Last Day to Register for Smith EMBA Program

The Smith School is gearing up for its second Executive MBA class, scheduled to start on August 24, 2003, and the deadline for registration is today, August 1. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and the August cohort has been gaining momentum since early spring. Plan to attend one of the July information sessions to find out more about Smiths exciting 18-month EMBA program.

About the Smith EMBA

The Smith EMBA was established in January 2003 and follows a quicker, more intense track than many area EMBA programs. In an increasingly competitive market, the program has attracted interest from candidates in the mid-Atlantic region, throughout the country, and around the world.

Because time is the greatest commodity for many senior executives, EMBA applicants are looking for an outstanding program that allows senior staff to obtain an MBA in just 18 months. The Smith EMBA provides just that, says V. Scott Koerwer, Ed.D., associate dean and director of the Office of Executive Education. We continue to receive feedback from our partnersWashington-area businessesthat participants in the Smith EMBA program bring real value to their employers. This is exciting for those of us running the program, and it is just as exciting for our current students and applicants.

Anil K. Gupta, Ph.D. and Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Strategy and Organization (pictured left), leads the faculty as academic director of the EMBA program. Participants are taught by the same 127 world-renowned faculty that teach the highly ranked part-time and full-time MBA programs. Both the Financial Times and Business Week rank Smith faculty in the top 10 in research and teaching, respectively. Only six schools are so distinguished: Stanford, Berkeley, Northwestern, Chicago, MIT, and Maryland.

Innovative Curriculum

The Smith EMBA program begins with Smiths strong MBA core as the foundation (classes include marketing strategy, corporate finance, strategic management, and globalization). The curriculum includes four critical mastery skills courses, focusing on technology, communications, ethics and corporate citizenship, and leadership and creativity. As business is no longer limited by geography, the Smith curriculum encompasses globalization and current world events that affect the global economy.

Group work comprises approximately 20 percent of the Smith EMBA curriculum. Each participant has the opportunity to work as both part of a group and one-to-one with a faculty advisor on a company-specific opportunity or challenge. The sponsoring company immediately reaps the rewards of the Action Learning Project.

Class size is limited to 35 participants to allow for in-depth interaction between students and faculty. Students develop strong relationships with other senior executives from a broad range of industries and backgrounds. For example, current EMBA participants represent healthcare, government, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, consumer products, engineering, and information technology sectors.

EMBA China

As part of the Smith Schools strategy to build global alliances, Smith created a strong presence in China by establishing an EMBA program in Beijing in January 2003. Designed to meet the rapidly changing needs of the worlds business education marketplace, Smith partnered with Chinas University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), under a new entity called the Sino-U.S. School of International Management (SIM). The Smith School is one of a select group of U.S. business schools to launch a successful China-based EMBA program.

Smith is looking for individuals who want to learn not be taught. To find out if your experience, or if the experience of a friend or colleague, would be a good fit for the Smith EMBA, visit the Office of Executive Education Web site at http://ee.rhsmith.umd.edu or call 301.405.9559 for more information.