Executive MBA: EMBA – Americas

Purposeful learning

Enter the Executive MBA program and learn important business fundamentals while developing the professional acumen to transform the way you do business.

At Columbia, you learn from full-time professors who are engaged in ongoing research that is changing how business is conducted worldwide. You benefit from the industry leaders who step into our classrooms to share their experiences running successful enterprises. You’ll also find that our faculty encourages the peer-to-peer learning that emerges as you and your fellow students bring your own unique experiences to the classroom.

A flexible, dynamic curriculum

The Columbia EMBA:

• Emphasizes big-picture business skills, whether you are working in venture capital or aiming to be a techstar
• Prepares graduates for a lifetime of change — so that, like the greatest leaders, you learn how to find opportunities in every market condition
• Builds awareness of ethical issues and the societal effects of business decisions, wherever you decide to work
• Fosters an entrepreneurial mindset to guide you in creating and capturing opportunity wherever you land — be it London, Hong Kong, or the next Silicon Valley

THE COLUMBIA CORE

• Business Analytics
• Corporate Finance
• Financial Accounting
• Global Economic Environment
• Leadership and Organizational Change
• Managerial Economics
• Managerial Statistics
• Marketing Strategy
• Operations Management
• Strategy Formulation

SAMPLE ELECTIVE OPTIONS

• Business Law
• Capital Markets
• Customer Centric Innovation
• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Global Entrepreneurship
• Managerial Negotiations
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Personal Leadership & Success
• Speculation, Crisis & Behavioral Finance
• Systematic Creativity in Business
• Value Investing

SAMPLE INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS

• Athens
• Cape Town
• Munich
• Santiago
• Shanghai

INTENSIVE FOCUS, CONVENIENT FORMAT

EMBA-Americas’ modular format encourages immersive study, fosters deep relationships with peers and professors, and provides inroads to New York’s business community, helping executives take full advantage of the time they spend at school.

The program begins with three terms of in-residence class sessions that meet approximately one week per month, with Columbia arranging students’ accommodations in a nearby hotel. Of the eleven residence sessions during the core, eight are held in New York and one each in Mexico City, San Francisco, and Toronto.

During their final two terms, EMBA-Americas students select from a wide range of electives—one of the largest slates in the United States—tailoring their choices to meet a variety of their needs from subject to schedule to format to location. As one of their electives, students are required to participate in an international seminar, a weeklong immersion in another country’s business practices led by a Columbia Business School professor.

Taking electives across Columbia Business School’s many programs, EMBA-Americas students learn with and from peers living and working in New York, across the United States, Canada, and Latin America, and around the globe.