Program Overview

Oregon Executive MBA Program

The Oregon Executive MBA strengthens your strategic perspective and allows you to exchange ideas and best practices with your peers. With classes held twice a month on consecutive Fridays and Saturdays, time away from work is limited, so you can sustain your career momentum while earning a graduate degree.

Program Overview

Each cohort of working professionals spends twenty months side by side, bringing their own real-world business acumen to bear on the lessons learned in a high-level MBA curriculum. The program focuses on leadership, teamwork, and personal growth in projects that hold relevance for today's business environment.

Curriculum

The Oregon Executive MBA curriculum includes:

• Real-World Application: Relevant projects impart great value to your current organization by addressing key issues such as generating revenue, lowering costs, and leading strategic change.
• Global Business Perspectives: An international experience is a required step toward earning your degree, where you will travel abroad to visit companies, meet with executives and industry leaders, and learn the intricacies of doing business in a global environment.

First-Year Curriculum

The first year of the Oregon Executive MBA's curriculum focuses on the core knowledge and skills executives need in order to lead their organizations effectively. Through a variety of dynamic instructional formats, students are challenged to apply their learning to real-world situations. The first-year curriculum includes:

• Executive Immersion in Portland and Eugene
• Business writing
• Managerial economics
• Business ethics
• Global business environment
• Financial accounting
• Leadership and motivation
• Managerial accounting
• Marketing management
• Operations management
• Data and business decisions
• Managing and leading organizations
• Accounting/finance bridge
• Financial analysis
• Opportunity recognition
• Capstone workshop
• Global trip workshop

Second-Year Curriculum

The second-year curriculum offers advanced courses in core subjects, with a special focus on strategy, global business, corporate entrepreneurship, and innovation. This year is built around the business capstone project, which provides students the opportunity to pursue a project of special interest to their organizations or themselves. The second-year curriculum includes:

• Global Business Perspectives
• Marketing strategy
• New venture planning
• Formulating corporate strategy
• Corporate financial strategy
• Alliances and acquisitions
• Negotiation
• Technology and innovation
• Legal environment of business
• Business capstone project
• Electives

Program Location

The Oregon Executive MBA program is offered at the Lundquist College of Business, with locations in Eugene and Portland, Oregon.