Financial Times ranks ESADE-Georgetown Global Executive MBA among top 15 executive programmes in the world
The Global Executive MBA (GEMBA), taught jointly by ESADE and Georgetown University since June 2008, continues to move up in the Financial Times ranking of the world’s top programmes for executives. According to the annual list of the top 100 Executive MBA programmes, published today by the Financial Times, the GEMBA is in 15th place worldwide.
Among programmes taught jointly by multiple schools, the GEMBA was ranked 7th in the world. According to Alfons Sauquet, Dean of ESADE Business School, “ESADE’s strategy of establishing strong partnerships with high-quality, leading international business schools is far-reaching. This programme is a good example of that. Working together, these two institutions train experienced executives to have a global vision – something which, in today’s internationalised world, is no longer merely optional."
The factors of the GEMBA valued most highly by the Financial Times are the programme’s international design and the participants’ level of international experience, for which it took 3rd and 5th place worldwide, respectively. The British business daily assesses the quality of EMBA programmes by using 16 indicators that measure factors such as career progress, student satisfaction, faculty diversity, salary increase and internationalisation.
Ranked among the most international programmes
The Financial Times was impressed with the international design of the ESADE-Georgetown GEMBA, ranking the programme 3rd in the world in this category. This recognition had as much to do with the multicultural profile of the participants as with the methodology of the programme itself. In the current edition of the programme, the 45 participants hail from 15 different countries on five continents: the United States, South Africa, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, France, Spain, El Salvador, Brazil, Switzerland, China, Bulgaria, Russia and Mexico.
In addition to its partnership with the McDonough School of Business, ESADE collaborates with the Walsh School of Foreign Service, also at Georgetown University. Thanks to the involvement of the Walsh School, the ESADE-Georgetown GEMBA is the first executive programme to reach beyond the world of business to incorporate the disciplines of geopolitics and diplomacy. The result is added value for participants, who emerge from the programme better equipped for leadership positions at global companies and organisations.
According to Pedro Parada, co-director of the GEMBA and associate professor at ESADE, “The incorporation of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service was instrumental in making the final decision to launch the programme six years ago, because it allowed us to design and deliver a programme that is truly different from others and which prepares executives for the global world of today and tomorrow."
International experience
The Financial Times gave the ESADE-Georgetown GEMBA top marks for international mobility, rating the programme 5th in the world in this category. The GEMBA is designed to meet the needs of executives, who increasingly demand flexible graduate-level business programmes that provide an international perspective while allowing them to continue leading companies elsewhere in the world.
The programme consists of six 12-day modules held in Washington D.C., Barcelona, Madrid, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bangalore, Shanghai, Beijing and New York. Its purpose is to immerse students in each of these highly diverse business cultures while providing them with tools for general management and a fundamentally global outlook.
Alliance with Georgetown University
In 2008, ESADE teamed up with Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and Walsh School of Foreign Service to launch the Global Executive MBA. Georgetown’s expertise in the field of international relations helps GEMBA students to achieve success in business by providing a global perspective and the ability to foresee the political, economic and legal dynamics that affect the global economy.
In November, GEMBA participants will complete a module in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. In February 2014 they will head to Bangalore, and in May, for the first time, the programme will take them to Shanghai and Beijing. In the summer of 2014, they will pass through New York before finishing where they started, at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In total, the participants will have travelled more than 40,000 km – more than the circumference of the earth.
On completion of all six modules, the students will receive a joint MBA from Georgetown University and ESADE Business School.
