A transformative journey of leadership, innovation, teamwork, and global learning.
Whether you are a current or aspiring executive, the Broad Executive MBA student experience drives innovation, fosters collaboration, and accelerates professional growth. Our curriculum is rooted in modern challenges, immersive learning, and a global mindset. The Broad Executive MBA program helps professionals thrive in complex business landscapes while elevating their careers. Unlock your potential through hands-on projects and real-world business challenges with the Broad Executive MBA.
Become an Enterprise Leader
As part of the Executive MBA experience, students gain access to the Broad Enterprise Leadership Academy: a high-impact leadership development program designed to accelerate career growth and expand strategic influence.
This offering includes a diverse set of integrated experiences and resources that prepare leaders to make a lasting impact within their organizations. Gain access to personalized Executive Coaching, available exclusively to Executive MBA students, providing tailored guidance to help you lead with confidence.
Learn more about elevating your EMBA journey on the Broad Enterprise Leadership Academy webpage.
The Power of Teamwork
Collaboration is essential in today’s business world. That’s why we take a collaborative approach to learning by allowing students to collaborate with the same cohort of professionals for duration of the program. This encourages them to understand each project from multiple perspectives, build upon natural talent, and create lifelong professional relationships.
We carefully design teams of four to six people to ensure that each group will have diverse perspectives, knowledge, and experience. Teams are expected to independently determine when and how they meet, for ease of coordination across their busy schedules.
Build critical skills such as:
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Negotiation
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Communication
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Collaboration
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Leveraging peer strengths effectively
Innovation-Driven Learning with Design Thinking
The Broad EXL Project
Broad’s Executive MBA EXL is an experiential course that merges consulting practices with design thinking to prototype innovation solutions to business challenges.
The course follows this strategic process:
- Broad EXL partner organizations identify an important internal issue.
- Executive MBA student project teams will apply a broad range of concepts including market research, conversation design, ideation, and prototyping to develop ideas to address challenges.
- Teams conduct pitch formulation as a final deliverable to stakeholders.
Some of our past clients include:
- Alliance for Housing
- Bell’s Brewery
- CRIM Fitness Foundation
- Greater Lansing Food Bank
- Ford Motor Company
- Moneyball Sportswear
Expand Your Network
Nearly 70% of new job leads are generated through networking.
The Broad Executive MBA gives you the perfect opportunity to build a powerful network. During this intense 19-month program, you’ll have the opportunity to forge professional relationships that are certain to last a lifetime.
From classes and group projects to meals and social events, the Broad Executive MBA is a unique team-based program. Through it all, you’ll have a chance to connect with high-caliber peers and first-rate professionals like yourself.
Plus, you’ll have an opportunity to expand your network to include thousands of Broad Executive MBA alumni from around the world.
Global Study Abroad: An Emerging Perspective
At MSU, international experience isn’t just a part of the curriculum — it’s a part of our heritage. Michigan State University has been a leader in international programming since 1956, when we became the first major public institution in the U.S. to make international programs a critical part of the university’s mission. Since then, we have emerged as one of the Top 100 global universities, consistently leading the nation in education abroad participation and ranked sixth for international students who chose to study at a U.S. public institution.
The Broad College is at the forefront in global initiatives. In 1990, Broad’s International Business Center (CIBER) was designated a National Resource Center by the U.S. Department of Education. Home to the vast resources of globalEdge, the Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan and headquarters of the Academy of International Business, the Broad College is truly recognized as a worldwide leader in international competencies.
The Broad Executive MBA leverages this international perspective by:
- Welcoming students from an extensive range of international experiences and educational backgrounds.
- Expecting Broad faculty to leverage the university’s historic culture as a part of the experience.
- The curriculum itself features an international requirement in the second residency, where students elect to study International Culture/Strategy in East Lansing or travel abroad via the Global Marketplace.
The week-long global marketplace residency typically takes place in late February. It is designed to:
- Focus on the opportunities, costs, and risks of conducting business outside the United States.
- Highlight a specific region that has a diverse culture and an emerging economy.
- Allow students to travel to gain first-hand experience with the business and culture of a destination.
- Include advanced coursework & activities.
- Include presentations by in-country experts.
- Include site visits to a range of businesses and industries.
Past Global Marketplace experiences have taken place in destinations around the globe including:
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Chile
- Czech Republic
- India
- Japan
- Malaysia
- South Africa
- United Arab Emirates
- Vietnam
Elevate Your Professional Growth
It’s been proven that a MBA degree gives professionals an advantage over the competition, allowing them to excel in their careers. Whether you’re looking to enhance your role in your current company or explore new professional horizons, the Executive MBA is the answer to career management.
As a Broad Executive MBA student, you’ll have access to Broad’s career management team, who’ll partner with you to bridge the gap between your current career and your future goals. You will receive assistance in leveraging your professional work experience and your MBA, supporting your efforts to source new opportunities or maximizing opportunities with your current employer.
Whether you’re a mid-level manager or a seasoned professional, career management will help you learn ways to mitigate economic risk by proactively managing your career and your professional networks.
Broad’s career services have been consistently ranked among top schools by the Financial Times.
Some of our resources include individual discussion, workshops and insights on:
- Career exploration, goals and development; professional brand development
- Resume development and reviewing; cover letter writing
- LinkedIn profile development
- Career fair training/pitch development
- Interviewing (behavioral, situational, case) skills, including mock interviews
- Leveraging networks (connections through LinkedIn)
- Working with third-party recruiters (lists)
- Offer management and negotiation
- Job search strategies