EMBA Courses & Curriculum
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Designed for international executives
2 years of part-time modular study
60 workdays out of the office (approx.)
On-campus classes held on extended weekends
Faculty from WHU, Kellogg and global partner universities
A leader-defining curriculum
Gain insights into quantitative methods for business and management applications and familiarize yourself with basic mathematical tools. This course must be completed online prior to program start.
Leadership in Organizations:
Begin developing, refining, and reflecting on leadership skills during this introductory course on leadership.
Gain insights into marketing planning and segmentation, targeting, and positioning.
Managerial Economics:
Examine the economic foundations relevant for the strategic management of business organizations.
In this course, participants will learn how to leverage ChatGPT and other Generative AI tools to improve ideation, facilitate customer interactions, optimize data-driven decisions, and automate business tasks.
Strategic Innovation & Corporate Renewal:
Communicate the most critical and strategic aspects of managing innovation and corporate renewal.
An introduction to financial reporting, the “language of business”, from a global perspective.
Managerial Finance:
Introduce the concepts and techniques necessary to analyze and implement optimal investment decisions by firms.
Build an understanding of how competitive strategy may lead to the creation and persistence of profits.
Making Sense of Data:
Gain a basic understanding of confidence intervals and hypothesis tests to interpret data.
Doing Business in Developing Countries
Introduction to the basic principles of corporate finance and development of the necessary practical tools for financial decisions and corporate valuation.
Operations Management
An introduction to Operations Management, approaching the discipline from the perspective of a general manager rather than the operations specialist.
Develop negotiation skills in a series of negotiations and debriefings.
Strategic Crisis Management:
Focus on crisis management from the point of view of managers and consultants.
Marketing Analytics:
Address analytics as a leadership problem and improve organizational performance with the right data.
Strategic Decisions in Operations:
Gain insights into strategic decision making in operations and their impact on a firm's financial performance.
*Please note: Courses and dates are subject to change, courses listed are example courses from previous years
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Run a business idea “sprint” over multiple days to kick-start a new business model, startup, or company project.
*Choose either Module 10a or 10b
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Gain the tools to appreciate strategic thinking about marketing and brands.
Ethics & Executive Leadership:
Shift from being an excellent leader to being an excellent CEO by exploring issues that top corporate leaders must keep in mind.
*Choose either Module 10a or 10b
*Please note that one field trip is compulsory
In Executive Teams, run competing firms in simulated product markets and debrief on concepts and tools of corporate and competitive strategy.
Management Accounting:
Focus on the behavioral issues of management accounting to illustrate real-world problems of management accounting in large corporations.
A selection of the modules available:
Digital Strategy: Individual and Organizational Transformation for a Digital Age
Mergers and Acquisitions Strategy
Visualization for Persuasion
Leading High Impact Teams
Global Corporate Restructuring
International Finance
World Economy
Strategies for Growth
*Please note: Courses and dates are subject to change
Acquire a rich set of concepts, frameworks, and tools to improve the ability to build, manage, and profit from different modes of inter-organizational collaboration.
Entrepreneurial Finance:
Focus on financial economic foundations of a new venture, from idea to exit.
Business Tax Strategy:
Understand how taxes affect business decisions, gaining necessary concepts for international application.
Managing People for Competitive Advantage:
Focus on the people side of business from a general management perspective.
Please note: Courses and dates are examples from previous years and are subject to change
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Crisis simulations and your own real-world leadership challenges are the background for group coaching and are springboards to individual coaching with a certified Executive Coach who will focus on your individual goals and growth toward becoming an exceptional leader.
Workshops and presentations tailored to the needs of each cohort
Sample topics:
• Stage Rules, Self-Presentation and the Perfect Pitch
• Managing Challenging Negotiations
• Resilience in Disruptive Times
• Leading Through Diversity and Inclusion
• Powerful CV Evaluation and Career Development tools and short courses
• Polish your CV to take the next step in your career
Please note: Courses and dates are examples from previous years and are subject to change.
Qualification goals Executive MBA
You can find an overview of all the learning objectives and competences you will achieve with an EMBA here:
Prepare to become next-level ready
Where leaders-to-be come together
Gathered at Kellogg’s lakeside campus in Evanston-Chicago. Around 500 leaders from around the world. Empower your learning and open opportunities as you connect with leaders from six campuses spread across three continents during Global Network Week. A true highlight of the EMBA program. Experience it for yourself!
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Study overseas
Miami. Lisbon. Dubai. Singapore. These are just a few of the worldwide destinations you can experience during your second year.
Led by local faculty, our global electives offer courses such as Entrepreneurial Selling, Digital Strategy, and Visualization for Persuasion. All enable you to focus attention on your specialist professional interests and personal career goals.
Seize your opportunity to network with experts from around the world. To deepen your understanding of different industries, markets, and work cultures. To sharpen the skills essential to success in tomorrow’s global economy.
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Local knowledge, global insights
100+ leaders from 80+ countries. Held at Campus Vallendar and unique to Kellogg-WHU, the annual European Elective is an event where global business minds come together.
Engage in a schedule of activities strategized to reveal market-specific insights and enhance your understanding of European business culture.
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Visit places that matter
The best way to understand the political, economic, and socio-cultural reality of a global destination? Experience it.
Visits to enterprises, to NGOs, fireside conversations with local business leaders, with political changemakers, group activities, solo exploration – all and more is possible on our global field trips.
The places you will visit? Wherever currently has the greatest significance to your studies.
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Learn from the best
Steps ahead. Always. Our Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA Program faculty are respected as thought-leaders worldwide. And they are more than academics. Each one is a vastly experienced practitioner in their field.
But above all, they are approachable teachers. Ones who share, support, expand knowledge, fuel discussion, build character, and inspire unlimited success.
Selection of pioneering professors
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Making Sense of Data
![WHU pioneering professor Sarit Markovich A woman with dark hair and a blue blouse looks into the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/5/csm_Markovich_Sarit_f38f8bdf61.jpg)
![Kellogg School pioneering Marketing expert Tim Calkins A man in suit and tie looks friendly into the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/2/9/csm_Tim_Calkins_05ffffbba9.jpg)
![WHU expert Technology und Innovation Holger Ernst A man in a black suit with his arms crossed](/fileadmin/_processed_/2/a/csm_WHU_Ernst_Holger_landscape_2_63b6c1a25d.jpg)
![Kellogg School professor Leigh Thompson A woman with dark hair in an black blazer looks into the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/5/0/csm_EMBA_Faculty_Thompson_Leigh_c0e04c49ee.jpg)
Negotiation Strategies
![WHU professor Entrepreneurship Christoph Hienerth A man in a white shirt stands in front of a group in a lecture hall](/fileadmin/_processed_/d/0/csm_Faculty_Photos_Hienerth_Christoph_landscape_ceaaf7b52c.jpg)
![WHU professor Industrial organization Juergen Weigand A grey-haired man wearing a blue shirt and dark suit jacket looks into the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/e/5/csm_WHU_Weigand_Juergen_landscape__ef3decc658.jpg)
Capstone - Business Simulation
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![Kellogg School professor Alex Charnev A dark-haired man in a suit looks directly into the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/7/csm_EMBA_Faculty_Charnev_Alex_d4a813df67.jpg)
![Kellogg Professor Marekting Analytics Florian Zettelmeyer A dark blond man with glasses looks friendly into the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/d/2/csm_EMBA_Faculty_Zettlemeyer_Florian_adcf79965f.jpg)
![WHU Professor Entrepreneurial Finance A man in a suit and blue tie looks into the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/3/csm_Faculty_Photos_Ozcan_Serden_landscape_e4bc12d748.jpg)
![EMBA Professor International Finance Sergio Rebelo A bald man looks into the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/b/c/csm_EMBA_Faculty_Rebelo_Sergio_90a9d3bc1d.jpg)
World Economy
![Professor Sustainable Business Nadine Kammerlander A blonde woman in a blue blazer and glasses poses in front of the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/6/csm_Faculty_Photos_Kammerlander_Nadine_landscape_eb3a332f72.jpg)
![Professor Leadership in Organizations Yuval Kalish A bald man in a suit looks into the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/d/csm_WHU_Kalish_Yuval_landscape_ba4980795a.jpg)
![Professor Marketing Management Kevin McTigue A man stands in the middle of a group and speaks with enthusiastic facial expressions and gestures](/fileadmin/_processed_/f/a/csm_Kevin_McTigue_5948ede2fa.jpg)
![Professor Quantitative Methods Martin Prause A dark-haired man with glasses and a suit laughs happily](/fileadmin/_processed_/5/a/csm_Prause__Martin_0a3d459d95.jpg)
Capstone - Business Simulation
![International Financing Professor Thorsten Sellhorn The picture shows a middle-aged man in glasses and a suit](/fileadmin/_processed_/8/d/csm_Sellhorn__Thorsten_849566f07c.jpg)
![WHU Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Dries Faems Portrait of a dark blond man in a grey jacket](/fileadmin/_processed_/1/7/csm_WHU_Faems_Dries_landscape_449b8a51d4.jpg)
Leveraging Collaboration for Innovation
![Professor of Finance Konstantin Milbrandt Portrait of a man with glasses and beard](/fileadmin/_processed_/4/6/csm_Milbradt__Konstantin_699fd56329.jpg)
![Operations Management Jan A. Van Mieghem A grey-haired man in a suit smiling at the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/e/0/csm_Van_Mieghem__Jan_e75280c08b.jpg)
![WHU Entrepreneurship Center Maximilian Eckel A young man in glasses and a grey sweater poses with his arms crossed](/fileadmin/_processed_/7/4/csm_Eckel__Maximilian_41674c589f.jpg)
![WHU pioneering professor Adam Waytz Portrait of a man with short hair and dark sweater](/fileadmin/_processed_/0/0/csm_waytz-adam_e8e1c14b7b.jpg)
![Professor Management Accounting Thorsten Truijens Portrait of a cheerful man with glasses and short hair](/fileadmin/_processed_/2/6/csm_Thorsten_Truijens_9622f1e41e.jpg)
![WHU Leadership and Organization Martin Hoegl Portrait eines dunkelhaarigen Mannes mit Brille](/fileadmin/_processed_/d/4/csm_Hoegl__Martin-landscape_6ff2f943f1.jpg)
![WHU Negotiations Strategies Victoria Medvec A woman with short hair and a dark dress speaks into a microphone](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/d/csm_Medvec__Victoria_cf6e314dac.jpg)
![EMBA Professor Timothy Fedderson Portrait of a smiling man in a suit](/fileadmin/_processed_/e/b/csm_JS_Feddersen_6414f12171.jpg)
![TEMBA Professor of Management Nour Kteily A young man in a suit looks friendly into the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/e/f/csm_Kteily_Nour_38764aadf2.jpg)
![WHU EMBA Professor Achal Bassamboo Photo of a man with dark hair in a suit and tie](/fileadmin/_processed_/0/3/csm_Bassamboo-Achal_764a0c69f0.jpg)
![EMBA Professor of Finance Jose Liberti Employee photo of a man in a suit and glasses](/fileadmin/_processed_/6/f/csm_liberti-jose_091e5f3156.jpg)
Global Corporate Restructuring
![Executive MBA Professor Suzanne Muchin A woman in a light blouse and dark hair looks friendly into the camera](/fileadmin/_processed_/f/5/csm_Muchin_Suzanne_6ef652bedc.jpg)
![EMBA Pioneering Professor Stefan Spinler A man with grey hair and a suit smiles happily](/fileadmin/_processed_/5/b/csm_WHU_Spinler_Stefan_landscape_87e46fcb08.jpg)
![Executive MBA Professor Utz Schaeffer A man in a dark suit folds his arms and smiles happily](/fileadmin/_processed_/3/7/csm_Faculty_Photos_Schaeffer_Utz_landscape_b2ce0c8d7e.jpg)
Many teachers. Many ways to learn
We ingrain theory through practical application. Promote collaboration through group challenges. And encourage cross-cultural understanding by sharing, comparing, and uniting.
Guided by a world-leading expert, you and your peers will tackle real-life case studies, experience overseas field trips, and gain everything you need to reach the highest levels.