Timeline & courses

• Introduction to General Management
• Making Responsible Decisions
• Leadership in Practice
• Being a Responsible Leader
• Data Analytics for Responsible Leaders

The EMBA program begins with a deep immersion in business fundamentals, management functions, and strategy. Designed to help you make sound business decisions based on equally sound analysis and judgment, the program will teach you to identify key drivers and integrate them into a larger vision for your company and industry.

• Marketing Management
• Economic Thinking
• Business Strategy

COACHING DAY (Online)

• Managerial Accounting and Sustainable Finance
• Financial Management and Corporate Finance
• Operations and Supply

• Corporate Strategy and M&A
• Organizational Behavior
• Operational Sustainability in a Circular Economy
• Debrief Simulation

ESMT is part of the Global Network for Advanced Management, a partnership between 31 business schools worldwide. During the program, students attend one-week short exchange studies at another network university from up to 20 schools offering exchanges at the same time as ESMT. 

Students choose from partner schools in the network.

When? June 10–14, 2024

Academy of Management (Abroad in Chicago)

Learning from experts in real time is naturally one of the best ways to understand and incorporate the latest trends and best practices into your work. This module allows ESMT EMBA students to do just that.

You will go to the heart of expertise by attending the Academy of Management annual meeting in North America. Whether your interests lie in entrepreneurship, sustainability, strategic leadership, or any number of topics, your time at the conference will be spent learning from and networking with experts in all fields of business, with roughly ten thousand attendees each year. The evidence-based management knowledge acquired from your time there will be directly applicable to the Applied Learning Project of the EMBA program as well as your future career.

Electives:
• Organizing for Innovation / Global Strategies
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion / Design Thinking
• Leading through Networks / Sustainable Energy Future
• Managing Business Integrity / Agile Leadership

The second phase of the program prepares you to make a difference by developing your strategic leadership capabilities. The program will challenge you to shift your focus from the short term to the long term – from the fundamental business toolbox to a broader understanding of your company’s sustainability and impact on society. Our students find the program’s strong international focus to be as relevant as it is rewarding. You’ll return to your company with a much clearer vision for successfully leading international teams.

COACHING DAY (Online)

• Strategic Entrepreneurship
• Digital Business Strategies
• Negotiations
• Total Impact Performance

* Applied Learning Project (modules 6, 7, 8):
Final report with faculty guidance including applied fieldwork with your company.

You will have the opportunity to sharpen your edge in one of the program’s focus areas: innovation and technology management, international management or business integrity. Committed to the idea that business can do well by doing good, our program is structured so that students gain knowledge to develop, deploy, and manage technology in the pursuit of sustainability.

During the final part of your EMBA journey, you will apply your newly gained skills and insights to help solve your organization’s ongoing challenges in a project that builds on ESMT’s unique approach to bridging the academic and the applied.

In consultation with their companies and with our faculty, students develop a project that addresses a business or management issue of broader relevance. The project draws on empirical fieldwork and academic theories to develop real and immediate value to their organization as a direct result of the EMBA even before graduation. Students present their projects to faculty and sponsors at their company and submit a final report based on the project to ESMT.

Students can use this opportunity to forge new networks in their organization, display their new skills to internal stakeholders, initiate change within their organization, and gain personal visibility at broader and higher levels.

• International Field Seminar (IFS)

Global in focus, the program will also expose you to leadership challenges in diverse countries and cultures. The IFS will challenge you and your fellow participants to experience leading international projects inside the offices of global companies on other continents.

Recent seminars took EMBA classes in China, Brazil, Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Africa, and Argentina.

One recent IFS destination was South Africa in the spring of 2018. The theme of this trip was: Emerging Africa: institutional developments, business prospects, managerial practices. Company visits included multinationals such as EY, Mercedes Benz South Africa, Bosch, DHL, Siemens, and ThyssenKrupp. It also included NGOs such as OASIS and institutions such as AIMS, Africa’s first network of centers of excellence in mathematical sciences, with which ESMT has a long-standing relationship through different projects.

• Human Well-being and Career Crucibles
• Executive Presence and Communication
• Governance and Politics
• Advanced ESG
• Coaching Day
   

The final module of the program is dedicated to courses that combine the themes of ethics and sustainability. Creating a Better World (CBW) and Fraud and Corruption courses go hand in hand to build on learning outcomes from sustainable business and corporate responsibility topics addressed during previous courses and the International Field Study in a developing country. You learn how to identify discrimination and ethical situations in business and to avoid them, while at the same time implementing sustainable solutions.