Our 22-month curriculum provides you with:

Immediate skills and tools necessary to propel you to the next level in leadership

A world-renowned faculty instructing you on how to tackle business challenges head-on through the core curriculum

Ways to customize your MBA experience with electives


Ways to customize your MBA experience with electives
We accommodate busy professionals by:

A variety of ways to take classes and learn

Access to the same campus resources, faculty, electives and support — regardless of which scheduling option is chosen

Flexible schedules

“UCLA Anderson EMBA has developed a program and schedule offering that makes it possible for me to have an enriching MBA experience and balance my demanding career. The monthly schedule empowers me to stay connected with my classmates and the Anderson community. I love that I’m being challenged with the same academic rigor as any other Anderson MBA student; the educational experience has not been eroded by an abbreviated on-campus schedule.”
Therese Banks (’19)
Vice President and General Manager of US Small Merchant Client Management, American Express
Standard Program of Study
*EMBA Electives offered. There are many options for fulfilling your 16 units of elective units.
Learn More About Our Flexible Schedules | Learn More About Electives
Fall | Winter | Spring | Summer |
---|---|---|---|
September–December | January–March | April–June | June–September |
Leadership Foundations I - Data Analysis & Management Decisions - Organizational Behavior |
Financial Accounting - Economic Analysis for Managers - Leadership Foundations II (begins) - Optional Electives* |
Marketing Management - Financial Policy for Managers - Leadership Foundations II (concludes) - Optional Electives* |
International Business Residential |
Course Descriptions
Economic Analysis for Managers |
Focuses on analyzing the functioning of markets, the economic behavior of firms and other economic agents and their economic/managerial implications through a selected set of topics that are motivated by real-world observations of business operations. Topics to be covered include fundamental market forces, consumer and firm behavior under various market structures, sophisticated pricing strategies with market power, decision-makings under uncertainty/risk/information asymmetry, strategic interactions in game-theoretic situations and a variety of behavioral insights. |
Marketing Management |
To encourage strategic thinking about marketing, this module integrates theory and practice from the core disciplines of Marketing Strategy, Cross‐Cultural Consumer Behavior, Brand Management, Digital and Social Media Marketing and Analytics and Business Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. |
Organizational Behavior |
Introduction to organizational behavior for executives, including but not limited to optimal decision making, fostering motivation, and other topics on psychology of leadership. Lecture, discussion and experiential applications of course concepts. |
Financial Accounting |
Familiarizes the manager with functions of accounting by focusing on the use of external financial reports for evaluating corporate performance and use of accounting information for internal planning and control. |
Data Analysis & Management Decisions |
Studies statistical model building with emphasis on managerial interpretation of statistical summary data. The course also covers classic statistics through multiple regression analysis to support subsequent courses in finance and marketing. |
Leadership Foundations |
Designed to enhance student knowledge of, and competency in, leadership. Thus, the course has both conceptual and skill development objectives. The conceptual framework for the course is grounded in principles of individual, group, and organizational behavior. |
Fall | Winter | Spring | Summer |
---|---|---|---|
September–December | January–March | April–June | June–September |
Competitive Strategy & Business Policy - Operations & Technology Management - Leadership Foundations III (begins) - Optional Electives* |
Strategic Management Research (SMR) - Business Creation Program (BCP) - Leadership Foundation III (continues) - Leadership Communication - Optional Electives* |
Strategic Management Research (SMR) - Business Creation Program (BCP) - Leadership Foundation III (concludes) - Developing and Leading People - Optional Electives* |
Course Descriptions
Leadership Communication (Elective) | The purpose of this course is to help improve your management communication skills, primarily in the areas of presenting and communicative persuasion. |
Competitive Strategy & Business Policy | Study of general management task of forging a corporate competitive strategy. Emphasis on economics of business rivalry within a variety of industrial settings and implications of changing environments on business strategy. |
Leadership Foundations III | Further exploration of leadership strengths and weaknesses, with emphasis on individual leadership and organizational change. Readings, cases, decision simulations, peer coaching and discussions. |
Strategic Management Research (SMR) | Preparation of strategic overview of selected company entailing collection and analysis of primary and secondary data, including (but not limited to) interviews of corporate executives, corporate financial and marketing data, industry reports and customer and competitor interviews and/or surveys. |
Operations & Technology Management | Analysis of strategic and operating policies and decisions for systems that produce goods and services. Examination of role of comprehensive planning, inventories, scheduling of resources, distribution systems and system location. Comprehensive operating problems. |
Business Creation Program | Work alongside a team of classmates and an advisor to transform an idea from a business plan to a functional startup organization. |
Strategic Management Research (SMR)
SMR is an experiential learning project in which you will form a consulting team to address a business challenge or opportunity on behalf of a client organization. After a deep dive into research, you’ll present key insights and recommendations to the leadership of the organization.
Business Creation Program (BCP)
Below are the electives typically offered on EMBA weekends and during the summer. Please note that a minimum of 4-units required during the summer session.
- Entrepreneurship & Venture Initiation
- Advanced Financial Policy For Managers
- Venture Capital & Private Equity
- Brand Management
- Financial Modeling & Corporate Valuation
- Business Law
- Technology Management
- Leadership Communication
- Business Plan Development
- Strategy and Structure of Corporate Buyouts
- Customer Assessment & Analytics
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Macroeconomics
- Business Strategy in Emerging Markets
- Patterns of Problem Solving
- New Product Development

Management and Organizations

Management and Organizations

Decisions, Operations and Technology Management

Marketing

Strategy

Decisions, Operations and Technology Management

Decisions, Operations and Technology Management

Global Economics and Management
