Global Executive MBA

How can you become an effective and inspirational leader?

How can you further your potential and redefine the leader in you?

A transformative journey for experienced leaders to shape and inspire your future.

Start date:  October 2024

Become a comprehensive leader

• Challenge convention. Expand your reach.

The world has become fast-paced, uncertain, ambiguous, and complex, interlinking business with economics, geopolitics, and cultures. Companies bear new responsibilities towards stakeholders and society. Transformational change requires individuals to behave and think differently. Aspiring and engaged leaders must be equipped with new skills, perspectives, paradigms, and narratives to make sense of and succeed in the future world of international business and to maintain a high level of commitment at all levels in their organization to solve complex business issues and carve new routes.

The SKEMA’s Global Executive MBA is a transformative journey designed to train experienced decision-makers and to propel them to become comprehensive leaders who will shape their ecosystems and achieve sustainable business results.

• Blended-learning approach for maximum work-study flexibility & balance

A combination of face-to-face residential weeks, webinar courses, and independent online modules - only 20 days out of the office.

• Four residential weeks in four worldwide locations

One week each in Paris (France), Raleigh, NC (USA), Suzhou (China), and Belo Horizonte (Brazil).

• Experiential learning

During the residential weeks, be immersed into the local ecosystems of companies, and meet (and work) with leaders of local as well as international companies & organizations. With In Practice, test your newly acquired knowledge and skills via business assignments, thought leadership exercises, and authorship projects.

• Capstone project

An in-depth project investigating an aspect of strategic significance to your organization or your future, applying knowledge from all courses. You are guided throughout by a supervisor with expertise in your chosen area.

• Research transfer

In addition to the core program, attend conferences and masterclasses with leading professors and experts in their fields. Within each course, research corners provide stimulating knowledge-sharing platforms that contribute to the development of a lifelong learning mindset.

• Global cohorts

Meet executives from all over the world with very different professional and cultural backgrounds for a vibrant learning experience, and join SKEMA’s strong network of over 48,000 alumni based in 145 countries.

​At SKEMA, we attract participants from around the globe and from a variety of professional backgrounds, which brings a wealth of experience to the classroom. They choose SKEMA not only to gain more depth and breadth in managing and transforming a business but also to reach higher levels personally and professionally to perform better at a senior executive level.

• Percentage of men/women; 60/40
• Average age: 39
• International profiles: 91%
• Average years of seniority: 12

How can you become an effective and inspirational leader?

How can you further your potential and redefine the leader in you?

SKEMA Business School: a distinctive positioning

SKEMA Business School is one of France’s largest Grande Ecoles with 9,500 students from more than 120 nationalities, 160 faculty, 50,000 alumni, and 7 campuses across the world (Brazil, China, France, South Africa, and the USA).

SKEMA was founded in 2009 as a result of the merger between the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Lille, and CERAM Business School, Sophia Antipolis. The Lille school was ​founded in 1892 and CERAM in 1963.

the school has a community devoted to learning and the creation and transmission of management knowledge and practice. Since its inception, SKEMA has become a global school with a multi-campus structure and a large portfolio of programs taught in English and in French. These range from undergraduate level to continuing education and are aligned with the Bologna higher education norms (Licence, Master, Doctorate).

International strategy

SKEMA aims to become the global business school on five continents. Its common international strategy is to train management leaders in the knowledge economy by developing:

• A school with one identity on its different sites, with campuses set up in the heart of scientific hubs. The school’s culture fosters an international outlook, excellence, and innovation.
• Multi-site education programs offering mobility, professional expertise, and interdisciplinary programs (technology-management).
• Synergy with the school's local environments both in terms of research and in business partnerships. Cross-fertilization within science hubs (but also among these hubs) will give an overall view of innovation and the need for specific skills in the world’s different regions.
• Systematic involvement of global companies with the school (governance, programs, incubators, research, students).
• The school is managed according to the values of excellence, humanism, diversity, and innovation.
• SKEMA contributes to the local environment and economic fabric wherever its campuses are located.

Mission

SKEMA is a global research and higher education institution that trains talents who are committed to transforming the world through a sustainable approach. The hybridization between the human and social sciences and data is at the heart of its model, and its modus operandi is global exposure.

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