The programme is delivered in 16 one-week modules over a total study period of 21 months starting in January each year and concluding in September of the following year. Each module commences on a Sunday evening and runs through until Saturday. The Executive MBA is made up of:
- Nine core courses that develop a comprehensive understanding of modern business.
- Six electives that develop individual skills and specialisations.
- An entrepreneurship project that puts new learning to work.
- An overseas module that broadens participants’ perspectives.
Core courses
The Saïd Business School offers a range of core courses that will enhance general management skills and knowledge. Alongside traditional teaching methods, participants are able to reflect on their own experiences and collectively to examine new methods of understanding in the global business community.
Core courses on the Executive MBA are:
- Understanding General Management
- Developing Effective Managers
- Decision Science
- Strategy
- Finance I
- Operations Management
- Marketing
- Financial Reporting
- Managerial Economics
Electives
Core electives
Each participant has the opportunity to tailor the Executive MBA programme to their own particular areas of interest via electives. Electives allow participants to specialise in certain subject areas to either strengthen their current skill set or improve on their weaker areas while gaining depth and breadth across the range of business and management disciplines. Participants must complete a total of six electives - two core electives and four other electives from a range of options.
- Finance II
- Financial Management
- Global strategy
- Macroeconomics
- Technology and innovation strategy
Other elective courses
We want to ensure that all our elective choices keep up-to-date with current developments in business and management. Therefore, it is imperative to make sure that the choices on offer reflect the business and individual needs of the participants.
Our faculty creates a list of electives to suit the class and, if required, join topic areas together to create a new elective choice enabling a truly tailored offering. Subjects may include:
- Branding and advertising
- Business in China
- Business history
- Corporate valuation
- Design leadership
- Developing effective organisations
- Mergers, acquisitions and restructuring
- Private equity
- Risk management
- Social entrepreneurship
- Strategic negotiations
- Strategy implementation
Project work forms an integral part of the Oxford Executive MBA programme. All EMBA participants are required to work on a project that is of immediate benefit to their organisation.
We challenge participants to develop a complete business plan and present it to their company sponsor and a panel of faculty associates who are skilled in assessing the feasibility of a new venture. Undertaken either as the result of a proposal put forward by the sponsoring organisation, or created around the participant's own entrepreneurial idea, the completed plan must be attractive to an investor; the numbers must add up, the competition must have been understood, and a winning strategy developed.
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