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Gain Advanced Management Skills and Business Knowledge to Build a Brighter Future

Turn your passion for change into purpose with a Master of Business

Administration in Executive Management from California Institute of

Advanced Management. We believe in equipping you with more than

just business expertise; our Executive Management MBA empowers

you to address social issues and make a real-world impact. Our mostly

online MBA courses are meticulously crafted to cultivate advanced

management skills and foster a deep understanding of ethical

leadership, preparing you to make responsible business choices for

the betterment of humanity. Whatever your passion, background, or

undergraduate degree might be, there’s a place for you at CIAM.

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Executive Management MBA Program Features

Earn your MBA in Executive Management in just 24 months with our flexible program, featuring a wide range of benefits. Each 16-week term includes one fully online MBA course and one hybrid course with

a two-day Super Weekend of on-campus classes. This blended approach saves you time and money while offering the full MBA

experience.


Additional highlights include:


  • Hands-on, project-based learning
  • Six start dates throughout the year
  • All textbooks included at no extra cost
  • Dedicated, expert faculty
  • Small, intimate class sizes (25 max.) that foster personalized instruction and collaboration with peers
  • Enhanced online learning technology
  • Multiple scholarships available
  • Financial aid for those who qualify
  • No GMAT/GRE requirement
  • Free online application

How to Apply for the Executive Management MBA

MBA in Executive Management Admissions Requirements

CIAM makes it easy to apply for our Master of Business Administration in Executive Management, starting with our free

online application.


To be considered for the Executive Management MBA program, you

will need a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and at least one year of professional experience. Candidates for admission are evaluated holistically based on their merits and potential to succeed at CIAM.


If you have questions about the admissions process or need help with

your MBA in Executive Management application, please don’t hesitate

to connect with us in one of the following ways:

  • Speak to an admissions counselor.
  • Call us at +1 (866) 295-5118.
  • Email us at [email protected].

Why Choose CIAM for Your MBA Management Degree?

Executive Management MBA Modalities

Our Master of Business Administration in Executive Management is a two-year hybrid program featuring:


  • 16-week terms
  • Flexible, mostly online MBA courses
  • Hybrid courses with one Super Weekend of on-campus classes per term

This program is not available fully online.

Make a Difference With an MBA for People Who Care

Business shapes the world we live in and the only way to a brighter future for all is through responsible management principles and holistic practices. CIAM provides students with the core capabilities required to lead people effectively in a rapidly changing social economy and business environment. 


From poverty, education, and homelessness to unemployment, healthcare, and climate change; our students utilize an impact-focused lens to see opportunity as they compassionately address local and global social problems via the power of responsible business principles. This program gives students the tools they need to take their mission-driven motivation from compassion to career.

People First: Become a Business Changemaker With Our Executive Management MBA

CIAM’s Master of Business in Executive Management is designed to teach you responsible business management for social impact and change. Perfect for aspiring business founders, emerging social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, and mission-driven changemakers, this MBA management degree program focuses on what matters

most: the betterment of society.


The Executive Management MBA comprises 36 credit hours, offering a comprehensive blend of organizational and enterprise competencies to foster responsible and sustainable business management. As an executive management student, you will analyze complex social problems, create sustainable market-based solutions, and learn management practices such as formulating strategies, leading impactful organizations, and developing business plans that include finance, economic logic, and marketing campaigns.


Our Executive Management MBA Empowers Leader to Serve Humanity

Lead With Purpose and Meaning

As an executive management student, you will learn the core

capabilities required to lead people effectively in a changing social

economy and to develop innovative responses to complex social and business problems.

Gain Business Confidence

Our MBA management degree equips you with practical experience

and advanced management skills through real-world strategic philanthropy and social empowerment projects.

Service Learning for Social Change

“Learn to do good” by partnering with the local community,

classmates, and professors on hands-on service projects that enhance your executive management learning experience.

Explore Our High Impact Learning Practices

MBA in Executive Management Courses


Our Master of Business Administration in Executive Management consists of twelve 3.0 credit core courses covering the following subjects:

  • ACC501: Accounting For Decision Making

    3.0 Semester Credits


    This Executive Management MBA course examines accounting applications in managerial decision-making and control. The course stresses how to use rather than how to prepare accounting reports. Topics you will explore include basic cost concepts, cost-volume-profit relationships, product costing, differential analysis, strategic product

    pricing, cost allocation, budgeting, and the evaluation of financial performance. You will also learn how Peter Drucker’s concept of

    management as a liberal art relates to the application of these topics in accounting and management.

  • BUS501: Quantitative Analysis For Decision Making

    3.0 Semester Credits


    Metrics and analysis are hallmarks of advanced management.

    Managers must understand the basics and application of descriptive

    and inferential statistics, including basic descriptive statistics,

    statistical inference, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression,

    time series forecasting, inventory models, simulation, queuing, and

    decision-making under uncertainty. As an executive management

    student, you will explore the importance of the proper use of these

    metrics and analysis in the application of Drucker’s concept of

    management as a liberal art. You will also learn how to develop and

    apply graphs and charts to present data effectively and utilize decision

    trees and the expected value of information in analysis.

  • DRU502: Innovation And Entrepreneurship Based On Drucker’s Principles

    3.0 Semester Credits


    This course provides you with an opportunity to learn about Drucker’s

    ideas about the practice of innovation (the seven sources for

    innovative opportunity and his five principles of innovation), the

    practice of entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial management, the

    entrepreneurial business, entrepreneurship in service institutions, and

    the new venture), and entrepreneurial strategies. In particular,

    Drucker’s holistic treatment of these areas, which includes the liberal

    arts and other areas of the humanities, will be articulated. In doing so,

    this course discusses the basics for every manager who needs to

    organize successful technology and market-driven innovation in

    entrepreneurial and established firms. The course will examine how

    entrepreneurs and managers can shape their firms so that they

    continuously build and commercialize valuable innovations.

  • DRU503: Managing One's Self And One's Career Based On Drucker’s Principles

    3.0 Semester Credits


    We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity. Many believe that

    ambition, drive, and talent alone can propel you to the top of your

    chosen profession, regardless of where you started. However, in

    today’s business landscape, you must be your own chief executive

    officer and become more deliberate in managing yourself and your

    career. The foundation of this MBA management degree course will

    be Drucker’s classic article in the Harvard Business Review on

    Managing Oneself. We will build off this article, tying Drucker’s ideas

    regarding management as a liberal art to ideas of self-management

    and self-development. Overall, we will consider how Peter Drucker

    explained how to manage your career successfully.

  • DRU505: Ethical Leadership

    3.0 Semester Credits


    This course prepares Executive Management MBA students to

    navigate the ethical and leadership challenges of advanced

    management careers. Ethical dilemmas are common in the business

    decision-making process, and leadership plays a crucial role in

    achieving acceptable results. This course aims to enhance your

    proficiency in issue recognition, applications of ethical principles, and

    analysis of the consistency of corporate decision-making processes

    with such principles. This course also covers Drucker’s models of

    ethics, duty, motivation, and leadership, which are fundamental to

    sound leadership and ethics. Executive management students will

    learn to apply these concepts in ways that reflect Drucker’s notion of

    caring and compassionate management, in keeping with management

    as a liberal art and the importance of service to others.

  • FIN501: Corporate Finance

    3.0 Semester Credits


    This Executive Management MBA course introduces you to the basic

    decision models of financial management, preparing you to take an

    active role in organizational financial decision-making in your career.

    You will explore the theory, methods, and concerns of corporate finance through topics such as financial statements interpretation and

    analysis, management of cash flow and working capital, pro forma

    analysis, the time value of money and capital budgeting techniques,

    long-term financing instruments, security market efficiency, and value

    creation principles. You will also learn about Drucker’s concept of

    management as a liberal art and its connection with corporate

    mission, profits, social responsibility, and service to society.


    Prerequisite: ACC501

  • GB501: Global Business Concepts

    3.0 Semester Credits


    Today’s markets are becoming increasingly global, so managers and

    business leaders must understand the theories, institutions, and

    environmental elements that underlie international commerce. This

    course equips executive management students with skills to manage

    international projects using a comprehensive framework to formulate

    strategies in the global marketplace. We will also explore the link

    between the social responsibilities of international business firms and

    Drucker’s concept of management as a liberal art. The course covers

    globalization, economic development, entrepreneurship and

    innovation in a global economy, competitive advantage, competitive

    strategies, alternative modes of market entry (including import and

    export through intermediaries), contracts with suppliers and

    distributors, and foreign direct investment (FDI).

  • IS501: Management Of Information Systems

    3.0 Semester Credits


    In this Executive Management MBA course, you will learn about

    business and consumer information systems. Topics covered include

    management information systems theory and practice as they relate

    to advanced management and organizational theories, as well as the

    use of IT in different functional areas of the firm. You will examine the

    role of the internet in facilitating, augmenting, and providing

    competitive advantage for information systems. You will also explore

    the application of IT in gaining information and learn to apply it to the

    right measures, in accordance with Drucker’s concept of management

    as a liberal art.

  • MGT501: Management And Organizational Behavior

    3.0 Semester Credits


    This MBA management degree course deals with human behavior in

    organizations. It employs several conceptual frameworks, case

    discussions, and skill-oriented activities, challenging you to apply

    these to advanced management and organizational behavior. These

    include motivation, learning and development, group dynamics,

    leadership, communication, power and influence, change, diversity,

    organizational design, and culture. As an executive management

    student, you will also explore Drucker’s concept of management as a

    liberal art, its connection with productivity, and how one analyzes and

    organizes knowledge work in this context.

  • MGT511: Strategic Management

    3.0 Semester Credits


    This Executive Management MBA course emphasizes the strategic

    management processes, tools, and strategic framework managers and

    business leaders use to make decisions in today’s complex

    environment. The content of the course is practical and aims to

    provide executive management students with an integrative learning

    experience. You will examine the connection between business ethics,

    social responsibility and sustainability, and Drucker’s concept of

    management as a liberal art. The course covers the concepts of vision,

    mission, and determination of the basic long-term goals and

    objectives of a company, internal and external analysis, strategic tools

    and alternatives available to an organization, the adoption of a course

    of action and its implementation, and the allocation of resources for

    carrying out these objectives.


    Prerequisite: A student must successfully complete thirty (30) units of

    CIAM coursework (which could include transfer courses) prior to

    enrolling in Strategic Management, MGT 511.

  • MKT501: Marketing Management

    3.0 Semester Credits


    Marketing is one of the most important, complex, and fascinating

    management disciplines and has close ties to other functions of the firm, such as R&D, operations, and finance. Peter Drucker once said

    that marketing was too important to be left to marketers. This course

    provides executive management students with an understanding of

    marketing fundamentals, the marketing environment, and marketing

    research. You will examine how Drucker’s concept of management as

    a liberal art relates to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and

    corporate marketing. You will also explore buying behavior,

    psychological processes that affect consumer behavior, market

    segmentation, brand positioning, product differentiation, marketing

    strategy, and value creation.

  • OPS501: Operations Management

    3.0 Semester Credits


    Operations management is the study and application of best practices

    for coordinating people and technology to achieve goals efficiently.

    This Executive Management MBA course provides an understanding

    of global supply chain management, lean operations, and forecasting

    methods. You will also examine the link between Drucker’s concept of

    management as a liberal art and corporate social responsibility (CSR),

    productivity, and competitiveness. While you will explore several

    topics such as process design and quality control, most of this course

    will focus on capacity planning, forecasting, inventory control (part of

    supply chain management), and continuous process improvement.


    Prerequisite: BUS501

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Hands-on Learning for Advanced Management Careers

“CIAM was very important because of their practical hands-on approach to business education. If you want a business degree where you are just going to read a textbook, memorize a bunch of words, and build a glossary of terms, you would go to any other business program. But if you want a dynamic living-learning environment, then you want CIAM.”

- Dr. Michael Albin, MBA Alumnus

Our World Needs You Now More Than Ever

Create Positive Change With CIAM’s Executive Management MBA


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