Darden Global MBA for Executives Blog

Darden’s Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) prepares professionals for a career working across multiple continents and cultures. Whether you are seeking a promotion within your current company, planning to start a new business or thinking about a career switch, Darden supports you in advancing your career.
In the video below, Barclay Bright and Matthew Rose — both [...]

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In addition to six two-week international residencies, Global Executive MBA students participate in distance learning courses throughout the 21-month program. Masa Uzawa, a current GEMBA student and deputy manager for corporate sustainability and responsibility at a chemical/pharmaceutical company in Japan, discusses how the distance learning component of GEMBA enables him to work with classmates across [...]

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In the guest post below, Jordan Sorkin, Darden GEMBA student and executive advisor for the Marketing Leadership Council on the Corporate Executive Board, discusses the close bonds formed between him and his classmates:
As students and professionals, we commit to an executive MBA program after running through a predictable and slightly tailored list of attributes that [...]

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Global Executive MBA: Preparing for a Global Career at Darden
In today’s post, Leszek Lekstan, manager for capacity and planning at Sprint Nextel, talks about why he chose Darden’s Global Executive MBA format:
“The Global MBA for Executives (GEMBA) at Darden has many benefits. First, there’s the immediate return on investment: I work with people across different [...]

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Throughout each international residency, GEMBA students participate in Global Leadership Explorations (GLEs) — field experiences and non-classroom activities which immerse students in the cultural environment in which they are studying. These interdisciplinary experiences are customized depending on the residency location, term theme and course topics.
In the guest post below, aerospace executive and GEMBA First Year [...]

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Darden’s innovative Global Executive MBA format is designed specifically for executives seeking to extend the global reach of their companies and their careers. In each of the six two-week international residencies, students attend case method classes, visit influential firms during Global Leadership Explorations, gain cultural knowledge and contacts and learn to work across international borders.
During the [...]

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In this two-part series, Larry Becker, Associate Director of Marketing and Admissions, reflects on his experiences traveling in Brazil with the Global MBA for Executives (GEMBA) Class of 2014. Read Part 1 here.
In last week’s blog, I focused on the interactions between learning inside Darden’s Global Executive MBA classroom and through Global Leadership Experiences at the [...]

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In this two-part series, Larry Becker, Associate Director of Marketing and Admissions, reflects on his experiences traveling in Brazil with the Global MBA for Executives (GEMBA) Class of 2014. Read Part Two.

As you read this, the Darden Global MBA for Executives Class of 2014 have just returned from their residency in Brazil, the second of [...]

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Lewis Prebble, GEMBA Class of 2013, writes about his experiences in Paris, France and Berlin, Germany during his class’s two week residency in Europe. In his article, featured in The Economist, Lewis describes:

A marketing and leadership case in the Four Seasons George V hotel
Meeting with the Disneyland Paris’s vice president of finance to discuss operations, [...]

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We interviewed GEMBA student Leszek Lekstan, manager for capacity and planning for Sprint/Nextel, about how the Darden global EMBA faculty, curriculum and format prepare him to understand the cultural nuances of international business and to advance his career globally.
Learn more about his decision to enroll in the Darden Global MBA for Executives in the following [...]

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