Participants complete 12 core courses in the 1st year and 11 advanced-level courses in the 2nd year, together with the EMBA Capstone Project. The MBA degree is granted upon successful completion of all courses and the Capstone Project.
The key to success in the job market is no longer an EMBA degree, but rather the EMBA graduate! What you learn is of course important, but it’s what you do with this knowledge that will create your value-added and make the difference, which is why we have now integrated this factor as one of our key values.
In the first year, students acquire the foundational knowledge and skills in business administration, such as marketing, strategy, organizational design, and human resource management. Core courses form the basis of management and are completed during the first year of the EMBA cycle
Participants develop an original way of thinking about emotions and acquire a set of practical tools to effectively read and respond to the emotions of others in the workplace.
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Participants acquire knowledge and skills that will help them manage effectively in a business environment.
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Participants gain a deep understanding of their own motivations to evaluate their career and how to make the most of their MBA.
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Participants gain an overview of marketing principles and processes and apply the key concepts to practical business situations.
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Participants explore classic and modern organization design principles, focusing on an application of frameworks and tools to develop an optimal organization design.
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Participants are introduced to cognitive and communicative challenges in advancing strategy development and execution and acquire knowledge about the benefits and risks of different visual methods of strategizing
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Participants learn how human resources human resources and human resource strategy are the key to organizational success and build competitive advantage.
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Participants gain an appreciation of the various financial reporting and disclosure issues/ methods used by international companies and organizations in preparing the major financial statements
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Participants critically assess how corporate profitability can be affected by developments in individual markets or at the national and international level.
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Participants examine the role of finance within a business and acquire an advanced understanding of strategic financial decisions (Investment, Financing, Dividend) and their impact on the business’s financial situation and its performance.
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Participants understand how to implement efficient logistical flows based on two methodological approaches: demand analysis and lean organisation of flows.
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Participants gain an in-depth understanding of the thinking and practice of leadership for team engagement and acquire practical leadership tools to sustain engagement, energy, and performance of their units.
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Participants gain from neuroscientific insights and real-world interventions testimonies by extreme-situations specialists. They are invited to transfer those to train team resilience, understood as the ability to adapt to external perturbations safely, preserving the team’s cohesion.
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In the second year, students take advanced level courses with a focus on the three core themes of our program: building a global advantage, leading responsibly, and managing transformation.
Building global advantage
Geneva is often referred to as the global city. It is home to many large, medium- and small-sized companies- most of which have international ties and whose workforce is highly international. Managing an international workforce, international business partners, or an international business expansion is of paramount importance for being successful in the global market. Our students acquire the skills to develop strategic thinking in a global context and learn from leading businesses in Geneva how they encounter and overcome international management challenges.
Leading responsibly
Organizations and managers are confronted with grand societal challenges such as climate change, human rights violations, and global inequality. Investors, employees, and consumers are expecting companies to #buildbackbetter and put responsible management practices front and center. Organizational responsibility and sustainability have traditionally been some of the key strengths of GSEM. Leading GSEM faculty members and business professionals equip our students with knowledge, skills, and tools to tackle an organization's toughest strategic challenges, lead with greater confidence, inspire performance at all levels, and contribute to an organization of responsibility and integrity.
Managing transformation
Business transformation is about fundamental changes in how businesses are managed. It is about rethinking business, its operations, and activities to create new and long-lasting value for stakeholders. Our students learn from leading academics and business professionals about the role of smart data, technology, and innovation in business transformation and acquire the skill to manage these transformations successfully.
Positioned at the intersection between data science, statistics, and management, business analytics consists of using data to inform strategic decision making under uncertainty and to optimise business processes.
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Participants examine why and how emerging technologies shape industry strategy, business models, and public policy.
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Participants interact with the ecosystem in identifying and describing a concrete business challenge for a company or industry and in developing a suitable strategic option in order to manage this challenge.
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Participants are introduced to the field of social innovation and social entrepreneurship. While social entrepreneurship is generally focused on the creation and growth of new ventures, social innovation is a broader concept that applies these same principles wherever our career paths take us in the public, private, academic, or civil society sectors.
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Participants get acquainted with the basic tools and concepts needed to analyze, implement, and evaluate processes for successful management of the negotiation process in an international and multicultural business environment.
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Participants learn about the evolving nature of value in 21st century economies and explore with leading innovators and trailblazers how to drive institutional and systems change.
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Participants develop strategic thinking in a global context.
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Participants receive an overview of the specific organizational forms, tools and behavioural skills required to lead projects with a stakeholder orientation.
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Participants examine the role of ethics and values in management and the unconscious biases that make responsible decision making challenging.
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Participants reflect about the various responsibilities at work and receive valuable input for a well-rounded way of managing and leading to meet demands of various stakeholder groups, including team members, peers, and clients.
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Students learn to identify, evaluate, and capture business opportunities based on the strategic analysis of data and how to spot and develop new business models involving the smart intersection of technology and data.
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At the end of the second year, students work in groups on a capstone project, which brings together their acquired knowledge and skills to apply it to advance recommendations to local business in Geneva.