Objectives

• To ensure program participants can continue to develop key management skills.
• To provide an integral, global vision of general management and the role of companies in their widest context.
• To broaden perspectives beyond mere integration of the functional and operational aspects of a company to embrace the concept of firms as complex systems acting in a rapidly changing business environment.
• To foster initiative and active management, and appreciate that business involves more than just a straight choice between competition and collaboration.
• To encourage management teams to show corporate social responsibility and respect for staff.
• To share the role and responsibility of treating companies as key players in the creation of wider social value.

Speed up your entry to the management team

The knowledge and practical experience gained on the Executive MBA program enhance your value to the company and its clients, allowing you to take on the challenges and responsibilities found in senior management.

Developing management skills

It is not enough to understand the changes occurring in the new economy - one has to exploit this knowledge to drive change. The Executive MBA helps develop key abilities - leadership, communication, creativity, enhanced management style, intellectual rigour, and motivation of staff.

Learning how to update your knowledge

Constant change is a feature of the business world. Managers enhance their capacity for ongoing learning and to grasp new trends. In the process, they learn how to adapt to changing circumstances and to exploit new opportunities.

Acquiring international experience

The EMBA programs international internships give students a broader global and multicultural perspective, helping them discover how the worlds best companies succeed at what they do.

Continuing your professional career

The EMBA has been specially designed to ensure that students can take part in the program without disrupting their daily work. Study is wholly compatible with performing a management role in ones company.

Networking in ESADE

At ESADE, we strongly encourage interaction and co-operation between associate companies, participants, faculty, and tutoring managers. The aim is to forge a network of first-class contacts that will stand students in good stead long after the program has ended.

Shaping the future

Program participants become managers who are capable of leading their companies into the future and face new challenges, providing considerable value to their clients in the process.

Increase your intellectual capital

Executive MBA students further their knowledge and experience of the business world. This knowledge can immediately be applied at various levels in the company. The experience increases your intellectual capital and puts you in a better position to face future challenges.

Train and retain your most promising managers

Brilliant, highly motivated professionals seek the kind of training that assures them a top management career. Rounding off their training allows them to assume greater responsibilities and to further their careers. Training managers through an integrated program like the Executive MBA creates bonds of trust and helps retain gifted staff.

Developing your managers international vision

International experience in companies is usefully acquired through occupying various posts in different countries and/or by taking part in interdisciplinary projects. But such experience can be obtained more quickly through participation in ESADE's Executive MBA program, thanks to:

• A curriculum that develops an international vision, analysing new approaches and their suitability to different management tasks.
• Discussion of the trends, concepts, and challenges of the New Economy with multidisciplinary teams of managers drawn from all sectors.
• First-hand experience through international internships, which allows students to analyse the trends that succeed in highly competitive markets such as the United States and the UK.
• Development of the abilities needed to manage people and overcome geographical and cultural barriers.
• Learn how to conduct research, take decisions on new ideas and implement them.

ESADE is a member of the Executive MBA Council, an international organization that fosters excellence and innovation in EMBA programs. This ensures the School's courses are constantly updated and improved to meet future management training needs. ESADE's international accreditations bear eloquent witness to its success in this respect.