Executive MBA
Haas School of Business
Department Office: 2220 Piedmont Avenue, Phone: (510) 643-1046
Executive Director: Jon Kaplan, MBA
Program Website: Berkeley MBA for Executives
The Path to Innovative Leadership
Business school is about teaching you fundamental business concepts and helping you further develop your general management skills. But the Berkeley MBA for Executives Program goes beyond that to offer you a special set of innovative leadership skills that are extremely valuable in the global marketplace—and tailored for executive MBA students.
Immediate Impact
Our executive MBA program focuses on applying knowledge and skills to challenges that managers face in today's workplace. As an accomplished professional seeking a highly relevant learning experience, you will find that your studies and classroom discussions have direct bearing on choices you are making for your organization.
Class exercises and team and special projects provide an unparalleled opportunity for you to apply learning to your organization's current business challenges. The EMBA program's structure—a foundation of rigorous general management skills in the early terms, followed by electives that deepen your knowledge in areas deemed most important to one's personal growth followed by electives that deepen your knowledge in areas deemed most important to one's professional growth—maximizes your ability to learn and apply new skills.
A General Management Education
Your Berkeley MBA education is taught from a general management perspective and anchored in the fundamentals of business—from accounting and finance to marketing and strategy. You learn to lead and manage an enterprise as a whole.
A Rigorous Curriculum
The Berkeley MBA curriculum provides you with a basic framework of qualitative, quantitative, analytical, strategic, and problem-solving skills. It's rooted in the scientific disciplines of the university—economics, mathematics, social sciences such as psychology and sociology, and other areas.
Faculty Experts
Faculty members in the EMBA program are experts in their fields. They apply their expertise toward increasing your knowledge of successful management, leadership, human behavior, organizational performance, and economic and market functions.
A Deeper Understanding
You not only gain knowledge about best business practices, but also learn about the fundamental principles behind them—the "how" and the "why." The Berkeley MBA for Executives Program will make you think deeply and expand your understanding of the world.
A Leader in Sync with the Times
The goal of the Berkeley MBA curriculum is to develop you as an innovative leader. And a unique aspect of the Berkeley Innovative Leadership Development (BILD) approach is the conscious use of the Berkeley-Haas culture to shape how and what you learn.
An Innovative Leader
We define this leadership archetype as an individual who drives growth by putting new ideas into action in every corner and every function of his or her organization, and who does so responsibly. Leaders of this kind define what is next for our markets and for our societies. Whether it is producing more fuel-efficient autos or creating new business processes, innovative leaders are the ones who will create opportunity from the major challenges facing the world. Berkeley-Haas has been producing such leaders for many years, but we have recently sharpened our curriculum to deliver this kind of leader even more effectively.
A Supportive Culture and Environment
The unique nature of the Berkeley-Haas culture is rooted in four defining principles, which are emphasized in the admissions process and actively integrated into the EMBA curriculum. They are:
- Question the Status Quo
- Confidence Without Attitude
- Students Always
- Beyond Yourself
The defining principles are heavily influenced by the school's location in the San Francisco Bay Area—the world's epicenter for innovation and entrepreneurship. They are also shaped by the culture of UC Berkeley, a world-class research generator with a legendary atmosphere of fresh thinking.
EMBA Curriculum
The Berkeley MBA for Executives Program educates you to become a new type of business executive distinguished by your ability to lead innovatively—the driver of value in today's marketplace.
The EMBA program's rigorous curriculum is taught from a general management perspective, focusing on the fundamentals of business, including finance, marketing, accounting, and leadership—skills that can be applied to any industry over the course of a lifelong career. Your courses will also leverage the Berkeley Innovative Leadership Development (BILD) curriculum, which will give you a specific skill set that helps you become a more effective leader.
You begin your executive MBA studies with core courses to build a basic framework around which to mold real-world experiences. Elective courses and an international seminar add depth in chosen areas. Taught by renowned members of the Berkeley-Haas faculty, all classes follow the high standards of the MBA courses in our full-time program. It is anticipated that executive MBA students will devote an average of 20 hours per week to their studies, outside of class time.
Throughout the EMBA curriculum, faculty members use a variety of teaching methods. Case studies, seminars, simulations, guest speakers and group projects all facilitate the learning process. Classroom learning is enhanced by numerous opportunities to apply the lessons to real-world situations.
Applied Innovation
As part of the Applied Innovation course in the EMBA program, you will first learn problem framing, specifically to navigate the design and innovation process by applying different modes of thinking in order to find, frame, reframe and solve difficult business problems. Later in the course, you will team up with classmates to apply these tools to address an actual company challenge or global issue, such as providing safe drinking water. Faculty will coach and mentor you on working effectively in cross-disciplinary teams, on the content area of the project, and on experimenting with alternative solutions.
Learning Modules and International Seminar
In addition to regular courses and week-long electives on the Berkeley-Haas campus, the executive MBA program features a select set of off-site learning modules. Locations will include Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. These learning modules are tailored to take advantage of their local knowledge, giving you a diverse set of experiences and deeper knowledge into various business ecosystems, such as Silicon Valley's technology industry and Washington D.C.'s international business and public policy environment.
The International Seminar in Shanghai offers you a real-world opportunity to apply and deepen the global business concepts you learn in your course work. You will travel with your EMBA classmates for a week of experiential learning through lectures, discussions with local business and government leaders, and site visits. The trip examines key factors influencing global business success. You will also have the opportunity to take classes, meet with local companies, visit cultural sites, practice your foreign language skills, learn cross-cultural business etiquette, and build your personal international network.
XMBA 200C Leadership Communication 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Leadership Communication is a workshop in the fundamentals of public speaking in today's business environment. Through prepared and impromptu speeches aimed at moving others to action, peer coaching, and lectures, students will sharpen their authentic and persuasive communication skills, develop critical listening skills, improve abilities to give, receive, and apply feedback, and gain confidence as public speakers.
XMBA 200P Problem Finding, Problem Solving 1 Unit
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Problem Finding, Problem Solving (PFPS) teaches basic skills drawn from the fields of critical thinking, design thinking and systems thinking that support innovation. Specifically, it covers ways of collecting information to characterize a problem, framing and re-framing that problem, coming up with a range of solutions and then gathering feedback to assess those solutions. Following Confucius’s notion: "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." The class consists primarily of hands-on exercises to experiment with and learn the tools and techniques presented, applying them to the design and testing of alternative business models for start-up and other businesses.
XMBA 200Q Decision Models 1 Unit
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture and 5 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This core course introduces students to quantitative concepts, techniques, and software with which all successful managers should be familiar. The objective of this course is to improve managerial decision making by introducing managers to optimization techniques, simulation, and project management.
XMBA 200S Data and Decisions 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week for 10 weeks. 15 hours of lecture per week for 3 weeks.
The objective of this core course is to make students critical consumers of statistical analysis using available software packages. Key concepts include interpretation of regression analysis, model formation and testing, and diagnostic checking.
Formerly known as Business Administration 200S.
XMBA 201A Managerial Economics 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 4.5 hours of Lecture per week for 10 weeks. 3 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course uses the tools and concepts of microeconomics to analyze decision problems within a business firm. Particular emphasis is placed on the firm's choice of policies in determining prices, inputs usage, and outputs. The effects of the state of the competitive environment on business policies are also examined.
XMBA 201B Global Economic Environment 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 10 hours of Lecture and 10 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This core course addresses the determination of economic concepts and financial practices at work in the global economic environment. Topics include long-run productivity and growth, short-run economic fluctuations in both closed and open economies, exchange rates and the balance of payments, the natural rate of unemployment, and the causes and consequences of inflation. The instructor will draw examples from a number of countries and a variety of economies to illustrate theoretical concepts.
XMBA 202A Financial Accounting 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 10 hours of lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course examines accounting measurements for general-purpose financial reports. An objective of the course is to provide not only a working knowledge but also a clear understanding of the contents of published financial statements.
Formerly known as Business Administration 202A.
XMBA 203 Finance 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 10 hours of Lecture and 10 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This core course examines the wide menu of available assets, the institutional structure of U.S. and international financial markets, and the market mechanisms for trading securities. Topics include discounting, capital budgeting, historical behavior of asset returns, and diversification and portfolio theory. The course will also provide introductions to asset pricing theory for primary and derivative assets and to the principles governing corporate financial arrangements and contracting.
XMBA 204 Operations Management 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 10 hours of Lecture and 10 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Prerequisites: 200S.
This core course provides students with an understanding of the basic issues involved in managing a manufacturing-based business and introduces them to the tools that are available to deal with these issues. Students will also learn pertinent fundamental concepts in management science that are applicable to other functional areas.
XMBA 205 Creating Effective Organizations 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 10 hours of Lecture and 10 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Prerequisites: 200S.
This core course surveys knowledge about behavior of organizations and in organizations. The course will include study of the issues of individual behavior, group functioning, and the actions of organizations in their environments, and analysis from a number of theoretical perspectives of such problems as work motivation, task design, leadership, communication, organizational design, and innovation. The class will explore the implications for the management of organizations through examples, cases, and exercises.
Formerly known as Business Administration 205.
XMBA 206 Marketing Organization and Management 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 10 weeks. 10 hours of Lecture and 10 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Prerequisites: 201A or equivalent.
This core course provides an overview of the marketing system and the marketing concept, buyer behavior, market research, segmentation, marketing decision-making, marketing structures, and evaluation of marketing performance in the economy and society.
XMBA 209 Competitive and Corporate Strategy 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 10 hours of Lecture and 10 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Prerequisites: 201A or equivalent.
This is a core course designed to introduce managers to the processes involved in industry and market analysis, the development of a business strategy, competitive positioning, planning, and the implementation of an integrated business program. Students will consider competing strategies as companies aim to achieve their own goals and objectives, often at the expense of their rivals, from the perspective of a general, enterprise-level manager charged with overall responsibility for a company's performance in a variety of competitive and corporate contexts.
XMBA 217 Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy 1 - 3 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Advanced study in the field of economic analysis and policy. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
XMBA 233 Investments 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Lecture per week for 10 weeks.
This course will examine four different types of asset markets: equity markets, fixed income markets, futures markets, and options markets. It will focus on the valuation of assets in these markets, the empirical evidence on asset valuation models, and strategies that can be employed to achieve various investment goals.
XMBA 236E Mergers and Acquisitions: A Practical Primer 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 6 hours of lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Prerequisites: XMBA 203 or consent of instructor.
Survey of the day-to-day practices and techniques used in change of control transaction. Topics include valuation, financing, deal structuring, tax and accounting considerations, agreements, closing documents, practices used in management buyouts, divestitures, hostile takeovers, and takeover defenses. Also covers distinctions in technology M&A, detecting corruption in cross border transaction attempts, and betting on deals through risk arbitrage. Blend of lecture, case study, and guest lectures.
XMBA 247 Topics in Operations and Information Technology Management 1 - 3 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 to 10 hours of lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Advanced study in the field of manufacturing and operations. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as Executive Masters in Bus. Adm. 247A.
XMBA 252 Managerial Negotiations 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 10 weeks. 10 hours of Lecture and 10 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
A study of the negotiations process, including negotiations among buyers and sellers, managers and subordinates, company units, companies and organizational agencies, and management and labor. Both two-party and multi-party relations are covered. Course work includes readings, lectures, and discussion of case material and simulations of real negotiations. A key focus of this course is the role of third parties in resolving disputes.
XMBA 256 Leadership 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 10 hours of Lecture and 10 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Prerequisites: 205 or equivalent.
In this advanced elective course, students analyze recent literature and developments related to such topics as organization development, environmental determinants of organization structure and decision-making behavior, management of professionals, management in temporary structures, cross-cultural studies of management organizations, and industrial relation systems and practices.
XMBA 257 Special Topics in the Management of Organizations 1 - 3 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 to 15 hours of lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Analysis of recent literature and developments related to such topics as organization development, environmental determinants of organization structure and decision-making behavior, management of professionals and management in temporary structures, cross-cultural studies of management organizations, and industrial relations.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
XMBA 264 High Technology Marketing 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 10 hours of Lecture and 10 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Prerequisites: 206 or equivalent.
High technology refers to that class of products and services which is subject to technological change at a pace significantly faster than for most goods in the economy. Under such circumstances, the marketing task faced by the high technology firm differs in some ways from the usual. The purpose of this advanced elective course is to explore these differences.
XMBA 273 Dynamic Capabilities 2 - 3 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
This is a course in strategic management. It draws on a variety of disciplines and integrates them in the fashion that will generate key insights into how technology can be developed and managed.
This course will help students acquire and practice concepts and skills that are relevant to management in a technologically dynamic environment. It provides frameworks for intellectual capital management in the private sector.
This course is aimed at those interested in working for either large or small firms in technologically progressive industries, as well as those wishing to understand how mature industries can create and respond to innovation.
XMBA 290H Haas@Work 3 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
The primary objective of this course and the associated innovation consulting projects is for students to learn and apply the approaches, skills, and behaviors required to successfully initiate and drive innovation in a complex organization. Students taking the course will use concepts and tools from several other Haas courses, including Economic Analysis for Business Decisions, Strategic Leadership, Leading People, Finance, and Problem Finding Problem Solving. As important, the student teams are expected to deliver the highest quality work and deliverables, genuine insights, innovative solutions, and real value on mission-critical client projects.
XMBA 290T Topics in Innovation and Design 1 - 3 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 to 10 hours of lecture per week for 3 weeks. 5 to 10 hours of lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Advanced study in the fields of innovation and design. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
XMBA 290V Corporate Strategy in Telecommunications and Media 3 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Prerequisites: Business Administration 204.
This course is intended for students who wish to gain better understanding of one of the most important issues facing management today--designing, implementing, and managing telecommunication and distributed computer systems. The following topics are covered: a survey of networking technologies; the selection, design, and management of telecommunication systems; strategies for distributed data processing; office automation; and management of personal computers in organizations.
XMBA 291C Active Communicating 1 Unit
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 8 hours of lecture per week for 2 weeks.
This course develops the basic building blocks of impactful communication--e.g., concentration, energy, voice, physical expressiveness, spontaneity, listening, awareness, and presence--by drawing upon expertise from theater arts. Active, participatory exercises allow for the development and embodiment of effective communication skills. Class readings, lectures, and discussions address participants' specific workplace applications.
XMBA 291L Leader as Coach 1 Unit
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 8 hours of lecture per week for 2 weeks.
This course focuses on the art and science of coaching including theory and practice. The curriculum will cover theory and practice for three aspects of the coaching process – knowledge-based (information and skills), motivation-based (inspiration and passion), and strategy-based (communication and integration). The curriculum will focus on primary coaching skills, tools, processes and behaviors that a coach uses. In addition, participants will learn facilitation skills as the preferred methodology in achieving successful coaching programs. Course participants will have the opportunity to utilize this material in practice coaching sessions with supervision and feedback from peers and the instructor.
XMBA 291S Storytelling for Leadership 1 Unit
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks.
This course provides students with personal leadership development through the ability to tell "Who Am I" leadership journey stories, for use in the business context. For leaders, whose job it is to manage change, the approach to storytelling facilitates learning and is a vehicle to assist others in overcoming obstacles, generating enthusiasm and team work, sharing knowledge and ultimately leading to build trust and connection. This course give strategies, skills and practices for the three elements of telling powerful leadership stories: Story Content, Story Structure and Story Delivery. The course is highly interactive.
XMBA 291T Topics in Managerial Communications 1 - 3 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 to 10 hours of Lecture and 5 to 10 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course will provide the student with specialized knowledge in some area of managerial communications. Topics include multimedia business presentations, personal leadership development, diversity management, and making meetings work. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
XMBA 292P Strategic CSR 1 - 3 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Lecture per week for 10 weeks.
Discuss the field of strategic CSR through a series of lecture, guest speakers, and projects. It will examine best practices used by companies to engage in socially responsible practices. It will provide students with a flavor of the complex dilemmas one can face in business in trying to do both "good for society" and "well for shareholders." It looks at CSR from a corporate strategy perspective, and how it supports core business objectives, core competencies, and bottom line profits.
XMBA 293 Individual Supervised Study for Graduate Students 1 - 6 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 2 to 12 hours of Independent study per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of supervising faculty.
Individually supervised study of subjects not available to the student in the regular schedule, approved by faculty adviser as appropriate for the student's program.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
XMBA 295A Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 4 hours of lecture per week for 12 weeks.
The development of creative marketing strategies for new ventures, as well as the resolution of specific marketing problems in smaller companies which provide innovative goods and services. Emphasis is on decision making under conditions of weak data, inadequate resources, emerging markets, and rapidly changing environments.
XMBA 295D New Venture Finance 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This is a course about financing new entrepreneurial ventures, emphasizing those that have the possibility of creating a national or international impact or both. It will take two perspectives--the entrepreneur's and the investor's--and it will place a special focus on the venture capital process, including how they are formed and managed, accessing the public markets, mergers, and strategic alliances.
XMBA 295F Customer and Business Development in High-Tech Enterprise 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
This course is about how to successfully organize sales, marketing, and business development in a startup. For the purpose of this course, a "startup" can either be a new venture, or an existing company entering a new market. Both must solve a common set of issues: Where is our market? Who are our customers? How do we build the right team? How do we scale sales? These issues are at the heart of the "Customer Development" process covered in this course.
XMBA 295T Special Topics in Entrepreneurship 1 - 3 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 4.5 hours of Lecture per week for 10 weeks.
Prerequisites: All core courses or equivalents.
Advanced study in the field of entrepreneurship. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
XMBA 296 Special Topics in Business Administration 1 - 3 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 4.5 hours of Lecture per week for 10 weeks.
Advanced study in various fields of business administration. Topics will vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
XMBA 298A International Business 2 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 15 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Course will focus on the challenges, opportunities, and risks of doing business in emerging market economies. The course is designed to enhance students' ability to start, manage, lead, and invest in companies operating in emerging markets and to respond to new competitors from emerging markets. Emerging markets are home to nearly 80% of the world's population and are expected to account for half of global GDP growth over the next 25 years.
XMBA 298C International Field Seminar 3 Units
Department: Executive Masters in Bus. Adm.
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: Thirty hours of fieldwork per week for 1 week. Thirty hours of fieldwork per week for 1 week. Thirty hours of fieldwork per week for 1 week. Thirty hours of fieldwork per week for 1 week. Thirty hours of fieldwork per week for 1 week. Thirty hours of fieldwork per week for 1 week.
Prerequisites: 298A.
This required course entails an experimental study of an international business topic undertaken during a one-week field study session abroad. The course includes a combination of lectures and site visits.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
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