Extend your leadership abilities. Solve your organization’s biggest challenges.
Leading at the highest levels and forging the strategic path to success for your organization requires an understanding of both business and the massive strategic challenges that exist in our world. Our program combines rigorous business essentials, leadership training, and a unique opportunity to customize a personal learning experience that leverages the deep resources of Yale University to explore issues in the critically important areas of asset management, healthcare, and sustainability.
EMBA Overview
- A full MBA education in a 22-month program
- Rigorous management education with flexibility to customize or specialize in an area of focus (Asset Management, Healthcare or Sustainability)
- Friday/Saturday sessions on alternate weekends on Yale’s campus
- Four in-residence weeks, including one Global Network Week abroad
The Academic Experience
Core Courses
Yale’s unique core curriculum is a series of classes organized around stakeholder perspectives rather than narrow functional disciplines. The Yale approach emphasizes viewing questions and problems from many perspectives and considering the connections between organizations and broader society.
The Yale SOM Approach
Raw Cases
The unique Yale SOM “raw” case format presents the challenges of real-world decision making by presenting business problems with all their complexity and ambiguity. View the Yale SOM Case Directory.
Interdisciplinary Teaching
In the Yale SOM classroom, faculty from multiple disciplines often teach together, enabling students to make crucial connections among knowledge domains.
Advanced Leadership & Elective Courses
After completing the core curriculum, you will have access to a rich set of advanced electives that will enable you to learn about the latest advances in management thinking and how emerging trends will affect your business. Throughout, you will extend your leadership capacity through classroom work, hands-on exercises and projects and exposure to prominent speaker across many sectors. You also have the option to structure this part of the program to specialize in one of our designated Areas of Focus: Asset Management, Healthcare, and Sustainability.
Asset Management
Learn best practices across the principal asset classes, access cutting-edge Yale research in risk and behavioral finance, and understand the interplay of finance and society.
Healthcare
Gain a disciplined understanding of markets, organizations, and society in the context of the complex healthcare industry. Be inspired to lead change at the forefront of healthcare.
Sustainability
Drive transformative innovation and integrate sustainability throughout complex organizations, turning social and environmental challenges into opportunities.
Advanced Curriculum Components
Advanced Management Courses
Build on the lessons of the core curriculum and develop the strategic approach, business skills, and competencies needed to lead your organization at the highest levels.
Global Offerings: Global Network Weeks & Courses
As a required part of the Yale EMBA curriculum, experience an EMBA-specific Global Network Week—a week of intensive study and immersion in an alternative business environment. You will also have access to electives and other opportunities through the Global Network for Advanced Management, a network of 32 of the top business schools around the world.
