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Pioneering Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Turns 25 (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: August 30, 2023

The Kellogg-HKUST pioneering executive MBA is celebrating its 25th anniversary. A partnership between Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School, the program has ranked first in the Financial Times’ ranking of global EMBA programs 11 times, including in its 2022 ranking.   “The program has…

Exec Ed Roundup: HEC Paris Tops 2023 QS Ranking For Executive MBAs (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: August 11, 2023

MCCOMBS DEAN RECEIVES OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTING EDUCATOR AWARD Lillian Mills, dean of University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, received the prestigious 2023 Outstanding Accounting Educator award from the American Accounting Association on August 8. Mills chaired the accounting department for four years before becoming the first woman to be named permanent dean of…

EMBA Spotlight: After Pandemic Pause, Wisconsin School Of Business Launches New Hybrid Executive MBA (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: November 28, 2023

For most of her early career, Pamela Petz found herself in small business leadership roles. She took on projects, extra training, and any leadership responsibilities she could get her hands on. She joined Great Wolf Lodge, an indoor water park in Baraboo, Wisconsin in 2019, starting as a corporate training manager. Though she was promoted…

University of Wisconsin–Madison Launches Redesigned Hybrid Executive MBA Program

Wisconsin–Madison Launches Redesigned Hybrid Executive MBA Program (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: July 27, 2023

The Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is set to introduce a revamped executive MBA program in Fall 2024, offering a unique focus on developing effective communication skills for confident leaders. The 18-month program will be delivered half in person and half online, according to a release. Total cost is $86,400 plus…

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EMBA Spotlight: ASU Carey’s EMBA Offers A Leading Concentration In the Business Of Health Care (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: July 14, 2023

Up until a couple of years ago, Shane Speirs spent almost his entire life as a student: Primary and high school in the Phoenix area where he grew up, then undergrad, medical school, residency and a fellowship in geriatric medicine. He always knew he wanted to get a business education, perhaps to do something in…

Exec Ed Roundup: UCL Global Business For Health Taps WHO Advisor (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: June 29, 2023

UCL GLOBAL BUSINESS SCHOOL FOR HEALTH RECRUITS FORMER WHO ADVISOR UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH) has recruited Dr. Kabir Sheikh, former policy advisor for the World Health Organisation (WHO), as Professor of Global Health Systems and Policy. Sheikh is a public health and health systems specialist committed to building stronger, more equitable health…

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EMBA Spotlight: Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School Executive MBA (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: June 20, 2023

Kishia Haberle built a career in operations, working in supply chain, procurement and contracts in automation manufacturing. After about 15 years, she was ready for a new challenge. She’d worked in functionally specific roles throughout her career, and her lack of overall business experience limited her options outside those areas. So, she started thinking about…

Yale School Of Management Expands Its Top-Ranked EMBA Program (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: June 14, 2023

Yale School of Management is adding a fourth study option to its MBA for Executives program, offering a broad leadership track to students entering in 2024, the school announced this week. Yale SOM traditionally offered its EMBAs three specialized focus areas: asset management, healthcare, and sustainability. The new leadership option will offer students more flexibility.…

2022 Student EMBAC Survey: Higher Pay, More Promotions After Graduation

2022 Student EMBAC Survey: Higher Pay, More Promotions After Graduation (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: April 10, 2023

Even before getting to the classroom, prospective Executive MBA students should do a little math. On one side of the ROI equation, you have the average cost of a U.S. EMBA: $126,517, according to the cost data from the 61 programs Poets&Quants For Execs ranked this year. That's up 2.5% from the year prior, and…

2022 Student EMBAC Survey: Higher Pay, More Promotions After Graduation

2022 Student EMBAC Survey: Higher Pay, More Promotions After Graduation (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: March 13, 2023

Even before getting to the classroom, prospective Executive MBA students should do a little math. On one side of the ROI equation, you have the average cost of a U.S. EMBA: $126,517, according to the cost data from the 61 programs Poets&Quants For Execs ranked this year. That's up 2.5% from the year prior, and…

Exec Ed Roundup: News From Europe (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: March 9, 2023

NEOMA BUSINESS SCHOOL UNVEILS STRATEGIC PLAN NEOMA Business School in France unveiled a new 2023-2027 strategic plan, “Engage for the Future,” that calls for a 40% growth in budget and 250% increase in the number of applicants. “We are proud of several major achievements, such as the expansion of our research, the substantial increase in…

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Alumni Award Nominees (NEWS)

By: Marc Ethier | Last Updated: March 8, 2023

From Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Dean Srikant Datar has announced the recipients of the 2023 Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award. The award is given annually to a small number of alumni who represent the best traditions and highest aspirations of the School. This year's recipients are: Reshma Kewalramani, MD, FASN (GMP 18, 2015), CEO…

How The Kellogg EMBA Is Helping This Latin American Entrepreneur Accelerate His Business

Kellogg Announces 3 Major Changes To Its EMBA (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: November 16, 2022

With its formation of its global partnerships more than two decades ago and “pop-up” electives in cities like Lisbon, London, Singapore, and San Francisco that combined asynchronous and in-person sessions years before the pandemic, Kellogg School of Management has long been an innovator of the Executive MBA. The business school at Northwestern University recently announced…

EMBA Spotlight: At UMN Carlson, A New Curriculum & Hybrid Option (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: November 4, 2022

Over the course of his 20-month EMBA program at Carlson School of Management, Darrin Hubbard sampled a variety of delivery formats: in-person, online, and virtual live via Zoom. Not by choice, necessarily. The pandemic closed the University of Minnesota campus for parts of his term and, for a time, remote class was the only option.…

EMBA Spotlight: TCU Neeley’s Promise – ‘ROI Starts Monday’ (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: September 29, 2022

There’s a motto emphasized in the executive MBA classrooms at Texas Christian University’s Neeley School of Business: “Class starts Friday. ROI starts Monday.” In the highly-personalized, small classroom setting, students work in teams to solve the real problems in their own companies, non-profits, or organizations. They are encouraged to take their lessons back to their…

Total Cost At P&Q’s 2022-2023 Top-Ranked Executive MBAs (NEWS)

By: Kristy Bleizeffer | Last Updated: October 16, 2022

A reality check: If you’re thinking about an executive MBA, you’re looking at a heft investment. Even the least expensive programs from our latest EMBA ranking of the best U.S. programs will set you back at least $50,000. For the prestige of a premier program, and all the perks that come with it, you’re looking…

2022 Best & Brightest Executive MBA: Ben Coffman, University of Pittsburgh (Katz) (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: July 30, 2022

Ben Coffman University of Pittsburgh, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business Age: 41 “Leader who balances mission accomplishment with customer and coworker needs while relentlessly driving improvement.” Hometown: Wexford, PA Family Members: Wife – Lan; Daughters – May and Maggie Fun fact about yourself: I was a platoon leader in the only fully airborne…

2019 Best EMBAs: Nancy Mehan, Georgetown University (McDonough) (NEWS)

By: Jeff Schmitt | Last Updated: October 2, 2019

Nancy Mehan    Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business “I am a mother and a physician. I am ambitious and excited to change the world.” Age: 40 Hometown: Great Falls, VA Fun fact about yourself: I’m working on my black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Almost there! Undergraduate School and Degree: Pennsylvania State University, Bachelor…

Why Specialized Master’s Are Hot (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: October 2, 2019

For many mid-tier business schools, the last few years have been tough. The hyper growth of the MBA degree, making it the most popular graduate degree in the U.S., has long stalled. Some schools, including Wake Forest University and Simmons College, have recently pulled out of the full-time, on-campus MBA market after years of declining…

Firms Fill EMBA Gap After China Crackdown (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: October 2, 2019

To understand the problem facing Chinese business school executive MBA programs, look no further than guanxi. The word describes relationships in the political and business spheres, and if that were all it meant, it might not be an issue in the EMBA programs. But guanxi is not mere networking - it’s networking with benefits, with…

Wharton Preps Execs for Cuba Investment (NEWS)

By: Ethan Baron | Last Updated: January 6, 2015

If Fidel Castro still smoked his trademark cigars, he'd probably be choking on one now. The former Cuban dictator rose to power in a revolution driven in large part by opposition to U.S. investments in the country. And today, 55 years later, the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School announced the "Cuba Opportunity Summit: High Velocity…

UC Berkeley Rolls Out Revamped EMBA (NEWS)

By: Lauren Everitt | Last Updated: April 24, 2013

It's not very often that a top-tier business school gets an opportunity to overhaul its curriculum, design new courses, scrub a few others and rebrand itself, but that's exactly what's happened when University of California Berkeley-Haas parted ways with Columbia Business School to end the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA program in February 2012. The split resulted…

Bentley University McCallum Graduate School of Business (NEWS)

By: John A. Byrne | Last Updated: January 19, 2012

Bentley University McCallum Graduate School of Business 175 Forest Street Waltham, Massachusetts 02452 Admissions: 800-442-4723 Email: Bentleygraduateadmissions@bentley.edu Website: http://graduate.bentley.edu/mba/pmba Apply Online: https://app.applyyourself.com/AYApplicantLogin/ApplicantConnectLogin.asp?id=bentley Designed with the working professional in mind, the Professional MBA program offers flexibility, choice, and the possibility of credit for prior academic work. The program accommodates the work schedule of part-time students, while also allowing for full-time…

February 18, 2017 (CALENDAR)

By: Events | Last Updated: February 11, 2017

The EMBA Special Event series offers a chance to gain an insider's perspective on academics and student life at Columbia Business School. These on-campus panels will give prospective students an in-depth look at particular aspects of the Executive MBA experience. Spotlight On Sponsorship & Financial Aid will call on Columbia alumni to discuss how they…