Executive Master of Business Administration

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

Part I: Boot Camp (4 SCH)

All participants must attend the boot camp which reviews fundamental business concepts required
for success in the EMBA core curriculum. Students must successfully demonstrate these essential
competencies in the boot camp before registration in the core courses.
GBU 6401 Boot Camp 4 SCH

Part II: Core Courses (34 SCH)

Participants enrolled in the program are required to take all of the courses listed below:
ACC 6201 Accounting for Management Planning and Control 2 SCH
FIN 6201 Corporate Financial Management 2 SCH
GBU 6201 Global Integration I 2 SCH
GBU 6202 Global Integration II 2 SCH
GBU 6203 Entrepreneurial Thinking, Design, and Innovation 2 SCH
GBU 6204 Business Analytics: Data, Models, and Decisions 2 SCH
GBU 6205 Global Immersion Program I 2 SCH
GBU 6206 Global Immersion Program II 2 SCH
GBU 6601 Capstone Experience 6 SCH
MGT 6201 Managing Human Capital in the Organization 2 SCH
MGT 6202 CSR, Sustainability, and Ethics 2 SCH
MGT 6203 Effective Negotiation Strategies 2 SCH
MGT 6204 Leading Organizations 2 SCH
MGT 6205 Managing Global Operations and Supply Chain 2 SCH
MKT 6201 Strategic Marketing 2 SCH

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Part III: Specialized Practitioner Lectures

Throughout the Executive MBA program, lectures will be delivered by practitioners from leading
public and private organizations both domestically and internationally to support the intended
learning outcomes of the program.

Core Elements of each Course

Part I: Boot Camp

GBU 6401 Boot Camp 4 SCH

The Boot camp is a series of skills refreshers required for the incoming EMBA participants. It
spans over five days to cover essential competencies needed for the EMBA program and helps
participants the transition back to school. Different instructors review the basic principles in
Accounting, Economics, Finance and Quantitative Methods.

Part II: Core Courses

ACC 6201 Accounting for Management Planning and Control 2 SCH

This course emphasizes the integration of cost and strategic analysis. Participants enhance ability
to critically analyze and interpret the use of cost data for planning and control. The module includes
activity based costing, target costing, value chain analysis, performance measurement matrices
(e.g., balanced scorecard), strategic positioning, incentives management, and performance
management.

FIN 6201 Corporate Financial Management 2 SCH

This course is designed to equip executives with the underlying analytical framework of corporate
finance. It focuses on the responsibilities, concerns, and methods of analysis employed by corporate
financial officers, and the role of financial markets and institutions in the modern economy. Topics
include capital structure, dividend policy, asset evaluation, capital budgeting, risk analysis, and
portfolio theory.

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GBU 6201 Global Integration I 2 SCH
An integrative experience in USA where participants will apply contextual intelligence, gaining a
deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities of global business. Participant teams will
prepare pre-visit company briefings and will be expected to actively participate in company visits
with thoughtful, evidence-based questions and comments to contribute to the group’s collective
learning. Each student will write reflection reports (blogs) after each corporate visit abroad and
synthesis posts. The objective is for participants to deeply engage with their colleagues, the
organizations they visit, and the opportunities they identify by assessing differences in global
business environments and the impact of these differences on business relationships, operations
and strategic decisions.

GBU 6201 Global Integration I 2 SCH

An integrative experience in a Sub-saharan country where participants will apply contextual
intelligence, gaining a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities of global
business. Participant teams will prepare pre-visit company briefings and will be expected to
actively participate in company visits with thoughtful, evidence-based questions and comments to
contribute to the group’s collective learning. Each student will write reflection reports (blogs) after
each corporate visit abroad and synthesis posts. The objective is for participants to deeply engage
with their colleagues, the organizations they visit, and the opportunities they identify by assessing
differences in global business environments and the impact of these differences on business
relationships, operations and strategic decisions.

GBU 6201 Entrepreneurial Thinking, Design, and Innovation 2 SCH

This course addresses the venture creation process and includes methods for identification of new
opportunities and idea generation and the role of creativity, education and invention in business
sustainability. Real world cases are used to illustrate factors that can shape entrepreneurial aptitudes
and build viable businesses. At the end of this course, participants are expected to gain insights
into the development of entrepreneurial aptitudes and skills in the enterprise and learn how to drive
innovation in their own companies using strategy and design thinking, translating theory into
practice.

GBU 6202 Business Analytics: Data, Models, and Decisions 2 SCH

The complexity of information extraction needs a high level of data organization. This course
equips managers with important statistical and optimization tools and techniques for improved
data-driven decision making. Specific topics include hypothesis testing, regression, linear and
nonlinear programming, integer programming, dynamic decision making under uncertainty, and
Monte Carlo simulation. Case studies from various business areas are used throughout the course.

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GBU 6203 Global Immersion Program I 2 SCH
Global Immersion Program I is designed to provide participants with extensive exposure of doing
business in USA. During the one-week trip, participants have a class related to a special topic in
strategically managing the firm. In addition, participants will visit various local firms including
start-ups, domestic corporations and large multinationals to engage in robust discussions with c-
suite executives about the country’s business climate and opportunities.

GBU 6204 Global Immersion Program II 2 SCH

Global Immersion Program II is designed to provide participants with extensive exposure of doing
business in a Sub-Saharan country. During the one-week trip, participants have a class related to a
special topic in strategically managing the firm. In addition, participants will visit various local
firms including start-ups, domestic corporations and large multinationals to engage in robust
discussions with c-suite executives about the country’s business climate and opportunities.

GBU 6601 Capstone Experience 6 SCH

The capstone experience is designed to elicit opportunities for reflection and synthesis of
knowledge and skills gained throughout the program. The first part of this experience is based on
a strategic management structure to assist the participants in the development and improvement of
abilities to diagnose and analyze the impacts of changes through case studies and projects. The
second part is an opportunity to build on what participants have already learned to develop a project
in an area of choice, ideally within their own organizations.

MGT 6201 Managing Human Capital in the Organization 2 SCH

This course discusses the management of an organization’s human resources with an emphasis on
the strategic issues involved in obtaining and developing employees. The strategic view highlights
the way human resources are managed with regard to human resource planning, recruitment and
employee development, and compensation management and reward systems.

MGT 6202 CSR, Sustainability, and Ethics 2 SCH

This course focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a new management paradigm
with ethical, responsible leadership and sustainability at its core. The course highlights different
approaches with which to examine CSR both conceptually and empirically while using case studies
of organizations that have been known in the CSR domain.

MGT 6203 Effective Negotiation Strategies 2 SCH

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The purpose of this course is to enable participants to understand their own intrinsic negotiating
behaviors and how those can be adapted for effective leadership in a variety of situations. The
course focuses on building the individual skills of the participants to deal with disputes and conflict
management, to create and optimize value at the bargaining table, to identify and navigate through
cultural differences in negotiation, and to influence results and determine success.

MGT 6204 Leading Organizations 2 SCH

This course is designed to expose participants to the areas of knowledge and competencies that are
fundamental to the study and practice of leadership in a variety of settings. It will help the
participants develop a profound understanding of their own experiences, aspirations, and leadership
qualities. Participants will conceptualize the various aspects of leadership and will discover the
skills and practices of exemplary leaders to cultivate tools to lead their own organizations with
impact.

MGT 6205 Managing Global Operations and Supply Chain 2 SCH

This course focuses on improving performance of the firm through effective coordination and
integration of production and supply chains. Participants will develop skills and concepts needed
to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position while
controlling the transformation of materials into products, distributing the products to customers,
maintaining and recycling the products, and the logistics of service operations.

MKT 6201 Strategic Marketing 2 SCH

The aim of this course is to provide participants with skills needed for the development of
marketing strategies and plans. The driving role of markets, the importance of situation analysis,
positioning and relationship strategies are also among the dimensions targeted in enlarging the
skills of the participants. The course deals with marketing strategy for better decision-making
within the context of the total enterprise.