EXECUTIVE
MBA 2022 –23
«At BI, we aim to empower ambitious leaders and provide them with the tools and knowledge to drive innovation and performance in their organisations»
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MORE THAN A DEGREE The emergence of the Internet, new technologies and internationalisation have disrupted business models and we have witnessed the rise and fall of industry giants. It has also led to modern leaders requiring a new and broader set of skills to perform their jobs. Business has simply become more digital, more global and more sustainable. An international and forward-looking mindset, as well as the ability to lead people effectively through change and technological innovation are highly sought-after leadership traits. As a leader, how prepared are you for these challenges? At BI, we offer something different. Our programmes are tailored to meet the students’ needs and schedule, which is why our outstanding alumni include among others, Olympic gold medalists and CFOs of major global companies. The EMBA courses are almost entirely case-based, blending practical and theoretical knowledge. The programme structure allows you to be a full-time student for two weeks at a time, instead of just a few days a month. An Executive MBA from BI is more than just a degree. We are proud to be one of only five Norwegian institutions with research and academic communities of world-class quality, according to the Research Council of Norway. Combined with the fact that our Executive MBA is ranked among the top 100 worldwide, this means that a degree from BI matters and carries weight internationally. At BI we aim to help you find a life-long network of like-minded professionals and to provide you with a toolkit enabling you to be successful in your career for years to come. So, what are you waiting for?
Anders Dysvik Professor and Associate Dean Executive MBA at BI Norwegian Business School
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71 % of our students chose the EMBA because they wanted a career boost.
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81 % of our EMBA students say they got a career boost after finishing.
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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT We know how crucial interpersonal skills and the ability to engage with others is in any executive position. In our Personal Development Programme, you will define new goals and grow as a leader. You will gain career tools and advice in the career workshops with relevant topics related to career development. A personal mentor will follow your progression throughout the programme.
LEARNING BY DOING Show, don’t tell. In the Consultancy Project, which runs through the entire programme, you will apply your new knowledge and draw from your own experiences to solve a real case from one of your group member’s companies. In fact, almost all of our courses are case-based.
A STRONGER NETWORK Our unique programme structure is intense, and the reward is the close collaboration with your fellow students in each two week-module. Share experiences and ideas with peers from a range of different countries and industries. Build friendships and a network for life.
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UTIVE MBA AT BI?
THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Travel the world. Challenge your perspectives. Benefit from our partnerships with some of the world’s most recognised business schools. Learn about innovation at Berkeley, asian business at Fudan University or design thinking at HassoPlattner-Insitute. The business world is global, so we aim to create global leaders.
CUSTOMISE YOUR DEGREE With our elective courses you can tailor your degree to your own career ambitions. Choose from a wide range of modules and deepen your knowledge within sustainability, globalisation and digitalisation. All sought-after skills for future leaders.
TRIPLE CROWN SCHOOL A degree from BI carries weight internationally. We are the only business school in Norway holding all three of the most prestigious international accreditations. Less than 1 % of business schools worldwide have all these accreditations.
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CORE COURSES Combining both practical and theoretical knowledge, the core courses are designed to equip you with the most forward-looking perspectives on strategy, finance and leadership. Regardless of what electives you choose, these core courses constitute a large part of your curriculum - and provide a framework for the entire programme. The goal is to give you a set of both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills, each as beneficial as the other. In order to make this more manageable, our courses are divided into three main categories, based on what we know are the most sought-after leadership skills modern managers are looking for.
VALUE CREATION • STRATEGY: Learn how to generate, evaluate, choose and implement a strategy. • MARKETING: A comprehensive introduction to the field of strategic marketing and decision-making. • INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Get to know the systems, tools and tecniques used to successfully manage innovation.
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KNOWING YOUR NUMBERS • CORPORATE FINANCE: We provide you with insights and practical tools that will help you make sound financial decisions. • FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: Learn how to talk-the-talk with accountants and understand the principles of financial accounting. • MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: Develop an intuitive and analytical feeling for the working of the market mechanism. • MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: Understand the concepts and tools behind management accounting, allowing you to “connect the dots” between numbers and management decisions.
LEADING AND SUCCEEDING THROUGH PEOPLE • LEADERSHIP: Identify challenges and improve your own performance by developing a personal leadership model. • HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Address human resource topics from a business perspective and learn how to implement more effective HRM practises and systems. • BUSINESS ETHICS IN PRACTICE: Understand the role of ethics in management and the importance of both personal and corporate integrity and accountability.
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FAST F 87 % of our students has increased job satisfaction one year after graduation
31 % of our Executive MBA students are female
12 YEARS average work experience
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FACTS 39 YEARS average age of our students
31 % of our students change their country of work within one year of graduating
18 MONTHS length of the EMBA programme
15 different nationalities in our EMBA classes
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ELECTIVE COURSES Customise your Executive MBA with our elective courses, designed to give you insight, skills and tools to lead your organisation towards a digital, global and sustainable future. The electives consist of four one-week modules and is your chance to tailor your degree to your own professional preference. Choose among a total of ten different elective courses, all designed for you to meet the business demands of tomorrow.
«The transformation of wastefulness into tomorrow’s sustainable companies is the greatest business opportunity in the 21st century» Per Espen Stoknes, Associate Professor
«We need leaders that build intelligent organisations collectives of people and machines that delight customers, unleash creativity and flex to the digital pace of business» Vegard Kolbjørnsrud, Assistant Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Accenture
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«When measuring global competitiveness, Norway excels in productivity and performance, making it the ideal context to study globalisation» Birgitte Grøgaard Professor
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DIGITAL BUSINESS Machine Learning Digitalization creates high speed, high volume digital activity traces – Big Data. This course develops these foundational skills through hands-on experience with cutting edge analytics tools and techniques, and through case discussions designed to reflect on the technical foundations of Machine learning and artificial intelligence, successes and failures and the implications for strategy and leadership. Location: Oslo
Design Thinking Digital organizations excel at rapid-fire development of products and services adapted to user needs. This module, provided in partnership with Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, provides participants with an intense introduction to Design Thinking. Participants will be able to apply Design Thinking to digital development and creative problem-solving efforts, as well as critically asses how to apply Design Thinking in different organizational contexts. Location: Potsdam
Digital Business Models This course covers digital business models in manufacturing, networks, resource access, and problem-solving businesses as well as digital ecosystems and the business model implications of new technologies such as blockchains and AI. It provides participants with capabilities required to develop and strategically manage both digital transformation of established businesses and create new businesses that arise from digital technologies. Location: Oslo
Leading and Organizing Digitally Participants will learn about how the traditional role of leadership needs to adapt to the changing nature of work in the digital age, agile ways of organizing, how leadership relates to learning and innovation, and how digital technologies, as a value-creating resource, may affect leadership. Location: Oslo
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SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS Green Entrepreneurship and Systems Innovation This course focuses on how you can develop smart green ideas and make business models for sustainability innovations. We will visit leading Swedish entrepreneurial networks and meet leading impact entrepreneurs, business angels as well as investors. We delve into entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, how new green ventures go from seed to growth stage - and from start-ups to scale-ups. Location: Stockholm
Succeeding with Sustainable Growth This course aims to introduce green growth as the decisive concern for leadership and strategy in the 21st century. We’ll chart the long-term challenges and macro-trends in a world that is increasingly craving sustainable growth. Participants will learn how to set hybrid visions, develop green growth scenarios and acquire the tools for analyzing market opportunities for green growth. Location: Oslo
Creating and Leading Green Organizations In this course, we focus on how you can create and lead green organizations, both in terms of co-creating directions for sustainability and mobilizing people. Participants will learn about state-of-the art change management in terms of nurturing a culture of green growth marked by high levels of engagement, mastery climates and distributed agency. You will will also learn about green finance, climate risk, reporting and work with developing a green business plan. Location: Oslo
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GLOBAL BUSINESS Business in a Global Context The global pandemic has highlighted challenges facing global organizations where the delivery of products and services are dependent on geographically spread organizational units and global external networks. This course focuses on how to navigate the increasingly turbulent global business context. We identify key strategic business decisions in a global context and the challenges of organizing and managing global organizations. Location: Oslo
Global Business in Asia: A Focus on China This course focuses on the Asian Business context, with an emphasis on China’s role and influence in the region and global competitive landscape. We discuss the Asian competitive landscape and focus on the growth and internationalization of multinationals from this region. BI has a partnership with Fudan University, where our joint MBA program ranks among the world’s best part-time MBA programs. Location: Shanghai
Regional Business Contexts: EU and Latin America This course exposes you to new business contexts to learn about regional integration as well as EU and Latin American business trends. The content is taught by leading academics at IE, our partner institution in Madrid. This unique experience of physically visiting our partner institution allows participants to tap into local competence and connect with regional businesses. Location: Madrid
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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME This course aims, as part of the EMBA programme and in addition to academic courses, to support students’ personal development, and help them attain their leadership development goals and their career development goals. Throughout the EMBA programme you will be given opportunities to learn and reflect upon topics such as: • What is your interpersonal style? • How do others experience working with you? • Where are you heading with your career? • What do you need to improve in the role as a leader?
Methods to increase self-awareness and personal development: CAREER DEVELOPMENT A series of workshops will address topics relevant to career development. The purpose of these workshops is to provide students with career tools and advice, and give them the opportunity to exchange with others on relevant career-related topics, to support their career development journey.
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«Today’s leaders have to be aware: aware of operational matters and greater strategic issues, but, more importantly, aware of themselves and of their impact on others» Émilie Lapointe Professor – Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour
PERSONALITY TESTING AND 360 DEGREE FEEDBACK In order to increase students’ ability to understand how their personal attributes and inter-personal style influences their work achievements, their career, and their leadership style, they will go through an extensive personality testing. Furthermore, data will be gathered from current and/or former work colleagues applying the 360 degree format. IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF PERSONALITY PROFILE AND 360 REPORT Students will also be given the opportunity to have an individual 90-minute session with a faculty specialized in personality testing, where they will get an in-depth analysis of their personality profile and the 360 degree feedback report. The aim of this session is to identify specific developmental goals (i.e,, leadership development goals or career development goals) for the further process with the mentor. WORKING WITH A MENTOR All students are encouraged to engage, as a mentee, in a mentoring relationship with a mentor whose experience and expertise is relevant to the student’s development goals. Mentors are BI EMBA alumni students that are motivated to take on the role as a mentor and that have been found suitable for this role. PEER-FEEDBACK In addition to the extensive 360 degree feedback procedure, all group works will be evaluated in a structured way, so that students get a anonymous peer-feedback report indicating how the other group members experienced working with them. The purpose of giving students continuous and extensive feedback throughout the EMBA program is to increase students’ self-awareness and help them understand both how they contribute to groups and what might cause inter-personal challenges.
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WORDS FROM OUR ST
«I wanted to challenge my comfort zone and extend the limits»
«The EMBA has given me immense insight in digital business models»
«I learned much about myself as a leader through reflection and understanding of my own personality»
Maiya Kukushkina, Siemens PD SLN LCM
Tore Wettre Andreassen, Tieto
Christina Zgherea, Fjong.com
«Unique combination of academic perspective and practical learning» Victoria Bodak, NCC
«Either you have a technical background, or you are a high level leader. I wanted to be a hybrid»
«I am more confident than ever before to lead the evolving digital organisations»
Fahad Rehman, Vy
Abul Khair Mohammod Fahimuddin, Equinor ASA
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TUDENTS AND ALUMNI
«Ensures an in-depth understanding of international business and governmental practices»
«Shaped to challenge your thoughts and pre-acquired knowledge»
Jerome Kirkwood, Norwegian Environment Agency
Lucien Lenerand, TechnipFMC
«You learn how to make better strategic judgements and to solve complex business problems faster» Trude Tingvoll, Respinor AS
«Completely revolutionized my knowledge, thinking pattern and leadership qualities»
«A solid strategic leadership platform with a global business perspective»
Kirthin Sampath, ABB AS
Kristine Behné Ramsnes, TechnipFMC
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DID YOU KNOW… ....that EMBA alumni get several membership benefits? This includes discounts, invites to international events and access to top academic journals and magazines. 20
BI EXECUTIVE MBA ALUMNI YOUR GLOBAL NETWORK Share knowledge across the community, get access to academic and professional insights and expand your professional network. Become one of our more than 80 000 members in 80 countries. BI Alumni is the alumni community for former students holding a degree from BI, and our international exchange students. Whether you live in Norway or abroad, you can join networking groups based on your interests or where you are based, and attend alumni events on campus or in 20 major cities across Europe, North-America and Asia. As an Executive MBA alumni, you will be invited to unique events specifically for the MBA alumni community, but BI Alumni also offers you the possibility to connect with others across disciplines and backgrounds. Whether you are looking for new friends and contacts, or want to reconnect with old ones, we are here for you, both in Norway and in our global alumni network! For more information about membership benefits: bi.edu/alumni
LEADER’S TOOLBOX A popular alumni event is the breakfast seminar series “Leader’s Toolbox”, which is held every last Friday of the month at BI - campus Oslo. BIs top faculty give engaging talks and share the latest research on topics that are relevant to today’s modern business leaders. Relevant articles are published on bi.edu/bizreview
PAST TOPICS INCLUDE: • Big data and social media for managers • Leader talk that pays off • Leveraging mindsets for digital change
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LOCATIONS The Executive MBA at BI is a truly international programme – where the world literally becomes your campus. Based on which track you choose, you will travel to various corners of the world, in order to learn from the very best in each field.
OSLO, NORWAY BI Norwegian Business School is one of Europe’s largest business schools, and among the less than 1 % of business schools worldwide that have been awarded the «triple crown» accreditation.
BERKELEY, USA Our classes take place at the renowned Haas Business School, University of California at Berkeley. Silicon Valley, home to many of the world’s largest tech companies, is located nearby.
MADRID, SPAIN Classes take place at IE Business School, one of Europe’s leading business schools. The Spanish capital is truly the perfect place to learn about European regulations and Latin America.
SHANGHAI, CHINA In China’s largest city and one of the world’s largest financial and commercial hubs you will learn about global management and innovative business models. Each class is taught by local professors.
POTSDAM, GERMANY Classes take place at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, arguably the leading Design Thinking institution in Europe.
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN We visit Norrsken House, Europe’s biggest hub for impact and technology. Learn about food-tech, greentech, climate-tech and biotech.
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LEADERS WHO NEVER STOP LEARNING ARE LEADERS WHO
NEVER STOP
EVOLVING
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ADMISSIONS & PRACTICAL INFORMATION The Executive MBA is an intense programme that requires commitment from its participants. The admissions committee places particular emphasis on each applicant’s academic qualifications, motivation, professional experience, and maturity.
REQUIREMENTS • University degree (minimum bachelor) or an equivalent professional experience. In some cases, candidates with substantial, international work experience can be considered • Two letters of recommendation • You must be 25 years of age or older • Minimum 6 years of full-time work experience • Qualifying applicants are invited for an interview • Go to bi.edu/emba for further information about the application process PROGRAMME START: 21 March 2022 APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 January 2022 TUITION FEE: NOK 490 000 (divided into three instalments). Study materials are included. The tuition fee does not include travel expenses (flights and accommodation). LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: English LENGTH OF PROGRAMME: 18 months part-time divided into six two-week modules. WEBINAR The Executive MBA Online Information Session allows you to join our frequent info webinars from wherever you are in the world. Read more: bi.edu/emba
ONE-TO-ONE Fill in a form to register for a one-to-one meeting to learn more about the Executive MBA programme. Read more: bi.edu/one2one
MORE INFORMATION bi.edu/emba - Phone: +47 46 41 00 00 – E-mail: info@bi.no
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BI is the only Norwegian business school holding the three most prestigious international accreditations. Less than 1 % of business schools worldwide have this triple accreditation.