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The Global MBA is a highly selective program for exceptional individuals who want to fast track their career in an international environment. Offering much more than a typical MBA, the program provides a unique composition of vigorous management theory instruction, interaction with cutting-edge business knowledge specialists and hands-on experiental learning - a winning combination that puts budding talent into real-world context.


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Expand your knowledge

Being business savvy on one’s home turf is no longer enough. To succeed in today’s business world, global perspectives and cultural competencies are essential. The Global MBA aims to help you develop your creativity and problem-solving skills in a multi-cultural context and in very different business environments. The program includes a field trip to an emerging market and a term spent studying in Singapore, as well as the three to four week International Immersion Project. This experiential learning program will engage you in a consulting project abroad, putting you in real-world situations and developing your understanding of the region’s cultural, social, and business environement.

The Global MBA’s structure is based on a combination of knowledge and hands-on professional experience, designed to offer participants a unique, global perspective on 21st century business. It is a life-changing choice, on that will sharpen your critical thinking and analyytical skills, heighten your business awareness, and refine your ability to react efficiently in today’s ever-changing business environement. By developing youself-awareness, the Global MBA will teach you how you learn, so that you can confidently face complex situations and develop responsible, transformative leadership qualities.

The Global MBA Capstone

During the final three weeks leading up to graduation, the Global MBA students will engage in the Capstone Seminar. The Capstone focuses on the key business issues faced during the International Immersion Project and includes seminars on the new frontiers of business, allowing students to assimilate and reflect upon their year of classroom and in-the-field learning. Under the guidance and direction of professors, guest speakers, and ESSEC Chair professors, students will take a multi-disciplinary, team-based approach to a diverse range of real-world topics and issues:

• Energy and sustainability
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Business ethics
• Innovations and servicesPublic and social issues (transportation, access to water, healthcare, poverty, education, urbanization, etc.)
• Critical emerging issues related to policy and government (the roles and limits of nationas and states, public and private partnerships, etc.)

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Leadership Training at St Cyr

One of the unique components of the Global MBA is the three days spent at the beginning of integration week at St. Cyr Coëtquidan, a French military training camp in Brittany. Students engage in team activities to build and explore leadership, group work, and their individual assets and character traits.

Read about the experience from a student

"In today’s business world, managers need more knowledge than just what relates directly to teir sector and function; they need cultural intelligence, as well."
Uday Broca, India, Global MBA ‘12