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In the first three terms, the program focuses on enhancing your managerial skills by building on your existing work experience. You’ll be able to develop effective analyses based on business process and implementation in the various functional areas.

At the start of each term, you participate in a series of workshops called Brave Conversations, designed to build trust and collaboration with your EMBA peers and in your organizations. These workshops facilitate trust-based, collaborative, and honest conversations that address the core concerns of individuals and organizations. The first series of conversations will begin during your EMBA orientation weekend in Whistler.

Fall

• Leadership and Teamwork
  Explore the management of relationships and how to work effectively in teams. Learn how leadership can impact an organization in the face of competition, power, controversy, and conflict.
• Accounting for Decision Making
  Enhance your decision-making abilities by understanding how various forms of financial information relate within financial statements, and how to extract actionable insights from them. Gain both theoretical and practical knowledge to use accounting information for strategic planning and decision-making.
• Business Ethics
  Examine the relevance and importance of business ethics, with a focus on corporate social responsibility, professional ethics, and reputational capital.

Spring

• Finance
  Gain a solid grounding in the principles of business finance. Learn to use key financial tools and understand how business decisions affect financial performance and shareholder value.
• Managerial Economics
  Apply economic concepts to support decision-making under risk, uncertainty, and incomplete information. Analyze supply and demand, costs, productivity, and industry dynamics.
• Marketing
  Master the fundamentals of marketing management, including competitive advantage, customer equity, and strategic implementation. Learn to develop offering, pricing, placement, and communication strategies to drive growth.

Summer

• Structure and Change in Organizations
  Apply contemporary organizational theory to entrepreneurial, corporate, public sector, and non-profit contexts. Learn to adapt organizations to changing environments and develop plans for survival and growth.
• Operations Management
  Understand how goods and services are produced and the role of operations in corporate strategy and value creation.
• Information Technology and Organizational Transformation
  Examine the strategic role of information in organizations. Learn to make informed choices in planning, acquiring, and managing information technology.

In the final two terms, you will develop a strategic mindset as you apply strategy models to changing environments, both globally and locally. The program ends with a second executive retreat.

Students who choose the optional stream will take classes with their SFU cohort in Vancouver in the Fall, Spring and Summer terms of Year 1. In Year 2, the Americas MBA for Executives residencies take place in August (Vancouver, Canada), October (Sao Paulo, Brazil), February (Mexico City, Mexico) and April (Nashville, USA) in lieu of the following Vancouver based curriculum.

Fall

• Strategy
  Learn the principles and frameworks for evaluating threats to an organization’s performance. Gain opportunities to apply these tools to real-world cases.
• Cross Cultural Management
  In order to function in an increasingly global business world, you’ll require the ability to understand the influence of crossing national and cultural boundaries on organizations and organizational practices. Special emphasis is placed on managing people and groups in international organizations.
• International Competitive Strategy
  Focus on building global competency and the skills needed to develop strategies, design organizations, and manage operations for companies with international activities.
• Negotiations
  Learn how to become a better negotiator by planning for various negotiation situations and improving your negotiation skills.

Spring

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  Understand entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, and learn the conceptual tools needed to launch and run a business.
• Corporate Responsibility
  Gain a holistic view of corporate responsibility, including social, ecological, and economic responsibilities. Explore corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability, sustainable business models, corporate transparency and reporting, and responsible leadership.
• Indigenous Business Environments in Communities
  Taken alongside Indigenous Business Environments, this course offers local experiential learning to help students understand how to build respectful partnerships with Indigenous communities and how businesses can integrate Indigenous knowledge and worldviews into the economic landscape.
• Special Topics: TBA
  Course topics change annually based on interests and availability. Prior topics have included Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Governance.
• Capstone
  Put your new knowledge to the test in a simulation, working independently and collaboratively in a team setting.