Our Executive MBA is among the best 50 MBAs in the world according to the FT ranking*. It is a 20-month part-time MBA with a rigorous academic component from two top European business schools, Católica-Lisbon and Nova SBE, provided in collaboration with MIT Sloan. The program offers a holistic approach to management education and has an action-learning focus, which will enable you to foster a successful career advancement with minimal disruption of your professional and personal life. (*Financial Times Executive MBA ranking 2024)
Business Project
You will be able to apply the skills and concepts learned throughout the MBA in a real business project by delivering a strategic recommendation. International expansion, new products/services launch, turnarounds and start up deployments are the kind of challenges that you and your team will tackle.
Business Simulation
As part of the Board of Directors of a B2C global corporation, you will compete in a fierce global market simulation to develop a GTM strategy, decide on equity and capital structures while ensuring effective use of resources and social responsibility policies.
You will expand your leadership competencies with a range of tools and resources that will encourage you to embrace agile ways of working, rethinking your role and your teams and unleashing a collective creative capacity to navigate the growing complexity of business and society.
In a structured journey, essential connected topics will be addressed, including power and social networks, resiliency and adaptability, feedback and self-awareness, stress management, time management and personal productivity, among others.
As a student of the Lisbon MBA Executive, you will have a rigorous 1-week immersion experience at MIT Sloan, in Boston, built on the MIT motto of “mens et manus”(mind and hand) combining classes developed from cutting-edge research with company visits to further develop a business vision in a global and entrepreneurial environment.
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Find your Purpose. Keep Growing. Make an Impact.
The commitment of the Career Management Center is to partner with students to succeed in achieving a meaningful and life-long career fulfillment by supporting them in defining a career strategy and an action plan customized to their personal journey.
Get to know a different culture, expand your ability to work in a diverse environment, and enlarge your professional network.
The Lisbon MBA Executive has a global approach, fostering a multicultural environment and an international scope. Apart from the MIT Sloan immersion, which gives students the opportunity to experience the US educational culture in one of the top MBAs in the world, students have the option to apply to do an elective course at a partner top MBA during the customization stage of their program.
While deciding their electives, students can choose to follow the specialization tracks of The Lisbon MBA in Finance, Strategy & Marketing, and Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship or opt to take an elective course in another field at The Lisbon MBA partners such as the MBA of the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, ESADE in Spain, Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil, and the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
The exchange programs and MBA partners are updated every year, and students are allocated exchange program opportunities based on their academic performance.
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The Lisbon MBA Católica | Nova is an internationally recognized joint-venture between Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics and Nova School of Business and Economics, two leading business schools in Europe, in collaboration with the MIT Sloan School of Management
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