
What is the Curriculum
The Ivey Executive MBA is designed to help you excel as a global business leader. You will complete the program having developed five critical dimensions of executive leadership:
The Ivey Executive MBA features a fully-integrated curriculum. Individual classes, courses and themes are thoughtfully sequenced and build on one another throughout the program. The result is a learning experience that unfolds logically, ties in with all that went before and accelerates your learning.
At the core of our curriculum is a set of principles that defines our approach to business and guides our course design: Cross-Enterprise Leadership. It is the ability to think, act and lead cross-enterprise. You’ll look beyond the walls, org charts and silos in organizations and approach issues with a perspective that spans the entire organization.
The curriculum consists of fourteen courses falling under three key areas of executive leadership: Personal Leadership, General Management and the Business Environment.
Throughout the program, you will undertake individual and team-based course projects. The projects, by design, integrate your academic learning with your professional work. You are encouraged to identify and examine challenges within your own organization as part of your course projects. This allows you to customize your Executive MBA learning experience and to provide immediate value to your organization.
Executive Client Field Project
Your Executive MBA experience is capped by the Executive Client Field Project. This extended team project provides an opportunity to apply and refine the skills you have developed in the program to address a major strategic challenge of an external client company. Working with executives from the client company and a faculty advisor, you’ll develop a strategic plan for the company, tackling complex cross-enterprise issues from the perspective of an executive leader.