| If you are a seasoned leader, manager, business | | | | financial reports, risk management, and valuation |
| owner, administrator, or board member desiring | | | | will be examined. Ethical issues, Sarbanes-Oxley |
| to achieve unprecedented successes as you take | | | | legislation, outsourcing and downsizing will also be |
| on increasing responsibilities, then the time may be | | | | explored. |
| right to consider an executive MBA program. | | | | An Executive MBA program will also teach you |
| These programs combine value-based leadership | | | | how to lead others. An executive MBA program |
| with the rigor of challenging executive-level | | | | will teach students how to use the situational |
| graduate business education. | | | | team leadership framework to make better |
| An executive MBA program will teach the | | | | decisions, solve more complex problems, and |
| importance of leading self. Participants will develop | | | | enhance creativity...with their direct reports. The |
| a key sense of who they are and why they are | | | | characteristics and stages of high-performing |
| leading. They will also begin to develop or refine | | | | teams and reasons why teams fail will also be |
| their own leadership point of view. Students will | | | | examined. Examples of team leadership from the |
| solve leadership challenges at a higher level of | | | | real business world will be explored. |
| complexity by using critical thinking and imagination | | | | Executive MBA programs will also teach you |
| to create new possibilities, and deepen an | | | | corporate strategy. Students will learn how to |
| awareness of their personal leadership style. Case | | | | create and sustain a competitive advantage in the |
| studies, discussions, exercises, guest speakers and | | | | global economy. Students will examine the global |
| a group service project will be used to address | | | | competitive landscape in which today's |
| the internal challenges of leadership. | | | | organizations must operate and explore how real |
| Executive MBA programs teaches participants the | | | | life CEO's representing a cross-section of major |
| importance of customer focus. These programs | | | | industries have successfully seized opportunities in |
| teach students how to build a customer-centric | | | | unexpected ways. Students will also learn how the |
| organization where the customer is the central | | | | international political economic environment can |
| focus of leadership and where customer needs | | | | cause large-scale shifts in the global economy. |
| and expectations influence organizational strategy | | | | Students will also learn organization capabilities. An |
| as well as processes, systems, and culture. Upon | | | | executive MBA program will introduce the "hard" |
| completion of an executive MBA program, | | | | side of building organizational capability, namely |
| students will understand the role of organizational | | | | operations and processes. Students will focus on |
| branding in creating competitive advantage as well | | | | operational efficiency by examining both the |
| as how to identify critical issues facing senior | | | | internal operations of firms as well as the entire |
| leaders today, including measuring marketing | | | | supply chain from product development to order |
| performance, managing customer information, | | | | fulfillment. |
| building cross-cultural customer relationships, and | | | | An executive MBA will also teach you |
| leveraging the Internet. | | | | transformational leadership and the themes of |
| Students will also be taught the importance of | | | | organizational culture and leading change. Students |
| shareholder focus in their executive MBA program. | | | | will understand how and why change efforts get |
| These programs will teach students how to | | | | derailed, why people resist change, and how to |
| effectively address issues of importance to | | | | overcome these challenges as a leader. Real life |
| shareholders. Financial topics are coupled with an | | | | lessons learned by top CEO's will be examined. |
| analysis of the ethical dilemmas faced by | | | | Finally, students will gain the knowledge to build |
| executives in balancing the short term financial | | | | and sustain a resilient corporate culture that |
| results expected by Wall Street with longer-term | | | | thrives on change and supports the ongoing |
| sustainable financial performance. Business | | | | implementation of change efforts. |
| fundamentals such as understanding costs, | | | | |