Program Objectives
The Esade MBA program challenges you to be a creactivist – a creative activist, an entrepreneurial leader, a mould-breaker, trailblazer, and leader of positive and lasting change. Our curriculum allows you to:
- Experience and learn to understand and manage the diversity embedded in global activities and interactions.
- Understand the core tenets of different management disciplines and be able to integrate and apply theoretical and practical knowledge of these fields.
- Become a responsible leader who, being aware of the implicit values and impact of all decisions, is committed to building a fairer society, working collaboratively with integrity and fostering diversity and inclusion, in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Develop and apply an open, integrative and partnership-based leadership style that allows the individual to be effective in complex situation and to manage across functional and organizational boundaries.
- Develop and demonstrate the capability to identify, analyse, and synthesise complex situations to develop the readiness to challenge the status quo.
- Develop the ability to create new and novel ideas or perspectives, which lead to new and novel products, services, business models, and social, and environmental change.
- Develop and apply communication techniques and approaches to align, mobilize, engage, and persuade different audiences and stakeholder groups.
A new MBA for a new Generation
#BeaCreactivist
Our global business world is in constant flux. Next-generation leaders need flexibility, adaptability, and fluidity of thought. Not only to respond to change, but to lead it.
Welcome to a new Esade MBA for a new generation of leaders. An innovative, disruptive, digitally enriched learning experience that will equip you to become a creative activist – a creactivist – an entrepreneurial leader capable of breaking the mould, moving the parameters, transforming yourself, and others.
This is a next-generation learning experience that will accelerate your collaborative leadership, your creativity, your critical thinking, and your communication skills.
TERM 1
Awareness
By better understanding yourself, your individual capabilities, and environment, from the inside out, true change is possible.
TERM 2
Create & Innovate
Learn to generate opportunities where there are none, and gain the perspective to solve short-term problems without losing sight of long-term goals.
TERM 3
Transform
Transformation requires a change in approach. Go beyond simply imagining change: execute and manage it seamlessly.
Developing 4 Critical Competences:
The 4Cs
- Collaborative Leadership
Lead through cooperation and collaboration. Collaboration underpins global business today, transcending cultural boundaries. - Critical Thinking
Develop the readiness to question everything in pursuit of innovative and relevant solutions to emerging threats and opportunities. - Creativity
Hone the entrepreneurial mind-set to redefine challenges, re-write the rules, and see opportunities where others see obstacles. - Communication Skills
Learn to align, mobilise, engage, and persuade stakeholders, from key decision-makers to team members.