Global Executive MBA

Re-thinking what business can and should do

Whether you own a small business with global ambitions or dream of being a social entrepreneur or aspire to run a business unit with global reach, the Global Executive MBA coursework combines core MBA classes with immersive learning experiences to show how for-profit business can operate with a social mission at its core. The year-long project-based courses show you how to use business skills toward the greater good while helping businesses succeed within impoverished areas around the globe.

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What You'll Learn

Through faculty presentations, case studies, introspective individual exercises, and dynamic discussions, you will explore the principles of authentic leadership, gain insights into global and emerging markets, and develop an action plan.

Topics include:

Exploring experiences that have shaped your character and contributed to your development as a global leader
Recognizing personal biases and difficulties in interacting with people in different parts of the world
Understanding how people and companies lose sight of their values and often work globally at conflicting purposes
Aligning people in your global organization around a focused mission and common values
Addressing difficult ethical challenges you will inevitably face in global businesses
Operating a global organization as an integrated enterprise
Navigating necessary transitions to become a global organization
Optimizing cross-border and cross-business collaboration
Developing emerging-market strategies that integrate with your global strategies

Key Benefits

Expand your global business acumen while also engaging in a profoundly personal exploration that builds leadership insights and strength. You’ll become an authentic global leader who can step up to more challenging roles as you expand your ability to:

Adapt business strategies and operations to the rapidly changing global business context
Integrate global and local strengths while improving collaboration across cultures
Create a competitive advantage by integrating the best of your organization’s global capabilities
Lead with self-awareness, cultural sensitivity, and empathy
Develop a global leadership team that reflects the diversity of its global customers—and build global leadership capacity throughout the organization
Align people around your company’s mission and values
Build internal and external networks around the world
Expand your personal and professional network

Who Should Apply

Global executives such as CEOs, presidents, CFOs, and corporate staff officers leading global businesses, as well as marketing executives running global product or marketing groups, and regional executives and country heads preparing for greater global responsibilities. Executive directors and managers at nonprofits, NGOs, military personnel, Veterans, and entrepreneurs.

Curriculum

Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, case studies, hands-on workshops, and group discussions, this Global Executive program prepares you to be an ethical leader.

MKT 702 - Global Management Communication

You will develop a set of key competencies for leadership
You will develop your verbal and written communication skills, and listening and presentation skills.
You will gain a theoretical and practical foundation of the practices of comparative international business communication in individual national settings.

OPS 704 - Data Analysis and Research Methods for Global Business

You will learn to use data analysis to support global managerial decision-making. Topics covered include descriptive statistics, probability models, decision theory, applied statistical analysis, and deterministic forecasting models.
You will also have the opportunity to sharpen your computer spreadsheet skills.
Basic research methods for research global consulting projects are also covered.

GMAN 701 - Managing and Leading Global Organizations (Travel Course)

You will develop skills essential for global managerial success through exercises in executive leadership, creativity, empowering people, communication and team building in global organizations.
You will also cover methods of changing organizational behavior by applying behavioral technologies.

This class is conducted in the country of your social services project allowing your team to collect the appropriate primary data to complete your project. Students will also learn about the base of the pyramid operations and challenges through case studies, site visits, and industry/government lectures.

ECON 703 - Economic Analysis for Global Business

You will study the application of economic concepts to the management of global firms by analyzing customer demand factors, forecasting customer demand in international contexts, and gaining an understanding of global supply and outsourcing decisions.
You will examine competitive industry structures and the application of economic analysis in understanding managerial decisions in different market structures in different global contexts.

OPS 705 - Global Operations and Supply Chain Management

You will study modern methods and techniques of managing global operations in organizations to meet customer demands, improve quality, reduce waste of resources, and increase product flexibility.
Topics include production and service planning, resource management, and operations scheduling, including the application of the latest techniques of supply chain management to the global firm.

ACCTG 706 - Managerial Accounting for Global Decisions

You will learn how to analyze and make decisions using company financial statements and financial ratios, as well as their relevance in the context of the International Financial Reporting System (IFRS).
Case studies including the balance sheets of major international companies will be used to teach you how to compare a company’s performance with its global competitors and budget of capital expenses.
The course provides an introduction to the use of accounting data in global cost management, including activity-based costing, economic value added, and balanced scorecard approaches.

FIN 707 - Global Managerial Finance

This course provides an advanced treatment of issues in corporate finance in a global context including investment decision-making, financial analysis and planning, risk management and short- and long-term financing of investments.
You will examine how corporate financing, dividend, leasing, and hedging policies impact the value of the global firm, as well as examine the use of debt versus equity shares to finance projects. This course provides an executive introduction to the operation of global financial markets, including the causes and role of a financial crisis, the evaluation of company investments, and management strategies in the presence of risk in a global context.
You will also examine factors influencing currency exchange rates and how to cope with currency risk.

MKT 708 - Global Marketing Management

You will gain an integrated overview of global marketing management, with emphasis on the four controllable managerial variables (the “4Ps”): product, price, promotion, and place (channels of distribution). The goal is to show the relationship of these variables to the firm’s global marketing strategy and to its overall corporate strategy.
Topics include the role of marketing, marketing research, market segmentation, new product development, marketing mix, channels of distribution, marketing communication, and strategic market planning.

ORB 711 – Interfaith Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Governance in Global Business

This course focuses on ethical, social, and governance issues for responsible global business leadership. You will gain an understanding of interfaith leadership, its relationship to religio-cultural competency, and its application for effective, values-based business leadership.
You will also develop an understanding of the relationship of ethical values to effective business judgment, analytical tools for ethical decision-making, and theories of corporate social responsibility and their application.

MGT 712 - Global Business Strategy

This course provides an integrative treatment of global strategic management and strategic alliances. Topics include analysis of the firm in the global competitive context, decisions to enter foreign markets, how to compete in global markets, and how to develop and implement a global strategy.
You will be confronted with actual competitive situations and will be asked to provide feedback on the consequences of various types of decisions.

MGT 713 - Managing Global Competition and Cooperation

You will examine the opportunities and problems of managing firms in an environment of global competition. The course has three broad areas: the international business environment; the sources and nature of competitive advantage in global industries; and global strategies.
Topics include the process of globalization, the global financial and monetary system, cross-cultural management, comparative national business systems, organizational design for global competition, host country relations, and market assessment.

GMAN 754 International Management: Doing Business in World Regions (Travel Course)

GMAN 778 Consulting Project Presentations

Schedule

Busy Life. Convenient Format.

We designed the Global Executive MBA schedule for professionals with demanding travel, family or work schedules. The Global Executive MBA meets twice a month, Saturday and Sunday, for 12 months, with online sessions on Wednesdays from 6:00-9:00 pm. There are also two overseas immersion trips.

While specific locations for the overseas visits may change each year, previous classes visited South America, Europe, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Africa, Cambodia, Singapore, and the Philippines.

Transformational, purpose-driven consulting projects

Learning by Doing, While Doing Good

The Global MBA incorporates transformational, purpose-driven journeys designed to engage business leaders with modern sustainability challenges around the world.

Previous trips included:

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Zanzibar

In a global economy, leaders need a global perspective

Saint Mary’s Global Executive MBA Program gives students an opportunity to not only learn finance, accounting, and marketing principles but also put them into practice during two trips, lasting two weeks each, to developing nations.

Global EMBA Students Share Their Social Justice and Lasallian Projects from Sri Lanka

Dr. Linda Herkenhoff and the Global Executive MBA Program project teams shared their cultural perspective and social service initiatives at a special presentation on the Saint Mary's College campus.

Improving Financial Sustainability in Sri Lanka

Our Global Executive MBA students worked on projects in Sri Lanka as part of their Lasallian/social justice focused coursework, improving financial sustainability for a hotel and conference facility, and working with a school development plan for Lasallian Educational Services, to give lower-income youth a new opportunity to rise above.

A visit to the Don Bosco shelter for homeless boys in Mumbai, India

Strengthening Non-Profit Organizations in India

As part of the Global Executive MBA program, students traveled to India to meet personally with clients and marginalized communities, to work on projects aimed at improving local living conditions through work with non-profit organization Akansksha and Aahdhaar Card.

GEMBA Student Uses Education to Improve Family Business

When Global Executive MBA student Erika Nunez '08 opened up a Mexican market called Mi Pueblito Market with her family in May of 2015, she directly applied the skills she learned in the classroom. Her hard work paid off—the family business won the New Business of the Year Award from the Truckee Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 14, awarded at The Resort at Squaw Creek.

A visit to the Pillai Campus in Mumbai, India

Creating Solutions in India

Whether you own a small business with global ambitions or dream of being a social entrepreneur or aspire to run a business unit with a global reach, a Global Executive MBA provides the core MBA discipline while immersing you in cultural experiences. "Our Global MBA students traveled straight to India to meet personally with clients and marginalized communities as part of their Global Executive MBA program,” said Professor Linda Herkenhoff.

Global EMBA Travel Experiences

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Testimonials

Beth Van Meter, '15

Senior Project Manager for Amway - Nutrilite

“Not many MBA programs go to developing countries and help rebuild or expand an NGO or overseas company. That was the kind of experience I wanted.”

Kathy Clemens, '14

Director of Documentation, Automation Anywhere

“Saint Mary’s offered the best of both worlds - the social mission aspect and the format of the program. I had an education and experiences that I couldn’t have gotten anywhere else.”

Ed Le Cara, '15

President/CEO, Sports Plus

“Not knowing your instructors or not having a relationship with them may be something that happens elsewhere, but that’s not how things work at Saint Mary’s.”

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Teaching Team

Linda Herkenhoff

Director of Global Executive MBA Program, Professor

Featured Class: "International Management: Doing Business in World Regions"
Recent Research:

Allen, Roy E., Linda Herkenhoff and Peter Hosie. (June 2015). "Human Ecology Economics and Strategic Management", International Journal of Business and Social Science, 6(6), 1-18.
Nankervis, I., Rowley, C., Mohd Salleh, N., Hosie, P., Sharma, A., Heydenfeldt, J. (2015) “Emerging HRM perspectives on emotional intelligence, mindfulness and neurobiological science on organizational effectiveness. Elsevier Publications (January, 2016).

Roy Allen

Professor

Featured Class: "Economic Analysis for Global Business"
Recent Research:

Allen, Roy E., Linda Herkenhoff and Peter Hosie. (June 2015). "Human Ecology Economics and Strategic Management", International Journal of Business and Social Science, 6(6), 1-18.
(ed) Allen, Roy. 2007. Human Ecology Economics: A New Framework for Sustainability, Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy. Routledge, London and New York.

Barbara McGraw

Professor

Featured Class: "Interfaith Leadership, Ethics and Corporate Goverance in Global Business"
Recent Research:

Forthcoming 2018. “From Prison Religion to Interfaith Leadership for Institutional Change.” In Interreligious/Interfaith Studies: Defining a New Field. Eboo Patel, Jennifer Howe Peace, and Noah Silverman, eds. Beacon Press.
2016. “Toward a Framework for Interfaith Leadership.” In Engaging Pedogogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPICHE). Vol 3, Issue 1, 1-9. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18263/2379-920X.1019

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