The Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA is a transformative journey that expands your mindset, sharpens your leadership skills, empowers you to drive change with confidence, shows you how to make an impact, and connects you with like-minded executives around the globe.
Through exposure to world-class teachers, interactive classroom discussions, collaborative learning and real-world problem solving both in Toronto and during your global electives, you will gain a comprehensive and holistic view of business across industries and countries. The program challenges you to think strategically, act decisively, and grow both as a leader and an individual. Your experience and development will continue after graduation as you will be joining a powerful global network.
Every cohort gathers an exceptional mix of professionals from a wide range of sectors, roles, and backgrounds, with impressive expertise as well as remarkable personal journeys.
Honing and expanding your instincts and skills as a leader is at the core of your experience in the courses, the Authentic Leadership Journey, and interactions in- and outside the program.
Working with social entrepreneurs in Costa Rica or community-based co-operatives in Tanzania for your capstone, you will turn ideas into meaningful change both there and back home.
Dynamic discussions spark new perspectives, where you absorb knowledge from top-notch professors and the diverse experiences of your classmates in Toronto and the global network.
No matter your background and experience, everyone in our program and the Kellogg network of students and alumni embraces the same belief — lead with humility, deliver with purpose.
After bonding as a cohort during the core courses, you will join the partner school students for the Global Network Week at Kellogg and multiple electives around the globe and in Toronto.
Launch Week: Introduction to Global Leadership
6 Weekends: Business Fundamentals
NO Classes
NO Deliverables
Global Network Week at Kellogg:
Negotiations & Crisis Management
2 Weekends: Responsible Leadership & Advanced Finance
Choose from an unrivalled number and range of elective courses, which you will take together with students from our partner schools. They come in different formats: full week, two weekends or blended (online plus long weekend), each of them encompassing pairs of two courses or a single super-course. Your program includes three of these in various locations in the US, Europe and/or Asia and two in Toronto. In addition, you can take up to two more elective pairings (at your own cost) and some online courses (for free).
*Locations are subject to change
After the January Launch Week, you come to campus on average every three weeks to work on the business fundamentals and your leadership skills. In between, there is a month-long summer break and the Global Network Week at Kellogg, where you mingle in highly interactive courses with students from all the partner schools, many of whom you will meet again during your electives. Once you complete the core courses, you go to either Costa Rica or Tanzania. to apply your knowledge and skills to make an immediate impact in a social innovation project.
Shanghai (Week): Business Strategies for the Chinese Market, Marketing in China, Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China, Political Economy in China
Lisbon (Long Weekend): International Finance & Strategic Brand Management
Hong Kong (Week): Understanding Consumer Psychology, Managing Emerging Technologies, Value Investing, Deal Making in China and Asia, Strategies for Sustainable Business Transformation
San Francisco (Week): Intelligent Products & Early-Stage Investing
Lisbon (Long Weekend): International Finance & Strategic Brand Management
Miami (2 Weekends): Global Corporate Restructuring (double course)
Chicago (2 Weekends): Advertising Strategy, Winning with Networks, Strategic Marketing Decisions, Visualization for Persuasion
Evanston & Boston (2 Weekends): Healthcare Strategy (double course)
Lisbon (Long Weekend): International Finance & Strategic Brand Management
Chicago (Week): Leading Organizational Transformation, Creating & Managing Strategic Alliances, Leading High Impact Teams, Fundamentals of Inclusive Leadership
Boston & Evanston (2 Weekends): Healthcare Deep Dive (Healthcare Services or Biopharmaceuticals)
Miami (2 Weekends): Mergers & Acquisitions (double course)
Miami (Week): Unlocking Executive & Enterprise Value with Generative AI, Selling Yourself and Your Ideas, Decision-Making Beyond Analytics, Success & Continuity in Family Enterprises, Launching and Leading Startups, Incentives, Strategy and Organization
Toronto (Long Weekend): Future Proofing Brands & Designing Brand Experiences Shanghai (Week): Healthcare Strategy in China (double course)
London (Week): Designing, Building and Communicating Compelling New Ventures (double course)
Miami (Week): Advanced Negotiations, Fintech and Society, Investment Banks, Hedge Funds and Private Equity, The World Economy, Strategy Beyond Markets, Human and Machine Intelligence
Toronto (Long Weekend): AI in Business and Society & AI in Practice
Vallendar (Week): Leveraging Collaboration for Innovation, Entrepreneurial Finance, Managing People for Competitive Advantage, Building an AI Powered Organization
Toronto (Week): Digital Strategy & M&A Strategy
In this joint program half of your courses will be taught by Schulich faculty and the other half by professors from or affiliated with Kellogg and the partner schools, who travel to Toronto for core courses and teach the many global electives. These professors are experts in their subject matters through cutting-edge research and/or extensive professional experiences. They are also top-rated teachers and will be accessible to you beyond the classroom hours. Below are brief bios of those teaching in the core.
Dr. Matthias Kipping is the Academic Director of the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program. He joined Schulich in 2005 as a Professor of Strategic Management and Chair in Business History after previously holding positions in Spain and the UK. He has also been a visiting professor in France, Italy and Japan. Matthias obtained his doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, has a Master in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a Master in History from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Prior to academia, Matthias worked for a number of years in management consulting. This is also one of the main topics of his research, which is generally situated at the intersection of management studies and business history. In addition to publishing many academic articles and book chapters, he has co-edited several volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting (2012) as well as Re-imagining Capitalism (2016), and recently co-authored Defining Management: Business Schools, Consultants, Media (2016).
Dr. Matthias Kipping is the Academic Director of the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program. He joined Schulich in 2005 as a Professor of Strategic Management and Chair in Business History after previously holding positions in Spain and the UK. He has also been a visiting professor in France, Italy and Japan. Matthias obtained his doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, has a Master in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a Master in History from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Prior to academia, Matthias worked for a number of years in management consulting. This is also one of the main topics of his research, which is generally situated at the intersection of management studies and business history. In addition to publishing many academic articles and book chapters, he has co-edited several volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting (2012) as well as Re-imagining Capitalism (2016), and recently co-authored Defining Management: Business Schools, Consultants, Media (2016).
Dr. Matthias Kipping is the Academic Director of the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program. He joined Schulich in 2005 as a Professor of Strategic Management and Chair in Business History after previously holding positions in Spain and the UK. He has also been a visiting professor in France, Italy and Japan. Matthias obtained his doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, has a Master in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a Master in History from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Prior to academia, Matthias worked for a number of years in management consulting. This is also one of the main topics of his research, which is generally situated at the intersection of management studies and business history. In addition to publishing many academic articles and book chapters, he has co-edited several volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting (2012) as well as Re-imagining Capitalism (2016), and recently co-authored Defining Management: Business Schools, Consultants, Media (2016).
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