Executive MBA

Executive MBA

Develop your Potential. Redefine the Leader in you.

The part-time School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR) Executive MBA program is designed to fast-track the leadership journey of executives aspiring to lead at the Senior and C-suite level. It accelerates career growth, whether advancing in your current leadership trajectory or transitioning to a new role or business context. A learning and human experience that brings together people, cultures and ideas to develop global leaders who transform Swiss enterprises.

The program is delivered in-person every three weeks, from Thursday to Saturday. This approach minimizes the number of days you need to spend away from the office.

Our EMBA combines a wide range of innovative learning methods to develop your authentic leadership styles, taught by a selected faculty that boast impressive credentials from some of the world’s top institutions including INSEAD Paris, MIT Boston, IMD Lausanne, University of Southern California Los Angeles, Babson College USA, among others. 

The practice-driven curriculum of our EMBA combines leadership, financial and managerial courses; equipping you with the tools to make better strategic decisions. While remaining firmly rooted in the Swiss ecosystem, you will also participate in one-week international immersion in the USA. This will help you better understand the global business environment and how Swiss companies innovate across the world.

By focusing on leadership, innovation and technology, our Executive MBA provides  a fast-track opportunity for success.

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What makes our Executive MBA unique

Cutting Edge Curriculum

Our EMBA Program not only focuses on core management competencies, and builds on those competencies with the leadership and strategic skills necessary in today’s highly dynamic and global business environment. The focus of this EMBA curriculum is to build leadership and strategic skills to address the global, people, technology and supply chain challenges that Swiss firms face.

Highly Qualified Faculty

The EMBA curriculum is taught by highly qualified scholar and practitioners whose expertise include practical experience, theoretical knowledge, and scholarly activities from some of the world´s best Universities including INSEAD, IMD, MIT and USC Los Angeles.

Part-time Course Delivery

A hallmark of this program is its creative, accelerated, and professional based delivery. Students obtain their graduate degrees without compromising their professional and personal priorities given its part-time nature.

Small Class Size

A special benefit of the EMBA program is the small cohort-based class size. Students in the program develop close collegial relationships with their colleagues and faculty. Students in the program come from diverse backgrounds and industries. This diversity, coupled with small class-size and in-depth dialogues provides a rich and professionall learning environment.

AACSB Accredited Executive MBA Program

Earning the rigorous International AACSB accreditation places the Executive Programs at the HEG Fribourg in the top 5% of business schools worldwide. Learn more about AACSB here.

Earning the rigorous AACSB accreditation places the HEG Fribourg Executive Program in the top 5% of business schools worldwide.

Securing the stringent AACSB accreditation is evidence of the HEG Fribourg´s ongoing commitment to their mission, vision and goals. Executive MBA candidates and graduates of our Executive MBA program are assured a distinguished educational experience that includes cutting-edge, real-world curriculum, highly credentialed and professional faculty, and supportive learning resources and services to advance their performance and career. Employers recognize and value AACSB International accreditation. Their hiring managers and recruiters seek out program graduates because they possess the real-world knowledge and skillset they require. Communities view AACSB International accreditation as an indication of the availability of a highly qualified managerial workforce in their region.

3 Axes

The program is built around three axes: it challenges you to rethink your leadership, deepens your business expertise through applied learning, and broadens your perspective to lead confidently in a global, fast-changing environment.

Develop your personal leadership style

Modern leaders must navigate a delicate equilibrium between introspection and decisive action to guide their organizations through uncertainty. Equally vital, they must possess deep self-awareness and recognize the influence they have on those around them.

Our Executive MBA Programs offers a Leadership Development Program to help shape your personal and professional development. Delivered by our specialized Faculty, our leadership courses combine a wide range of innovative learning methods designed to expand your range of effective leadership styles.

Academic content

• Neuro-Leadership for Personal Growth 
• Leading High-Performance Teams 
• Leading through High-Impact communication 
• Leading Sustainable Transformation
• Leading High-Stake Negotiation
• Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation

Experiential Learning

• Team building experiences & simulations
• Live case
• Peer exchanges
  
  

Leadership Coaching

• Individual and Group Coaching
• 360° Leadership feedback

Admission requirements

Strong motivation

Ability and commitment to participate in discussions and to add thought-provoking ideas to lessons.

Language skills

Ability to express oneself and contribute to discussions in French and English.
At least some knowledge of German.

Academic path

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (or equivalent). We also warmly welcome applications from candidates without a university degree, provided they can demonstrate relevant management experience (minimum 10 years).

Proven leadership

Significant professional experience of at least seven years (ten years in the case of admission by application).

Admission procedure

1. Submitting your file online
2. Formal check of your file
3. Interviews
4. Admissions committee discussion
5. Admission Decision
6. English Language Assessment

Fees

CHF 34’000.–

This cost includes tuition, stay abroad (excluding travel and meals), course materials in the form of computer or paper documents, examination fees, as well as support for personal consulting work.

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