Columbia Business School Executive MBA

Core Curriculum

Columbia Business School’s core curriculum, a series of focused, rigorous, and relevant courses taken primarily during the first year of the Executive MBA Program, is designed to give students an in-depth mastery of the aca

Electives

Upon completion of the core curriculum, Executive MBA students assemble their own schedules, choosing the courses they are most interested in from a wide array of electives. These courses allow students to delve deep into specialized topics with faculty members who are on the forefront of innovation in their respective fields.

Schedule permitting, students also have the chance to enroll in electives in the traditional MBA program, many of which meet weekday evenings, and to participate in elective block weeks, which bring together students from all Columbia’s EMBA programs for intensive, cross-cultural learning experiences. In the second year, EMBA students also take the weeklong International Seminar, which sends them abroad to directly experience business at the international level.

Some recent electives include:

• Advanced Corporate Finance
• Entrepreneurial Management
• Executive Leadership
• Managing Brands, Identity & Experiences
• Modern Political Economy

• Napoleon’s Glance
• Real Estate Finance
• Supply Chain Management
• Top Management Process
• Thinking Globally

demic disciplines and applied functional areas necessary to every business leader’s success.

First-year EMBA students are divided into clusters of 60 to 70 students who take every core course together. Clusters are further broken down into learning teams of five to six students with diverse professional backgrounds, strengths, and weaknesses, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration from the start of the program. The bonds formed among clustermates and learning team members form the foundation of Columbia Business School’s community and global network.

Core courses are:

• Corporate Finance
• Financial Accounting
• Managerial Statistics
• Managerial Economics
• Strategy Formulation
• Leadership and Organizational Change

• Marketing Strategy
• Operations Management and Strategy
• Decision Models
• Global Economic Environment I and II
• Financial Planning and Analysis

Note that each core course is taught by several different professors each term; the professors and syllabi linked above are merely samples of what may be offered in a given term.