MBA-G MBA in Global Business Administration and Strategy ( Plan 2009)

Program Outcomes

Justification:

The Master in Business Administration, Concentration in Global Business Strategy, is a double degree program between the EGADE Business School of Tecnológico de Monterrey and The Belk College of Business Administration at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The MBA-GBS is a lock-step program and the courses are offered in English.

The structure of EGADE’s MBA simulates the life of an organization in its basic operational processes through courses with a multidisciplinary approach. The course content is handled in such a way as to reflect the operations, decisions and complexity of organizational and institutional activities. The MBA is designed to achieve the comprehensive preparation of executives who seek a competitive position in a global, interdependent and complex environment. The teaching methods used throughout the program combine the intensive use of technology, an international dimension, collaborative work and projects with a practical approach an ethical perspective. Moreover, it seeks to stimulate creative, intellectually robust thinking oriented towards action.

This structure also purposely incorporates the opportunity to include ethical reasoning and values, as well as the sustainable development of organizations.

General program objectives:

• Foment students’ capacity to direct organizational change and transformation processes.
• Prepare people with the capacity to generate sustainable value for the organization in the context of diverse countries and regions.
• Develop in students the knowledge and skills to design and implement solutions to complex problems with analytical methods, displaying commitment, leadership, determination, a sense of duty and ethical reasoning, complemented by the use of new technologies.
• To prepare people to think with creativity and innovation, which is reflected in the exposition of new ideas and knowledge, expanding the vision, leadership perspective and exposure to a multicultural setting in order to develop a collaborative work environment.
• Develop candidates for leadership positions in global, complex organizations with the visionary, integrative, transformative and humanitarian outlook of individuals who can interact with specialists from all of the company’s functional areas to define business strategies that help to create competitive advantages.
• To prepare people with the ability to apply and promote teamwork, generating interdisciplinary work, and developing their capacity for strategic thinking in order to understand the organization’s systems and the industry as a whole.

Learning Outcomes

The MBA program is conceptualized as a conversion program, to give a new direction to the professional careers of students with the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful in global business environments.

• On completing the program, students will be able to:
• Act with ethical reasoning
• Design sustainable business models.
• Act in accordance with ethics and sustainable development.
• Manage new information technologies with expertise.
• Apply and promote interdisciplinary and collaborative work.
• Identify new business opportunities in order to transform their own reality and/or that of their company.
• Generate sustainable solutions to business issues through the integration of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values.
• Communicate effectively.

Target audience:

This program targets high-potential executives who want to progress rapidly in their career and with the profile to hold senior management positions in the middle and highest levels of service organizations (basic, financial, entertainment), and manufacturing organizations, with at least three years of professional experience. Research areas This is a professionalizing program that focuses on its students’ development in relation to global business strategy.