EMBA Integration: From Rhetoric To Practice

Abstract

For the modern business world, business education needs to molt from the cocoon of discipline silos to the integrated business education model to train the next generation of managers. Upper management problems are rarely silo specific. Managers do things right, but leaders do the right things; and executive programs exist to build business leaders. MBA programs usually get the “business” portion of this goal right, but often do not institutionalize the “leaders” part well. This article chronicles the experiences of a major EMBA program.