Timeline & courses
On this page you can learn more about the details of the executive MBA curriculum and program structure.
Advance your career to the next level with the executive MBA from ESMT Berlin and build upon your existing experience in senior leadership positions with new perspectives, skills and insights that will help you lead your organization to success.
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The program runs for 18 months and comprises 8 modules that each last one week.
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The modules foster a learning experience that takes on a “corporate retreat” style setting.
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Six modules take place in Berlin, Germany, while the other two take place outside of Germany, in other important locations for global business around the world.
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Between modules, students can pursue independent study, which includes pre-and post-module reading, assignments, case studies, group work, and the final report.
Curriculum and course availability are subject to change at any time.
EMBA program timeline
Location: Berlin
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.
Courses include:
- Introduction to General Management
- Leading through Networks
- Leadership in Practice (outdoor day)
- Executive Presence and Communication
- Human Wellbeing and Career Crucibles
- Being a Responsible Leader
- Learning Journal Introduction
- Learning Journal Reflections and Action Items
Location: Berlin
- Data Analytics for Responsible Leaders
- Introduction to Economic Thinking
- Managerial Analysis and Decision Making
Coaching Day
This is an interactive day facilitated by a professional executive coach. Alongside your study group, you will have the opportunity to reflect upon leadership challenges you may face and to discuss the feedback you received.
Location: Berlin
- Management Accounting and Sustainable Business Finance
- Financial Management and Corporate Finance
- Operations and Sustainable Supply Chain
Location: Abroad
- Marketing Management
- Business Strategy
- Strategic Sensitivity or Foresight
- Geopolitics
Location: Abroad
A one-week short exchange where you get the opportunity to study at another university within the Global Network for Advanced Management, with more than 20 schools offering exchanges at the same time as ESMT.
please note that this list is subject to change, some of the schools included may not be available):
- Asian Institute of Management (Manila, Philippines)
- EGADE Business School (Santa Fe, Mexico)
- FGV Business School (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- Fudan University (Shanghai, China)
- Haas School of Business Univ. of California Berkeley, (San Francisco, California)
- HEC Paris (Jouy-en-Josas, France)
- IE Business School (Madrid, Spain)
- Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore, India)
- IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Kozminski University (Warsaw, Poland)
- Lagos Business School (Lagos, Nigeria)
- National University of Singapore Business School (Singapore)
- Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea)
- Stockholm School of Economics (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Strathmore Business School (Nairobi, Kenya)
- UBC Sauder School of Business (Vancouver, Canada)
- UCD Smurfit (Dublin, Ireland)
- University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa)
- University of Ghana (Accra, Ghana)
- University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
- University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
- Yale SOM (New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
Access more information on the Network Week, including a complete list of participating schools and sample exchange curricula.
Short exchanges through the network are available at no additional tuition cost. Students should budget enough for travel and housing during the exchange. Please note that places at certain exchange partners are limited.
Location: Berlin
- Strategic Entrepreneurship
- Management and Strategy of AI
- Creating Value with AI
- Strategy Execution
Location: Berlin
- Organizational Behavior
- Structure and Status
- Intercultural Competencies
Coaching Day
This is an interactive day facilitated by a professional executive coach. Alongside your study group, you will have the opportunity to reflect upon leadership challenges you may face and to discuss the feedback you received.
Location: Abroad
An opportunity to apply a global mindset as you take on 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 Japan, China, Brazil, Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Africa, and Argentina.
Company visits included multinationals such as Allianz, Mercedes Benz, DHL Global Forwarding, Siemens, Fujitsu and KPMG.
Leadership in Practice workshops are conducted throughout the program.
Coaching: Three group coaching sessions are held during the program, two online and one in person. Individual coaching sessions are offered and can play a huge role helping you progress academically and professionally.
Between modules students pursue independent study. which includes pre- and post-module reading, assignments, case studies, group work. and the final report.
Paid educational leave (Bildungsurlaub)
If your employer is registered in Germany, it may be possible to take advantage of educational leave (Bildungsurlaub), which grants employees extra time off work in addition to their usual vacation allowance. These can then be spent attending the program’s in-person residencies.
