I was greatly impressed by the IEDC EMBA program. The knowledge and experience gathered in class was impressive. I have learned so much from the backgrounds of my fellow classmates, which now affect all my managerial decisions.
Hirotaka Miyahara, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Japan (EMBA 2002) |
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The IEDC Executive MBA programs provide:
- A setting that allows you to keep your job while studying;
- An innovative, practice-oriented and forward-thinking curriculum focused on general management and leadership in an international environment;
- A forceful impetus to behave as a responsible leader;
- An approach that balances a better understanding of central and eastern European business issues with global business practices;
- Instruction from an international team of professors from the best European and North American business schools, recognized for their excellent teaching skills, significant experience with senior-level managers, and extensive contacts with the business community worldwide;
- Emphasis on teamwork with motivated and talented classmates from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds, who bring many years of business experience to class and team discussions;
- A highly effective, interactive learning process in an environment stimulating learning and reflection;
- Pragmatic project work aimed at developing strategic solutions for specific companies;
- An enduring network of professional contacts;
- Immediate application of newly acquired knowledge, skills and attitudes in your own work environment, allowing for a direct and powerful impact on your career.
The IEDC Executive MBA program, which is taught in English, covers the main functional areas of management and demonstrates how these interrelate. With its emphasis on strategic management, its balance between knowledge acquisition and skills development, and its environment of reflection and creativity, the program is well suited to those developing or aspiring to an international career, providing the capability to anticipate and react swiftly to the challenges set by an increasingly competitive business environment. Knowledge acquisition is balanced by the development of management skills. Corporate consulting projects aimed at producing tangible results offer participants an unrivalled learning experience. The one- and two-year programs also include international corporate field visits.
An IEDC Executive MBA degree provides you with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for success in your professional career. From our experience, participants opt for an IEDC MBA program to structure and consolidate their understanding of business, to develop their analytical capabilities and strategic thinking, to strengthen their skills, and to become better managers. At the same time, the Executive MBA will allow participants to identify and further develop their leadership competences and gain additional self-confidence The IEDC Executive MBA program finally helps those seeking greater management responsibility and leadership challenges to move from functional management to general management.
Joining one of the IEDC Executive MBA programs is not just an investment in you and your career. It is also an investment in your company and its competitive viability. How well a company does is largely determined by the effectiveness of its managers. Your company can gain a competitive advantage by having well-trained executives who have a structured approach to doing business, a broad horizon, the skills and knowledge necessary to manage and lead growth and change, and the capability to successfully face global competitive challenges.
Sending you to an IEDC Executive MBA program can give your company exactly that — a manager with a structured approach to doing business, a broader horizon, and the skills and knowledge necessary to manage and lead growth and change.
Yes. Taking an integrated approach to management issues, the IEDC Executive MBA program does not only focus on the individual functional areas, such as marketing, finance, accounting, human resource management, and operations management, but also emphasizes how these areas interrelate and fit together. Problems and issues in all of these, even the functional ones, are not only analyzed according to a narrow functional approach but also from the broader view of general management. This will give you, as a mobile and internationally oriented executive, the capability to anticipate and react swiftly to the challenges set by an increasingly competitive business environment.
Yes. This is demonstrated, on the one hand, by its interactive, case-based teaching method and simulations and, on the other, by its hands-on consultancy project work. As a consultant to the top management of selected organizations, you will work on strategic issues; you will build on the concepts you have learned in class context and develop creative, applicable solutions of real value to the hosting organizations.
Paying equal attention to knowledge, skills and attitudes, the program goes beyond the management basics and strengthens your ability to provide effective leadership, work in teams, make powerful presentations, communicate with peers and clients, and manage your time — in recognition of the fact that not only expertise but also personal and interpersonal skills contribute to your success as a manager.
You will be working with international professors and with successful business leaders active in the international business community. Combining Western management expertise and hands-on experience in business administration with the specifics of emerging economies, IEDC offers an attractive package to any manager interested in competing in global markets.
IEDC brings together an international group of 50 to 60 managers from different cultures, who are talented and highly motivated professionals coming from a rich variety of industries and sectors. Participants are thus exposed to the experiences and views of executives from a vast array of backgrounds. In a fast-changing and increasingly global business environment, professional and corporate successes depend increasingly on managers’ ability to cross cultural barriers.
Participants Profile (1991 - 2004)
| Average age: |
34 years |
| Average work experience: |
9 years |
| Male/Female: |
67%/33% |
| Countries represented: |
29 |
| Albania, Austria, Belarus, BIH, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Monte Negro, Slovenia, U.K., Ukraine, U.S.A. |
| Academic Background: |
Degree in Economics and Management 43 %
Degree in Engineering or Natural Sciences 39 %
Degree in Liberal Arts and Social Sciences 14 %
Degree in Medicine 4 % |
The modular system enables you to fully concentrate on your studies while being on module, and on your job in the period in between the modules. Moreover, the alternation of work and study allows you to immediately apply the recently acquired knowledge and skills to your job and enables your company to reap the benefits of their investment in you.
- Since 1991, almost 500 managers from 29 countries have been represented in IEDC’s Executive MBA programs.
- The IEDC Executive MBA programs bring together an international group of 50-60 managers from different cultures who are talented and highly motivated professionals from a rich variety of industries and sectors. Participants are thus exposed to the experiences and views of executives from a vast array of backgrounds, allowing them to also expand their professional network.
- In a fast-changing and increasingly global business environment, professional and corporate successes depend increasingly on a manager’s ability to cross cultural barriers. IEDC will help you develop into a manager capable of assuming leadership roles in a multi-cultural corporate setting and international business environment.
- Like the traditional MBA, the IEDC Executive MBA program covers the functional areas of management, such as accounting, finance, marketing and strategic management. However, with participants having a greater work experience than is normally the case in the traditional MBA program, the exchanges of experiences amongst peers add an additional flavor to the Executive MBA courses.
- The typical one- and two-year Executive MBA student, ranging in age from 28 to 40 years, has 5 to 10 years of business experience, completed an undergraduate degree, and holds a management or executive position. The average age of the Presidents’ MBA participant is 39 and on average has 13 years of working experience.
- In contrast to a full-time MBA student, a participant in an IEDC Executive MBA program can continue working while studying, enabling the participant not only to relate the course work with past experiences and day-to-day work, but also to bring the newly acquired knowledge and skills immediately into practice.
- The one-year Executive MBA is a professional degree program designed for practicing managers with the potential to assume positions of greater responsibility in their firms. It is spread over one year and is organized into four modules, three lasting five weeks and one two weeks (seventeen weeks in total).
- The two-year Executive MBA program has the same high level of instruction as the one-year program, but is scheduled to be more feasible for managers unable to leave work for the more intensive one-year program. It is organized in seven modules lasting two to three weeks each.
- The Presidents’ MBA is designed for top executives. It uses the same rigorous academic approach, coverage and practical relevance as the one- and two-year programs, but flexibility in the completion of the modules accommodates the time constraints of top executives and makes it possible to complete the degree with minimal interruption to work and personal life. The schedule is individually defined.
The majority of Executive MBA participants are sponsored fully, or in part, by their companies. Presidents' MBA participants are normally sponsored fully by their companies. Participants who are not sponsored by their companies often qualify for loans or they pay the tuition fee by installments. If you are interested to apply for a loan, please contact the EMBA Office for further details.
- Due to a high interest for the IEDC one- and two-year Executive MBA program, it is important that you apply early. Please start the application process as soon as you and your company are determined about your participation in the program.
- Applying for the Presidents' MBA program can be done at any point during the year.
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