA-716	Economic Analysis	1.5
EMBA-740	Global Travel Seminar	3

Summer Semester (12 Credits)

EMBA-714	Storytelling Using Data	1.5
EMBA-717	Change Management	1.5
EMBA-718	Digital Foundations of Business Innovation	1.5
EMBA-719	Conflict and Negotiation	1.5
EMBA-720	Strategic Management: Societal & Industrial Impact	1.5
EMBA-721	Digital Foundations for Global Enterprise	1.5
EMBA-722	Promises of Financial Technology	1.5
EMBA-723	Marketing in Context	1.5

Fall II Semester (9 Credits)

EMBA-770	The Washington Policy Seminar	3
EMBA-724	Strategic Management: Firm-Level Resources and Approaches	1.5
EMBA-725	Regulatory Environment of Business	1.5
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

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, [e-mail].