EDHEC Executive MBA

EDHEC’s entrepreneurial DNA shapes the EMBA programme from the high relevance and quality of its electives, to the business experience of its professors. You’ll be applying theory to practise from day one.

Plus, the hard and soft skills you hone during the programme are immediately relevant to developing your career with your company, in a new environment, or launching your own business.

By pursuing an Executive in MBA in France with EDHEC Business School, you will be able to: 

• Develop a strategic mind-set and global vision to enable you to drive transformation, solve complex problems and drive innovative sustainable business solutions
• Reset, refine and refresh your perspectives and gain new insights and inputs as part of a diverse, experienced and dynamic international cohort and network
• Align the programme to match your own, business and career ambitions with a choice of electives and our unique Transform360 personal & leadership development support
• Develop an authentic, confident leadership style and posture which matches your values, ethics and principles
• Make an impact from day one with a carefully balanced programme designed specifically to meet the needs of senior executives and experienced professionals

Discover what job opportunities you can access after the Executive MBA

Develop & support your most talented people, equipping them with the leadership skills and the vision needed to drive positive transformation, navigate the challenges in your business and create sustainable value for your organisation.

Key benefits to your organisation:

•  Develop leaders who will be able to lead and anticipate change from both a business and technology stand point, understand complexity and see the bigger picture in the ever-changing global landscape
• Because the Executive MBA is part-time and a balanced combination of theoretical and action-learning, your organisation will see an immediate impact from day one
• Applied learning throughout the programme
• The individual consulting project will be directly related to your organisation and present a solution to a current, real-life issue or opportunity, creating a clear and tangible return on investment
• Shared learning, insights and perspectives across your business: as the participants learns and grows, so will your business and teams

Consolidate and enhance your strategic and business management expertise

Being a senior manager, decision-maker or entrepreneur requires cross-functional perspectives, strategic vision, agility, and a global 360 business view. As change in the business world continues to accelerate, the EMBA will equip you with a deeper understanding of the key elements essential to adaptation, business leadership, and decision-making. From strategy through to corporate finance and marketing management, learning about business fundamentals will enable you to see the bigger picture and enhance your decision-making competencies.

Broaden your perspectives with a truly global programme

To help you gain a better understanding of the challenges raised by globalisation and how to deal with them, the Executive MBA programme at EDHEC includes:

• 2 global business trips plus 
• a 2-day seminar in Brussels focused on doing business in Europe.

The global business trips help you explore how economic and political models work in different markets, cultures, and environments. You acquire a better understanding of the mechanics of competition and identify key business success factors. The international business trips also help you view things from a different angle, develop strategic sensitivity and acquire new managerial reflexes in project and people management.
Global business trips are a compulsory part of the programme for both the EMBA and EMBA with specialisation in Healthcare Innovation & Technology participants.

The Global Business Report

At the end of each business trip, while working in teams with fellow participants, you will produce a Global Business Report that focuses on an industry or company of your choice.  

The Global Business Report aims to help you:

• Anticipate the trends emanating from new market economies and identify alternative management models.
• Develop the ability to think strategically by adopting a cross-sector approach and synthetic thinking. You will examine competitive trends in an environment with little information by learning to decipher weak signals and rumours, and enhance strategic sensitivity by making intuition an important factor in decision making.
   

Personalise your programme to match your goals

Six months of your Executive MBA are dedicated to electives. You can tailor your programme to gain new perspectives and delve deeper into specific areas of interest regarding global business, managing innovation, and strategic operations.

If you chose the EMBA with a specialisation in Healthcare Innovation & Technology, you will follow a dedicated track that covers four modules.

You can choose up to 7 different electives. Elective examples include:

Entrepreneurship & Innovation AI and Digital Ethics & Sustainability Digital Marketing Strategy Managing Digital Transformation Strategic Foresight:  Methods and Tools New Business Design  and Innovation Positive Leadership Habits

Sales and Business Management Criminal Risks Management Luxury Brand Management Financial Markets Organisation Managing Difficult Negociations Top priorities of inhouse counsel  (in French)

New for 2024/25: EMBA Expert option

Choose up to 7 electives and take the Healthcare Innovation & Technology track to create a 24-month programme. March intake only. Please contact us for more details. 

Your personalised Leadership & Professional Development Programme

Transform360 runs throughout your 16-month experience and will help you to develop your self-management, strategic, functional and relational abilities. 

Both a highly personalised and collective journey, it is designed to help you question, challenge and explore every aspect of your personal, career and leadership development to allow you to harness your full potential in your career, in your business and as a leader. 

4 key components which are inter-linked and designed to help you develop and strengthen your leadership skills, competencies and perspectives:

1. Leadership & Personal Development: Your 360° coaching journey
2. Essentials for Inspiring Leaders
3. Leadership Workshops: Customise your learning
4. Foundations for the Future: Career & professional development support

Leadership & Personal Development

The leadership & personal development module is designed to give you the space, time and support to reflect, refine and enhance your leadership capabilities. Based on a combination of 360 assessments, continuous feedback and follow-up and intensive individual coaching sessions
 

• 360° Assessment and group coaching
• Individual leadership coaching
• Individual career coaching
• Follow-up 360° assessment and group
• Mentorship programme

Essentials for Inspiring Leaders

• A series of modules covering 5 core leadership skillsets which blend individual, collective and interactive methods
• Designed to strengthen and enhance your core leadership skills and mind-set so that you will be prepared to lead with confidence, conviction and agility, even in the toughest situations

Leadership Workshop to Customise Your Journey

The EDHEC EMBA experience is focussed on helping you to build the necessary vision, skills and abilities you need to deliver a profound personal and professional transformation
The Transform360 elective workshops enable you to tailor your leadership and professional learning journey to align with your strengths and needs so that you can develop into an authentic, agile and accomplished leader that you want to be
 
Workshop options can include:
 

• Becoming a strong negotiator
• Managing power and influence
• Managing change
• Boosting your leadership confidence
• Building resilience for stressful and demanding environments
• Collaborating, leading, and motivating remotely

Foundations for the Future

The Foundations for the Future component is designed to help build, strengthen and expand your professional network, develop your personal branding and provide inspiration & insights from senior leaders and experts into the latest business & leadership trends from inside & outside of your industry

It is designed to be tailored and flexible according to your professional situation & goals and includes:
 

• Professional Pitch workshops
• Open Minds Conference Series
• Senior Speakers Series
• Alumni network events
• Career & Professional coaching

Leverage your experience, demonstrate your strategic vision

As leaders or future leaders, you will need to create value for your organisation and your career. To do this, you must be able to identify, develop and propose both visionary and implementable strategic solutions to critical business issues.

The final part of your Executive MBA journey is the Consulting Project, which is your opportunity to apply your new knowledge and experiences to a tangible, real-life proposal. 

The Consulting Project is:

• Designed to demonstrate your strategic ability to frame a problem or opportunity that is linked to your organisation, industry, or relevant business issue. 
• An opportunity for you to demonstrate your value and leadership talent to your company or develop a business plan to launch your own entrepreneurial project.
• The ultimate proof of your ability to defend a concept or idea, develop a realistic and actionable solution, and apply relevant strategic frameworks which will add value, help support the sustainable growth of your business or demonstrate your capacity to lead innovation and transformation.

"The Consulting Project has had a considerable impact on me career-wise. I worked on a topic that was strategic for my company. It enabled me to go further than the responsibilities I had at the time. It turned out to be a very valuable win-win situation for me and the company I work for, as I was able to demonstrate my capacity to conceptualise and build a strategy and start a new phase in my professional evolution."

SONIA BOTTA, EDHEC Executive MBA alumna 2017, Vice President, Citrus at Firmenich, Nice

Real-world relevance, immediate impact.

The Executive MBA is designed for impact, results, and return on investment. As one of Europe’s top Business Schools, relevance and connection to the world of business are ingrained in our culture. Our approach encapsulates pushing boundaries, challenging participants to think in new ways, and creating leadership capable of transforming organisations for a better future.

• Combining academic excellence with business-relevant experience and expertise, the programme is constructed to deliver concrete application of theory and strategy led by world-leading professors and business leaders.
• An experiential, hands-on approach. During the EMBA, you will learn by doing and demonstrate your new skills through action-based learning including business simulations, case studies, business reports, and a consulting project.
• A personalised and collaborative journey. Whilst we offer a highly personalised programme with electives and individual coaching and support, the EMBA at EDHEC is also a collaborative experience where you will develop new perspectives, insights, and viewpoints by being part of a highly diverse, international, and professional cohort.
• An enriching, inspiring and refreshing environment designed to help you maximise your time and experience.

The EDHEC Executive MBA programme is delivered by international academic experts and business professionals who share expertise that encourages you to think, act and deliver at the highest level. Amongst them are:

Total tuition fee

€51,000 excluding VAT.

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Scholarships & funding

Discover our scholarships up to -30%.

One of the greatest benefits of the EDHEC Executive MBA programme is the diversity of the cohort. Creating a new professional network that you can both learn and be supported and inspired by, makes the experience enriching and rewarding. This is why we have 4 generous scholarship options that help ensure gender equality, cultural diversity, and fairness. 

Degree

The Master in Business Administration (MBA) degree is a Master's Degree approved by the French State “DIPLOME EN ADMINISTRATION DES AFFAIRES INTERNATIONALES", RNCP35787. It is a level Bac+5 Grade Master.