Program Highlights

The Michigan Ross Executive MBA Program is customized to account for students’ significant experience and expertise. Our general management curriculum focuses on strategy and leadership development. It takes an integrated, results-oriented approach to real-world problem-solving and decision-making. You'll emerge with the practical know-how and enterprise-wide perspective you need to ascend to senior management and drive results in critical and ambiguous environments.

Our faculty and staff understand the commitment it takes to integrate rigorous MBA studies into a busy personal and professional life. We strive to provide a streamlined experience integrating curriculum with lodging, dining, distance learning, tech support, career management, and other elements unique to an executive’s needs.

General Management Curriculum

EMBA coursework spans the language and landscape of key business disciplines at a very senior level. You’ll gain the knowledge and insight to manage across units, synthesize diverse viewpoints, and make tough, executive-level decisions. In 2010 the Financial Times ranked the Michigan Ross EMBA Program No. 2 in general management.

Focus on Strategy

In today’s complex and changing economy, knowing how to devise and deploy the right strategy is key to establishing your leadership and delivering value to any organization. The EMBA curriculum emphasizes strategic application with each major discipline and gives you the tools to turn classroom theory into real-world practice. As a result, the Financial Times ranked Michigan Ross No. 4 in corporate strategy in 2010.

Action-Based Learning

Michigan Ross is a world leader in action-based learning, an approach that gives you the confidence and skills to test sophisticated concepts immediately in your work. Through competitive simulations, group projects, and our flagship course, ExecMAP, you’ll experience the ways new knowledge applies across organizational units and gain valuable insight into your professional effectiveness.

Customized Leadership Development

Leadership Excellence consistently ranks Michigan Ross the best business school for leadership development. Our Professional Development Program delivers courses, workshops, and coaching that complement the curriculum and help you hone and refine the ways you lead people and organizations for greater results.

Global Perspective, Global Preparedness

Michigan Ross faculty apply a global lens to every discipline, and the EMBA curriculum culminates with a global-intensive unit. Topics cover strategies for growth, competition, management, and cross-cultural relations.




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A Global Remedy Rob Barrow, MBA '10, came to the Ross EMBA Program looking for a new challenge. "The program was more to stimulate me than to check a box for an employer," he says. Since graduation, however, he has become his own employer. Read Rob's Story Agent of Change FBI agent Jeff Brown, MBA '11, knows how to tackle bad guys. But the Ross EMBA Program has taught him to tackle finance, accounting, and other business fundamentals. Now he has a new weapon in his arsenal: general management training. Read Jeff's Story Building the Fundamentals Mike Carscaddon, MBA '08, has nailed a solid foundation in international operations at Habitat for Humanity International. The Ross EMBA Program gave him the data-driven outlook needed for his nonprofit to think like a business. Read Mike's Story Doctor's Orders John Chang, MBA '09, became a doctor in order to help people. But a contentious meeting with hospital administrators made him realize his profession is evolving — physicians now need a head for business. Next stop: the Ross EMBA Program. Read John's Story Charting a Course Kimberli Cumming, MBA '12, wasn't sure business school was the place for a social worker-turned-executive director of a nonprofit. But the Ross EMBA Program's focus on leadership and personal development is helping align her goals. Read Kim's Story Bridging the Gap Lawrence Fitzgerald, MBA '10, weathered closures at two pharmaceutical giants. But he converted setback to opportunity when he landed as a VP at Lundbeck Research. The Ross EMBA Program gave him the resilience to stay the course. Read Larry's Story Driving Change Tedros Mengiste, MBA '08, helped drive change at Ford with the Escape. He's now at Galpin Auto Sports, which is forging a new path since gaining television notoriety. The Ross EMBA Program helped Ted feel comfortable in the driver's seat. Read Ted's Story The Business of Research As a doctor and teacher, Edith Mensah-Osman, MBA '11, is leveraging her MBA to understand the business side of research and elevate her leadership skills. She calls the Ross EMBA Program the best gift she's ever given herself. Read Edith's Story Making the Wheels Go 'Round As an engineer, Linda Taliaferro, MBA '09, knows a lot about what makes a good wheel. But it is the business intelligence she gained through the Ross EMBA Program that keeps those wheels turning smoothly. Read Linda's Story Re-Energizer While in the Ross EMBA Program, Donna Zobel, MBA '04, was tapped to take over her late father's business. She soon discovered the company was running on empty, and her initial plan was to quickly offload it. But sometimes plans change. Read Donna's Story First Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next Last