Americas MBA

AMERICAS MBA ALLIANCE SCHOOLS

Canada About Vanderbilt University MEXICO CITY

VANCOUVER

SÃO PAULO

NASHVILLE

The Fundação Instituto de Administração (Management Institute Foundation), known as FIA, located in São Paulo, Brazil, was created in 1980 by the faculty of the Business Administration Department of the University of São Paulo, as a not-for-profit foundation offering graduate education, research and extension activities.

FIA Business School pioneered Executive MBA programs in Brazil in 1993, becoming one of Latin America’s topranked business schools and the only fully Brazilian Executive MBA ranked among the best in the world by the Financial Times. Internationally accredited by the London-based Association of MBAs (AMBA), FIA was chosen in December 2010 as the “Most Innovative Business School in South America” by European CEO magazine.

The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México located in Mexico City is one of the nation’s preeminent institutions of higher learning and the best private university in Mexico according to El Universal. It lays claim to the best undergraduate Accounting, Business, International Relations and Economics school in Mexico City according to Reforma, as well as the best Business School in Latin America according to America Economia (2007, 2008 and 2010).

A leading player in the Mexican Executive Education Market for over three decades, ITAM provides top-quality open and custom programs to executives in the private and public sectors. In 2005, ITAM became a European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) accredited member of the European Foundation for Management Development.

In just four decades, Simon Fraser University, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, has earned an international reputation for innovative teaching, advanced research and community engagement. With three campuses located in Metro Vancouver, SFU is home to more than 940 permanent faculty members and more than 34,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

Vanderbilt University is a private research university of about 6,500 undergraduates and 5,300 graduate and professional students. Located in the heart of Nashville, Vanderbilt’s 330 acres are home to architectural treasures and a national arboretum. Vanderbilt is comprised of several highly ranked schools—arts and science, business, medicine, education, law and divinity—as well as a distinguished medical center, a public policy center, and The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center and The Center for Latin American Studies.

Vanderbilt is one of America’s top universities, ranked #17 by U.S. News & World Report. Newsweek recently selected Vanderbilt as one of the “New Ivy League” schools. All 50 U.S. states and more than 90 countries are represented by the Vanderbilt student body. Vanderbilt has more than 120,000 alumni worldwide.

United States Discover this place.

Shape your world.

Mexico

Our Promise To students:

To business:

Here is a place where you will be challenged to achieve your potential; find support as you shape your future; discover lifelong friends and mentors; and open doors to new possibilities.

Here is a place where you will find the men and women who have the skills, the drive, and the determination to move your organization forward.

To faculty and staff:

To alumni:

Here is a place where you can engage, think, reach, teach, influence people, and transform the world around you.

Here is a place that you can call home, build business relationships, and inspire those who follow to reach even higher.

SFU’s Beedie School of Business is home to Canada’s first Executive MBA program, founded in 1968. The school is a Canadian leader in global business teaching and research and was recognized in 2010 for being one of the Top 40 business schools globally for international business research. No university in Canada is as outward looking and as connected to the communities it serves. The university is ranked by Maclean’s, Canada’s national news magazine, as the top comprehensive university in the country.

®

The Vanderbilt MBA for Cross-Equator Executives.

Brazil

Vanderbilt Americas MBA

Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee, is a private research university offering undergraduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences, engineering, music, education and human development, as well as a full range of graduate and professional degrees, many of which are recognized as among the best in the world by publications such as U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek and Kiplinger’s.

Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management Americas MBA 401 21st Avenue South Nashville TN 37203-2422

The Owen Graduate School of Management offers several highly regarded master’s programs, including a full-time MBA and an Executive MBA as well as one-year graduate degree programs in Finance, Accounting and Health Care Management. The school’s executive programs are well known for their focus on strategy, leadership and advanced financial frameworks.

Telephone: 615.322.3120 Fax: 615.343.2293 Email: amba@owen.vanderbilt.edu Hours: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM, US Central Time URL: vanderbiltamericasmba.com

Discover this place. Shape your world.

®

owen.vanderbilt.edu

ITAM, SFU and Vanderbilt are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International).

FIA is accredited by the Association of MBAs.

©2011 Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Rev. 3/11 Printed on recycled paper.

Vanderbilt is an equal opportunity, affirmative action university.

In partnership with FIA Business School Fundação Instituto De Administração São Paulo, Brazil

Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business Vancouver, B.C., Canada

ITAM Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Mexico City, Mexico

AMERICAS MBA ALLIANCE ECONOMIES

VANDERBILT AMERICAS MBA FOR EXECUTIVES

Build a career that knows no boundaries.

A full 60-credit MBA designed exclusively for cross-border executives.

Four dynamic countries. One unrivaled MBA.

Emerging Markets and Corporate Social Responsibility FIA Business School, Fundação Instituto De Administração São Paulo (Brazil)

Canada, Brazil and Mexico are the USA’s largest trading partners in the Western Hemisphere. The Vanderbilt Americas MBA—a full 60-credit-hour MBA designed for working professionals—uniquely equips you with a strong foundation in core business disciplines, leadership skills and the specialized knowledge and insights that prepare you to master transnational business in the Americas.

International Competitiveness and Family Business Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Mexico City (Mexico)

• Your first 12 months offer you the rigorous Year One curriculum plus the learn-from-your-colleagues camaraderie of Vanderbilt’s highly regarded Executive MBA program.

• In Year Two, you will join an international cohort of 60 executives—15 students from each of the four schools in the Americas Alliance. You will become part of a “traveling classroom,” with a 10-day residential immersion in each of the four most powerful and dynamic countries in the Americas—Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States. In addition to receiving a uniquely relevant academic experience, you will learn firsthand the culture, business practices and consumer perceptions and behaviors of these countries.

New Ventures and Innovations Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management Nashville (U.S.)

Leadership

Leadership

The Americas

Edge

Brazil Canada

Strategic Vision Mexand ico Implementation Across the United StatesAmericas

Advanced Financial Frameworks

Management Fundamentals

The leap from manager to global leader requires depth in self-awareness, organizational awareness, strategic alignment to corporate strategy and skills in negotiation and influencing teams both in and outside of the U.S. Both the Vanderbilt Executive MBA and the Americas MBA offer coursework, cross-disciplinary and cross-border team development and projects to help you identify and implement a personal leadership growth plan.

Strategic Vision and Implementation Across the Americas

Like the Vanderbilt Executive MBA, the Americas MBA for Executives includes a year-long strategy project in Year Two. The intensive 10-day residential immersions, featuring coursework uniquely appropriate to the host country, come to life as Vanderbilt Americas MBA candidates work with their international teammates to apply knowledge and expertise to real business challenges faced by multinational corporations.

Management Fundamentals

The Vanderbilt MBA core curriculum—the same used in the Vanderbilt MBA program and common to many schools—lays the foundation in quantitative and soft skills, including statistics, economics, finance, accounting, operations, marketing and organization management.

Brazil

Emerging Markets and Corporate Social Responsibility

Area .76 million square miles, about three times the size of Texas Total population 112.5 million Capital Mexico City, 22 million Largest cities Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Acapulco, Merida, Leon, Veracruz Language Spanish GDP (official exchange rate) $1.0 trillion Annual real growth (2010 est.) 4.5 percent American firms with offices in Mexico 1,438

A relatively affluent society, Canada offers a marketoriented system similar to that of the U.S. Combined with low tax rates, its strategic location as the crossroads between North America and Asia, and a sophisticated transportation infrastructure, Canada has been named the #1 place to do business in the G7 through the year 2014 by the Economic Intelligence Unit.

Area 3.8 million square miles, second-largest country in the world Total population (2010 est.) 33.7 million Capital Ottawa Largest cities Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary Languages English (official) 57.8 percent; French (official) 22.1 percent GDP (official exchange rate) $1.34 trillion Annual real growth (2010 est.) 3.0 percent American firms with offices in Canada 2,444

As a market economy with strict regulatory oversight, the United States is balanced between privately held and publicly traded companies. The United States has the largest GDP in the world, comprising approximately 24 percent of the gross world product. A relatively affluent society, the country ranks ninth in the world in per capita GDP. The U.S. is the largest importer of goods in the world and the third largest exporter.

Area 3.54 million square miles Total population 309.6 million Capital Washington, D.C. Largest cities New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Francisco Language English GDP (official exchange rate) $14.1 trillion Annual real growth 2.8 percent

Mexico

Mexico

International Competitiveness and Family Business

FALL

SPRING

SUMMER

Leadership

Managerial Finance

Marketing Management

Financial Accounting

Corporate Value Management

Macroeconomics

Managerial Economics

Operations Management Organizational Behavior

Managerial Statistics

Canada

Managerial Accounting

Year Two AUGUST

Advanced Financial Frameworks

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management is known for its strength in finance. It will come as no surprise that the Americas MBA students will receive a thorough overlay of advanced financial frameworks including valuation, globalization and foreign exchange exposures—all of which are critical for truly understanding strategic choices and risk.

New Ventures and Innovations

Summer Break

Week-in-Residence

Building on the Vanderbilt Executive MBA program’s international reputation for excellence in strategy, in Year Two your Americas MBA cohort will split into cross-border teams to develop an integrated strategic plan for a real client company that has business challenges in the Americas.

Americas MBA for Executives

United States

Year One

Summer Break

While many U.S. schools offer global MBA programs focused on doing business “east to west,” Vanderbilt brings its long-standing experience and relationships in the Americas to a curriculum that emphasizes the strategies and opportunities of “north to south.”

The Americas MBA Capstone Strategy Project— exposure and experience.

An interesting facet of the Mexican economy is the preponderance of family-owned businesses.

With the introduction of NAFTA, this landscape is changing; as family-owned businesses are looking to grow and become players in the global market, they are adopting more traditional ownership forms or entering into partnerships with transnational companies.

Canada

Global Strategy and CrossCultural Management

OCTOBER

FEBRUARY

APRIL

Canada

Brazil

Mexico

United States

Global Strategy

Corporate Social Responsibility: An Integrative Approach

Family Business

Creating and Launching New Ventures for Organizational Growth

Cross-Cultural Management

Strategic Management for Emerging Markets

Competitiveness and Strategy

Leading a Global Innovation Strategy: Overcoming the Six Innovation Barriers in Organizations

Graduation*

Brazil. Canada. Mexico. The United States.

Global Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management Simon Fraser University, Beedie School of Business Vancouver (Canada)

Area 3.3 million square miles, slightly smaller than the U.S. Total population (2010 est.) 201 million Capital Brasilia, 2.5 million Largest cities São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Fortaleza, Curitiba, Recife, Porto Alegre Language Portuguese GDP (official exchange rate) $1.6 trillion Annual real growth (2010 est.) 7.1 percent American firms with offices in Brazil 1,121

Brazil

Each of the four international residencies is shaped and hosted by those who know it best—the faculty of leading business schools in that country. During the program, they’ll serve as mentors, friends and hosts. Later, they can become part of your career network.

Spring Break

In alliance with leading universities from Brazil, Canada and Mexico, Vanderbilt offers an MBA that equips working professionals to handle senior-level responsibilities for the Americas.

Many MBAs promise global. Vanderbilt delivers.

Winter Break

Are you climbing the career ladder within a multinational organization? Do you measure success by the health and growth of your business in the Americas? Is an expat assignment your career goal?

Brazil has one of the most advanced and diverse industrial sectors in Latin America, including automobiles and parts, machinery and equipment and textiles. This vibrant country has earned a reputation as a leader in environmental responsibility with companies at the leading edge of leveraging environmental programs to gain competitive advantage.

Americas Capstone Strategy Project Curriculum subject to change * Graduation celebration immediately follows successful completion of the program; dates for Vanderbilt commencement exercises are established by the university and may lag.

Two resume-building credentials.

The Americas MBA program offers you two valuable credentials: an MBA from Vanderbilt, one of the top-ranked programs in the world, as well as an Americas MBA Alliance Certificate, jointly issued by the four schools that comprise the alliance.

Learn More.

owen.vanderbilt.edu

United States

AMERICAS MBA ALLIANCE ECONOMIES

VANDERBILT AMERICAS MBA FOR EXECUTIVES

Build a career that knows no boundaries.

A full 60-credit MBA designed exclusively for cross-border executives.

Four dynamic countries. One unrivaled MBA.

Emerging Markets and Corporate Social Responsibility FIA Business School, Fundação Instituto De Administração São Paulo (Brazil)

Canada, Brazil and Mexico are the USA’s largest trading partners in the Western Hemisphere. The Vanderbilt Americas MBA—a full 60-credit-hour MBA designed for working professionals—uniquely equips you with a strong foundation in core business disciplines, leadership skills and the specialized knowledge and insights that prepare you to master transnational business in the Americas.

International Competitiveness and Family Business Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Mexico City (Mexico)

• Your first 12 months offer you the rigorous Year One curriculum plus the learn-from-your-colleagues camaraderie of Vanderbilt’s highly regarded Executive MBA program.

• In Year Two, you will join an international cohort of 60 executives—15 students from each of the four schools in the Americas Alliance. You will become part of a “traveling classroom,” with a 10-day residential immersion in each of the four most powerful and dynamic countries in the Americas—Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States. In addition to receiving a uniquely relevant academic experience, you will learn firsthand the culture, business practices and consumer perceptions and behaviors of these countries.

New Ventures and Innovations Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management Nashville (U.S.)

Leadership

Leadership

The Americas

Edge

Brazil Canada

Strategic Vision Mexand ico Implementation Across the United StatesAmericas

Advanced Financial Frameworks

Management Fundamentals

The leap from manager to global leader requires depth in self-awareness, organizational awareness, strategic alignment to corporate strategy and skills in negotiation and influencing teams both in and outside of the U.S. Both the Vanderbilt Executive MBA and the Americas MBA offer coursework, cross-disciplinary and cross-border team development and projects to help you identify and implement a personal leadership growth plan.

Strategic Vision and Implementation Across the Americas

Like the Vanderbilt Executive MBA, the Americas MBA for Executives includes a year-long strategy project in Year Two. The intensive 10-day residential immersions, featuring coursework uniquely appropriate to the host country, come to life as Vanderbilt Americas MBA candidates work with their international teammates to apply knowledge and expertise to real business challenges faced by multinational corporations.

Management Fundamentals

The Vanderbilt MBA core curriculum—the same used in the Vanderbilt MBA program and common to many schools—lays the foundation in quantitative and soft skills, including statistics, economics, finance, accounting, operations, marketing and organization management.

Brazil

Emerging Markets and Corporate Social Responsibility

Area .76 million square miles, about three times the size of Texas Total population 112.5 million Capital Mexico City, 22 million Largest cities Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Acapulco, Merida, Leon, Veracruz Language Spanish GDP (official exchange rate) $1.0 trillion Annual real growth (2010 est.) 4.5 percent American firms with offices in Mexico 1,438

A relatively affluent society, Canada offers a marketoriented system similar to that of the U.S. Combined with low tax rates, its strategic location as the crossroads between North America and Asia, and a sophisticated transportation infrastructure, Canada has been named the #1 place to do business in the G7 through the year 2014 by the Economic Intelligence Unit.

Area 3.8 million square miles, second-largest country in the world Total population (2010 est.) 33.7 million Capital Ottawa Largest cities Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary Languages English (official) 57.8 percent; French (official) 22.1 percent GDP (official exchange rate) $1.34 trillion Annual real growth (2010 est.) 3.0 percent American firms with offices in Canada 2,444

As a market economy with strict regulatory oversight, the United States is balanced between privately held and publicly traded companies. The United States has the largest GDP in the world, comprising approximately 24 percent of the gross world product. A relatively affluent society, the country ranks ninth in the world in per capita GDP. The U.S. is the largest importer of goods in the world and the third largest exporter.

Area 3.54 million square miles Total population 309.6 million Capital Washington, D.C. Largest cities New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Francisco Language English GDP (official exchange rate) $14.1 trillion Annual real growth 2.8 percent

Mexico

Mexico

International Competitiveness and Family Business

FALL

SPRING

SUMMER

Leadership

Managerial Finance

Marketing Management

Financial Accounting

Corporate Value Management

Macroeconomics

Managerial Economics

Operations Management Organizational Behavior

Managerial Statistics

Canada

Managerial Accounting

Year Two AUGUST

Advanced Financial Frameworks

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management is known for its strength in finance. It will come as no surprise that the Americas MBA students will receive a thorough overlay of advanced financial frameworks including valuation, globalization and foreign exchange exposures—all of which are critical for truly understanding strategic choices and risk.

New Ventures and Innovations

Summer Break

Week-in-Residence

Building on the Vanderbilt Executive MBA program’s international reputation for excellence in strategy, in Year Two your Americas MBA cohort will split into cross-border teams to develop an integrated strategic plan for a real client company that has business challenges in the Americas.

Americas MBA for Executives

United States

Year One

Summer Break

While many U.S. schools offer global MBA programs focused on doing business “east to west,” Vanderbilt brings its long-standing experience and relationships in the Americas to a curriculum that emphasizes the strategies and opportunities of “north to south.”

The Americas MBA Capstone Strategy Project— exposure and experience.

An interesting facet of the Mexican economy is the preponderance of family-owned businesses.

With the introduction of NAFTA, this landscape is changing; as family-owned businesses are looking to grow and become players in the global market, they are adopting more traditional ownership forms or entering into partnerships with transnational companies.

Canada

Global Strategy and CrossCultural Management

OCTOBER

FEBRUARY

APRIL

Canada

Brazil

Mexico

United States

Global Strategy

Corporate Social Responsibility: An Integrative Approach

Family Business

Creating and Launching New Ventures for Organizational Growth

Cross-Cultural Management

Strategic Management for Emerging Markets

Competitiveness and Strategy

Leading a Global Innovation Strategy: Overcoming the Six Innovation Barriers in Organizations

Graduation*

Brazil. Canada. Mexico. The United States.

Global Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management Simon Fraser University, Beedie School of Business Vancouver (Canada)

Area 3.3 million square miles, slightly smaller than the U.S. Total population (2010 est.) 201 million Capital Brasilia, 2.5 million Largest cities São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Fortaleza, Curitiba, Recife, Porto Alegre Language Portuguese GDP (official exchange rate) $1.6 trillion Annual real growth (2010 est.) 7.1 percent American firms with offices in Brazil 1,121

Brazil

Each of the four international residencies is shaped and hosted by those who know it best—the faculty of leading business schools in that country. During the program, they’ll serve as mentors, friends and hosts. Later, they can become part of your career network.

Spring Break

In alliance with leading universities from Brazil, Canada and Mexico, Vanderbilt offers an MBA that equips working professionals to handle senior-level responsibilities for the Americas.

Many MBAs promise global. Vanderbilt delivers.

Winter Break

Are you climbing the career ladder within a multinational organization? Do you measure success by the health and growth of your business in the Americas? Is an expat assignment your career goal?

Brazil has one of the most advanced and diverse industrial sectors in Latin America, including automobiles and parts, machinery and equipment and textiles. This vibrant country has earned a reputation as a leader in environmental responsibility with companies at the leading edge of leveraging environmental programs to gain competitive advantage.

Americas Capstone Strategy Project Curriculum subject to change * Graduation celebration immediately follows successful completion of the program; dates for Vanderbilt commencement exercises are established by the university and may lag.

Two resume-building credentials.

The Americas MBA program offers you two valuable credentials: an MBA from Vanderbilt, one of the top-ranked programs in the world, as well as an Americas MBA Alliance Certificate, jointly issued by the four schools that comprise the alliance.

Learn More.

owen.vanderbilt.edu

United States

AMERICAS MBA ALLIANCE SCHOOLS

Canada About Vanderbilt University MEXICO CITY

VANCOUVER

SÃO PAULO

NASHVILLE

The Fundação Instituto de Administração (Management Institute Foundation), known as FIA, located in São Paulo, Brazil, was created in 1980 by the faculty of the Business Administration Department of the University of São Paulo, as a not-for-profit foundation offering graduate education, research and extension activities.

FIA Business School pioneered Executive MBA programs in Brazil in 1993, becoming one of Latin America’s topranked business schools and the only fully Brazilian Executive MBA ranked among the best in the world by the Financial Times. Internationally accredited by the London-based Association of MBAs (AMBA), FIA was chosen in December 2010 as the “Most Innovative Business School in South America” by European CEO magazine.

The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México located in Mexico City is one of the nation’s preeminent institutions of higher learning and the best private university in Mexico according to El Universal. It lays claim to the best undergraduate Accounting, Business, International Relations and Economics school in Mexico City according to Reforma, as well as the best Business School in Latin America according to America Economia (2007, 2008 and 2010).

A leading player in the Mexican Executive Education Market for over three decades, ITAM provides top-quality open and custom programs to executives in the private and public sectors. In 2005, ITAM became a European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) accredited member of the European Foundation for Management Development.

In just four decades, Simon Fraser University, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, has earned an international reputation for innovative teaching, advanced research and community engagement. With three campuses located in Metro Vancouver, SFU is home to more than 940 permanent faculty members and more than 34,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

Vanderbilt University is a private research university of about 6,500 undergraduates and 5,300 graduate and professional students. Located in the heart of Nashville, Vanderbilt’s 330 acres are home to architectural treasures and a national arboretum. Vanderbilt is comprised of several highly ranked schools—arts and science, business, medicine, education, law and divinity—as well as a distinguished medical center, a public policy center, and The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center and The Center for Latin American Studies.

Vanderbilt is one of America’s top universities, ranked #17 by U.S. News & World Report. Newsweek recently selected Vanderbilt as one of the “New Ivy League” schools. All 50 U.S. states and more than 90 countries are represented by the Vanderbilt student body. Vanderbilt has more than 120,000 alumni worldwide.

United States Discover this place.

Shape your world.

Mexico

Our Promise To students:

To business:

Here is a place where you will be challenged to achieve your potential; find support as you shape your future; discover lifelong friends and mentors; and open doors to new possibilities.

Here is a place where you will find the men and women who have the skills, the drive, and the determination to move your organization forward.

To faculty and staff:

To alumni:

Here is a place where you can engage, think, reach, teach, influence people, and transform the world around you.

Here is a place that you can call home, build business relationships, and inspire those who follow to reach even higher.

SFU’s Beedie School of Business is home to Canada’s first Executive MBA program, founded in 1968. The school is a Canadian leader in global business teaching and research and was recognized in 2010 for being one of the Top 40 business schools globally for international business research. No university in Canada is as outward looking and as connected to the communities it serves. The university is ranked by Maclean’s, Canada’s national news magazine, as the top comprehensive university in the country.

®

The Vanderbilt MBA for Cross-Equator Executives.

Brazil

Vanderbilt Americas MBA

Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee, is a private research university offering undergraduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences, engineering, music, education and human development, as well as a full range of graduate and professional degrees, many of which are recognized as among the best in the world by publications such as U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek and Kiplinger’s.

Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management Americas MBA 401 21st Avenue South Nashville TN 37203-2422

The Owen Graduate School of Management offers several highly regarded master’s programs, including a full-time MBA and an Executive MBA as well as one-year graduate degree programs in Finance, Accounting and Health Care Management. The school’s executive programs are well known for their focus on strategy, leadership and advanced financial frameworks.

Telephone: 615.322.3120 Fax: 615.343.2293 Email: amba@owen.vanderbilt.edu Hours: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM, US Central Time URL: vanderbiltamericasmba.com

Discover this place. Shape your world.

®

owen.vanderbilt.edu

ITAM, SFU and Vanderbilt are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International).

FIA is accredited by the Association of MBAs.

©2011 Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Rev. 3/11 Printed on recycled paper.

Vanderbilt is an equal opportunity, affirmative action university.

In partnership with FIA Business School Fundação Instituto De Administração São Paulo, Brazil

Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business Vancouver, B.C., Canada

ITAM Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Mexico City, Mexico

AMERICAS MBA ALLIANCE ECONOMIES

VANDERBILT AMERICAS MBA FOR EXECUTIVES

Build a career that knows no boundaries.

A full 60-credit MBA designed exclusively for cross-border executives.

Four dynamic countries. One unrivaled MBA.

Emerging Markets and Corporate Social Responsibility FIA Business School, Fundação Instituto De Administração São Paulo (Brazil)

Canada, Brazil and Mexico are the USA’s largest trading partners in the Western Hemisphere. The Vanderbilt Americas MBA—a full 60-credit-hour MBA designed for working professionals—uniquely equips you with a strong foundation in core business disciplines, leadership skills and the specialized knowledge and insights that prepare you to master transnational business in the Americas.

International Competitiveness and Family Business Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Mexico City (Mexico)

• Your first 12 months offer you the rigorous Year One curriculum plus the learn-from-your-colleagues camaraderie of Vanderbilt’s highly regarded Executive MBA program.

• In Year Two, you will join an international cohort of 60 executives—15 students from each of the four schools in the Americas Alliance. You will become part of a “traveling classroom,” with a 10-day residential immersion in each of the four most powerful and dynamic countries in the Americas—Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States. In addition to receiving a uniquely relevant academic experience, you will learn firsthand the culture, business practices and consumer perceptions and behaviors of these countries.

New Ventures and Innovations Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management Nashville (U.S.)

Leadership

Leadership

The Americas

Edge

Brazil Canada

Strategic Vision Mexand ico Implementation Across the United StatesAmericas

Advanced Financial Frameworks

Management Fundamentals

The leap from manager to global leader requires depth in self-awareness, organizational awareness, strategic alignment to corporate strategy and skills in negotiation and influencing teams both in and outside of the U.S. Both the Vanderbilt Executive MBA and the Americas MBA offer coursework, cross-disciplinary and cross-border team development and projects to help you identify and implement a personal leadership growth plan.

Strategic Vision and Implementation Across the Americas

Like the Vanderbilt Executive MBA, the Americas MBA for Executives includes a year-long strategy project in Year Two. The intensive 10-day residential immersions, featuring coursework uniquely appropriate to the host country, come to life as Vanderbilt Americas MBA candidates work with their international teammates to apply knowledge and expertise to real business challenges faced by multinational corporations.

Management Fundamentals

The Vanderbilt MBA core curriculum—the same used in the Vanderbilt MBA program and common to many schools—lays the foundation in quantitative and soft skills, including statistics, economics, finance, accounting, operations, marketing and organization management.

Brazil

Emerging Markets and Corporate Social Responsibility

Area .76 million square miles, about three times the size of Texas Total population 112.5 million Capital Mexico City, 22 million Largest cities Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Acapulco, Merida, Leon, Veracruz Language Spanish GDP (official exchange rate) $1.0 trillion Annual real growth (2010 est.) 4.5 percent American firms with offices in Mexico 1,438

A relatively affluent society, Canada offers a marketoriented system similar to that of the U.S. Combined with low tax rates, its strategic location as the crossroads between North America and Asia, and a sophisticated transportation infrastructure, Canada has been named the #1 place to do business in the G7 through the year 2014 by the Economic Intelligence Unit.

Area 3.8 million square miles, second-largest country in the world Total population (2010 est.) 33.7 million Capital Ottawa Largest cities Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary Languages English (official) 57.8 percent; French (official) 22.1 percent GDP (official exchange rate) $1.34 trillion Annual real growth (2010 est.) 3.0 percent American firms with offices in Canada 2,444

As a market economy with strict regulatory oversight, the United States is balanced between privately held and publicly traded companies. The United States has the largest GDP in the world, comprising approximately 24 percent of the gross world product. A relatively affluent society, the country ranks ninth in the world in per capita GDP. The U.S. is the largest importer of goods in the world and the third largest exporter.

Area 3.54 million square miles Total population 309.6 million Capital Washington, D.C. Largest cities New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Francisco Language English GDP (official exchange rate) $14.1 trillion Annual real growth 2.8 percent

Mexico

Mexico

International Competitiveness and Family Business

FALL

SPRING

SUMMER

Leadership

Managerial Finance

Marketing Management

Financial Accounting

Corporate Value Management

Macroeconomics

Managerial Economics

Operations Management Organizational Behavior

Managerial Statistics

Canada

Managerial Accounting

Year Two AUGUST

Advanced Financial Frameworks

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management is known for its strength in finance. It will come as no surprise that the Americas MBA students will receive a thorough overlay of advanced financial frameworks including valuation, globalization and foreign exchange exposures—all of which are critical for truly understanding strategic choices and risk.

New Ventures and Innovations

Summer Break

Week-in-Residence

Building on the Vanderbilt Executive MBA program’s international reputation for excellence in strategy, in Year Two your Americas MBA cohort will split into cross-border teams to develop an integrated strategic plan for a real client company that has business challenges in the Americas.

Americas MBA for Executives

United States

Year One

Summer Break

While many U.S. schools offer global MBA programs focused on doing business “east to west,” Vanderbilt brings its long-standing experience and relationships in the Americas to a curriculum that emphasizes the strategies and opportunities of “north to south.”

The Americas MBA Capstone Strategy Project— exposure and experience.

An interesting facet of the Mexican economy is the preponderance of family-owned businesses.

With the introduction of NAFTA, this landscape is changing; as family-owned businesses are looking to grow and become players in the global market, they are adopting more traditional ownership forms or entering into partnerships with transnational companies.

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Global Strategy and CrossCultural Management

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Brazil

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Global Strategy

Corporate Social Responsibility: An Integrative Approach

Family Business

Creating and Launching New Ventures for Organizational Growth

Cross-Cultural Management

Strategic Management for Emerging Markets

Competitiveness and Strategy

Leading a Global Innovation Strategy: Overcoming the Six Innovation Barriers in Organizations

Graduation*

Brazil. Canada. Mexico. The United States.

Global Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management Simon Fraser University, Beedie School of Business Vancouver (Canada)

Area 3.3 million square miles, slightly smaller than the U.S. Total population (2010 est.) 201 million Capital Brasilia, 2.5 million Largest cities São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Fortaleza, Curitiba, Recife, Porto Alegre Language Portuguese GDP (official exchange rate) $1.6 trillion Annual real growth (2010 est.) 7.1 percent American firms with offices in Brazil 1,121

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Each of the four international residencies is shaped and hosted by those who know it best—the faculty of leading business schools in that country. During the program, they’ll serve as mentors, friends and hosts. Later, they can become part of your career network.

Spring Break

In alliance with leading universities from Brazil, Canada and Mexico, Vanderbilt offers an MBA that equips working professionals to handle senior-level responsibilities for the Americas.

Many MBAs promise global. Vanderbilt delivers.

Winter Break

Are you climbing the career ladder within a multinational organization? Do you measure success by the health and growth of your business in the Americas? Is an expat assignment your career goal?

Brazil has one of the most advanced and diverse industrial sectors in Latin America, including automobiles and parts, machinery and equipment and textiles. This vibrant country has earned a reputation as a leader in environmental responsibility with companies at the leading edge of leveraging environmental programs to gain competitive advantage.

Americas Capstone Strategy Project Curriculum subject to change * Graduation celebration immediately follows successful completion of the program; dates for Vanderbilt commencement exercises are established by the university and may lag.

Two resume-building credentials.

The Americas MBA program offers you two valuable credentials: an MBA from Vanderbilt, one of the top-ranked programs in the world, as well as an Americas MBA Alliance Certificate, jointly issued by the four schools that comprise the alliance.

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AMERICAS MBA ALLIANCE SCHOOLS

Canada About Vanderbilt University MEXICO CITY

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The Fundação Instituto de Administração (Management Institute Foundation), known as FIA, located in São Paulo, Brazil, was created in 1980 by the faculty of the Business Administration Department of the University of São Paulo, as a not-for-profit foundation offering graduate education, research and extension activities.

FIA Business School pioneered Executive MBA programs in Brazil in 1993, becoming one of Latin America’s topranked business schools and the only fully Brazilian Executive MBA ranked among the best in the world by the Financial Times. Internationally accredited by the London-based Association of MBAs (AMBA), FIA was chosen in December 2010 as the “Most Innovative Business School in South America” by European CEO magazine.

The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México located in Mexico City is one of the nation’s preeminent institutions of higher learning and the best private university in Mexico according to El Universal. It lays claim to the best undergraduate Accounting, Business, International Relations and Economics school in Mexico City according to Reforma, as well as the best Business School in Latin America according to America Economia (2007, 2008 and 2010).

A leading player in the Mexican Executive Education Market for over three decades, ITAM provides top-quality open and custom programs to executives in the private and public sectors. In 2005, ITAM became a European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) accredited member of the European Foundation for Management Development.

In just four decades, Simon Fraser University, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, has earned an international reputation for innovative teaching, advanced research and community engagement. With three campuses located in Metro Vancouver, SFU is home to more than 940 permanent faculty members and more than 34,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

Vanderbilt University is a private research university of about 6,500 undergraduates and 5,300 graduate and professional students. Located in the heart of Nashville, Vanderbilt’s 330 acres are home to architectural treasures and a national arboretum. Vanderbilt is comprised of several highly ranked schools—arts and science, business, medicine, education, law and divinity—as well as a distinguished medical center, a public policy center, and The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center and The Center for Latin American Studies.

Vanderbilt is one of America’s top universities, ranked #17 by U.S. News & World Report. Newsweek recently selected Vanderbilt as one of the “New Ivy League” schools. All 50 U.S. states and more than 90 countries are represented by the Vanderbilt student body. Vanderbilt has more than 120,000 alumni worldwide.

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Shape your world.

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Our Promise To students:

To business:

Here is a place where you will be challenged to achieve your potential; find support as you shape your future; discover lifelong friends and mentors; and open doors to new possibilities.

Here is a place where you will find the men and women who have the skills, the drive, and the determination to move your organization forward.

To faculty and staff:

To alumni:

Here is a place where you can engage, think, reach, teach, influence people, and transform the world around you.

Here is a place that you can call home, build business relationships, and inspire those who follow to reach even higher.

SFU’s Beedie School of Business is home to Canada’s first Executive MBA program, founded in 1968. The school is a Canadian leader in global business teaching and research and was recognized in 2010 for being one of the Top 40 business schools globally for international business research. No university in Canada is as outward looking and as connected to the communities it serves. The university is ranked by Maclean’s, Canada’s national news magazine, as the top comprehensive university in the country.

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The Vanderbilt MBA for Cross-Equator Executives.

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Vanderbilt Americas MBA

Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee, is a private research university offering undergraduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences, engineering, music, education and human development, as well as a full range of graduate and professional degrees, many of which are recognized as among the best in the world by publications such as U.S. News & World Report, Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek and Kiplinger’s.

Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management Americas MBA 401 21st Avenue South Nashville TN 37203-2422

The Owen Graduate School of Management offers several highly regarded master’s programs, including a full-time MBA and an Executive MBA as well as one-year graduate degree programs in Finance, Accounting and Health Care Management. The school’s executive programs are well known for their focus on strategy, leadership and advanced financial frameworks.

Telephone: 615.322.3120 Fax: 615.343.2293 Email: amba@owen.vanderbilt.edu Hours: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM, US Central Time URL: vanderbiltamericasmba.com

Discover this place. Shape your world.

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ITAM, SFU and Vanderbilt are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International).

FIA is accredited by the Association of MBAs.

©2011 Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Rev. 3/11 Printed on recycled paper.

Vanderbilt is an equal opportunity, affirmative action university.

In partnership with FIA Business School Fundação Instituto De Administração São Paulo, Brazil

Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business Vancouver, B.C., Canada

ITAM Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Mexico City, Mexico