Program Overview

Executive Management (EMBA) Program

The Executive Management (EMBA) program is designed to provide students with the skills, knowledge, and sensitivity required to attain and maintain sustainable competitive advantage within a global environment.

Course Offerings

• EMBA 677 - SPECIAL TOPICS: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Contact department for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit.
• EMBA 911 - EXECUTIVE SEMINAR I: This seminar focuses on three areas of executive leadership development: sharpening strategic communication skills, fostering high performing teams, and enhancing transformational change and inclusive leadership skills.
• EMBA 912 - EXECUTIVE SEMINAR II: Executive Seminar II provides a channel to facilitate integrated learning in the second semester of the core curriculum. This seminar includes expert/executive speakers focused on current business topics and on professional growth and development as an executive.
• EMBA 913 - EXECUTIVE SEMINAR III: This course examines the reasons that companies might consider social impact and corporate social responsibility as part of their strategy. We study different methods that companies use to measure social impact.
• EMBA 914 - EXECUTIVE SEMINAR IV: Using business case studies and an academic framework built on economic theories, Executive Seminar IV will focus on the foundations of corporate governance from the current debate on objectives of corporations that is captivating corporate America to designing and executing good governance practices.
• EMBA 920 - MANAGING THE GLOBAL FIRM: MICRO FOUNDATIONS:
• EMBA 922 - MANAGING THE GLOBAL FIRM: STRATEGY: With an ever-growing number of industries becoming global in scope, managers are being increasingly challenged to manage firms with a global perspective. The course of "Global Strategy" seeks to provide students with the skills, knowledge and sensitivity required to attain and maintain sustainable competitive advantage within a global environment.
• EMBA 991 - EXECUTIVE FORUM I: STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS:
• EMBA 992 - EXECUTIVE FORUM II: SCIENCE DRIVEN STRATEGY: There are four Executive Forums in the EMBA program, targeting development of an executive mindset, which open and close each academic year. This second forum focuses critical thinking, strategy planning, decision making and implementation by integrating core functional skills.
• EMBA 993 - EXECUTIVE FORUM III: ENTERPRISE STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP:
• EMBA 994 - EXECUTIVE FORUM IV: EMBA 994 is a global project-based course aimed at providing students an experiential learning opportunity to understand how to manage in a global environment. Students work with a foreign firm located in Latin America and/or Europe both remotely and then through a week-long on-site engagement, to develop solutions to strategy related problems of the client.

Program Details

• Department: Management
• Grade Mode: Standard Letter
• Course Type: Various, including Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Seminar, Independent Study
• Credit Hours: Vary by course
• Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate or Visiting Graduate level students for most courses, with some courses restricted to students in the EMBA program.
• Description: The program is designed to develop executive leadership skills, with a focus on strategic communication, team building, transformational change, and inclusive leadership. The program also explores global strategy, corporate governance, and social impact.