The Executive MBA Program
The Executive MBA Program
Associate Dean and Director of the Executive MBA Program: William Lindsey
Contact Information
Office Location: Conrad N. Hilton Center for Business; Center for Executive Learning
Telephone
: (877) 568-8585
Fax
: (310) 338-1890
E-mail:
emba@lmu.edu
Introduction
The Executive MBA (EMBA) program is designed to prepare executives for the future. It teaches managers how to address, not just identify, issues before they become problems. Many of today’s—and tomorrow’s—management challenges don’t come with prepackaged solutions. Issues, solutions, and alternatives have to be identified and decisions made before "management theories" are even written. The LMU corporate classroom environment simulates the executive board-room, complete with current technology, where you’ll develop and apply concepts in an experimental environment before taking them to your workplace.
The Executive MBA program curriculum is efficiently structured to maximize learning by eliminating overlap and redundancy. Corporate sponsorship, the EMBA advisory board, projects addressing real business issues and continuing alumni business relationships help ensure the emphasis remains on the relevance of the curriculum to real business challenges.
Classes meet all day Friday and Saturday for over 21 months, every other week.
The program begins in August 2008 and ends in May 2010.
Application Process
A Bachelor’s degree with an acceptable level of scholarship from an accredited institution of higher learning and six or more years of increasing responsibility in professional, management, or entrepreneurial positions.
The admission decision to the EMBA program is individualized and based on a candidate’s potential to pursue graduate study. Each candidate is evaluated on several kinds of evidence taken together including, but not limited to, work and management experience, career accomplishments, potential for advancement, letters of recommendation, personal interview, information provided in the application form, undergraduate and graduate (if any) record and GMAT (if required). Selection is based on academic potential without regard to race, creed, color, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability.
How to Apply
• Schedule your personal interview
Candidates for the Executive MBA must have an interview with a member of the admissions committee. If you are considering candidacy, you are encouraged to interview early in the admissions process to assess the fit between the program and your experience, expectations, and personal development needs, and to determine if you are required to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).
• Complete the application for admission
Please type or print clearly. Give your full legal name. Include a $100 application fee, which is non-refundable. Your check should be made out to Loyola Marymount University. If a check is written for you by someone else, please make sure your name appears on its face.
• Send for official transcripts from all colleges and universities attended
Official records must be sent directly from the registrar of the issuing institution to EMBA Admissions. Transcripts submitted will not be returned, nor will copies be forwarded by LMU to other institutions.
• Request two letters of recommendation
You should request these from persons with whom you have closely worked and who can evaluate your abilities, accomplishments, and potential. Where applicable, at least one letter should come from your supervisor. Recommenders should use one of the postage paid envelopes provided by EMBA Admissions to send their letters directly to EMBA Admissions.
• Obtain your company’s sponsorship
You must have a support statement from your employer acknowledging that you will be given the necessary time off from work to attend classes and other official program functions. Please have your employer complete the proper form and send it to EMBA Admissions using the postage paid envelope provided.
• Provide the official score of your Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), if required
The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is required only if your prior academic work and professional experience does not show clear evidence of strong quantitative and analytical reasoning skills. A determination that the GMAT is required will be made after your personal interview and application screening. If the GMAT is required, your results should be sent to EMBA Admissions (ETS code 4403).
The GMAT is a computer-adaptive test (CAT) that is available year-round at test centers throughout the world. Visit the MBA Explorer® website at http://www. mbaexplorer.com for quick answers to most of your questions and the latest GMAT information. If you have additional questions, contact an Educational Testing Service customer service representative at (609) 921-9000. Telephone lines are open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., EST.
• Review and Notification
A formal notice will be sent to each candidate after the application and complete records are received, the interview concluded, and the admissions committee has made its recommendation. If you are admitted, you will be expected to confirm your commitment with a non-refundable payment of $1,000. This pre-payment will be applied to tuition charges and will reserve one of the LMU EMBA positions for you.
Summary—The Application Essentials
SCHEDULE INTERVIEW
Early interview suggested
SEND: Application with $100 fee
HAVE SENT
• Transcripts
• 2 Letters of Recommendation
• Company Sponsorship Letter
• GMAT Score, if required
SEND TO : EMBA Admissions
Center for Executive Learning
Loyola Marymount University
1 LMU Drive, MS 8386
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659
The Curriculum
The EMBA is built and organized around key business challenges, integrating core business concepts and tools with real business situations to address these challenges. The 21-month, 58 credit hour program is divided into four modules and the executive consulting project during the summer between modules 1 and 2; each module builds on and supports the previous module. The major components of each module include the Classroom Experience, Skill Application Projects and Residential Learning Experiences in Washington, D.C., and in an international location.
Classroom Experience
Classroom sessions are comprised of
presentations by highly-qualified faculty and business leaders. Learning is facilitated through interaction between participants and faculty, exercises approximating real management issues, case studies, and exploring management concepts found in readings and text materials. Individual skill development is stressed, with the aim of equipping executives with strategies they can use to improve their own decision-making and leadership capabilities.
Skill Application Projects
Skill application projects provide important experiential learning by "forcing" the use of business concepts learned in the classroom to solve real business problems. Each module or major curriculum focus uses an individual and/or team project to facilitate the transference of knowledge into practical application. Projects are real business issues faced every day, such as a merger or acquisition, ethical decisions, opening new markets, major reorganization, or a functional business problem. Web-based group interaction and e-mail are used to facilitate completion of group assignments.
Learning Experiences
Three learning experiences provide unique educational opportunities that augment classroom instruction.
• The Leadership Retreat, at the beginning of the EMBA program, is a residential program to help participants set goals for themselves, form study teams, and begin the learning process. In addition, a workshop is offered for participants and their spouses/significant others that addresses balancing family, work, and school requirements.
• The Washington, D.C., Experience provides intensive, first-hand exposure to the forces and personalities in Washington that shape America’s business policy. In sessions with top policy-makers, participants learn how to understand and anticipate the impact of public policy on business.
• The International Experience uses a visit to one or more major, non- U.S. business centers to
provide an understanding of business practices, political realities, and social and cultural
sensitivities of a specific international business problem.
The EMBA Curriculum Sequence and Course Descriptions
The EMBA is built and organized around key business challenges, integrating core business concepts and tools with real business situations to address these challenges. The 21-month, 58 credit hour program is divided into four modules and the executive consulting project during the summer between Modules 1 and 2; each module builds on and supports the previous module. Credit hours for an individual course may vary from 1-4 semester hours; however, the total credit hours for the program is 58 semester hours. The MBA degree is awarded by the College of Business Administration at the successful completion of the program.
MODULE 1: Knowledge Foundation
and Language of Business
The emphasis of this module is to assess the impact of the global economy on the economic
value of the firm by strengthening your executive ability to acquire and maintain capital resources. Course work aims at improving decision making by laying a solid foundation in quantitative and analytical skills.
MBAP 602 Accounting and Control
MBAP 603 Decision Support Foundation
MBAP 604 Applied Business Economics
MBAP 608 Managerial Finance
MBAP 611 Corporate Expansion Project
Total: 12-14 semester hours
MODULE 2: Leadership to Improve
Organizational Performance
The focus of this module is to enable executives to maximize human potential for improving organizational performance. You develop an understanding of your own leadership and decision-making styles to greatly improve your leadership ability.
MBAP 612 Leadership Practicum
MBAP 622 Strategic Human Resource Management
MBAP 623 Leadership in the 21st Century
MBAP 624 The Manager as Decision Maker
MBAP 625 Managing Technology
MBAP 626 Executive Communications
MBAP 661 Team Performance and Group Dynamics
Total: 12-14 semester hours
SUMMER BETWEEN MODULE 1 AND 2: Executive Consulting Project
MBAP 615 Performance in Non-Profit and
Disadvantaged Firms
Total: 2-3 semester hours
MODULE 3: Knowledge to Lead in
the Global Business Environment
This module expands your horizons beyond functional and internal topics to global approaches, presenting you with a variety of complex and interrelated issues that impact business growth and long-term performance.
MBAP 631 Strategy Formulation in the Global Environment
MBAP 632 Applied Economics Environment
MBAP 633 Changing Global Economic Environment
MBAP 634 Marketing and Social-Cultural Environment
MBAP 635 Legal Environment of Business
MBAP 613 Business Opportunity Assessment Project
Total: 12-14 semester hours
MODULE 4: Strategic Leadership to
Achieve Long-Term Success
This module, the capstone experience of the Program, emphasizes executive leadership required to create and communicate clear direction for the organization’s future and for carrying out change to achieve long-term results. The main objective is to enhance your ability to align human and capital resources
to the firm’s strategy to achieve a long-term competitive advantage for your organization. Particular emphasis is given to ethical conduct, integrity, and socially responsible action.
MBAP 641 Executing Strategy in the Global Environment
MBAP 642 Deal Making
MBAP 643 Strategic Marketing
MBAP 644 Corporate Governance
MBAP 662 Ethics and Spirituality in the Workplace (begins in Module 1)
MBAP 663 Professional Growth Planning (begins in Module 3)
MBAP 614 Strategy Implementation Project
Total: 12-14 semester hours
LEARNING EXPERIENCES
: Three learning experiences provide educational opportunities that augment classroom instruction.
MBAP 651 Introduction to Executive Leadership (The Leadership Retreat)
MBAP 652 Relationship of Government and Business (The Washington, D.C., Experience)
MBAP 653 Business in the International Environment (The International Experience)
Total: 5 semester hours
Program Total: 58 semester hours
Expectations for Executive MBA Students
The Executive MBA is a cohort program where
students proceed through a fixed curriculum as a group. Learning is facilitated through collaborative assignments where students work closely with each other, with faculty and within study teams. A significant and critical part of the learning is achieved through open and honest dialog with fellow students and faculty.
Success in the program depends heavily on attitude and how students interact with and work with other classmates. Students are expected to develop an awareness of self that requires a willingness to engage in self discovery, to look at oneself objectively and honestly, and to respect the opinions and perspectives of fellow classmates, faculty and administrators.
Students agree to and accept the following guidelines:
• Actively participate in regular team meetings and activities
• Fulfill commitments made to the team
including homework and team projects
• Support other team members
• Actively work to create a high performance team
• Be open to feedback from faculty, team members and class members
• Provide feedback to team members and class members
• Treat fellow students, faculty and administrators with dignity, decency and mutual respect
Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in dismissal from the program.
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