Sharpen your skills or expand your area of expertise by diving into an MBA elective course that focuses on a specific topic. Expand your network and gain new perspectives as you learn alongside Evening MBA and Executive MBA students. Earn MBA credits that can be applied toward a Goizueta MBA degree (if you apply and are admitted to a Goizueta MBA in the future). As a participant in these courses, you will be active in the learning environment through contributions to the class discussions, case studies, group projects and presentations, assignments, and exams—earning a grade and an official university transcript.
Earn MBA Credits
MBA Intensive Courses. In-Depth Learning Experience.
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Course Options
On-campus & online options -
Typical Class Size
Learn alongside Evening MBA and Executive MBA students -
Course Investment
Each course is 3 credit hours
Learning Objectives
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Ideal for
Professionals interested in obtaining MBA-level skills, knowledge, and experience who do not have the time to invest in a full degree currently but may plan to later, or who already have an MBA and just need a refresher. -
Outcomes
Build your capacity as a business leader, expand your depth and breadth of business knowledge, gain real-world skills you can use in the workplace, and widen your network of business professionals. -
Environment
Collaborate with MBA students from a range of industries who are working professionals like yourself in an intensive but accessible classroom experience.
MBA-Level Courses Eligibility
• Bachelor's degree and a strong undergraduate academic record
• Mid to senior-level professional ready to move into a more strategic role
• Managerial or project management experience preferred
• Willingness to fully engage and contribute in the classroom
• Awareness and appreciation of the value of a room full of diverse perspectives
• Mid to senior-level professional ready to move into a more strategic role
• Managerial or project management experience preferred
• Willingness to fully engage and contribute in the classroom
• Awareness and appreciation of the value of a room full of diverse perspectives
Marketing Courses
Faculty: David Schweidel
Description: AI in Marketing examines the burgeoning role of AI in marketing decisions and actions. The course will adopt the customer equity framework, which links the value of the customer to the organization to the following components: customer acquisition, customer retention, and relationship development. The course will be built around these components, examining the application of marketing technology and AI to support growth through each component. We will use the customer journey to tie these components together.
Format: Online
- Saturday, August 16th from 9:00am-12:00pmET and 3:00pm-6:00pmET
- Sunday, August 17th from 9:00am-12:00pmET and 2:00pm-6:00pmET
- Saturday, August 23rd from 9:00am-12:00pmET and 2:00pm-4:00pmET
Course Application Deadline: July 28, 2025
Payment Deadline: August 4, 2025
Instructor: Caroline Ford
Description: This course is designed to introduce you to some theoretical frameworks that will help you understand how consumers act, think and feel. You should be able to apply these frameworks to everyday marketing problems ranging from determining consumer needs to ensuring consumer satisfaction. Consumer behavior is an interdisciplinary field and as such, the theories in this course are based on psychology, sociology, economics and marketing.
Course Day/Time: Tuesdays from 6:30pm-9:30pmET
Format: Online
Course Application Deadline: August 4, 2025
Payment Deadline: August 11, 2025
Faculty: Niket Jindal
Description: This course is designed to help students develop fundamental data analysis skills needed to make informed marketing decisions. In this course, you will learn the scientific approach to marketing with hands-on use of databases, analytics and computing systems to aid marketing decisions. While quantitative methods will be employed throughout the course, the goal is not to produce experts in statistics; rather, you will gain the competency to interact with and manage analytics and research teams to provide insights for marketing decisions.
Course Day/Time: Mondays from 6:30pm-9:30pmET
Format: On-campus
Course Application Deadline: August 4, 2025
Payment Deadline: August 11, 2025
Instructor: Doug Bowman
Description: The course provides students with several tools and concepts necessary for the contemporary practice of product management (PM) and brand management (BM). Students are exposed to the modern-day challenges faced by a broad variety of firms in developing and launching new products, managing their product lines, and creating and maintaining brand equity. Hence, the course is relevant to students whose interests are in general management and consulting as well as those who expect to work directly in PM/BM.
Course Day/Time: Thursdays from 6:30pm-9:30pmET
Format: On-campus or Online options
Course Application Deadline: August 4, 2025
Payment Deadline: August 11, 2025
Finance Courses
Instructor: Klaas Baks
Description: Compared to traditional investments, such as public stock, public bonds, and cash, alternative investments represent the largest and fastest growing asset class in the world. Alternative Investments include venture capital, private equity, real estate, hedge funds, and distressed securities. This class was designed specifically for executive MBA's interested in (i) how to start their own business, (ii) how to buy an existing business, (iii) how to invest in real estate, and (iv) how to optimize your personal investment portfolio. In addition this class is highly suitable for those students who have significant interaction with alternative asset managers. The class is divided into seminar-like sessions discussion (i) organization and strategy of the alternative investments industry, (ii) valuation, capital structure and term sheets, (iii) new venture financing, and (iv) deal structuring. The course is in a case/discussion format and is highly interactive. Four guest speakers will join us during the semester.
Course Day/Time: Tuesdays from 8:00pm-10:00pmET
Format: Online
Course Application Deadline: August 4, 2025
Payment Deadline: August 11, 2025
Faculty: Nicholas Valerio III
Description: This course deals with the valuation and use of fixed income securities. It begins with the concept of the time-value-of-money and interest rates applied to bond pricing, and progresses through an examination of complex structured products and fixed income derivatives. Initially the focus is on the markets for fixed income securities, and the tools of pricing through the discounting of cash flows. Next, we study primary fixed income securities: Treasury bonds, corporate bonds, and municipal bonds. From there we move into the structured products of fixed income: mortgage-backed securities and CMOs. We conclude the course with coverage of fixed income derivatives, both over-the-counter (OTC) and exchange-traded (listed) products. Throughout, the course maintains a dual objective: to educate you in the principles of fixed income securities and structured finance, while at the same time giving you an understanding of how Wall Street is involved in the financial markets. At various times the material may appear advanced and mathematically technical. However, this course is intentionally designed to de-emphasize the technical aspects, and is suitable for students with no prior background in fixed income, and with a grasp of mathematics only at the level of high school algebra.
Course Day/Time: Tuesdays from 6:30pm-9:30pmET
Format: Online
Course Application Deadline: August 4, 2025
Payment Deadline: August 11, 2025
Instructor: Jeffrey A Rosensweig
Description: The objective and goal of this course is to broaden your awareness of the impact of global economic, financial, geopolitical, and demographic trends on business. The class provides conceptual frameworks and tools for analysis critical to conducting business in the international environment. Implications for human as well as economic development are discussed. The class will enable students to think globally and strategically; develop diverse perspectives on global business, the macroeconomy, and the future; read and analyze macroeconomic data releases; and understand the increasing global connections that impact business and finance. Also, the class will explore the evolution of macroeconomic policy and events as it pertains to recent events, including COVID-19 and its substantial global macroeconomic impacts (such as massive record-sized government deficits).
Course Day/Time: Fridays from 5:00pm-9:00pmET
Format: On-campus or Online options
Course Application Deadline: August 4, 2025
Payment Deadline: August 11, 2025
Faculty: Kevin Crowley
Description: This course is intended to give students an idea of the work conducted by investment banks. Areas reviewed will include debt financing, equity underwriting, merger & acquisition advisory assignments, and trading activity. Special emphasis will be placed on the methods commonly applied when conducting valuation, debt capacity, and transaction analysis. In addition, there will be summary of investment banking history and of the peripheral players (private equity and hedge funds) that interact with banks.
Course Day/Time: Thursdays from 6:30pm-9:30pmET
Format: On-campus or Online options
Course Application Deadline: August 4, 2025
Payment Deadline: August 11, 2025
Other Courses
Faculty: Charles Goetz
Description: Applied Entrepreneurship is an entrepreneurship class designed specifically for those interested in being future entrepreneurs, investors, consultants and anyone else interested in learning how entrepreneurship works.
Course Day/Time: Tuesdays from 6:30pm-9:30pmET
Format: On-campus or Online options
Course Application Deadline: August 4, 2025
Payment Deadline: August 11, 2025
Instructor: Prasanna Parasurana
Description: Data Visualization will introduce students to the techniques and tools used to create effective
visualizations that clearly and efficiently communicate relationships within data. Students will learn how to perform exploratory analysis through visualization, how to create professional looking visualizations for use in business reports and presentations, and how to design interactive visualizations and dashboards. The course will cover the common quantitative messages users attempt to understand or communicate from a set of data and the associated visualizations used to help communicate each message. These include time series, rankings, proportions, deviations, frequencies and distributions, correlations, categorical comparisons, and geospatial plots. Students will primarily utilize Tableau, but will be exposed other tools including Power BI and R. No prior coding experience is necessary.
Course Day/Time: Thursdays from 6:30pm-9:30pmET
Format: On-campus
Course Application Deadline: August 4, 2025
Payment Deadline: August 11, 2025
Certificate Eligibility
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Marketing Certificate
Choose any two marketing courses to receive the Marketing Certificate. Courses do not need to be taken in the same semester. Email a Learning Advisor to learn more. -
Finance Certificate
Choose any two finance courses to receive the Finance Certificate. Courses do not need to be taken in the same semester. Email a Learning Advisor to learn more. -
Excellence in Business
Choose any four courses from a predetermined list of Emory Executive Education courses and complete them within three years. Several of our MBA-level courses apply to the Excellence in Business Certificate. -
Business of Healthcare
The Business of Healthcare Certificate is designed for healthcare professionals and professionals seeking to enter the healthcare sector, who are looking to leverage business knowledge and tools to innovate and impact change in the healthcare industry. Emory Executive Education is providing four for-credit courses in collaboration with Goizueta’s Executive MBA.
MBA-Level Course Participant
Finance Certificate
"The opportunity to learn alongside Evening MBA and Executive MBA students as part of your Executive Education is a unique set-up that allows you to sample different MBA classes that are the most relevant for your current or prospective career advancement. I graduated with a Master’s in Finance five years ago. The coursework at Emory helped me hone in on my skill set and understand the impact of the rise in financial technology and the changes within the M&A landscape during the past volatile years." - Tim Katsburg, Senior Assistant Director, Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency
Additional Information
These courses are only offered for university credit. You will receive an Emory University transcript as a result of completing one or more courses. To withdraw from a course, you must meet designated university deadlines to avoid receiving a W on your transcript for the for-credit course. No refunds will be extended once the course begins.
Application deadlines will vary by course, please refer to the course specific information above. This is not an application to the Emory MBA program. By taking one or more of these courses, you will earn university credits that can be applied toward an MBA degree if you apply and are accepted into an Emory MBA.
If you live in the country and can provide your Visa or Permanent Resident information in the application you can enroll for MBA-level course(s) offered in-person, online or hybrid. If you live outside the U.S., you can only enroll for MBA-level course(s) offered online.
Special Pricing
Emory Executive Education offers special pricing for select constituents:
- Civic Organizations
- Emory University Alumni
- Emory University Staff & Faculty
Please contact Learning Advisor, Heather Dufault, for more information about our special pricing or to receive your code before you register. Discounts cannot be combined.
Emory Courtesy Scholarship
The Courtesy Scholarship, available to Emory University employees and their family members, is a grant that covers tuition exclusively (not textbooks, fees or other miscellaneous charges) to those who apply and are admitted for enrollment in academic programs at Emory University. The percentage of tuition covered depends on your years of service. Emory Healthcare employees are not eligible for the Courtesy Scholarship.
Please note, for those utilizing the Courtesy Scholarship, taxability is assessed on the full cost of the course as set by the degree program office. The taxability of education assistance is determined by federal regulations and is subject to change. Additional discounts will not apply if the Courtesy Scholarship is utilized.