Your Work Becomes the Curriculum
Executive-level decisions involve more than one variable at a time. This EMBA sits at the intersection of three leadership pressures:
- Capital and Strategy - Allocating scarce resources when the stakes are high.
- Human Systems - Leading through conflict, ego and cultural change.
- Technological Risk - Leveraging AI and systems without hollowing out the organization.
The Monday Morning Test
Put principles into practice with 16 on-campus residencies that each run from Thursday–Saturday. You will spend your residency pressure-testing your current organizational challenges with faculty and peers. And if you can’t apply what you learned on Saturday to your meeting on Monday, we haven’t done our job.
The Capstone
Central to the program is a two-semester-long, faculty-mentored initiative tied directly to your organization. Through this experience, you can:
- Reimagine the patient and customer journey to identify friction points and prototype solutions
- Challenge outdated assumptions about customers, markets and internal assets to identify untapped value
- Build a smarter organization through improvements to internal operating models and people systems
- Diagnose process failures and operational bottlenecks and engineer concrete solutions to fix them
- Tackle how vulnerable populations can be better reached through creative service, technology and program design
The work you complete in this program is real. Your learning compounds because of it, and your organization will reap the benefits.
Leadership Grounded in Evidence
Learn from faculty who pioneered Emotional Intelligence and Appreciative Inquiry, gain leadership confidence through one-on-one executive coaching and sharpen your skills through research-backed frameworks.
You'll do more than study leadership principles: You'll flex them under pressure.
I have been stretched and challenged by the content of many of the classes, while other parts of the curriculum came more easily and naturally to me, and yet still vastly expanded my awareness, my language, my foundation for leadership, all while absolutely inspiring me. From basic accounting, to design, to the four-semester leadership series, I have personally been strengthened in my capacity for leading and my confidence to do so.”
EMBA Program Structure
Fall Semester
Orientation / Building the Learning Environment
EMBA 441 – Leading Change: Self
EMBA 438 – Business Statistics and Quantitative Analysis
EMBA 436 – Accounting for Business Executives
EMBA 450 – Managerial Marketing
EMBA 466 – Legal Environment
Spring Semester
EMBA 473 – Leading Change: Teams
EMBA 439 – Corporate Finance
EMBA 437 – Economic Analysis for Managers
EMBA 471 - Negotiations
EMBA 451 - Strategy
Summer Semester
EMBA 475 – Managing in a Global Economy
Fall Semester
EMBA 472 – Leading Change: The Organization
EMBA 478A – Leading Design in Organization
EMBA 443 - Supply Chain Management
EMBA 442 - Innovation
EMBA 480 - Special Topics in Management (1,2)
Spring Semester
EMBA 479 – Leading Change: Society
EMBA 478B – Leading Design in Organizations
EMBA 480 - Special Topics in Management (3,4,5,6)
EMBA 476 – Corporate Governance and Dialogues in Healthcare
EMBA 420 - Business Ethics for Executives
The EMBA program is delivered over five semesters, or 21 months. Both fall and spring semesters consist of four three-day residencies. These residencies take place once a month, Thursday through Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The summer semester is delivered abroad through the weeklong International Study Experience.
Fall 2025
August 14 On-campus Orientation for new students
Sept. 10 Afternoon team building session for new students
Sept. 11-13
Oct. 9-11
Nov. 6-8
Dec. 11-13
Spring 2026
Jan. 8-10
Feb. 4-7 (On Wednesday of the February residency, EMBA students participate in an offsite experiential learning day)
March 5-7
April 9-11
Fall 2026
Sept. 2 Afternoon team building session for new students
Sept. 3-5
Oct. 8-10
Nov. 5-7
Dec. 10-12
Spring 2027
Jan. 7-9
Feb. 3-6 (On Wednesday of the February residency, EMBA students participate in an offsite experiential learning day)
March 4-6
April 8-10