Benefits to Participants

The Executive MBA Program offers candidates an opportunity to develop their most valuable possession - human capital. Our goal is to change your mindset - increasing your business literacy and critical thinking skills while broadening your personal networks.

Participants Benefit By:

Developing personal leadership skills and tools
Understanding how to lead organizational change and transformation
Developing analytical problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
Attaining unprecedented clarity and confidence in addressing business issues
Leading strategically on a global basis
Understanding the impact of emerging technologies as they affect both organizations and individual careers
Becoming part of a learning community and building social capital with peers and other high-potential executive and alumni
Balancing career advancement and personal life by earning an MBA with minimal disruption to work and family (through the program's combinations of online and on-campus once per month residencies

Alumni Benefit Through:

Alumni Speaker Series
The Ross EMBA Program provides access to leading business speakers (placed online or streamed when possible), including special lectures for alumni (such as Marshall Goldsmith, C.K. Prahalad).
Alumni Residency
Coinciding with the fifth year reunion of the first graduating class, this program will invite all alumni of the EMBA Program back to campus in May 2007 for a one-day refresher/update with current issues impacting business. This program is supported financially by the Executive MBA Alumni Fund.
Social Networking
The Alumni Program schedules an annual golf outing each August, as well as tailgates and other social activities in Ann Arbor. Alumni have also scheduled ski trips and other family-oriented events.
Alumni Learning Resources
Alumni get lifetime access to certain electronic databases in the Kresge Library, career counseling, their program websites (including course sites), and their e-mail address. The Alumni are also invited to participate in each October's Annual Business Conference, which features presentations by top-ranked Ross faculty, alumni and other business professionals.
The Larger Ross School Alumni Network
There are over 39,000 Ross School Alumni, living throughout the U.S. and the world. Ross EMBA alumni become part of this global community when they graduate.