MBA Programs in Switzerland

IMD Business School:
IMD Business School, located on the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland, is one of the world’s top ranked business schools offering over 20 open-enrollment executive development programs, including intensive MBA and Executive MBA programs, as well as company-specific partnership programs. We offer pioneering and collaborative solutions to your business requirements and encourage an open attitude towards learning and growth. Our expert Faculty delivers cutting-edge knowledge based on relevant, innovative and rigorous research. Our unique real world, real learning approach enables executives to immediately apply new insights. By challenging boundaries, together we can redefine ambitions and realize performance breakthroughs.

IMD MBA Program (Duration 1 year):
Top executives of leading multinational companies tell us clearly: they need leaders, not managers. The single aim of the IMD MBA program is to develop these leaders.

Content Overview:
The program starts with business fundamentals, e.g. accounting, finance, marketing and operations. This helps you to understand the functional areas of the organization and how they work together. The second half of the year is highly project-based, allowing advanced application of the fundamentals to real leadership situations with a strong sense of ethics. In addition to core courses such as finance and marketing, learn what it takes to:
- Lead multinational workforces
- Communicate with stakeholders
- Develop creative solutions to business issues

Learning Methods:
Based on IMD’s ‘Real World. Real Learning.’ approach, the MBA will help you realise your leadership potential through:
- Case study discussions
- Unique leadership exercises
- Hands-on projects
- International networks
- Intensive personal coaching


IMD Executive MBA (EMBA):
IMD’s Executive MBA program is a rigorous, modular MBA, comprised of four major elements: business fundamentals, globalization, company-based assignments and execution.

Content:
There are 6 modules which can be completed in as little as 16 months or spread over 3 years or more. The total time you'll be out of the office is 16.5 weeks. The first two modules of the Executive MBA take place in the Program for Executive Development (PED). You can complete the first two modules over ten consecutive weeks, or with a break of three, six or twelve months between modules. You can then start the third module, your gateway to the remainder of the program, in November of the following year. During the Executive MBA you will:
- Build business fundamentals
- Develop high performance leadership
- Live globalization
- Put learning into action
- Mastering the future


Open Enrollment Programs:
- Top Management Programs
- General Management Programs
- Orchestrating Winning Performance
- Leadership Programs
- Execution Capability Programs


Family Business Programs:
The Family Business Center is unique in being able to assist families with governance, role and relationship issues as well as with their specific challenges of business renewal and continuity. IMD has designed and delivered customized private programs to a number of leading family businesses around the world.


Partnership Programs:
Partnership is not measured by the number of days of program delivery. It is much more than that. At IMD, we can help you to:
- redefine what matters most in your organization;
- design effective, powerful and engaging learning initiatives;
- accelerate your strategy execution work;
- develop networks across your organization.