25/04/2025
Evolution is a must—no matter your profile.
In search of the perfect degree for a corporate exec? The Global Executive MBA pairs business acumen with international collaboration to prepare you for the next steps in your career, whatever—and wherever—they may be.
Shaped by global collaboration and international perspectives, this MBA is designed for everyone from top executives to family business owners. The program’s innovative blended model combines online instruction with residential periods in Los Angeles, Singapore, Oxford and Madrid.
This is the way to continue working while upskilling. It’s a 15-month program with true flexibility, regional immersion and hands-on, collaborative work.
Let’s take a look at the most impactful aspects of the program that propelled participants toward success.
Work and study: Combining the best of both worlds
Our Global Executive MBA participants come from a wide variety of roles and organizations. Many of them are working full-time while undertaking their studies. As such, the online classes and the focused residential allow you to stay engaged with your professional life and business.
Chartered accountant and entrepreneur Paul Frazier Jr. was looking for a program that would be “disruptive, but not something that would take away from my daily life.” He found just that. “The flexibility and the personalization of the hybrid approach to the Global Executive MBA allows a busy professional like myself to manage time more easily.”
Similarly, global business manager Mauricio Gentile says, “The blended format allowed me to keep working and studying.” This flexibility allows you to apply all you learn about sustainable business, digital transformation and strategic foresight to your business as you go. And that”s all without putting your life or career on hold.
Much of the curriculum is carried out online. However, the four residential periods during the Global Executive MBA allow for immersion in international business. During these hands-on periods, participants can see how different businesses confront challenges around the world.
A deep immersion in global business
The first-hand insights from local industry leaders during residential periods means that participants have the skills and regional context necessary to make a real-world impact as they continue their careers. As Paul shares, these periods “provide an opportunity to not only understand the culture of the city we’re in, but also see how the class itself, which is made up of many different nationalities, embraces and adjusts to the environment.”
The Global Executive MBA surrounds you with specialists and industry professionals. Through modules like the CEO Challenge, the faculty coaches students through acquiring the skills necessary to make hard choices based on real-world scenarios. This space gives professionals like finance head Vyara Cassar the freedom they need “to experiment, to take some risks, test some new ideas and get feedback in a very safe environment.”
Vyara explains, “We’re not just approaching this as students, but we’re approaching it as professionals. We are able to pick up business theory and we’re able to understand how it applies to our work scenarios.” This ability to immediately apply learning to real life is one of the standout benefits of the program’s blended format.
Making lasting connections: The perfect degree for a corporate exec
Perhaps an unexpected strength for an online degree is the depth of connection that participants find with their classmates in the Global Executive MBA.
The program brings together people with unique points of view from diverse international, academic and professional backgrounds.
When you collaborate to solve projects and case studies, you’ll adapt to other’s perspectives to build a truly global mindset. Thanks to this diversity of thought, senior director Ana Jaime Agramón says, “You really get the skills to come to a common agreement and to coexist even though you have these different opinions.”
As you grow with your classmates during the program, the connections you make will become an essential part of the experience. IE Business School and the IE Community will be with you each step of the way in your quest for the Next Best You.
Benjamin is the editor of Uncover IE. His writing is featured in the LAMDA Verse and Prose Anthology Vol. 19, The Primer and Moonflake Press. Benjamin provided translation for “FalseStuff: La Muerte de las Musas”, winner of Best Theatre Show at the Max Awards 2024.
Benjamin was shortlisted for the Bristol Old Vic Open Sessions 2016 and the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2023.
