Program Overview

Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)

Introduction

The College of Business Administration at King Saud University (CBA-KSU) believes that true business success depends on key leaders having the strategic skills and vision necessary to attain organizational and personal goals. The Executive MBA Program provides these leaders with the necessary tools and perspectives to lead their organizations into the future. It is a broad-based, fast-paced, in-depth leadership experience.

Degree Title

Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)

Program Language

English

Significance and Justifications of Program Creation

The chief goal of the CBA-KSU EMBA Program curriculum is to help students develop the broad-ranging skill set they need to take a large view of their organizations and to guide these organizations more effectively in senior leadership roles. Students learn how to analyze and process information from a variety of sources in their strategic decision-making to set sound courses for their organizations.

Program Vision

Produce leaders who will shape the business sector in the present and the future.

Program Mission

Provide EMBA students with a rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education and transforming them into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges in a global economy.

Program Objectives

• Acquire a breadth of knowledge across various business disciplines.
• Develop analytical skills, understanding, confidence, and language to influence strategy at all levels of the business organization.
• Enhance participants' communication, leadership and teamwork skills so they can make an impact in business organizations and advance in their careers.
• Through relevant, real-world case studies, reinforced by established theoretical concepts, equip participants with the competencies needed to recognize and solve problems found in today's dynamic business environment.
• Emphasize cross-disciplinary integration of subjects, such as the key linkages between accounting, finance, decision-making methods, marketing, information systems, and human resources.
• Develop advanced leadership and team-building skills for management in dynamic organizations.
• Understand international business and the implications of a rapidly evolving global economy.
• Recognize and evaluate ethical, legal, and regulatory dimensions of business decisions.

Program Outcomes

• Synthesize theories, concepts, tools, skills, practices, and research to address problems, accomplish complex tasks, and complete projects that are common in a business environment.
• Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills that are professionally appropriate, promote mutual respect, and encourage healthy discourse.
• Demonstrate decision-making skills within a global business context that are well-reasoned, based on evidence, and are both ethically and socially responsible.
• Lead, collaborate, and interact with others in diverse and globally dispersed environments based on a reflective knowledge of self and value-based interpersonal skills.
• Assess opportunities to sustain and improve an organization's competitive position in a dynamic and complex global marketplace by employing critical, creative, or strategic thinking.
• Compare the environment in which business operates in Saudi Arabia and abroad through direct experience and interaction with local, regional, and multinational businesses.

Program Beneficiaries

This program is for:

• Experienced professionals seeking to obtain a master's degree in business while maintaining their full-time job responsibilities.
• Professionals who want to advance their careers and sharpen their management and decision making skills.
• Mid-level executives and professionals who aspire to greater responsibility within the competitive global environment.
• Senior and upper-level executives who desire to enrich their experience with academics.
• Employees with strong potential to advance into senior executive roles.
• Employees whose career path reflects increasing responsibilities that require EMBA skills and knowledge.

Employment Opportunities Available

• Mid-level executive.
• Upper-level executive.
• Department head/manager.
• Division director.

The EMBA Candidates

Participants are expected to come from all types of organizations – profit, non-profit, or government-related – and all sizes – from large to small and in-between. They are expected to represent a variety of industries.

Admission Requirements

• The applicant must possess a bachelor degree studied on a full-time or part-time basis from approved universities and colleges.
• The applicant must have at least 3 years of work experience in the private or public sector.
• The applicant should hold a leadership position or used to hold the position based on a letter from his/her organization.
• The passing of an interview conducted by the Program Committee.

Graduation Requirements

• Passing 43 Cr Hrs of master's courses.
• The Executive MBA curriculum is a cohort program, with all participants taking the same courses throughout the program.

Program General Structure

Number of required Cr Hrs is (43) as follows:

• Type of Courses | No. of Courses | Cr Hrs
  • Tools For Management | 8 | 18
  • Functional Areas | 5 | 12
  • Managerial Leadership | 6 | 10
  • Applied Project | 1 | 3
  • Total | 20 | 43

Detailed EMBA Course Structure

• Code | Course | Cr Hrs | Cr Hrs (Total)
  • EMBA 508 | Statistics for Managers | 1 | 18
  • EMBA 516 | Decision Models and Analysis | 2
  • EMBA 515 | Business Economics | 3
  • EMBA 507 | Information Technology Management | 2
  • EMBA 512 | Financial Accounting | 1
  • EMBA 514 | Managerial Accounting | 3
  • EMBA 521 | Corporate Finance | 3
  • EMBA 536 | Strategic Operations Management | 3
  • EMBA 538 | Supply Chain Management | 1 | 12
  • EMBA 540 | Marketing Management & Strategy | 3
  • EMBA 542 | Brand Management | 2
  • EMBA 544 | Global Enterprise | 3
  • EMBA 579 | Corporate Strategy & Control | 3
  • EMBA 500 | Leadership Foundations | 1 | 13
  • EMBA 523 | Valuation, Mergers, and Acquisitions | 2
  • EMBA 530 | Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Corporate governance | 1
  • EMBA 532 | Negotiation & Conflict Resolution | 1
  • EMBA 534 | Leadership & Organizational Design and Change | 3
  • EMBA 546 | Entrepreneurship | 2
  • EMBA 577 | Applied Project | 3

Course Description

• EMBA 508 - Statistics for Managers (1 Cr Hrs) This course helps managers understand how to use statistics in decision making.
• EMBA 516 - Decision Models and Analysis (2 Cr Hrs) This course introduces the basic principles and techniques of applied mathematical modeling for managerial decision-making.
• EMBA 515 - Business Economics (3 Cr Hrs) Demand and supply analysis, market mechanism, market failure, costs and revenue, production decisions and pricing, markets structure analysis, macroeconomic structure, aggregate demand & supply, inflation and unemployment, fiscal and monetary policy, international economics.
• EMBA 500 - Leadership Foundations (1 Cr Hr) This course focuses on individual, team, and organizational leadership.
• EMBA 507 - Information Technology Management (2 Cr Hrs) This course focuses on how organizations can successfully use computer-based information technologies to transform themselves and achieve competitive advantage.
• EMBA 512 - Financial Accounting (1 Cr Hr) This course provides students with a clear understanding of accounting concepts and focuses on the development, analysis, and use of accounting reports.
• EMBA 514 - Managerial Accounting (3 Cr Hrs) An introduction to accounting concepts and their information content for decision making and control in settings of operations, divisional operations, and international operations.
• EMBA 521 - Corporate Finance (3 Cr Hrs) This course covers the foundations of finance with an emphasis on applications that are vital for corporate managers.
• EMBA 523 - Valuation, Mergers, and Acquisitions (2 Cr Hrs) This course covers valuation methods, traditional mergers, and acquisitions topics and transactions.
• EMBA 530 - Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Corporate governance (1 Cr Hr) For business leaders, understanding and managing ethical and corporate social responsibility issues is a core skill.
• EMBA 532 - Negotiation & Conflict Resolution (1 Cr Hrs) In strategic negotiations, participants will explore negotiating opportunities, become aware of how to effectively plan negotiations, examine differing negotiation styles, discuss proven negotiation tactics, research cultural differences, debate ethics in negotiations and practice negotiation skills.
• EMBA 534 - Leadership & Organizational Design and Change (3 Cr Hrs) This course focuses on transformational leadership and the themes of organizational culture and leading organizational change.
• EMBA 536 - Strategic Operations Management (3 Cr Hrs) This course covers approaches and techniques for allocating scarce resources in manufacturing and service industries.
• EMBA 538 - Supply Chain Management (1 Cr Hr) This course focuses on how to coordinate and integrate such activities as purchasing, warehousing, inventory control, and transport into a seamless process.
• EMBA 540 - Marketing Management & Strategy (3 Cr Hrs) This course develops market-based knowledge and skills for effective marketing strategy design, implementation, and evaluation.
• EMBA 542 - Brand Management (2 Cr Hrs) This course addresses strategic brand decisions faced by an organization and shows managers how to build successful brands.
• EMBA 544 - Global Enterprise (3 Cr Hrs) By analyzing real cases from around the world, this course illustrates the principles of sustainable global enterprise.
• EMBA 546 – Entrepreneurship (2 Cr Hrs) This course provides basic understanding of corporate entrepreneurship.
• EMBA 577 - Applied Project (3 Cr Hrs) This course is designed to be the concluding experiential event in the Executive MBA program.
• EMBA 579 - Corporate Strategy & Control (3 Cr Hrs) This course focuses on issues central to an enterprise's long- and short-term competitive position.