The IE Brown Executive MBA is a fifteen-month program for senior managers, professionals, and entrepreneurs with significant work experience. It has been designed to give participants extensive knowledge of management tools and concepts through the MBA core and to provide a deeper understanding of the global business environment enhanced by the Beyond Business content custom developed by IE and Brown.
The IE Brown Executive MBA is a highly innovative program created specifically for the entrepreneurially-minded, globally aware, and inquisitive executive. Combining IE Business School's internationally acclaimed, practice-oriented management education with Brown University's excellence in the humanities, social sciences, engineering and life sciences, this program promises to go further than a traditional MBA, taking senior executives beyond business into the realm of the Liberal Arts, placing a concern for human beings at the very center of business.
- CORE MBA Curriculum:
Comprising roughly two thirds of all program sessions, the MBA Core will equip participants with a solid working knowledge of innovative business management techniques. Courses in the fundamental areas of business (Marketing, HR, Organizational Behavior, Strategy, Accounting, Control, Finance, Economics, Operations, Information Systems, and General Management) will lay the foundation for participants to move beyond business.
Courses included in the MBA Core:
Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership
Financial Accounting
Cost Accounting
Marketing Management
Competitive Strategy
Leadership Development
Managerial Economics
Leading People in Organizations
Financial Management and Advanced Financial Management
Operations Management
Management Control
General Management
Talent and Human Capital Management
Marketing Strategy
Information Systems
Supply Chain Management
- BEYOND BUSINESS Curriculum:
The partnership between IE and Brown allows the program to explore content custom developed by faculty at both institutions. These modules integrate cutting edge insights from disciplines such as psychology, humanities, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, engineering, and the arts to create innovative approaches to understanding the business environment, its challenges and opportunities. The modules take the learning journey beyond business but in a way that ensures insights are directly relevant for executives confronting 21st century management challenges.
Courses included:
Cultivating Conditions for Innovation and the Creative Process
Health, Ethics, Society
Culture, Politics and the Arts
Decision Making and Modes of Thinking
Political Economy of Development
Critical Finance
Nonmarket Strategy
Work, Meaning and Identity