Curriculum

Organization of the Program

The Executive MBA Program at the Zicklin School of Business has been created to meet the needs of the fast track executive - both in the private as well as the public sectors - and entrepreneurs who must compete in a rapidly changing, technologically oriented, and highly competitive domestic and global business environment.

The program's unique qualities, innovative structure, and instructional methodology are unmatched by any other executive program offered by major business schools in the United States and other industrially advanced countries.

All instruction is carried out in specific "modules" that focus on different types of "decisions" and the specific "context" in which these decisions are made by the manager. This allows managers to understand the decision-making process as it pertains to different types of decisions.

The Executive MBA is a cohort program. All members of an entering class remain together through the entire 22 month period. It is also a lock-step curriculum, which means that all students must follow the same program of instruction through the cycle.

Program Curriculum

Each Trimester is centered on a focal module that describes the decision context and learning framework of a manager. Year One focuses on teaching the student the core concepts of business by an examination of how a business organization grows from an entrepreneurial venture to a large cap entity.

This information is directly relevant to the manager's ability to make, informed strategic choices and develop implementation mechanism, which take into account the environmental competitive context of the organization in the focal module.

YEAR ONE

T-1 The Entrepreneurial Enterprise - Creation and Survival

The core module in the first trimester focuses on business start-ups. It combines the elements of entrepreneurship with an understanding of how to operate in competitive markets, and what it takes in terms of resources and risk-taking to create a successful enterprise.

Topics covered include Entrepreneurial Cases and Strategy, Marketing, Financial Accounting and Finance for Entrepreneurs.

T-2 Growing the Mid-Cap Enterprise.

The focus of this trimester is transforming and growing a start-up venture into a viable growing enterprise.

Modules in this trimester include Operations Management, Marketing Management, Managerial Accounting, Financial Decision Making, Statistics and Organizational Behavior.

T-3 Transforming the Enterprise- Preparing the Manager to Lead the Large Cap Entity

This module focuses on providing the manager with the tools and skills they will need to lead the large cap entity.

Students participate in modules covering Microeconomic & Macroeconomics Analysis, Dynamics of Competition & Industry Structure, Advanced Organizational Behavior, Statistical Decision Making and Corporate Finance.

Year Two

T-4 Strategy Formulation and Implementation at the Enterprise Level.

This trimester examines how a manager can formulate and implement a strategy to grow or transform their organization in light of their competitive environment.

This Trimester includes modules on Strategy , Financial Statement Analysis & Valuation, Business and Society and Managerial Communications.

T-5 Competing and Managing in Global Markets/ Mergers and Acquisitions.

This trimester concentrates on competing in the global arena and introduces the concepts of leadership and managing change. A separate module examines Mergers and Acquisitions.

Modules include International Financial Markets, Managing Change, and Mergers and Acquisitions. The trimester also prepares students for the international study trip with class sessions in country analysis and international management.

T-6 Leading and Managing the Large Corporation.

The final trimester examines leadership and the management of large corporations. In this trimester students examine the role and responsibilities of a leader and business decision maker.

Modules include Business Policy, Marketing Strategy, Corporate Financial Strategy, Human Resource Strategy, Negotiations and the Legal Environment of Business.

*The program reserves the right to revise the modules and or sequence that topics are offered.

International Study Tour

As an integral and required part of their learning to operate in a global environment, students participate in a required international study tour to major centers of business and financial activity. The trip is part of Trimester 6 and is a 3 credit course. The trip consists of seminars, workshops, meetings with business and government leaders as well as local academics. Students conduct visits to local and multinational companies who are doing business in the country or countries visited. Upon their return students complete projects and presentations based on the trip.

Past locations visited have included Ho Chi Minh City and Hong Kong (2011), Warsaw and Amsterdam (2010), Guangzhou and Ho Chi Minh City (2009), Sao Paolo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina (2006); Beijing and Shanghai, China (2008, 2005, 2002 & 2001); Hong Kong (2002 & 2001); Prague, The Czech Republic (2004 & 2003); Budapest, Hungary (2004 & 2003). The trip typically takes place in March or April in the second year of the program and lasts 8 to 10 days.

The 2012 International Study trip was to Buenos Aires (Argentina) and  Sao Paulo (Brazil).

Degree Requirements

Students must earn fifty seven (57) credits for the Executive MBA degree, maintain a cumulative 3.0 grade point average and satisfy all Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business and Executive Programs policies, rules and regulations.