The IESE Executive MBA is an intense journey of personal and professional transformation that prepares you for the challenges of today’s interconnected, global business world.
If you are a self-starter who wants to transcend your limitations and make a real impact on the world, you are an ideal candidate for the IESE Executive MBA. Will you be our next success story?
One EMBA at IESE: Networking, Multiplied
Programme Content
IESE’s 60+ years of experience and innovation will help you discover your strengths, transform your competencies and expand your perspectives. Upgrade everything from your strategic decision-making to your soft skills, leaving you ready for your next career step.
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The program consists of 4 Modules and a total of 90 ECTS: Module I: Fundamentals of Business Management, Module II: Advanced Studies, Module III: Specialization, Module IV: Master’s Thesis: Each module is further divided into different subjects:
In the first year of the EMBA, you will build a solid academic foundation in business development. You will acquire a firm grasp of core management areas and a holistic management outlook to lead across areas of the organization.
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The following modules are carried out in the first year:
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Analysis of Business Problems Course objective: To enhance your ability to analyze complex, real-world business problems. You will:
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Assess the distinct phases of the decision-making process.
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Widen your problem-solving perspective and approach.
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Sharpen your analytical skills, ability to synthesize information and capacity to think creatively.
Operational Finance Course objective: To provide a framework to critically analyze corporate decisions from a financial perspective to be able to compute the expected rate of return for investment projects and make good investment decisions. You will:
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Identify the risks and calculate the returns of investment projects using different tools of financial analysis (NPV, IRR, payback, etc.).
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Analyze the risk-return profile of investment opportunities in different scenarios.
Managing People in Organizations Course objective: To develop an understanding of the increasing complexity of leading and managing people at different levels of the organization. You will:
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Understand key responsibilities of leadership.
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Broaden toolkit for motivating people beyond financial incentives.
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Be able to build and exercise power and influence at both personal and positional levels.
In the second year, you will reinforce your core leadership competencies and participate in a platform-based executive simulation as well as have the opportunity to customize the EMBA program with two learning electives.
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The following modules are carried out in the second year:
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Business Analytics Course objective: To analyze the managerial decision making from a general management perspective.
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Ability to diagnose interdependent situations.
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Assimilation of heuristics and simple decision rules for complex situations.
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Ability to assess the three possible results of a decision (extrinsic, intrinsic and transcendent) and design action plans accordingly.
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Development of habits tending to correct decisions.
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Strategic competences: industry analysis, positioning, competitive advantage.
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Executive competences: distinctive competence, professional development, operative learning.
Competing Through Operations Course objective: To develop an understanding of how to use a company’s resources in the most efficient way to achieve the goals defined by its business strategy. You will:
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Operational diagnosis, knowledge analysis, identification and improvement of the operational variables.
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Design of the customer journey in the company itself or in the extended enterprise.
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Identification of critical elements for the industrialization of a service.
Corporate Communications Course aim: To master the fundamentals of effective public speaking. You will:
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Introduce persuasion theory and its application in diverse situations.
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Analyze the four keys to effective communication: having something to communicate, communicating well, understanding the audience and communicating with the right intensity.
Digital Transformation of Organizations and Markets
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Course objective: To explore the digital transformation of businesses from the standpoint of a general manager and understand how organizations can foster digital capabilities and turn them into a competitive advantage.
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• The “WHY” of Digital Transformation: Seeing Beyond the Immediate Digital Trends. • The “WHAT” of Digital Transformation: Transforming the Vision into a Viable Business Strategy. • The “HOW” of Digital Transformation: Building a Digital Mindset. • The “IMPACT” of Digital Transformation: Societal Challenges
Management of Small and Medium-sized Companies Course aim: To examine the management and leadership issues specific to SMEs. You will:
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Deepen your understanding of SMEs in relation to accounting and finance, value creation and capture, business models and family relationships in the case of privately held firms.
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Study the legal framework to understand how to manage crises, including key aspects of restructurings.
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Analyze the most common constraints in implementing action plans in SMEs.
New Challenges in Marketing Course objective: To examine the growing stature of ecommerce. You will:
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Introduce the main issues and key questions retailers must have in mind when adopting digital and moving to omnichannel experiences.
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Review economic implications of going omnichannel and how it impacts different retailers based on their business model.
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Review main internal and organizational challenges faced by retailers when going omnichannel and provide a framework and a set of tools to identify, analyse and address them.
Strategic Leadership: Getting Things Done Course objective: To identify the key challenges for the company, outlining a coherent set of actions and guiding the organization in implementation.
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Transforming strategic formulation into strategy execution.
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Successfully taking charge of a new general management position.
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Understanding the common barriers to “getting things done”.
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Realigning internal organizational elements with external stakeholder demands.
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Identifying and overcoming internal sources of resistance to change.
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Navigating informal organizational networks to get things.
To expand your global acumen and deepen your expertise in specific areas, electives courses are offered at different locations. Each course has been carefully crafted to give you a unique perspective on general business management.
The content of the EMBA program takes place over 18 months, incorporating more than 300 different cases, international weeks, and 1,500 hours of individual and collaborative work to widen your worldview and forever change the way you look at leadership.
The formula is simple: high-quality faculty, high-quality students and a high degree of rigor. We will put you to the test, so that you may reach your full potential.
Give us 18 months and we’ll give you a lifetime of impact.
Programme Audience
Have you got more than 5 years of work experience? Are you eager to obtain a global vision that will drive your company? Do you want to open the door to professional opportunities that will transform your career? The IESE Executive MBA (EMBA) is the perfect pathway to achieving the distinguished career you have been aspiring to.
Like you, every EMBA participant is unique, and from that diversity comes an extraordinarily rich learning environment. Your classmates will come from different industries and countries, with varied areas of expertise and life experience. But they will all share your passion for personal and professional growth.
Programme Benefits
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Gain a general management perspective
You will gain a profound comprehensive vision of how to regard a company from a general management standpoint. That will allow you to understand the uniqueness of different operational areas, how they are interrelated, and how your decisions can affect them.
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Become an expert at decision-making
To be an exceptional leader, you must first become an expert at making difficult decisions. By examining more than 300 different business cases, you will hone your ability to analyze challenging situations, justify your strategy and decide on the best course of action for the business.
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Embrace the entrepreneurial spirit
We help you discover your inner entrepreneur. You will learn to detect new opportunities and acquire the knowledge and tools to make the most of them, both inside and outside of your organization.
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Master effective leadership
You will boost your ability to engage your team and manage diverse personal profiles to motivate and align members around a common objective. You will become a leader committed to professionalism, integrity, and a spirit of service.
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Understand how global reach works
You will gain a heightened awareness of the trends and opportunities shaping today’s global business arena through high-impact content, faculty guidance, and intensive learning weeks in three global destinations.
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Get to know yourself
You will work toward a deeper sense of self-awareness and discover your strengths and areas for growth. You will emerge from the program better equipped to face any leadership challenge.
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Benefit from career management
The IESE Executive MBA Career Development Center offers a roadmap to guide your professional career. You will develop an understanding of your true strengths and aspirations, especially those that will transform you into a more fulfilled and complete professional.
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Join IESE’s network
With alumni all over the world, our community is an invaluable source of support and inspiration.
Testimonials
"The IESE experience is truly transformational. The program challenges you to think about business in new ways, within a supportive community of expert faculty members and experienced colleagues."
Álvaro Fernández (EMBA-23)
Managing Director, Grupo Jaquete
"The Executive MBA helps drive personal growth, while also fostering vital management skills. I was able to gain new frameworks, strengthen my leadership abilities and broaden my perspective."
