Global Executive MBA - Executive Education

Is the Global Executive MBA designed for you?

Yes. If you are an experienced manager and wish to:

Accelerate you career and become a key player in your company.
Develop beyond your technical expertise into a general management position with a cross-functional perspective.
Handle new challenges in other industries, functions or countries.
Meet new people, share and enrich your vision with other executives and create a solid global network.
You are convinced you need to:
- Become more effective, and develop a strategic vision to create innovative solutions.
- Acquire knowledge and competencies in global business, accounting & finance.
- Increase your self-confidence and develop your leadership skills.

Now is the time for you to influence the future: enter the next intake of KEDGE Global Executive MBA!

The Global Executive MBA offers to high potential executives a prestigious Master of Business Administration degree from a top-level, internationally recognised academic institution, in perfect synergy with the business world.

Our objective: equip executives with the competencies, cultural sensitivity and strategic vision they need to effectively deal with the challenges in today’s global economy.

Ranked #39 among the Top 100 Executive MBAs worldwide in the 2019 Financial Times, with 3 campuses and a whole choice of specialised seminars in France and abroad, our programme is characterised by a highly-individualised learning path, a strong leadership component, and a focus on acquiring a global vision.

Our vision is to build a unique learning community spanning the continents where you will gain access to our internationally renowned faculty and a unique global network of 70,000 alumni.

Why choose this programme?

Flexibility

Designed for busy professionals, our programme offers you a unique flexibility that allows you to fulfil career commitments, maintain a balanced life, and make your EMBA a truly transformational experience.

Choose the most convenient:

Campuses: Paris, Marseille or Shanghai
Course duration: 24 months to 4 years (12 months fast track possible)
Customise with 3 seminars in France or abroad: one abroad is mandatory
International Seminars: Destinations proposed in Europe, Asia, the US, Australia

Adapt your EMBA journey: your path/length (e.g.: postponing a course when necessary), campus, international seminars

Return on Investment

There are, of course, many ways to measure ROI:

The Financial Times international EMBA Ranking, for example, places KEDGE Global MBA among the best worldwide for salary increase.
88% of graduates have experienced have experienced personal change within 2 years after the end of the programme; 66% within a year.
70% have changed position between the start and the end of the Executive MBA.

However, there are many other key areas to value how your KEDGE MBA will help you develop.

Skills and knowledge grow quickly and you will be able to immediately apply what you have learned to your daily professional activities. You are thus able to add greater value to your company or personal business almost immediately.
Stronger leadership capabilities, increased confidence, personal and professional benchmarking are all objectives of your KEDGE EMBA’s experience.
Value also comes from your increased capacity to find innovative solutions and manage complex change. Gaining business acumen, increasing global connections, having the capacity for self-reflection as well as taking a “step back”…. put you at a truly Executive C-level.

The KEDGE Global MBA commits to helping you achieve in all of these areas to maximize your EMBA investment.

Personal Executive coach

Within the EMBA Development Programme, up to 18 hours of individual confidential coaching sessions with executive coaches and collective sessions provide permanent support and accompaniment, enabling you to create the conditions to succeed in your EMBA and ensuring that the programme serves the development of your career objectives.

We tend to promote your self-confidence and open-mindedness through practical business cases and multi-cultural teamwork. As per the last survey, 97% of our graduates increased or partially increased their self-confidence in their professional life.

Recent comments from MBA alumni about leadership transformation:

- “We are now used to handling complex, unfamiliar issues, requiring us to integrate cross-disciplinary knowledge, lead people and ideas.”

- “I gained self-awareness and confidence and improved my abilities to bring out the best in others with stronger leadership skills.”

International dimension

Meeting and working with international participants, interacting with a global Faculty, benefit from international major EMBA partnerships.

KEDGE’s campuses abroad surely give the school an international reach in terms of faculty, students, global network and image. KEDGE international exposure and implantation overseas expresses its capacity to train executives with an international ambition and with an international background. KEDGE established a premier campus in China (Shanghai), in partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and is the only French MBA to be formally recognised by the Chinese Government.

It enables EMBA participants to interact both professionally and socially with participants from different cultures. Some seminars are delivered with European-based and Chinese-based cohorts all together. We ambition to motivate KEDGE cohorts to mix and network. Likewise, French-based EMBA participants visit their Chinese peers for another core course in Shanghai.

KEDGE has initiated collaboration with other universities and Executive MBAs in Europe: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Germany and SDA Bocconi School of Management in Italy.

“The international visit component of the KEDGE Executive MBA is one of the strongest and most substantial elements of this kind that accreditors have observed while assessing part time programmes.” AMBA Global MBA last assessment report.

Global Business Network

Sharing your MBA experience with others from the MBA community (alumni, participants), who come from many different sectors, allows your company to extend its network and find new business partners.
Graduates can rely on a strong network of over 1800 Alumni worldwide, including 800 in China.
Faculty and lecturers are all active in the corporate world and bring with them their connections and experiences.
Your MBA peers are international in scope and represent an immense opportunity to explore and connect with other business environments.
International seminars take you out into new business worlds.
At KEDGE every one inspires being more global.

Life long learning

The Lifelong “Refresh Your Skills” Programme: A unique advantage among MBA programmes, KEDGE BS offers its MBA alumni free access to one MBA course per year for life!

Keep your business acumen up-to-date and maintain your professional network well after graduation.

Benefit for companies

Everyone stands to benefit. The Global EMBA is a genuine investment to:

Enhance skills & capacities: The programme provides immediate benefits as participants apply what they have learned from the earliest moments of the programme.
Develop potential: Participants acquire a more holistic and global approach to business, as well as an entrepreneurial attitude and a general increase in output and performance.
Reinforce loyalty & motivation: Supporting your manager is a clear means of rewarding, developing and retaining key talent.
Accomplishing corporate objectives and develop international opportunities.

Campus choice

Having chosen a main campus, you can study and join EMBA participants on 3 different campuses: Paris, Marseille or Shanghai.

You meet your classmates on many occasions: during international seminars, business simulations, and ‘get together weeks’, KEDGE conferences on various campuses, KEDGE social events.

These collaborative occasions offer participants the chance to create a real community.

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A strong brand, with international ambitions

KEDGE knows that your MBA is really about what you want to achieve. And we know that a strong international brand is important to you.

Our MBA faculty, alumni and participants, accomplished Executives and thought-leaders, are continuously traveling out onto new parts of the globe. They are unique, innovative and in-tune with regional practices and diversity and represent the strongest possible ambassadors of our brand.

You, as an EMBA participant, will be an Ambassador for your programme and later on as an Alumnus, for your diploma and school.

KEDGE is part of an international network of corporate and academic partners: all of whom are reputable, internationally known, and all share the same standards of excellence.

Having earned triple-crown accreditation, KEDGE has also achieved full recognition by both the French and Chinese Ministry of Education. Our brand is recognised worldwide.

What does an executive MBA bring you?

Learning & Skills

Complete knowledge in array of business areas
Latest information
New tools

Business Acumen

Executive demeanor
Confidence
Use of logistical frameworks
Presentation skills
Retrospect
Strategic thinking

Managerial Development

Leading yourself and others
Creating vision
Fostering motivation & creativity
Strategic thinking
Accurate decision-making

International

Daily global orientation
World-class networks
International best-practices

New & Innovative Approaches

Critical thinking
Awareness of CSR concerns
Entrepreneurial thinking
Taking calculated risk
Efficiency and adaptability in a global business world

Personal Development

Managing your own career
Developing new networks
Increasing opportunities for yourself

Key figures

1800

MBA Alumni worldwide

97 %

success rate on the last graduating intake

Campuses

97 %

Graduates would recommend KEDGE EMBA to people seeking for an EMBA

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Executives share their experience

The next challenge for me was to re-orient my career: done! - KEDGE

The next challenge for me was to re-orient my career: done! Gildas Coureau Operations Director, BOURBON INTEROIL NIGERIA LIMITED

"17 marvelous years in the Navy and having achieved the role of Commander of nuclear submarines, I gained a wealth of technical experience and an ability to manage others. After my Navy career, the next challenge for me was to re-orient my career into business and enterprise with the Kedge Global Executive MBA. Today I continue my career with Bourbon, world leader in supporting off-shore petroleum platforms."

Finding flexibility and the opportunity to share - KEDGE

Finding flexibility and the opportunity to share Nino Sapina Co-founder / CEO of Realcast

"For most of my career I have made video games, most notably I was the producer of Raving Rabbids. Later on I decided to build my own company, I wanted to be able to manage myself and my own business, to push it to the next level. The KEDGE Global Executive MBA gives me the opportunity to share my project and all that goes with it. Many things have evolved, I have met many people, the company has started to be known and my personal development has advanced. The EMBA is flexible with regards to my family life and fits perfectly with my professional schedule."

Since starting the MBA, my life has completely change - KEDGE

Since starting the MBA, my life has completely change Tori Griffiths Philanthropy & Partnership Manager - Fight for Sight

"I started the Executive MBA last November. I was extremely apprehensive. I didn't know what I was getting myself into but I knew I needed a change. I've been in middle management for a long time. I've been a found raiser for the past 12 years of my life and I was looking to become a leader, more than just a manager. Since starting the MBA, my life has completely changed. My skills of growing, my soft skills, have come along leaps and bounds. I'm actually starting a new job in leadership, back in London, in January to say that the cage MBA has been transformational. Seems like an understatement when I consider all the changes and the journey that I've been on. I couldn't recommend it enough, just do it !"

I wanted to get out of my confort zone and strengthen my skills with the goal to start my own company - KEDGE

I wanted to get out of my confort zone and strengthen my skills with the goal to start my own company Michel Capel Director of Information systems

" I started my career twenty-four years ago with a master in IT. After the University, I quickly found a job in a medical device company, where I had for couple of years some technical roles. Quickly after, I moved into management position. Last June, I decided to leave that company and after couple months of deep reflection, I started to define what I didn't want to do anymore and what I was expecting for my second part of career. I started the Executive MBA program for two reasons. The first one, I wanted to be out of my comfort zone and wanted to strengthen some of my hard and soft skills with the goal, at some point in time, to have a professional experience abroad. The second reason would be, eventually, to start my own company at some point in time. With this MBA programme, I add an opportunity to meet with great teachers and professors but also fantastic people from different and various background in various countries. This was a great experience so far after one year working with them, having fun with them, but also sometimes having difficult moment, because this journey is not like an easy one. If like me, you have a reflection of what your career will look like in the future. Do not hesitate. I strongly recommend you subscribe on an Executive MBA program and you will not be disappointed."

Doing an MBA is a real challenge every day, but it is also a lot of success. - KEDGE

Doing an MBA is a real challenge every day, but it is also a lot of success. Julie Kurtian

"I picked KEDGE and the Executive MBA because I wanted to get out of my comfort zone. Doing an MBA is a real challenge every day, but it is also a lot of success. I met great people every day, I expand my knowledge every day, as on art skills and soft skills and it's been a great experience for me."

If you are hesitating to embark in this new journey, just don't! - KEDGE

If you are hesitating to embark in this new journey, just don't! Hasna Benabbou Energy support Engineer - Suez

"Four years ago, I decided to pick up my career and started working at Suez. I'm at the procurement department, I operationally manage 100 million euros portfolio of energy expenditure. I am in a team of four people and we manage yearly up to 18 thousand contracts. A year and half ago, I decided to do an Executive MBA. After meeting the team in Paris, KEDGE became the obvious choice.

The two main reasons I have decided to do the KEDGE Executive MBA is…One, for my personal growth. I've been a year now to the program and I get the chance to improve my soft skills, my communication negotiation and put in leadership into practice. The second reason is to acquire new competencies, that I didn't get the chance to get while I was in an engineering school. For example, finance and also design thinking that I got the chance to do in Portland State University. I also did the digital China in Shanghai.

I have met very interesting people and very skilled people that helped me improve my soft and hard skills. The whole journey has been a very transformational experience. I've got the chance to meet brilliant mind. If you are hesitating to embark in this new journey, just don't!"

I wanted to have a step back on my career and improve my skills. - KEDGE

I wanted to have a step back on my career and improve my skills. Samih Frani Program Manager - Transport Company

"I was a project manager for about 15 years in a global transportation company. I wanted to have a step back on my career and to go back to school in order to improve my hard and soft skills. I decided to choose KEDGE MBA because of its humans’ values and top of the range teachers in the programme, but also because of the persons I met in KEDGE.

Doing an MBA is a huge transformation. It’s not only about the quality of the course but I chose KEDGE also about the people at KEDGE. You met crazy and open-minded people from all around the world with great experience and it is very valuable for me. Of course, you must be prepared for that. Doing an MBA is a huge work, a lot of energy, it is sacrifices. But it is also joy. You feel that you grow yourself. You can go and reach the next stage. You really feel it. It is a real chance for me to have this experience and if I have only one advice: make you this gift, do an MBA!"

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