The BI Executive MBA 2023-2024

«At BI, we aim to empower ambitious leaders and provide them with the tools and knowledge to drive innovation and performance in their organisations»

MORE THAN A DEGREE

The emergence of the Internet, new technologies and internationalisation have disrupted business models and we have witnessed the rise and fall of industry giants. It has also led to modern leaders requiring a new and broader set of skills to perform their jobs.

Business has simply become more digital, more global and more sustainable. An inter national and forward-looking mindset, as well as the ability to lead people effectively through change and technological innovation are highly sought-after leadership traits. As a leader, how prepared are you for these challenges?

At BI, we offer programmes tailored to meet the students’ needs and schedule. The EMBA courses are almost entirely case-based, blending practical and theoretical knowledge and the programme structure allows you to be a full-time student for two weeks at a time, instead of just a few days a month.

An Executive MBA from BI is more than just a degree. We are proud to be one of only five Norwegian institutions with research and academic communities of world-class quality, according to the Research Council of Norway. Combined with the fact that our Executive MBA is ranked among the top 100 worldwide, this means that a degree from BI matters and carries weight internationally.

At BI we aim to help you find a life-long network of like-minded professionals and to provide you with a toolkit enabling you to be successful in your career for years to come. So, what are you waiting for?

Anders Dysvik Professor and Associate Dean Executive MBA at BI Norwegian Business School

71 % of our students chose the EMBA because they wanted a career boost.

81 %

of our EMBA students say they got a career boost after finishing.

WHY AN EXECUTIVE

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

We know how crucial interpersonal skills and the ability to engage with others is in any executive position. In our Personal Development Programme, you will define new goals and grow as a leader. You will gain career tools and advice in the career workshops with relevant topics related to career development. A personal mentor will follow your progression throughout the programme.

LEARNING BY DOING

Show, don’t tell. In the Consultancy Project, which runs through the entire programme, you will apply your new knowledge and draw from your own experiences to solve a real case from one of your group member’s companies. In fact, almost all of our courses are case-based.

A STRONGER NETWORK

Our unique programme structure is intense, and the reward is the close collaboration with your fellow students in each two week-module. Share experiences and ideas with peers from a range of different countries and industries. Build friendships and a network for life.

EXECUTIVE MBA AT BI?

THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Travel the world. Challenge your perspectives. Benefit from our partnerships with some of the world’s most recognised business schools. Learn about innovation at Berkeley, Asian business at Fudan University or design thinking at Hasso Plattner Insitute. The business world is global, so we aim to create global leaders..

CUSTOMISE YOUR DEGREE

With our elective courses you can tailor your degree to your own career ambitions. Choose from a wide range of modules and deepen your knowledge within sustainability, globalisation and digitalisation. All sought-after skills for future leaders.

TRIPLE CROWN SCHOOL

A degree from BI carries weight internationally. We are the only businessschool in Norway holding all three of the most prestigious international accreditations. Less than 1 % of business schools worldwide have all these accreditations.

CORE COURSES

Combining both practical and theoretical knowledge, the core courses are designed to equip you with the most forward-looking perspectives on strategy, finance and leadership.

Regardless of what electives you choose, these core courses constitute a large part of your curriculum - and provide a framework for the entire programme. The goal is to give you a set of both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills, each as beneficial as the other.

In order to make this more manageable, our courses are divided into three main categories, based on what we know are the most sought-after leadership skills modern managers are looking for.

VALUE CREATION

• STRATEGY: Learn how to generate, evaluate, choose and implement a strategy.

• MARKETING: A comprehensive introduction to the field of strategic marketing and decision-making.

• INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Get to know the systems, tools and tecniques used to successfully manage innovation.

KNOWING YOUR NUMBERS

• CORPORATE FINANCE: We provide you with insights and practical tools that will help you make sound financial decisions.

• FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: Learn how to talk-the-talk with accountants and understand the principles of financial accounting.

• MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS: Develop an intuitive and analytical feeling for the working of the market mechanism.

• MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: Understand the concepts and tools behind management accounting, allowing you to “connect the dots” between numbers and management decisions.

LEADING AND SUCCEEDING THROUGH PEOPLE

• LEADERSHIP: Identify challenges and improve your own performance by developing a personal leadership model.

• HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Address human resource topics from a business perspective and learn how to implement more effective HRM practises and systems.

• BUSINESS ETHICS IN PRACTICE: Understand the role of ethics in management and the importance of both personal and corporate integrity and accountability.

ELECTIVE COURSES

Customise your Executive MBA with our elective courses, designed to give you insight, skills and the tools to lead your organisation towards a digital, global and sustainable future.

The electives consist of four one-week module and is your chance to tailor your degree to your own professional preference. Choose among a total of ten different elective courses, all designed for you to meet the business demands of tomorrow.

«The transformation of wastefulness into tomorrow’s sustainable companies is the greatest business opportunity in the 21st century»

Per

Espen Stoknes, Associate Professor

«We need leaders that build intelligent organisationscollectives of people and machines that delight customers, unleash creativity and flex to the digital pace of business»

Vegard Kolbjørnsrud, Assistant Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Accenture

«When measuring global competitive ness, Norway excels in productivity and performance, mak ing it the ideal con text to study glo balisation»

Birgitte Grøgaard Associate Professor

Electives in DIGITAL BUSINESS Machine Learning

Digitalization creates high speed, high volume digital activity traces – Big Data. This course develops these foundational skills through hands-on experience with cutting edge analyt ics tools and techniques, and through case discussions designed to reflect on the technical foundations of ML/AI successes and failures and the implications for strategy and leadership.

Location: Oslo

Design Thinking

Digital organizations excel at rapid-fire development of products and services adapted to user needs. This module, provided in partnership with Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germa ny, provides participants with an intense introduction to Design Thinking. Participants will be able to apply Design Thinking to digital development and creative problem-solving efforts, as well as critically asses how to apply Design Thinking in different organizational contexts.

Location: Potsdam

Digital Business Models

This course covers digital business models in manufacturing, networks, resource access, and problem-solving businesses as well as digital ecosystems and the business model im plications of new technologies such as blockchains and AI. It provides participants with capabilities required to develop and strategically manage both digital transformation of es tablished businesses and create new businesses that arises from digital technologies.

Location: Oslo

Leading and Organizing Digitally

Participants will learn about how the traditional role of leadership needs to adapt to the changing nature of work in the digital age, agile ways of organizing, how leadership relates to learning and innovation, and how digital technologies, as a value-creating resource, may affect leadership.

Location: Oslo

Electives in SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS

Green Entrepreneurship and Systems Innovation

This course focuses on how you can develop smart green ideas and make business models for sustainability innovations. We will visit leading Swedish entrepreneurial networks and meet leading impact entrepreneurs, business angels as well as investors. We delve into entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, how new green ventures go from seed to growth stage - and from start-ups to scale-ups.

Location: Stockholm

Succeeding with Sustainable Growth

This course aims to introduce green growth as the decisive concern for leadership and strategy in the 21st century. We’ll chart the long-term challenges and macro-trends in a world that is increasingly craving sustainable growth. Participants will learn how to set hybrid visions, develop green growth scenarios and acquire the tools for analysing market opportunities for green growth.

Location: Oslo

Creating and Leading Green Organizations

In this course, we focus on how you can create and lead green organizations, both in terms of co-creating directions for sustainability and mobilizing people. Participants will learn about state-of-the art change management in terms of nurturing a culture of green growth marked by high levels of engagement, mastery climates and distributed agency. You will will also learn about green finance, climate risk, reporting and work with developing a green business plan.

Location: Oslo

Electives in GLOBAL BUSINESS

Business in a Global Context

The global pandemic has highlighted challenges facing global organizations where the delivery of products and services are dependent on geographically spread organizational units and global external networks. This course focuses on how to navigate the increasingly turbulent global business context. We identify key strategic business decisions in a global context and the challenges of organizing and managing global organizations.

Location: Oslo

Global Business in Asia: A Focus on China

This course focuses on the Asian Business context, with an emphasis on China’s role and influence in the region and global competitive landscape. We discuss the Asian competi tive landscape and focus on the growth and internationalization of multinationals from this region. BI has a partnership with Fudan University, where our joint MBA program ranks among the world’s best part-time MBA programs.

Location: Shanghai

Regional Business Contexts

This course exposes you to new business contexts to learn about regional integration as well as EU and Latin American business trends. The content is taught by leading academics at IE Business School, our partner institution in Madrid. This unique experience of physi cally visiting our partner institution allows participants to tap into local competence and connect with regional businesses.

Location: Madrid

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

This course aims, as part of the EMBA programme and in addition to academic courses, to support students’ personal development, and help them attain their leadership development goals and their career development goals.

Throughout the EMBA-programme you will be given opportunities to learn and reflect upon topics such as:

• What is your interpersonal style?

• How do others experience working with you?

• Where are you heading with your career?

• What do you need to improve in the role as a leader?

Methods to increase self-awareness and personal development:

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

A series of workshops will address career-related topics relevant to career development. The purpose of these workshops is to provide students with career tools and advice, and give them the opportunity to exchange with others on relevant career-related topics, to support their career development journey.

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Émilie Lapointe

PERSONALITY TESTING AND 360 DEGREE FEEDBACK

In order to increase students’ ability to understand how their personal attributes and interpersonal style influences their work achievements, their career, and their leadership style, they will go through an extensive personality testing. Furthermore, data will be gathered from current and/or former work colleagues applying the 360 degree format.

IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF PERSONALITY PROFILE AND 360 REPORT

Students will also be given the opportunity to have an individual 90-minute session with a faculty specialized in personality testing, where will they get an in-depth analysis of their personality profile and the 360 degree feedback report. The aim of this session is to identify specific developmental goals (i.e, leadership development goals or career development goals) for the further process with the mentor.

WORKING WITH A MENTOR

All students are encouraged to engage, as a mentee, in a mentoring relationship with a mentor whose experience and expertise is relevant to the student’s development goals. Mentors are BI EMBA alumni students that are motivated to take on the role as a mentor and that have been found suitable for this role.

PEER-FEEDBACK

In addition to the extensive 360 degree feedback procedure, all group works will be evaluated in a structured way, so that students get a anonymous peer-feedback report indicating how the other group members experienced working with them. The purpose of giving students continuous and extensive feedback throughout the EMBA program is to increase students’ self-awareness and help them understand both how they contribute to groups and what might cause inter-personal challenges.

«Today’s leaders have to be aware: aware of operational matters and greater strategic issues, but, more importantly, aware of themselves and of their impact on others»

Associate Professor Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

WORDS FROM OUR STUDENTS

«I wanted to challenge my comfort zone and extend the limits»

Maiya Kukushkina, Siemens PD SLN LCM

«The EMBA has given me immense insight in digital business models»

Tore Wettre Andreassen, Tieto

«I learned much about myself as a leader through reflection and understanding of my own personality»

Christina Zgherea, Gjensidige

«Unique combination of academic perspective and practical learning»

Victoria Bodak, NCC

«I am more confident than ever before to lead the evolving digital organisations»

Abul Khair Mohammod Fahimuddin, Equinor ASA

«Ensures an in-depth understanding of international business and governmental practices»

Jerome Kirkwood, Norwegian Environment Agen

STUDENTS AND ALUMNI

«The

«The EMBA increased my career prospects and professional growth”»

Tshego Nesvåg, Norwegian Church Aid

EMBA has made me ready to get into more comprehensive tasks»

Leon Overholt, Omexom Norway

DID YOU KNOW…

....that EMBA alumni get several membership benefits? This includes discounts, invites to international events and access to top academic journals and magazines.

BI EXECUTIVE MBA ALUMNI YOUR GLOBAL NETWORK

Share knowledge across the community, get access to academic and professional insights and expand your professional network. Become one of our more than 80 000 members in 80 countries.

BI Alumni is the alumni community for former students holding a degree from BI, and our international exchange students. Whether you live in Norway or abroad, you can join networking groups based on your interests or where you are based, and attend alumni events on campus or in 20 major cities across Europe, North-America and Asia.

As an Executive MBA alumni, you will be invited to unique events specifically for the MBA alumni community. In addition, EMBA Alumni have access to:

- Career coaching, in collaboration with AS3, at a reduced price. This professional advice and counselling offer is quite unique as AS3 typically only works with companies, not individuals, and is tailored specifically for the BI MBA Alumni.

- EMBA electives to a reduced price. Participation is together with the on-going EMBA-class, and the schedule for these one-week electives you find on the programme webpage. The offer includes both electives in Norway and abroad.

BI Alumni also offers you the possibility to connect with others across disciplines and backgrounds. Whether you are looking for new friends and contacts, or to reconnect with old ones, we are here for you, both in Norway and in our global alumni network!

For more information about membership benefits: bi.edu/alumni

THE WORLD IS YOURS

LOCATIONS

The Executive MBA at BI is a truly international programme – where the world literally becomes your campus. Based on which track you choose,w you will travel to various corners of the world, in order to learn from the very best in each field.

OSLO, NORWAY

BI Norwegian Business School is one of Europe’s larg est business schools, and among the less than 1 % of business schools worldwide that have been awarded the «triple crown» accreditation.

BERKELEY, USA

Our classes take place at the renowned Haas Busi ness School, University of California at Berkeley. Silicon Valley, home to many of the world’s largest tech com panies, is located nearby.

MADRID, SPAIN

Classes take place at IE Business School, one of Europe’s leading business schools. The Spanish capital is truly the perfect place to learn about European regulations and Latin America.

SHANGHAI, CHINA

In China’s largest city and one of the world’s largest financial and commercial hubs , at Fudan University, you will learn about global management and innovative busi ness models. Each class is taught by local professors.

POTSDAM, GERMANY

Classes take place at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, arguably the leading Design Thinking institution in Europe.

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

We visit Norrsken House, Europe’s biggest hub for impact and technology. Learn about food-tech, greentech, climate-tech and biotech.

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Den eneste norske handelshøyskolen med tre internasjonale akkrediteringer

BI is the only Norwegian business school holding the three most prestigious international accreditations. Less than 1 % of business schools worldwide have this triple accreditation.