The Executive MBA of ICN Business School - Nancy Metz and EM Strasbourg offers in the upcoming April 2010- October 2011 Programme: an interactive and innovative approach to personal and professional development in an ever-changing international business environment.

As an Executive MBA student of the ICN Business School – EM Strasbourg programme you will be guided through the different phases of the ambitious 18 month management development programme.

The programme is designed to balance reflection and action:

I. Adopting New Perspectives

II. Gaining an Overview of Business Fundamentals

III. Developing International Business Sense

IV. Carrying out Managerial Decisions

Program content

I. Adopting New Perspectives

The objective of the first phase of the programme is to foster new ways of looking at typical managerial challenges. Theory enriches practice and practice advances theory. Team teaching and team learning set the tone for the phases to come.

- Integration Seminar : Team-building

- Creativity

- Leadership

- Coaching

- Change Management

- Corporate Social Responsibility

- Business Research Methods

II. Gaining an Overview of Business Fundamentals

The second phase of the programme aims at providing a solid knowledge base of management fundamentals. The common thread to all modules is strategic change management in a complex uncertain business environment.

- Economics

- Corporate Finance

- Financial and Cost Management

- Information Systems

- Performance and Measurement Management

- Principles of Marketing

III. Developing International Business Sense

The third phase of the programme integrates an international dimension to content which has been previously introduced in the programme. Modules particularly critical to business success in a global context are also added.

- International Finance

- International Marketing

- International Business Law

- International Political Analysis

4 international seminars:

- Supply Chain Management (Europe I Seminar: Wroclaw International School of Transport and Logistics and Volvo Polska)

- International Human Resource Management (Europe II Seminar: EM Strasbourg and European Parliament)

- Strategy (Georgia Tech Management School, Atlanta, USA Seminar and UPS World Headquarters)

- Intercultural Management (Binzhou University and cooperating local business partners, China Seminar)

IV. Carrying out Managerial Decisions

The final phase is directed toward implementing individual and group decisions by way of meaningful actions. Strategic partnerships with corporate and community partners give way to interactive real-time research and learning initiatives.

- Improving Communication in English Programme

- Programme Development Project

- Business Game

- MBA memoire (company topic or personal project topic)

- Final Oral Defence

Students profile

- Average age: 37 years old with 7 years managerial experience

- Functions of participants: General Manager, Small business owner-manager, High potential managers in multinational firms in areas of Marketing, Production, Financial Control, Human Resources, Supply Chain Management, Communication, Information Technologies…

- Geographical range of work of participants: Russia, China, Japan, USA, Canada, Brazil, Europe, Middle East, Africa…

Admission - Motivation and management experience

Selections are based on individual applications and interviews. The candidate must fill out and send off the application form which can be downloaded here . Once we have received and studied your application form we will inform you of your application status. If your application responds to admission requirements we will contact you to set a date for the selection interviews. Once your interview date has been set, you will receive additional documents to complete and return before the date of your interviews.

- First interview: Become who you are >>,

- Second interview: Management experience and English proficiency, and Test of Logic.

Practical details

The beginning of the next programme is the end of April 2010.

Length of studies

Three days per month (Thursday, Friday, Saturday all day). Courses take place at the H tel des Missions Royales in Nancy which is the Executive Center of ICN Business School and at EM Strasbourg. Others take place in companies.

Degree

Master of Business Administration (MBA), an internationally recognised degree which is a 5 year post graduate level degree delivered by ICN Business School and EM Strasbourg.

Cost

19 500 € for the 18 month program. For individual registration fee: contact us.

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