Description de la formation

As a 100% execution-oriented program, the IMD Executive MBA aim to apply learning immediately: through company assignments, immersing students in leadership development and
taking discovery expeditions.

Key program benefits:

• Master management skills in highly diversified business, social and political environments
• Develop the mind set of an entrepreneur: be creative, take risks and manage the unknown with confidence
• Become a more reflective, self-aware and strategic member of a general management team
• Create new value for your organization and discover more career options

Plan de la formation

The IMD Executive MBA is a modular program consisting of two stages: the Foundation Stage and the Mastery Stage.

Stage 1:

Lausanne campus plus online learning:

FOUNDATIONS FOR BUSINESS LEADERSHIP (FBL) - 3 weeks face-to-face

Fast-track your understanding of key business fundamentals. Reboot and consolidate your knowledge of cross-functional skills and master the core functions of a complex organization:

• Marketing
• Finance and accounting
• Business model innovation and entrepreneurship
• Strategy and industry analysis
• Operations and supply chain management

ADVANCED MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS - 5 weeks online

• Go deeper into the topics covered during FBL to reinforce your understanding of general management. Online learning,requires about 15 hours study per week.

OR

LiVe virtual learning:

GLOBAL MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONS (GMF) - 17 weeks online

Launch your IMD Executive MBA without the need to travel for the first stage of your EMBA. This highly interactive, virtual learning experience is delivered fully online and offers you the full capability-building of FBL.

• State-of-the-art virtual classroom technology with synchronous and asynchronous learning
• Group work, team and individual assignments, presentations
• Regular virtual social activities including virtual check-in and live sessions with Faculty
• Live interaction with Program Director, coaches, Faculty, specialist topic experts and EMBA support staff

 ADVANCED MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS  - 5 weeks online

• Go deeper into the topics covered during GMF to reinforce your understanding of general management. Online learning,requires about 15 hours study per week.

Stage 2:

MASTERY STAGE  – 12 months

6 face-to-face modules with distance learning in between. 3 x 1 week face-to-face at IMD Lausanne campus; 3 x 1 week face-to-face Discovery Expeditions.

LEADERSHIP STREAM

• Leadership & change management
• Team leadership
• Individual leadership coaching

DISCOVERY EXPEDITIONS

• Entrepreneurship : Silicon Valley & Dubai
• Social Innovation & Impact Investment : Peru
• Start-up ecosystems : Israel
• Business challenges in emerging economics : Kenya
• Innovation : China
• Corporate transformations : India

CHAMPION ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION

• Explore entrepreneurship and innovation. Pitch investors
• Work with promising start-ups, analysing, challenging and shaping business strategies
  
  

BUSINESS ASSIGNMENTS

• Channel the innovative tools, frameworks and new knowledge straight back into workplace through five tailored Business Assignments.

EXECUTIVE CAREER MANAGEMENT

• How to pitch yourself
• Hidden network
• Career strategy & design
• Negotiating for more
• Engaging with executive search
• The leader’s resume
• Entrepreneur-ship through acquisition
• Managing the company of your dreams
• How to get onto a Board

CRISIS MANAGEMENT

• Experience a crisis situation in a high intensity, three-day simulation.
• Learn how to lead in a crisis from generals of the Swiss Armed Forces and how to communicate with various stakeholders.
• Switch from “business as usual” to crisis-mode