The EMBA Elective-flex
The EMBA Elective-flex is built for specialists ready to step into broader leadership roles, expand their perspective, and have greater strategic impact.
You’ll strengthen your leadership and build a solid foundation in general management, bridging your deep domain knowledge with the tools and insights to lead across functions, teams, and markets.
Up to five electives let you tailor your journey based on your goals:
- The topic: Strategy, innovation, sustainability, finance, crisis leadership, and more
- The format: Online, in-person, or hybrid
- The location: Lausanne, Singapore, and other global hubs
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A fast track to career success
What does progress look like? For our EMBA graduates, it’s more responsibility, higher pay, and a seat at the table. The numbers speak for themselves.
*EMBA class of 2022, surveyed 2 years after graduation.
**According to the Financial Times Business School Rankings 2024.
What makes the EMBA Elective-flex stand out is how it helps specialists connect their expertise to a broader leadership skillset with real-world application, global exposure, and a flexible format that fits your career.
Your three-part learning journey, built for direct career impact
When you’re balancing a demanding job, personal commitments, and the pressure to move forward, your time matters. The EMBA Elective-flex gives you a clear, structured path to build the leadership skills, strategic insight, and business acumen to take your next big step without putting your life or work on hold.
You’ll gain practical tools, global exposure, and deep personal growth while shaping part of the journey around your own goals, timing, and learning needs. Your learning stays relevant, applied, and completely yours.
Strengthen your grasp of strategy, leadership, and finance; the cornerstones of general management.
Format: 3 x four-week online modules + 2 x one-week on-campus modules in Lausanne
Locations: Online and Lausanne, Switzerland
Tackle high-stakes business problems, apply theory in real-world settings.
Format: 2 x five-week online modules + 2 x one-week face-to-face modules
Locations: Online, Singapore and a destination of your choice via the Global Network of Advanced Management (GNAM), a collaboration of top business schools that offers exposure to new markets, faculty, and peer groups.
Tailor your path with up to 5 electives in the format, focus, and timing that suits you.
Where can EMBA Elective-flex take you?
“When we challenge ourselves, that’s when we grow. And it’s this growth that I want to take back and apply in my organization.”
IMD: Where your EMBA connects you to real-world opportunity.
At IMD you join a global ecosystem built to actively move careers forward.
From day one, you’ll be learning with and from ambitious, experienced peers across industries and continents. You’ll tap into faculty who advise organizations each day. And you’ll walk away with the tools, clarity and connections to take your next big step with confidence.
Trusted by global leaders
You’ve built your expertise. Now build the broad leadership skills to match.
This is your chance to step beyond your silo, sharpen your strategic thinking, and prepare for broader business responsibility without putting your career on hold.