Join SFU for breakfast at upcoming infosession for our Executive MBA and EMBA for the Americas

An upcoming breakfast information session hosted by Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business on June 2 will give would-be EMBA students detailed information about the flagship business program, as well as the school’s new stream of the program, the Executive MBA for the Americas.

Starting in August 2011, the two-year degree program provides 60 students with the opportunity to study management issues in each of the four largest economies in the Americas.

In addition to SFU, participating schools include:

FIA Business School, Fundacao Instituto De Administracao, Sao Paulo, Brazil
ITAM, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management, Nashville, Tenn., USA

The program grew out of a recognition that global businesses are increasingly aligning their operations around all of the Americas, not just particular regions such as Central, North, and South. It also responds to a growing need among companies and students for business instruction focused more deeply around issues specific to the Americas markets.

Students will take their first year courses with their SFU cohort. Then during the second year, students from all four schools will be grouped together in cross-cultural study teams, which will embark on a yearlong, global capstone strategy project. The teams will also rotate together to each campus to engage in course work, observe local business practices, cultural events, as well as have face-to-face time for their project work. Each school will offer programming that draws on its core strengths:

• Beginning in Canada, the Americas MBA candidates get to know each other through courses, readings and exercises on cross-cultural communications, global business strategy and international human relations management. The study groups will also begin their yearlong capstone project here.
• Next they go to Brazil, where the Americas MBA students will learn about sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and emerging markets strategies for bottom-of-the-pyramid markets.
• From there it’s on to Mexico City, where the Americas MBA participants tackle the topics of international competitiveness, and learn how to navigate the large family-owned businesses that are prevalent in the region.
• The Americas MBA students will spend their final on-campus visit in the U.S. focused on launching new ventures within organizations or as entrepreneurs and how to nurture innovation.

To register for the breakfast information event, click here