Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)

The program is taught by instructors, many with experience in the field of business. The program combines a core of MBA courses with an innovative set of concentration courses. The curriculum emphasizes decision making, innovation, ethics, and a global perspective. Students in the Executive MBA program may learn leadership skills that are grounded in sound ethical judgment.

In this industry-current curriculum, our project-based Professional Learning Model™ can engage you with complex, real-world situations and challenge you to understand emerging methods and practices of ‘Intrapreneurism,’ which applies the skills and mindset of the entrepreneur within an organization. The CTU PLM™ is designed to place you in the active role of collaborative problem-solver and project initiator, helping you acquire marketable skills as you study and learn how to position an organization to take advantage of opportunities in the marketplace.

This Executive MBA program features project management coursework as a registered provider of The Project Management Institute (PMI®), which is recognized as the global leader in the development of standards and practices for the project management profession.

The CTU Executive MBA program helps students learn how to apply the skills and mindset of an entrepreneur within an organization. In this program, students may learn how to:

• Employ leadership skills, including effective judgment and decision-making.
• Differentiate between ‘entrepreneur’ and ‘intrapreneur,’ and use skills of both to work within an organization to produce innovative change and growth.
• Work effectively as problem-solving team members.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the major functional areas of business administration, including the critical skills necessary to analyze and solve business problems.
• Identify and analyze emerging global markets.
• Manage an organization ethically and in a socially‐responsible manner.
• Formulate value‐creation strategies.
• Engage in professional business practices that cross cultural, economic and political lines.
• Synthesize course material and present innovative solutions to contemporary, real-world problems and initiatives.

Core courses in this program focuses on the tools, theories and skills that may be necessary to pursue opportunities in today's global business environment. Courses include:

• Applied Managerial Accounting
• Applied Managerial Economics
• Strategic Management in Dynamic Environments
• Applied Managerial Finance
• Leadership and Ethical Decision‐Making
• Applied Managerial Decision‐Making
• Graduate Research Methods
• Applied Managerial Marketing

The CTU Executive MBA curriculum is built upon four basic pillars: Ethical management and leadership; the use of good judgment and the making smart choices; an understanding of the global business environment; and the ability to create environments where innovative ideas can be taken from concept through application efficiently and consistently. For example:

• In Decisions in Management: Navigating Uncertainty, students can be introduced to three perspectives on decision-making: the rational choice model, a competing values model and a model grounded in an understanding of the processes of judgment heuristics and bias.
• In Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship and Innovation, students can be introduced to the idea of Intrapreneurship and the opportunities for innovation that exist within an existing corporation. These same skills apply to those mavericks that would pursue the same innovation outside of mainstream business community as Entrepreneurs.
• In Emerging Markets, students can learn how to identify and analyze the various governmental, business and political challenges and opportunities that exist when operating within emerging international markets. The roles of history and tradition may also be explored in light of their potential impact on various emerging global market economies.
• In the Management Capstone, students can demonstrate the application of content, concepts, and knowledge developed in previous core and concentration courses in their specific academic program. The course can require the completion of comprehensive research, analysis, and study in either a selected area of interest or a current business issue impacting the learner’s organization or company. Students can complete an in-depth project utilizing discipline-specific strategies. Research methodologies are used to prepare a formal report.

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