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IMD Executive MBA Program (EMBA) Overview
Discover our top Executive MBA which gives you maximum flexibility to learn while you work:
- Total 9 weeks out of office across 15+ months
- Distance learning + face-to-face modules in key international locations
- 4 intakes per year
- Immediate application to your company
- Executive career management & coaching
Master management skills in highly diversified business, social and political environments
Develop the mindset 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
You and your class
You are a fast-rising, internationally experienced manager who aspires to lead. You are at least 35 years old with 10 years of business experience, strong management experience, consistent career progression and outstanding leadership potential.
Read more about admission criteria
Your class is individually put together through a selection process to ensure that you experience the most impactful learning with a truly diverse group of global peers. Your class will become a trusted resource, encourage your learning journey and surprise you in many unanticipated beneficial ways both during and beyond your classroom experience.
Positive impact on your career
Find out how the IMD Executive EMBA can change your life for the better.
You get invaluable international exposure and real life experience. From India to China, the Silicon Valley and Switzerland, you are exposed to a cross-section of society and business. This transformative experience opens your mind and prepares you to lead globally.
Dieter Weber
VP, Business Development
Japan Tobacco International
EMBA graduate 2013
Experience the program
You will master business practices from different industries across the globe, learn how to lead in different cultures, expand your comfort zone and develop your resilience to cope with the unknown. You can choose the timing that works best for you and your company, and apply your learning immediately in your workplace through company assignments.
Stefan Michel
Dean of IMD Executive MBA
Elaborating strategic scenarios for a Chinese company, assessing the business viability of a new industry segment for the senior management of a Brazilian company, pitching to venture capitalists in the Silicon Valley are a glimpse of some of the rich adventures which constitute the IMD Executive MBA Discovery Expeditions.
Leif M. Sjöblom
EMBA Program Co-Director for Discovery Expeditions
