Exeuctive MBA – (MBA)

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Sabanci Executive MBA is an intensive program organized in four four-month long semesters.

The first two semesters concentrate on the development of the academic foundation. Moderately theoretical courses that are designed to develop analytical and business skills and knowledge are provided.

The third semester serves two important purposes: on the one hand, through a selection of elective courses, students develop more in-depth knowledge in certain management topics and on the other, take two integrative courses (namely, Strategic Management and Business Simulation) to gain knowledge and skills necessary to lead and run an entire organization.

The last semester is devoted to leadership issues. Main themes of the courses in this semester are understanding the socio-economic system within which their companies operate, human aspects of management, leadership and business ethics.

Learning Environment
The design and the implementation of the Executive MBA take the part-time nature of the Program as an asset and consider participants’ engagement with the Executive MBA and their daily work responsibilities as complementary learning opportunities. Fundamentally, the Program aims to create an environment where formal input through readings and lectures are integrated with platforms in which participants can learn from their own practices and those of other fellow participants. Hence, there is a heavy emphasis on teamwork and students are expected to be active in class discussions and exercises.

Most courses use case-studies to bring real-life issues in to the classroom, require students to apply their knowledge in novel situations, facilitate learning through team-work, and improve communication skills through presenting and supporting their analyses. Case-studies are selected from leading case publishers of the world, such as Harvard, Ivey and IMD, as well as some cases written by our own professors.

The building of the Faculty of Management is equipped with state-of-the art facilities to serve degree programs as well as executive development activities. These include lecture halls, teamwork cubicles and residential facilities. All lecture halls are equipped with the latest audio-visual facilities and Internet connection.

The Executive MBA participants also have access to a state-of-the-art Information Center, with its collections of books, multimedia, and periodicals as well as extensive database resources.

Learning From Practitioners
One of Sabanci University’s underlying tenets is to be “practice oriented” and no where is this principle taken more seriously than in the Faculty of Management. We have a number of programs in the Executive MBA program to allow participants to learn from successful executives. For example, we are very privileged to have Jan Nahum as Executive-in-Residence, and we endeavor to create opportunities for the EMBA class to benefit from his experiences.

Additionally, the Executive Insightsseries provides a forum where successfulexecutives share their life and work experiences together with our students and alumni. These events are held mid-week, downtown and thus also provide a great venue for our alumni and current students to network.

Executives-to-Executives conference series are held several times every term and they feature in depth presentations by visiting executives. Our goal is to invite not just successful executives to these sessions, but those whom we call reflective practitioners, managers who have taken time to reflect on their successes and failures, and have derived lessons from their experiences.