Embark on a transformative 18-month journey with our Executive MBA (EMBA), designed to empower experienced and mid-career professionals to excel in today’s complex and ever-evolving business world.
Our EMBA programme includes a wide array of enriching components, including an in-company project, study trip, a personal leadership development plan, one-on-one coaching sessions, advanced courses, and a range of elective options.
Throughout your Executive MBA experience, Personal Leadership Development is seamlessly integrated. With its flexible, part-time format, you'll have the opportunity to apply newfound approaches learned on campus directly in your workplace as you progress through the programme. The highlight of this integration is your in-company project, a distinctive opportunity to implement novel concepts and models to address immediate real-life challenges encountered by you and your organisation.
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Foundations of Management
A consolidation of your basic business skills through courses that are moderately theoretical will bring you back into learning mode and underpin the development of your analytical skills.
- Managerial accounting
- Leading people
- Financial management
- Business analytics & decision making
- Marketing management
- Study Trip*
Practice of Leadership / Electives
The elective period is your opportunity to select from a range of subjects designed to offer further specialised knowledge. Here is a selection of some of the courses that may be offered:
- Creating Customer Value
- Strategic Negotiations
- Change Management
- Managing Corporate Turnarounds
- ESG Strategy in Practice
Advanced Courses
These courses will help you dive into decision-making and achieving of goals, especially in times of uncertainty:
- Strategic Management
- Operations and Services Management
- Geopolitics and Economics
- The Business of Sustainability
- Future Technologies in Business
- Closing Weekend: Future Executive Days*
*more information to follow
PLD is comprehensively integrated across the entire EMBA learning experience. Various elements and aspects from the core and advanced courses are integrated into PLD. Throughout your PLD you are supported by faculty, coaches and peers. You will explore leadership through class-based exercises, case studies and you will have one-to-one access to faculty and coaches.
This nine-month project is done in parallel with your regular EMBA studies. It gives you an opportunity to focus on a real management challenge in your own organisation.
RSM’s GEMBA and EMBA students have the exclusive opportunity to engage with several C-suite executives through our Meet the Strategic Leaders sessions throughout their programmes. This speaker series provides you with direct access to learn from influential global business leaders, fostering valuable insights and inspiring discussions.
Previous speakers have included:
Danielle Rainha, CHRO at SHV Energy
Danielle Rainha has more than 25 years of HR experience in different industries. She is a strategic leader with deep understanding of global organisational environments and diversity. In a dynamic and insightful session, Rainha shared valuable lessons from her inspiring journey to the C-suite of a Dutch multinational with 13,000 employees, serving 26 million customers across 25 countries on 4 continents. She also emphasised the critical role of managing people in nurturing and selecting future strategic leaders across the independently operating companies within SHV Energy’s portfolio, and elaborated on several strategic choices she had to navigate along the way.
The study trip exposes you to the complexities of global business via academic engagement with partner institutions and direct interaction with the local context. You will select a destination from a pre-determined portfolio which you will share with your EMBA cohort as well as the Full-time MBA cohort.
* Study trip is subject to rules and regulations around international travel.
Experience the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) trajectory, which is now offered simultaneously with your Executive MBA (EMBA), to work with and start your own search fund. This optional trajectory is designed to delve into entrepreneurial risk through identifying, acquiring, and growing established businesses. We will get you involved with active search funds and experienced entrepreneurs. We'll offer workshops to prepare for your entrepreneurial journey and an exclusive elective course on ETA. As a bonus, you'll also become a member of the entrepreneurship club.
Always dreamed about becoming an entrepreneur? This trajectory in the EMBA will set you on the fast track toward realising your dream. It guides you to become a CEO by acquiring a business, making your entrepreneurial aspirations a reality.