Program Highlights

The Ross Executive MBA Program is tailored to deliver core business fundamentals to high-potential leaders. Our faculty and staff understand the commitment it takes to integrate MBA studies into a busy personal and professional life, and we do everything possible to support you. We seek to provide a streamlined and seamless experience for each student in terms of lodging, dining, distance learning, tech support, career management, and other elements unique to an executive’s needs.

Building on a strong foundation in the basic disciplines, we offer courses that take an integrated, results-oriented approach to real-world problem-solving and decision-making. We combine quantitative skills with the training to use them in leadership roles right away.

These courses, together with our Professional Development Program (PDP), will prepare you to meet business challenges and lead change in your organization.

A Multidisciplinary Strategic Perspective
At Ross, we understand that firms need leaders who can synthesize many perspectives to assess different kinds of risks and opportunities. As a Ross EMBA, you will develop that strategic perspective through an action-based approach that connects coursework to actual practice.

• The Executive Multidisciplinary Action Project (ExecMAP) course epitomizes the Ross approach to learning. It isn’t a case study. It’s not an internship. It’s a live project for a sponsoring company or organization that requires you to work in teams to address a real business challenge.
• The Leadership Crisis Challenge immerses students in a fictional corporate crisis that unfolds in real time. You will compete in an intense and timed role-playing simulation that requires you to frame and defend a course of action to a board of directors, the media, and other stakeholders.

Personalized Leadership Development
The Professional Development Program (PDP) is an integral element of the Executive MBA curriculum. It runs parallel to the traditional classroom courses and focuses on your growth as an individual leader. In the first stage of the PDP, you’ll work with a faculty coach to devise a customized plan through self-assessment and reflection. In the second stage, you’ll receive one-on-one instruction, counseling, media training, and more from professors, staff, and visiting executives.