Executive MBA (Archive 2018-2019)
Executive MBA Archive 2018-2019
Suffolk's 16-month Executive MBA Program, designed for mid-career and senior-level professionals, blends a Saturday class schedule with four travel seminars.
Suffolk's Executive MBA Program is designed to promote an educational experience focused on integrated management theory and global leadership.
Self-Aware Leader Seminar -As an introduction to the Executive MBA Program, this two-day off-campus seminar emphasizes how personal leadership style and self-awareness influences both team dynamics and performance outcomes in the context of a business simulation during which students address strategic and operational issues.
Leadership and Team Building Seminar -Conducted in Florida, this seminar develops and refines your team leadership skills. It combines classroom activities with the experiential, competitive challenge of team sailboat racing creating an intense team experience that integrates theory and practice.
Washington Policy Seminar -Conducted in Washington, D.C., this one-week immersion provides first-hand exposure to the link between public policy development and organizational strategy. Students are briefed by lobbyists, regulatory agencies, national associations, think tanks and other organizations that influence policy development.
Global Business Seminar -Students gain critical economic, political, and cultural perspectives on doing business globally via a one-week immersion in Europe, Asia, or Latin America. Through company visits with senior management at international organizations, students will be briefed on the current challenges of global business and participate in "flash consulting" exercises where they develop and present strategic recommendations to these companies.
Executive MBA Program Degree Requirements
Suffolk’s Executive MBA offers a fully integrated approach to learning with an emphasis on leadership. Residential seminars emphasize self-awareness, leadership, public policy, and global business. Case studies, lectures, experiential learning, and simulations are emphasized in a team-based environment.
- 12 courses and four travel seminars (45 credits)
- With the convenience of a Saturday schedule students move through the program together in a cooperative and supportive cohort environment, often on team projects and in study groups.
- Students move through the curriculum as a cohort
- The capstone class requires students to develop and implement a project driving business process improvement, or creating growth in their organizations. This often results in individual career advancement as well as high-impact benefit to student employers.
Suffolk’s Executive MBA course content and subject areas are represented below.
EMBA Curriculum
Semester 1 (12 credits)
EMBA-600 Self Aware Leader Seminar
1.50
This two-day, off-campus seminar emphasizes how personal leadership style and self-awareness influences both team dynamics and performance outcomes in the context of a business simulation, during which students address strategic and operational issues.
EMBA-610 Organizational Behavior
3.00
This course provides the foundation for skills that are a prerequisite for being a successful manager and leader. Most people fail to advance in an organization because they lack the management skills necessary to function effectively in an organizational setting. The general purpose of this course is to help you acquire and practice the knowledge and skills to manage people and organizations. This knowledge is essential to those whose career goals include achieving leadership positions in an organization.
EMGES-801 Business Opportunities
1.50
This course is designed to teach students about the fundamentals of consulting. Students will learn how to: design a consulting practice, structure a business model, market a service company versus a product company, organize and manage client engagements and structure finances. By utilizing the tools and content acquired in this course, students will be required to build a business plan for a consulting practice and lead a consulting engagement.
EMGES-843 Design Thinking for Competitive Advantage
EMBA Students Only
3.00
Across the realms of business, non-profits, & government agencies most top level managers are seeking ways to help solve the complex challenges brought on by changes in demographics, consumer sentiment, economic variability, and new technologies. Design thinking offers both processes and methods of problem solving that are proving to be very effective in solving these types of organizational challenges. This course will explore the nature of design thinking and examine how it is being used for competitive advantage. You will learn a new way of thinking about complex problem solving that results in robust solutions. The course will be both conceptual and practical with various experiential learning opportunities.
EMGOB-860 Leadership & Team Building Seminar
3.00
Conducted in Miami, Florida, this seminar develops and refines organizational leadership skills by combining classroom activities and a physical challenge to create an intense team experience based on integrating theory and practice.
Semester 2 (12 credits)
EMBA-622 Operations & Data Analysis
Take EMBA-600, EMBA-610, and EMGOB-855
3.00
Introduces students to operations management in the services, manufacturing and distribution industries while covering statistics and quantitative analytic tools relevant to all functional areas. Applications include: supply chain management, total quality management, forecasting, inventory planning and control, project planning and management, risk analysis, process design, and human resources issues in a global economy. Analytic tools for these applications include descriptive statistics and graphics, uncertainty assessment, inferences from samples, decision analysis and models, and regression analysis.
EMBA-630 Economic Analysis for Managers
3.00
This course develops the basic tools for microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis with emphasis on business decision-making and the impact of economic policy on organizational performance and competitiveness with respect to global business.
EMBA-640 Corporate Financial Reporting and Control
3.00
This course develops skills in how to use accounting information to analyze the performance and financial condition of a company, and to facilitate decision-making, planning and budgeting, and performance appraisal in a managerial context. This course focuses on the use of accounting information - such as the financial reporting, analysis, interpretation and decision-making and downplays the preparation aspect involving accounting mechanics such as detailed journal entries and ledger preparation.
EMBA-780 Managing in the Global Environment
3.00
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of the global business environment and the cross-cultural factors that affect management practice in this environment. Topics covered include economic environment, free trade and regional integration, foreign direct investment, exchange rate determination and relevant government policies, the decision to go international, and the multinational firm and its business functions.
Semester 3 (12 credits)
EMBA-650 Value Based Financial Management
Take EMBA-622, EMBA-630, and EMBA-640
3.00
Introduces the basic principles of corporate finance. The main focus of the course is on fundamental principles such as time value of money, asset valuation, and risk and return trade-off. Topics covered also include cost of capital, capital budgeting, and capital structure.
EMBA-660 Marketing: Challenge of Managing Value
3.00
Marketing is changing -- constantly driven by dramatic technology developments, globalization, and evolving consumption values, practices, and lifestyles. This course covers marketing themes, theories, and trends that are critical for superior business performance in the 21st century. In this course, we examine current marketing theory as it is being shaped by forward-thinking academics and new developments in business practices. This course provides students with a strong foundation in marketing principles and practices.
EMBA-670 Information Management for Competitive Advantage
Take EMBA-622
3.00
Focuses on using information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) for a competitive advantage. Explores the impact of IS and IT on the internal and external environments of organizations. Introduces students to the opportunities and challenges of managing IS and IT to meet the needs of business executives, managers, users, and partners. Students discuss readings and learn from technology presentations to examine decisions pertaining to selection of IS and IT intended to maximize benefits while minimizing costs and risks of implementation.
EMBA-770 The Washington Policy Seminar
3.00
Conducted in Washington, D.C., this seminar provides a first hand exposure to the linkage between public and economic policy and its impact on business strategy development and execution. It includes meetings with key members of Congress, the Administration, lobbyists, the media, and other organizations that may influence policy development.
Semester 4 (9 credits)
EMBA-680 Managing in the Ethical & Legal Environment
3.00
This course explores multidisciplinary analytical techniques and case analysis as strategic management tools to assist executives in successful navigation of an increasingly complex, evolving, and highly competitive business environment in which ethical, legal, economic, and regulatory forces are continuously reshaping the global marketplace both to create and limit competitive opportunities.
EMBA-800 Strategic Management
Take EMBA-600, EMBA-610, and EMGOB-855
3.00
Students develop a multifunctional general management perspective, integrating and applying knowledge and techniques learned in the core courses of the EMBA program. Students also learn about the principal concepts, frameworks, and techniques of strategic management; develop the capacity for strategic thinking; and examine the organizational and environmental contexts in which strategic management unfolds. Students achieve these course objectives through a variety of learning activities, such as case studies, computer simulations, examinations, project reports, and experiential exercises.
EMBA-899 Program Capstone
3.00
Are you ready to leverage your knowledge and experience into substantial business opportunities? Are you prepared to develop a strategy and accept the inherent risk with implementing new innovation? In this capstone course, you will utilize the executive program's business opportunity foundation and executive curriculum, leveraging your experience and individual motivation to develop, pitch, and implement your personally-designed project. You will define your project, develop an implementation plan and related executive summary, leading to pitching your opportunity to your selected peer group who serve as a project stakeholder. This two-semester capstone may be directed towards your current organization or within new venture.
EMBA Learning Goals & Objectives
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Be able to effectively apply analytical and critical reasoning skills to solve organizational challenges. (Analytical Reasoning) |
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Effectively articulate the role of ethics in management. (Ethics) |
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Indicate an understanding of how culture, economic and political issues differ across countries. (Global Awareness) |
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Be able to effectively communicate in oral form. (Oral Communication) |
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Be able to effectively communicate in written form. (Written Communication) |
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Assess their personal leadership style, qualities and abilities while at the same time indicating a plan for moving forward in their professional development to enhance their career paths. (Leadership) |
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Advising
If you have questions regarding the Executive MBA Program, please contact Emily Pytka, Associate Director of the Center for Executive Education, at 617-573-8304 or by email.