MBA – Executive track

In this module, participants focus on the important idea of transformations that is a central concern in the exercise of leadership. Business settings are increasingly characterized by a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) environment. This makes it necessary for leaders to be able to initiate and manage complex transformations. In response to this imperative, the module focuses on tools and techniques to lead effective and desirable change at multiple levels. Participants will have opportunities to engage in practical activities to apply their learnings in specific simulated or real-life scenarios.

This module is an integrated journey to grasp the importance of leadership for executive roles and to develop one’s own personal abilities to inspire trust and release collective intelligence in an organization, for everyone’s success and well-being. Indeed, the ultimate measure of a leader is when people and organizations function at their best towards a sustainable world.

In this module, participants will acquire a set of behaviours, skills, and tools to be able to lead themselves, teams, and organizations, with a positive and holistic mindset. Participants will use self-awareness to deepen self-knowledge about their abilities, skills, underlying interests, behaviours, values, and motivation. This will enable them to define their own challenges and develop confidence in their present and future inspirational leadership ambitions.

Within this module, participants will develop and strengthen their strategic mindset, i.e. their capacity to tackle complex strategic challenges and formulate wise and consistent strategic solutions and plans, at both business and corporate levels. This module is thus aimed at professionals who want to deepen their strategic capacity and broaden their analytical skills in order to participate more actively and with more insight in their firm’s decision-making process, direction and leadership. Beyond the mastery of strategic tools and techniques, a strategic mindset develops through practice, therefore the whole module will be practice-oriented.

The core of the module will take the form of a learning expedition in an emerging country, where participants will be exposed to local and global situations and strategic challenges, and investigate multiple cases in situ. They will visit firms, meet business leaders, entrepreneurs and academics from the country, and pitch strategic recommendations to them.

To thrive in an age of disruption and digital transformation, a changemaker’s mindset is needed, to lead innovation at the individual, collective and organizational levels. In this module, participants become more adept at using Design Thinking, Lean Start Up, and Business Model Innovation to manage the process of turning new ideas into reality, and build organizational capability to adopt customer-centricity, iterative experimentation, and cultures that support rapid learning cycles.

They consider the potential of emerging technologies to fuel disruptive innovation in different sectors and lead not only in managing innovation but also in adequately executing it with a hands-on practical approach driven from real issues that companies are facing.

In this two-part module, participants develop a 360-degree view of the organization and leverage functional knowledge to make managerial choices influencing both organizational performance and organizational sustainability. Participants become more adept in understanding the link between managerial choices and the material reality harming the organization’s sustainability in tackling topics such as HR, Marketing, IT Infrastructure and Practices, Supply Chain Management, and CSR.

They will not only develop a full functional understanding of organizational structures and their contingencies, but also take a more macro perspective in looking at strategic leadership and how to reconcile and integrate various organizational and functional areas to lead sustainable organizations.

The current global business context calls for a deep understanding of the grand challenges to pursue equitable, sustainable strategies that contribute to building a better world. The module responds to this challenge by exposing participants to the complexities involved in addressing these challenges. In this module, participants will explore the big societal challenges that deeply affect businesses in the current world and consider how business can develop possible responses to them through various initiatives at sectoral, organizational and stakeholder levels.

During a European learning expedition common to all MBA tracks, participants will visit organizations and firms engaged in tackling grand challenges, and via a hands-on project, develop concrete recommendations to address a particular challenge.

The modern era decision-maker contributes to the financial implications of business and understands the stakes. The module is designed to allow non-financial specialists to become proficient and pertinent in financial issues, from investment to funding to corporate valuation. Participants are immersed in situations and exposed to real-life multi-dimensional problems faced by modern firms. They will learn how to strike a balance and optimal position between various objectives, whose terms are not always aligned.

Increase learning efficiency

Encourage you to put into practice new concepts learnt

Stimulate discussions between participants and with contributors

Alternate personal work and group work

Encourage you to take a step back and gain new insights

Deepen understanding of issues tack

Case studies

Corporate games

Group coaching

Group discussions

Role playing

Lectures

Blended learning via a collaboration platform dedicated to program participants

Courses and modules are assessed via a variety of assignments (e.g., pre-work, in-course work, post-course assignment), which constitute an integral part of the Participants’ learning experience, development and transformation.

The program is conceived so that there is a mix of individual and group assignments, oral and written work.

The weighting of each piece of assessment of a course / integrative project is communicated in the corresponding syllabus (on IÉSEG-online).

A module’s grade is calculated on the base of final grades of the courses comprised in the module and the final Integrative Project grade, weighted by the corresponding number of ECTS credits.