IMD EXECUTIVE MBA

GROWTH
STARTS
WITH
 WELCOME
TO THE IMD
MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
Choosing the IMD Executive MBA is the start of a profound transformational journey, both
personally and professionally. As Dean, it is my privilege and pleasure to accompany you.

EXECUTIVE
The transformative core of the IMD Executive MBA is what makes it truly unique among EMBA
programs offered by top business schools. You will go far beyond your current situation,
discovering new dimensions of yourself as a reflective leader, powerfully effective, delivering
much greater impact at the personal and professional levels. You will focus on creating positive
social and environmental impact and value to society as a whole.

MBA
Supporting your growth as a leader, passionate faculty will share their knowledge,
resources and contacts in discovery modules around the globe. You will build critical skills
in entrepreneurship, innovation and much more, experiencing environments that will have
the biggest impact on your learning and development. And you will establish lifelong bonds
of friendship and support with your peers, faculty and global connections.
At IMD, your journey will be unique, crafted to your context and ambitions. Please ask us
your questions, and talk with alumni to prepare for your rewarding, challenging and truly
transformational journey.

Professor Vanina Farber

Dean, IMD Executive MBA
 YOU ARE
DEVELOP THE SKILLS TO EXCEL
AS A SENIOR GLOBAL LEADER
You are already successful. You proactively rise to meet challenges
and push boundaries. You are ambitious for new experiences.
Now you are ready for your next big step, to take your business further,
to grow as a leader and make your contribution to a bigger and better
future. It’s time to transform your bigger potential into reality.

Growth starts with you. Transformative

Innovative
Strategic
Entrepreneurial
Transformative
You are a force for good. You are looking to grow
your leadership skills to effectively mobilize
teams, transform your organization and contribute
to a better society. To drive this positive change,
you are ready to remove any mental maps that
may stand in your way of success and develop
your unique strengths.
SUNNY LIRONG HE
Equity Investment Manager
Dow
Switzerland
You experience and learn more about
your leadership and the impact you can
have on your organization. You learn
to lead with social responsibility and lead
with accountability.
Innovative
You know you must actively innovate and continuously
improve to stay relevant and valuable to your
customers. You are ready to embrace the latest
digital business models and disruptive technologies
that can make a powerful, transformative impact
on your business, and add value to to society.
MOHAMMED AL-SAQQAF
Chairman, Artmyn
Founder & Managing Director, Sapience Advisory
Kuwait
It challenges not just your technical capabilities
but pushes you towards breaking down
boundaries and exploring new opportunities.
My position as chairman of an exciting start-up
is a direct result of joining the EMBA.
Strategic
You want to transform the status quo with superior
strategies and highly effective decisions. To become
a strategic leader, you need first to master key
management skills in in highly diversified business,
social and political environments. These skills will
prepare you for effective strategic action!
CHRISTOPHE REGNAULT
Head Of Marketing
The LHoFT - Luxembourg House
of Financial Technology
Luxembourg
IMD is the only school where you really
dive into concrete, down-to-earth
learning that enables you to immediately
deliver and apply it in your professional
environment.
Entrepreneurial
You are ambitious to deliver new and responsible
solutions to global challenges that matter. You are
looking to foster and grow your entrepreneurial spirit
with a new start-up venture, or launch a new
business within an existing company, or even
transform the fortunes of an ailing enterprise.
ANDA CRISTESCU
Global Customer Operations Leader
Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain
Switzerland
Developing my entrepreneurial skills in Silicon
Valley with the EMBA has shown me that there
are literally no limits to what we can do. I see
possibilities out there for myself professionally
and for my personal fulfilment in a much
broader way.
 YOUR GLOBAL CLASSROOM
– WHO YOU MEET
The rich cultural and geographical diversity of your cohort
ensures maximum learning from day one. You will expand
your understanding of different industries, cultures and
ecosystems through the global profiles of your peer
leaders who share your class. They will challenge,
collaborate and deeply support your learning journey
to realize your bigger potential as a leader.

30 30 40 16 50-
34 % 50 % 60 %
nationalities industries average age years work
experience

female participants postgraduates director level+

65
class size
HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS
A blended, flexible modular curriculum allows you to combine personal development with daily life.
• 7 starting dates per year
• 7-9 weeks’ full-time classroom participation required in total
(depending on your foundation stage choice)

Foundations for
OR
Business Leadership
20 days Lausanne campus
5 sessions per year
Advanced
Management Concepts
5 weeks online
4 sessions per year
Mastery Stage
Global Management 12 months blended learning
Foundations 6 weeks out of the office,
only 1 week at a time
17 weeks online
• 3 x 1 week face-to-face
LiVe virtual classroom at IMD Lausanne campus
2 sessions per year
• 3 x 1 week face-to-face
Discovery Expeditions
Advanced
Management Concepts 7 locations: Lausanne campus
5 weeks online and Discovery Expeditions
4 sessions per year 3 sessions per year

Degree
 Choose your best learning journey

FOUNDATION STAGE OPTIONS

Lausanne campus plus online learning LiVe virtual learning

Foundations for Business Leadership OR Global Management Foundations

3 weeks face-to-face 17 weeks fully virtual
Fast-track your understanding of key business fundamentals. Launch your IMD Executive MBA without the need to travel for the first
Reboot and consolidate your knowledge of cross-functional stage of your EMBA. This highly interactive, virtual learning experience
skills and master the core functions of a complex organization: is delivered fully online and offers you the full capability-building of FBL.

CAMPUS VIRTUAL
• Marketing • State-of-the-art virtual classroom technology
• Finance and accounting with synchronous and asynchronous learning
• Business model innovation and entrepreneurship • Group work, team and individual assignments, presentations
• Strategy and industry analysis • Regular virtual social activities including virtual
• Operations and supply chain management check-in and liVe sessions with Faculty
• Live interaction with Program Director, coaches, Faculty,
specialist topic experts and EMBA support staff

Advanced Management Concepts

5 weeks online
Go deeper into the topics covered during FBL/GMF to reinforce your understanding of general management. Online learning
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requires about 15 hours study per week, so you can build your schedule around your business and family commitments.
Mastery Stage
MASTERY
12 3 3
STAGE
Discovery
Expeditions Distance learning
modules at to international between modules
months IMD campus destinations

IMD Mastery is constructed with different layers: from personal leadership, to business management assignments,
towards building a global perspective. These themes combine to create solid, integrated learning.

Leadership Discovery Business Executive Career Crisis

Stream
Become a more
self-aware, reflective
and strategic leader.
Expeditions Assignments Management Management
Gain global expertise in Apply innovative Explore exciting, Prepare yourself
best business practices concepts to the reality potential futures for every leader’s
through full immersion of your organization. for yourself. reality.
in real-world projects.

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LEADERSHIP STREAM
Transform your leadership.
Transform the world.

Great leadership is at the heart of your ability to drive

positive change. At IMD, your leadership development
is integrated into every learning step and personalized
with regular reflection, coaching, feedback and
application to ensure your results are relevant,
applicable and powerfully transformative for you
and others.

Leadership Team Individual

& change management
Most efforts to lead change fail, due to
prior mental maps. You’ll analyse your
effectiveness as a leader, how to create
impact and drive positive change.
leadership
You will work in small leadership teams
to fully understand your strengths and
weaknesses, and the dynamics of
influence at all levels of the organization.
leadership coaching
One-on-one leadership coaching will
expand your understanding of your own
behavior and others, plus the exercise
of leadership in different contexts.
 DISCOVERY
DISCOVERY
EXPEDITIONS
Experience globalization
first-hand Start-up ecosystems Innovation
Entrepreneurship Israel China
Take your leadership to the Silicon Valley & Dubai
next level with our themed
Global Discovery Expeditions.
Gain a deeper understanding Business challenges
in emerging economies Corporate
of the global business
environment through major Kenya transformations
themes like: entrepreneurship, India
innovation, sustainability,
corporate transformations Social innovation
and much more.
& impact investment
Peru

Example destinations. Themes and destinations are subject to change.

 CHAMPION ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION
Experience exciting futures
From the moment go, you gear up your entrepreneurship and innovation skills. Whether you want
to research the feasibility of a new business idea, are thinking of starting a new venture within your
organization, have start-up experience or are new to the idea, we will champion your entrepreneurial
mindset to ensure you achieve the destination you want.

Help drive the next “unicorn“ valuation

IMD Start-Up Competition

Explore entrepreneurship Work with promising Your pitch could turn IMD-supported start-up,
and innovation. start-ups, analysing, into the next “unicorn” MindMaze, pioneering
Pitch to VCs and angel challenging and shaping digital neurotherapeutics,
investors business strategies is now a $ billion unicorn!
 BUSINESS ASSIGNMENTS
Lead innovation back in your organization
Benefit from your very own corporate learning “lab”.
Channel the innovative tools, frameworks and new knowledge
straight back into your workplace. Through five tailored
Business Assignments, you will try out new ideas, gather
input and feedback, to refine and develop a complete business Case studies that relate to at least one
proposal, strategy or execution plan for your company. of the 17 Sustainable Development
Goals (SDG) defined by the United
Nations will be prioritized.
 EXECUTIVE CAREER MANAGEMENT
Identify your best path. Plan. Move forward

Whether you plan to change employment after the EMBA Throughout the Mastery Stage of the EMBA, you will be working both
or accelerate your career within your current company, onsite and at a distance through a series of workshops, webinars,
pro-actively planning your career path and leveraging career management tools and counselling with an experienced Career
your resources is critical to your success. Strategist who will be matched with you according to your needs.

Executive Career Management Module

How to pitch Hidden Career strategy Negotiating Engaging

yourself network & design for more with executive
search

The leader’s Entrepreneur‑ Managing How to get

resume ship through the company onto a Board
acquisition of your dreams
 CRISIS MANAGEMENT
Successfully manage extreme uncertainty and risk
To complete your EMBA journey, you will be challenged to experience
a crisis situation in a high intensity, three-day simulation. You and This methodology, inspired by
your team will learn how to lead in a crisis from generals of the Swiss the military, is highly valuable
Armed Forces and how to communicate with various stakeholders.
You will have to deal with stress, uncertainty, surprises, fatigue and
for executives in every sector.
frustration. You will learn how crisis leadership is different – when
Crisis leadership training
to switch from “business as usual” to crisis-mode – and how to lead from top experts -
from briefing to briefing under time pressure. the Swiss Armed Forces
MEET THE EXPERTS WHO Sameh Abadir Shlomo Ben-Hur Julia Binder

WILL GUIDE YOUR SUCCESS Professor of Leadership

& Negotiation
Professor of Leadership,
Organization & Corporate
Professor of Sustainable
Innovation & Business
Learning Transformation

Dean, IMD Executive MBA

Professor Vanina Farber
elea Chair for Social
Innovation
Ben Bryant Bettina Buechel Goutam Challagalla
Professor of Leadership Professor of Strategy Professor of Strategy
& Organization & Organization & Marketing

Vanina Farber is an economist and political

scientist specializing in social innovation,
corporate social responsibility and sustainable
finance with more than 20 years of consultancy,
research and teaching experience, working with
academic institutions, multinational corporations
and international organizations. Arnaud Chevallier Frédéric Dalsace Mark Greeven
Professor of Strategy Professor of Marketing Professor of Innovation
& Strategy & Strategy
MEET
THE
Knut Haanaes Amit Joshi Benoît Leleux Alyson Meister
Professor of Strategy Professor of AI, Analytics Stephan Schmidheiny Professor of Leadership
& Marketing Strategy Professor of Entrepreneurship & Organizational Behavior
& Finance

EXPERTS
Stefan Michel Anand Narasimhan Niccolò Pisani Jim Pulcrano
Professor of Marketing Shell Professor of Global Professor of Strategy Adjunct Professor
& Service Management Leadership & International Business of Entrepreneurship
& Management

Faculty subject to change

Karl Schmedders Ralf Seifert Leif Sjöblom Ina Toegel

Professor of Finance Professor of Operations Professor of Financial Professor of Leadership
Management Management & Organizational Change
ADMISSION CRITERIA
Join the highest caliber of participants

You
Profile
You are 35 years or above
with at least 10 years of relevant
professional work experience,
strong management experience,
consistent career progression, and
outstanding leadership potential.
Professional achievement
Demonstrated career progression,
with a strong preference for
international experience and
responsibility, plus the impact
you have made on your organization.
International outlook
We look for candidates with
international diversity including:
cultural sensitivity, time spent living
or working outside your own country,
international scope in the career.

Leadership potential Intellectual ability English proficiency

We look for vision, courage, Undergraduate university degree Both written and spoken proficiency
initiative, maturity, curiosity or equivalent. are required.
and self-confidence. There is no GMAT requirement.

Your company The IMD Executive MBA program calls for a serious commitment from you and
your employing organization, which must be willing to serve as a “laboratory”
for your learning. Although financial support of your organization is a matter
to be decided between you and your company, IMD can give you tips and advice
on how to pitch a win-win scenario to your company.
SUCCESS
Fee
CHF 115,000
Foundation Stage CHF40,000
Mastery Stage CHF 75,000
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