Prospective Students
Executive MBA Program - The MBA Program for Professionals
Edward S. Ageno School of Business
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The Ageno School of Business at Golden Gate University is proud to offer a 12-month intensive executive MBA program in San Francisco. This program is designed to be highly innovative and strategically focused, based upon our experience in offering successful executive MBA programs for 24 years to over 1400 graduates.Our accelerated program integrates strategic planning into each learning module to meet the needs of experienced executives, managers, professionals or business proprietors interested in developing business administration and leadership skills. As an executive MBA student, you will enhance your ability to think strategically, plan for an organization's future, analyze and recommend strategies, and develop a personal and professional direction for your career.The executive MBA program begins with the classic mix of MBA skills and knowledge and adds unique yearlong projects in strategic planning and personal career development. The executive MBA program is designed around the following modules.Preparation Module
This module prepares you for graduate-level study in managerial economics, financial accountings, business statistics and managerial finance through a self-study interactive CD as soon as you are admitted. Module I - Foundation Module
The courses in this module cover the accounting, economics, organizational behavior and leadership and are essential to a fundamental understanding of how business report and understand their financial data, and basic skills required of all managers. Understanding this material provides the foundation on which strategic thinking and planning is built. The year-long seminars in strategy and career building begin in this module. Module II - Functional Module
The courses in this module present finance, marketing and operations management so that students will have an understanding of the key functional areas of a business and begin working on the functional components of their overall strategic plan project. Students will use the coursework and projects and other assignments to build knowledge of key issues in each functional subject area. Module III - Contextual Module
You begin work on the country overview and risk analysis for the international case study. The contextual classes of international management, business, government, and society will be relevant to the analysis for the country selected for the international study trip and for their strategic projects. You will also be finalizing draft recommendations and laying out the implementation plans for the strategic plans which will also be the focus of the integration workshop module. Module IV - International Study Trip
A 8-10 day international study tour with site visits to organizations including those associated with the international case projects. Module V - Integration Module
This module integrates course subjects from functional and contextual modules so that you can use the analysis to view the company as a coherent whole for developing the constituency strategic plan and career development projects. The focus of these sessions is the final development of the strategic plans and presentations due at the end of the course. Accelerated 12-month executive MBA
For managers, entrepreneurs and professionals that integrates course material through a strategic business-planning project. Consulting for a real organization
The central core of the executive MBA program is built around the development of "real-time" projects focusing on key strategic business issues for local companies. Executive Coaching
You will develop a concrete action plan that integrates your strengths and passion with your life goals. This means career and lifestyle choices that fit your personal vision. Develop a career-focused portfolio specifically for career development, transition or maintenance. Analyze strategies for execution of your personal mission and create clear guidelines to act. An individually tailored career-development plan
You will develop an concrete action/development plan that integrates self-awareness with a life goal. This results in career and lifestyle choices that fit your personal vision. Case analysis of current and real-world issues
You will participate in site visits to selected organizations during the international study tour. International Study Tour
Meet managers of the global marketplace in the real world. During the 8-10 day study tour, you will have the opportunity to attend international business meetings and seminars, tour factories and meet people like you who bring a unique perspective to the business community in which they live and work. Your airfare, ground transportation and lodging are included in your tuition. No GMAT Required
At least five years of managerial or professional-level experience replaces the GMAT and qualifies you to apply now. Admissions interviews are conducted throughout the year. Classic and Cutting Edge
Practical, up-to-the-minute learning in an exciting environment that prepares graduates for success, delivered by an institution with more than 100 years of experience at educating working adults. Alumni Network
Golden Gate University Executive MBA students and alumni are employed at a variety of well-respected companies including: AT&T, Bank of America, Caltrans, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Levi Strauss & Co., Morgan Stanley, NEC, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Pfizer, Charles Schwab, SBC, SONY, United States Postal Service and many others. Our graduates tell us the executive MBA program is a truly rewarding life experience. You will work closely with other students - your peers from various business backgrounds and industries - learning from each other and establishing relationships that last a lifetime.The executive MBA program is designed with your busy work schedule in mind, with classes meeting for two alternating weekends a month, Saturday and Sunday from 8 am to 6 pm at Golden Gate University's San Francisco campus. Between the monthly sessions, team-based dialog is required and executive students will average 30-40 hours or more per week for studying, communicating with team members and developing the projects. The program emphasizes a combination of traditional classroom learning with workshops and direct applications to real world projects.All-inclusive tuition includes books and materials, with daytime meals provided on meeting days, and an international study tour, so you get the maximum learning experience without worrying about the details. Graduating students will be able to:
- Work effectively in teams
- Sell their ideas
- Apply theory to understand real practical situations
- Think "outside the box" and develop novel solutions
- Integrate the functional department issues into a coherent strategic whole
- Analyze and synthesize problems
- Manage the development of their own careers
- Current international and global issues
- Ethical and diversity issues
- Current technology issues
- Leading change in an organization
- Current management trends
- A bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and official transcripts from the degree-granting undergraduate institution and for any graduate work completed
- A one-page application form and an application fee of $60 for domestic students, $100 for international students
- A detailed resume showing at least five years of full-time managerial or professional-level experience
- A written statement of purpose which explains your interests an how the executive MBA program will benefit your career
- A letter of recommendation detailing how and why the executive MBA program fits for you at this time in your career, as well as your potential contribution to the program.
- A personal interview with the executive MBA program director
- A completed executive MBA program application form.
Download the Executive MBA Application for Admissions: Instructions
Download the Executive MBA Application for Admissions Courses are taught by senior faculty who bring superb academic preparation and corporate experience to the program. Executive students play an active role with the faculty and advisers in enhancing the learning process. Evaluation is accomplished through letter grades for each class and with a quarterly assessment of progression in the course modules and projects. The program ends with final presentations and reviews of the strategic plans by senior executives and program advisers. · EMBA 430 Managerial Economics - 4 units
· EMBA 440 Accounting for Decision Making - 4 units
· EMBA 455 Leadership and Organizational Performance - 4 units
· EMBA 460 Career Development and Planning - 4 units
· EMBA 490 Strategic Planning - 4 units
· EMBA 470 Operations Management - 4 units
· EMBA 465 Marketing Management - 4 units
· EMBA 450 Financial Management - 4 units
· EMBA 475 International Management - 4 units
· EMBA 480 Government and the Legal Environment - 1-4 units
· EMBA 475IT International Trip - 1 unit
· EMBA 490P Strategic Project - 1 unit
While the core of the program is built around the classwork in the key business administration foundation and core subjects the unique feature of our program is the development of three simultaneous projects integrated into the academic program, including: · A team-based consultancy project for a real organization that you will work on throughout the year.
· Executive coaching that integrates self-awareness with life and professional goals and the development of an individually tailored career-development plan that you will work on throughout the year.
· Team-based, international case analysis of select issues related to real organizations integrated into the international study tour and site visits.
