Curriculum & Objetives
In today’s fast-changing environment, IE Business School seeks to provide students with the edge in the business world, through a program that promotes creativity, entrepreneurship and ideas from around the globe.
Here is the full listing of the sessions in the Executive MBA program:
Online Opening Week
| NAME OF THE COURSE | NUMBER OF SESSIONS | GPA WEIGHT |
|---|---|---|
| ONLINE OPENING | 1 | 0 |
| ONLINE TOOLS WORKSHOP | 1 | 0 |
| CASE METHOD | 2 | 0 |
1st F2F – Executive Discovery Bootcamp
| NAME OF THE COURSE | NUMBER OF SESSIONS | GPA WEIGHT |
|---|---|---|
| LEADING DIVERSITY | 2 | 0 |
| UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL | 4 | 0 |
| WELL-BEING IN PRACTICE | 1 | 0 |
| COMMUNICATION FOR SUCCESS | 5 | 0 |
| NEGOTIATION | 10 | 10 |
| TEAMBUILDING I | 2 | 0 |
| INFLUENCE & PERSUASION | 3 | 0 |
| CRITICAL THINKING | 3 | 0 |
Business Fundamentals
| NAME OF THE COURSE | NUMBER OF SESSIONS | GPA WEIGHT |
|---|---|---|
| ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT & COUNTRY ANALYSIS | 16 | 16 |
| FINANCIAL REPORTING & ANALYSIS | 12 | 12 |
| MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING | 10 | 10 |
| COMPETITIVE & CORPORATE STRATEGY | 16 | 16 |
LEADING PEOPLE & CHANGE | 10 | 10 |
2nd F2F – Impact Skills Bootcamp
| NAME OF THE COURSE | NUMBER OF SESSIONS | GPA WEIGHT |
|---|---|---|
| TEAMBUILDING II | 2 | 0 |
| PROBLEM SOLVING | 2 | 0 |
| CHANGE MANAGEMENT | 10 | 10 |
| DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ROADMAP | 5 | 0 |
| CRISIS MANAGEMENT | 3 | 0 |
| PROJECT MANAGEMENT | 3 | 0 |
| UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL | 1 | 0 |
Business Sprints
| NAME OF THE COURSE | NUMBER OF SESSIONS | GPA WEIGHT |
|---|---|---|
| TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION MANAGEMENT | 20 | 20 |
| CORPORATE FINANCE | 20 | 20 |
| CREATING VALUE THROUGH OPERATIONS | 20 | 20 |
| SALES & MARKETING MANAGEMENT | 20 | 20 |
| CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP | 17 | 17 |
| MANAGING PEOPLE IN THE DIGITAL ERA | 17 | 17 |
| DATA ANALYTICS | 6 | 0 |
| STRATEGY DESIGN | 12 | 12 |
One Masteries Selection (Running In Parallel)
| NAME OF THE COURSE | NUMBER OF SESSIONS | GPA WEIGHT |
|---|---|---|
| BUSINESS & ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION MASTERY | 40 | 20 |
| ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET MASTERY | 40 | 20 |
Board Readiness – Final Exam Project
| NAME OF THE COURSE | NUMBER OF SESSIONS | GPA WEIGHT |
|---|---|---|
| BOARD READINESS | 15 | 15 |
Graduation Week
| NAME OF THE COURSE | NUMBER OF SESSIONS | GPA WEIGHT |
|---|---|---|
| FINAL EXAM COACHING | 3 | 0 |
| FINAL EXAM | 3 | 15 (Included in the Board Readiness grade) |
| UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL | 6 | 0 |
The program aims at integrated, practical, and immersive training of personal and professional growth as well as personal performance. After having completed the program, participants will have:
- Comprehensive acumen of thinking and behavioral leadership skills
- A strategic vision of companies and management functions.
- The knowledge needed to carry out these functions with maximum efficiency, creativity and professionalism, using at all times the required tools and techniques in the most appropriate manner.
- A comprehensive overview of companies, including an integrating view of management functions in relation to the different operational areas comprising an organization, in such a way as to strengthen the development of an upwardly mobile executive career towards more generalist management positions.
- The skills and capacities to manage people in international environments, so that the student may effectively assume a leadership position over teams distributed in different geographic areas, activating the integration and commitment of the employees.
- The general management skills and capacities needed for successfully carrying out one’s professional career.
- Understanding the importance of personal performance, including applied best practices.
Such skills can be summarized into four areas:
- The analytical capacity needed to take on complex situations, distinguishing the essential aspects from the merely incidental.
- The ability to synthesize, so that the aforementioned analysis is not just an intellectual exercise, but rather a tool for making firm decisions, evaluating risks and weak points, and developing effective plans of action.
- Confidence in one’s own ideas, and the ability to convince those who will be involved in developing those ideas to accept them.
- The ability to accept ideas from others that complement one’s own viewpoint and help find the most appropriate solution to problems.
In its educational activities, IE Business School is committed to respecting the principles of freedom of thought and expression, along with equal opportunity and non-discrimination (beyond academic considerations). IE Business School seeks to promote the values of tolerance, respect and equality among those working within the school environment, whether they be students or professors, with the goal of creating a proper environment for academic and personal development.