MBA-level Courses are a diverse offering available through Goizueta Business School to Emory Executive Education participants. Sharpen your skills or expand your area of expertise by diving into an extended semester-long 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.
MBA Intensive Courses. In-Depth Learning Experience.
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Courses Options
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Typical Class Size
Learn alongside Evening MBA and Executive MBA students -
Course Investment
Each course is 3 credit hours
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
International applicants: 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.
• 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
International applicants: 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.
Fall 2024 Courses
Faculty: John Kim
Description: This course focuses on addressing the critical challenges within the US healthcare system, a sector that comprises a significant portion of the nation's economy and is continually expanding. Currently, 8%+ of Americans are without health insurance and fear getting sick. It is also a complex and fragmented systems of insurance companies, providers, pharmaceutical benefits managers, changing regulations, and mixed incentives. All clinicians and caregivers want the same thing = high quality, greater access, lower costs, and clinician well-being. This quadruple aim will require enormous leadership, strategy, trade-offs, free-market incentives, and thoughtful collaboration. Thankfully, this creates enormous opportunity for thoughtful business leaders and problem solvers. US healthcare needs change, it needs you.
Course Day/Time: Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Format: Online
Certificate Program: Excellence in Business, Strategy & Innovation
Course Application Deadline: July 26, 2024
Payment Deadline: August 8, 2024
Faculty: Charlie 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.
Class focuses on the following essential business and entrepreneurial concepts:
- Determine if a business opportunity is worth pursuing. Find the next big opportunity and understand how buyers really make decisions. Design products the market ""really"" wants, quicker, less expensively and with lower risk.
- Generate significant market interest for your products and services on a small budget. Create tactics that are high impact, and easy to implement. Develop strategies that have a significantly greater likelihood for success.
- Improve your management skills to increase your odds of achieving your business objectives. Leverage the effectiveness of working with partners and minimize the risks associated with partnering.
- Negotiate more effectively with an investor (or as an investor). Deal with the reality of business when it deviates from your business plan (as it inevitably will). Create a business environment second to none.
- Buy a business without over paying and recognize if and when to sell your business. Understand how much it's really worth.
Course Day/Time: Tuesdays 6:30-9:30pm
Format: Online
Course Application Deadline: July 26, 2024
Payment Deadline: August 8, 2024
Faculty: Niket Jindal
Description: This course will help you develop fundamental data analysis skills needed to make informed marketing decisions. It is a hands-on course in which you will use statistical software and datasets to address marketing problems. This course is intended to provide you with a foundation in marketing analytics skills for interacting with and managing marketing analytics/research teams.
Course Day/Time: Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Format: In-Person
Course Application Deadline: July 26, 2024
Payment Deadline: August 8, 2024
Faculty: Doug Bowman
Description: Gain a greater understanding of product development. This course exposes participants to the contemporary challenges faced by a broad variety of firms in developing and launching new products, creating and maintaining brand equity, and managing products and product lines.
This course is perfect for early-career professionals with experience as a product or brand manager or in a related support role looking to build on or formalize their training.
Course Day/Time: Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Format: Hybrid
Certificate Program: Marketing
Course Application Deadline: July 26, 2024
Payment Deadline: August 8, 2024
Spring 2025 Courses
Instructor: Karl Kuhnert
Description: This course is designed to endow you with an entrepreneurial perspective, enhance your ability to use functional knowledge in an applied setting, and familiarize you with the skills and resources necessary for starting a new venture. By the end of the class you will be able to:
- Identify trends and opportunities in the marketplace
- Formulate new venture ideas
- Analyze your market and validate your customer base
- Present a competitive analysis of a specific industry
- Create a revenue model, forecast costs and demand, and assess potential profitability
- Understand how financing, venture capital and valuation work
- Utilize a business model canvas
- Put together and present a business plan and pitch
- Analyze ventures, both inside and outside of corporations
Course Day/Time: TBD
Format: Online
Course Application Deadline: December 6, 2024
Payment Deadline: December 13, 2024
Instructor: Charlie Goetz
Description: This course is designed to endow you with an entrepreneurial perspective, enhance your ability to use functional knowledge in an applied setting, and familiarize you with the skills and resources necessary for starting a new venture. By the end of the class you will be able to:
- Identify trends and opportunities in the marketplace
- Formulate new venture ideas
- Analyze your market and validate your customer base
- Present a competitive analysis of a specific industry
- Create a revenue model, forecast costs and demand, and assess potential profitability
- Understand how financing, venture capital and valuation work
- Utilize a business model canvas
- Put together and present a business plan and pitch
- Analyze ventures, both inside and outside of corporations
Course Day/Time: Saturday - Sunday 1:30-5:40pm
Format: Hybrid
Course Application Deadline: December 6, 2024
Payment Deadline: December 20, 2024
Faculty: Jamie Turner
Description: In this course students will be able to design and deliver a social media campaign that will generate a positive ROI; analyze and evaluate what makes an effective digital and social media campaign; will demonstrate the ability to present a digital and social media plan in a persuasive and compelling manner; understand digital and social media strategy; and will also understand how to set up, launch and manage a high-performing campaign. Students will also learn how to calculate the ROI of an effective digital and social media campaign.
Course Day/Time: Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Format: Online
Course Application Deadline: December 6, 2024
Payment Deadline: December 20, 2024
Faculty: Karen Sedatole
Description: This course will help students translate organizational objectives into action through the design of effective performance measurement techniques, performance-based compensation schemes, and other management control mechanisms. There will be a focus on avoiding typical pitfalls that undermine the effectiveness of these design choices.
Course Day/Time: Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Format: Hybrid
Course Application Deadline: December 6, 2024
Payment Deadline: December 20, 2024
Faculty: Ramnath Chellappa
Description: This course introduces students to the economics of online markets in general and digital products in particular. Topics covered include network economics, pricing strategies, segmentation and versioning for digital products, impact of bundling services. Students are introduced to both analytical models as well as empirical analysis using real world data from the entertainment industry. The course will include advanced topics include concepts of standards competition, lock-in strategies, etc. We will take a practice oriented approach where theory and case studies will be combined with a number of industry speakers.
Course Day/Time: Mondays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Format: In-Person
Course Application Deadline: December 6, 2024
Payment Deadline: December 20, 2024
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.
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Certificate Eligibility
MBA-Level Courses are eligible for Emory Executive Education certificates. For more information, please reach out to our Learning Advisor. -
For-Credit Course Withdrawal Policy
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 Deadline
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.
Special Pricing
*Emory Executive Education offers special pricing for select constituents:
Goizueta Business School Alumni/Faculty/Staff
Emory University Alumni/Faculty/Staff
Government and Nonprofit
Veterans
Please contact us for more information about our special pricing or to receive your code before you register. Discounts cannot be combined.
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.
Goizueta Business School Alumni/Faculty/Staff
Emory University Alumni/Faculty/Staff
Government and Nonprofit
Veterans
Please contact us for more information about our special pricing or to receive your code before you register. Discounts cannot be combined.
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.