Global Executive MBA

You want to transform professionally and personally. Broaden your knowledge of global leadership and deepen your understanding of yourself. Widen your perspective. And challenge everything you know.

The Global Executive MBA provides you with the tools, the confidence, and the expanded world vision to step up and become a truly global leader.

You want change. Are you ready to make it happen?

The GEMBA Experience

Challenging, rigorous, hands-on, and genuinely global, the Global Executive MBA experience will elevate your ability to lead and transform your vision of management.

Program Structure

The Global Executive MBA takes place in five business hubs: Barcelona, New York, Munich, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley. The program will carry you to key markets and business communities around the world to give you a truly global perspective.

You can further customize your learning experience by choosing from a portfolio of elective modules offered in five continents.

The core program of the Global Executive MBA is structured around six two-week modules delivered in five venues over 12 months. You may also opt to take a minimum of one elective course to complete your journey. The program concludes in October on IESE’s Barcelona campus, where participants showcase their projects and faculty members bring the learning together before graduation.

The case study method analyzes real-life business scenarios from multiple angles and sharpens your decision-making abilities in the process.

Your core modules

Each core module encompasses a series of core courses on the essentials of global business, including leadership tenets, financial accounting, entrepreneurship, and digital transformation. In Module 4, you will work on a business plan off-campus.

• Module 1 – Laying the Foundations
• Module 2 – Expanding Business
• Module 3 – Improving Business
• Module 4 – Managing Value Creation
• Module 5 – Driving Innovation
• Module 6 – Leading Across Borders
• Module 7 & 8 – Electives Modules
• Module 9 – Bringing It All Together

Each module comprises three distinct phases:

1. Pre-residential
   Prepare for what’s ahead. Revitalize your knowledge and understanding of core business concepts.
2. Residential
   Explore concepts in the dynamic context of teamwork, case-based debate, lectures, and workshops on campus. Take it further with company visits, events, and guest lectures.
3. Post-residential
   Apply new concepts, share feedback and analysis, and collaborate on projects.

In-Company Project (TFM)

During the last four months of the program, you will complete an in-company project where you will directly apply new approaches and concepts to an explicit business challenge. Working in teams with a sponsoring company, you will identify a real-life challenge and build an actionable plan to address it. Expert input from the company, senior executives, and faculty will guide the experience.

Outline

Project examples

• Development of a Social Collaboration Strategy
• Identifying and Creating New Markets
• Increasing Production Efficiency of a Plant
• Analysis of a Management Cost System
• Development of a Product Launch Strategy

International Weeks

The Global Executive MBA provides you with the tools, the confidence, and the expanded world vision to step up and become a truly global leader. The program takes place in five business hubs: Barcelona, New York, Munich, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley. GEMBA program will carry you to key markets and business communities around the world to give you a truly global perspective.

Learn more about the international weeks.

Learning Methodology

The Global Executive MBA program combines in-person modules and independent online study, which accounts for around 30 percent of the program.

Residential modules merge dynamic, innovative, and experiential teaching methodologies that allow you to translate theory into practice. For example, the Retail Safari in New York offers a frontline view of best practices in the world’s foremost business hub, while the Silicon Valley segment provides a matchless forum to explore innovation on the ground.

Between modules, the digital classroom will keep you engaged and connected to peers and faculty members.

How you learn

Lifelong Learning

Alumni

You will form part of a dynamic alumni community comprised of more than 45,000 professionals who live and work in over 100 countries. Wherever you are, whatever your line of work, you will always be within easy reach of an IESE graduate.

• 45,000+ alumni
• 108 nationalities
• 68 annual e-conferences
• 230+ continuous learning sessions every year
• 33 regional chapters

Support Throughout Your Career

Earning your Global Executive MBA degree is just the beginning. After graduating, you’ll be able to benefit from numerous initiatives to continue on your learning path, such as:

• Accredited coaches
• Individual assessment interviews
• The SUCCEED platform, which allows you to devise your own professional and personal development plan
• Career opportunities

Continuing Learning

During and after the program, you’ll be able to attend learning sessions on leading-edge topics like e-business, the new economy, finance, general management strategy, IT innovations, operations, production and logistics, leadership, and the general economy. Led by IESE professors, these sessions feature renowned thought leaders from a variety of business fields. Recent sessions have welcomed Tom Kelley of IDEO; IBM’s Deborah DiSanzo; Bill McDermott of SAP; and Ian Goldin of the Oxford Martin School.