Global Executive MBA - The Program

Leading people in Global Organizations

Learning how to manage and motivate people at a global level is becoming extremely necessary as companies continue to grow and globalize. This course focuses on human behavior and its impact on leading people in global organizations. Topics include managing self and career, global leadership and management, emotions and culture, vision, persuasion and influence, successful team building, change, and strategy. Our class sessions combine case study, videos, articles, online discussions, and assessments.

Financial Accounting

In this course, students work to understand the language of business and learn to interpret and understand the impact of economic events on the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows. Students become familiar with measurement theories underlying the financial statements and are able to demonstrate a general understanding of the financial reports. This course illustrates the differences in various financial reporting environments and their influence in the functioning of capital markets. Students also develop an awareness of the ethical dilemmas in financial accounting and recognize how financial statements communicate economic events to external parties (e.g., shareholders, investors, creditors, etc.) and the impact this information has on these different groups.

Marketing Management

This course enables students to comprehend the marketing process from analysis to implementation with the aim of gaining a holistic vision of the marketing field. Students begin by learning the basic marketing concepts, such as segmentation, differentiation and positioning, and the key elements of the marketing mix in order to design and implement a consistent and successful marketing plan. From these foundations, students develop the skills of critical and analytical thinking, allowing them to create marketing analysis, monitor marketing plans and solve marketing-related challenges.

Strategy

This course provides students with a thorough understanding of the internal and external factors that shape a firm’s ability to create value. Students gain tools to analyze industries, firm resources, and competitive positioning, both on and individual and the corporate level. The course instills a strategic mindset that enables students to go beyond a simple application of tools and enhance their own strategic decision-making skills.

Economic Environment and Country Analysis

The course covers the most important economic theories and concepts that relate to the macroeconomic and microeconomic environment of businesses. Students learn concepts that allow them to have a more formal vision of why and how different economic policies operate and how each policy has a series of implications on macroeconomic levels and how these implications differ depending on the country. Students learn how to understand the economic situations relevant to them and their regions and develop a framework that they can use to analyze new economic environments related to their businesses.

Skill-building workshops

Case method

Ethics workshop

Online training

Financial Management

This course provides students with a strong foundation in finance and learn how firms can manage their funds and flourish. Students learn how to calculate and run projections of free cash flow statements, evaluate an investment project profitability using common investment criteria, how to manage a company’s net working capital: inventory, payables and receivables and produce forecasts of the future financial needs of a business.

Strategy Implementation

The main objective for students in this course is to understand the central elements that influence the success of the implementation of a new strategy, such as the culture, the role of the top management team, the organizational design, the coordination strategies between different functional areas of the firm and other mechanisms to achieve organizational alignment.

Cost Accounting

The aim of this course is to understand how cost accounting systems collect and classify costs and assign them to cost objects. Students discuss the goals of a cost accounting system and learn how to measure the cost of designing, developing, producing, selling, distributing, and servicing particular products or services. Finally, students look at how the activities of an organization affect its costs and how to use data provided by a cost accounting system to make more informed business decisions.

Managing Communities of Work

Managers and owners around the world are failing to understand a crucial concept: when people work together, they form communities. Effective leadership therefore requires much more than just nimble management of human resources; it demands political skill. This course provides students with a set of analytic tools that encourage them to think strategically and politically about how companies can be organized to motivate both individuals and communities more effectively.

Digital Innovation

Students learn the critical elements in achieving digital transformation in organizations. The aim of this course is for students to identify and differentiate key elements in information systems and learn the importance of information technology in today’s business climate. Students learn to identify and understand the economic, social and technological factors that are at the heart of digital revolution by seeing firsthand the outcome of digital transformations taking place at high-level companies all over the world.

Corporate Finance

This course builds on the Financial Management course and challenges students to gain a deeper understanding of the capital structure. Students look at the main considerations affecting the payout policy of a firm. They become adept at gauging the value of a company by learning how to compare buyback and dividends, how to apply a basic DCF framework, how to choose the most fitting multiple to value specific firms and becoming familiar with the general best practices in business valuation. To dive deeper into the practical side of corporate finance, students learn how to examine companies in emerging markets, including how to apply a country-risk premium and ensuring they are adjusting for different elements in the cost of capital to perform a cross-border valuation.

Management Control Systems

In this course, students learn to identify the main features of management control and how are taught the essential steps in the typical management control process. Students become fluent in assessing the congruency between corporate strategies, corporate structures and information systems. They learn how to design performance measurement systems consistent with the firm’s strategy and structure that will leverage the firm’s strengths.

Marketing, Strategy & Plan

This course builds on the knowledge acquired in Marketing Management and explores the implementation of marketing decisions. Students will gain an understanding of the principles of marketing strategy and the role of marketing in the modern corporation. The primary focus of the course is the basic elements of the marketing mix, defining and segmenting a target market for goods or services and then integrating product, price, promotion and distribution to offer a superior marketing mix leading to a long-term competitive advantage. The final objective of this course is to discuss how to design a marketing plan that combines all of these elements in a comprehensive manner. Decisions about product, price, promotion/communications, and placement should not be considered in isolation and should be consistent with the short and long-term goals of the firm.

Corporate Governance, Ethics & Sustainability

Business operates in both a market and a nonmarket environment, the latter being the space where the formal and informal rules governing market competition are set and enforced. Successful corporate strategy aligns the firm’s capabilities with the demands of both its market and nonmarket environment. This course allows students to understand how non-market forces arise and affect the management of business and challenges each student to analyze and proactively manage the non-market environment through integrated market and non-market strategies.

Global Operations & Supply Chain Management

In this course, students look at the strategic role of operations management and how the design of processes can enhance the strategy of a company. They learn to create systems that align with the organization’s strategy and ensure quality, inventory management, and optimal planning and logistics. The course walks students through supply chain configurations and processes for different types of businesses and teaches them the latest mechanisms to increase collaboration and integration. Students learn to make logistics and supply chain decisions through the lens of innovation, gaining insights on how top companies are managing their operations.

Managerial skill-building workshops

Final Exam