Learn on Saturday. Apply on Monday.
The Broad Executive MBA is unlike any other part-time MBA program. What separates us from the pack? Simple—it all comes down to our unique team-based approach, robust curriculum, convenient schedule and world-class faculty. You get a nationally recognized, AACSB-accredited education in an integrated, compact program with an exceptional ROI. It will challenge your assumptions, expand your insight and develop you into a better leader.
Program Format
The Broad College Executive MBA is specifically designed for busy professionals striving to balance work, home and other responsibilities. Students complete this top-ranked part-time MBA in just 20 months with a predictable, convenient and flexible schedule.
Choose either:
- East Lansing: Every other Friday evening/Saturday
- Troy: Every other Friday evening/Saturday
- Hybrid: One Friday evening/Saturday per month in East Lansing + online
All students build valuable connections during a week-long academic residency on campus in year one, and a global residency in year two. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is provided the hour before courses begin, providing students with dedicated time to connect with their classmates. Technology is used to enhance the learning experience and to ensure that in-class time is interactive. Extended breaks in December and July/August allow students an opportunity to reflect on the learning and re-energize themselves.
Highlights
- 20 months (including breaks)
- Classes meet every other weekend on Friday evening (6 p.m.-10 p.m.) and on Saturday (8 a.m.-5 p.m.)
- Hybrid option classes meet on Friday evening and Saturday, just one weekend per month + online
- Kick off your experience in late summer at a two-day orientation
- Program begins with a seven-day intensive academic residency in East Lansing in September
- Global residency week in spring of year two
Learn from the Experts
The Broad Executive MBA’s world-class faculty is nothing short of exceptional. Consisting primarily of full-time Broad College faculty, our first-rate Executive MBA professors are leading experts in their fields. They consistently demonstrate a passion for connecting relevant research to practical application, and value the opportunity to share their expertise with our high-caliber students. Faculty are top researchers, skilled industry professionals, and many have received prestigious teaching awards.
Executive MBA Curriculum Structure
The Broad Executive MBA’s rigorous curriculum is designed to sharpen your business expertise and give you a competitive edge in your career. Throughout these dynamic courses, you’ll obtain the essential business knowledge, real-world skills and insights you need to excel in the workplace and contribute to your company’s bottom line.
The 45-credit-hour Master of Business Administration (MBA) includes approximately 30 executive MBA courses. Most EMBA courses are 1.5 credit hours and consist of four compressed four-hour sessions that leverage technology to get the most out of in-class time.
Key content areas include:
Enhancing managerial skills
Analyzing the organization
Analyzing the organization’s environment
Managing change and innovation
Developing strategy in a global environment
Current issues in business
Executive MBA Course Descriptions
Our diverse set of courses focus on a wide range of subject matters, from strategy, leadership and management, to marketing, accounting, finance and supply chain management. Courses on information systems, business law and global perspectives are also incorporated into the comprehensive business curriculum.
Fall Academic Residency
- Financial Accounting Concepts
2.0 CREDITS
Financial reporting issues from a user’s perspective. Measurement, valuation, and reporting concepts and issues. Analysis and use of financial accounting information for decision making.
- Managerial Skills
2.0 CREDITS
Thinking critically about organizational effectiveness and creating, maintaining, and leading effective work groups in organizations.
- Supply Chain Management I
1.5 CREDITS
Understanding supply chain management and its impact on competitive advantage. Introduction of logistics, operations management, procurement, and cross-functional integration in supply chains.
Fall Module 2
- Business Analytics
1.5 CREDITS
Business analytics in shaping competitive advantage and business transformation. Examination of how data visualization and predictive modeling provides new venues of managerial decision-making. Examples from different domains such as marketing, finance, supply chain and human resources.
- Managerial Accounting
1.5 CREDITS
Accounting information for decision making and control, cost behavior patterns, cost activity-based costing, cost allocation, budgeting, transfer pricing, and accounting controls. Application of course concepts to work environment.
- Organizational Analysis
1.0 CREDIT
Faculty supervised analysis of the student’s employing organization from a broad organizational behavior perspective.
- Strategic Management I
1.5 CREDITS
The strategy of a firm is the set of decisions it makes concerning how it will achieve superior performance and hence create value for shareholders. This course focuses on identifying and analyzing the internal and external sources of competitive advantage available to the firm, and on developing strategies to access these sources of profitability.
Spring Modules 3 & 4
- Corporate Finance
1.5 CREDITS
Valuation techniques for bonds and stocks, investment decisions by firms, the relation between risk and return, pricing models for risk, and U.S. capital markets. Applications of course concepts to work environment.
- Customer & Competitor Analysis
1.5 CREDITS
Assessment of consumer and organizational buying behavior processes and competitive environments. Competitive strategies and customers’ needs, wants, motivations, and behaviors throughout the value-added chain. Application of course concepts to work environment.
- Information Systems
1.5 CREDITS
Information, process, and technology architectures of corporate information systems, role of information in organizational control and decision making, methods for evaluating effectiveness of information systems. Application of course concepts to work environment.
- Managerial Economics
1.5 CREDITS
Analysis of the firm, demand and revenues, optimal production, cost minimization, profitability and pricing, and marketing structures.
- Marketing Systems
1.5 CREDITS
Marketing decision making within global, customer, economic, ecological, and competitive environments. Gathering and analyzing marketing information. Developing strategies to guide the organization and operational market plans. Application of course concepts to work environment.
- Strategic Management II
1.5 CREDITS
The strategy of a firm is the set of decisions it makes concerning how it will achieve superior performance and hence create value for shareholders. This course focuses on identifying and analyzing the internal and external sources of competitive advantage available to the firm, and on developing strategies to access these sources of profitability.
Summer Module 5
- Strategic Communication
1.5 CREDITS
The effectiveness of corporate messages can be enhanced by careful, research-informed development. This course provides a model for designing effective marketing communication, along with detailed ideas about topics such as conducting effective stakeholder analysis, setting outcome parameters, designing messages, and engaging audiences.
- Macroeconomics
1.5 CREDITS
Determinants of national income, employment, and inflation. Macroeconomic environment of business: business fluctuations, fiscal and monetary policy, international capital flows, and forecasting macroeconomic data.
- Managerial Finance
2.0 CREDITS
Market efficiency, capital budgeting, security issues, dividend policy, capital structure, and bankruptcy costs. Agency problems between different stakeholders and option pricing.
Fall Modules 6 & 7
- Financial Statement Analysis
1.5 CREDITS
The goal of this course is to enhance the student’s expertise in financial statement analysis and in understanding the role of corporate governance in the stewardship of the firm.
- Human Resource Management
1.5 CREDITS
Address how organizations and managers can effectively attract, select, motivate, retain, develop, and otherwise optimally utilize their human resources.
- Legal Environment of Business
1.5 CREDITS
An overview of the U.S. legal system, the interrelationship of law and ethics, and the regulation of business by courts, state and federal statutes, and governments. Applications of course concepts to work environment.
- Negotiations
1.5 CREDITS
Negotiation strategies and planning steps, analysis of leverage, tactics for creating and claiming value, and strategies for resolving conflicts. Addresses the complexities of adding multiple parties, using agents, and involving third parties in negotiation and conflict resolution.
- Strategic Vision (Broad EXL)
1.0 CREDIT
A project-based course that allows students to apply content and knowledge from other Executive MBA courses.
- Supply Chain Management II
1.5 CREDITS
Advanced supply chain management strategies and applications with emphasis on supply chain process improvement techniques, quality management and strategic sourcing.
Spring Global Residency
- The Global Marketplace (Study Abroad)
3.0 CREDITS
International trip and seminar involving aspects of the commercial, economic, cultural and political environments of dynamic country markets. Exposure to leading executives and government representatives of major trading partners of the U.S. Provides a comparative framework for competitive strategy in a multicultural examination.
Spring Modules 8 & 9
- Entrepreneurship
1.5 CREDITS
Developing an entrepreneurial mindset. Skills of ideation, business model creation, market assessment and validation, and go-to-market strategies.
- Ethics in the Workplace
1.5 CREDITS
An exploration of the ethical dimension of individual and corporate decision making and provide practical resources for making ethical decisions within the business context.
- International Strategies
1.5 CREDITS
International, comparative, and cross-cultural perspectives in business. Markets and implications for managers. Global opportunity assessment, currency risk, and operational considerations.
- Leadership Development
1.0 CREDIT
Assessment and analysis of individual characteristics associated with effective leadership. Identifying personal strengths that are important for developing one’s leadership potential. Planning for further capitalization on these strengths.
- Mergers & Acquisitions
1.5 CREDITS
Strategic issues associated with major changes in a firm’s asset of liability structure, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, activist investors and leveraged buyouts. Issues will be examined in the context of a firm’s overall strategic goals, with a focus on financial strategies.
- Stakeholder Management
1.5 CREDITS
Identify and manage the interests of various stakeholders, including employees, customers, communities, and advocacy groups, while balancing business growth and societal challenges. Students will learn to map stakeholder interests, recognize conflicts or synergies, and explore the impact of a stakeholder approach on profitability, all while addressing complex societal issues like sustainability and inclusion.
