Lead at the highest levels

The world needs broad-minded leaders with the knowledge to seize opportunities and lead change. Deepen your industry expertise and increase your impact with Yale’s MBA for Executives program.

Your journey starts now.

Your 22-month program

Year 1
Integrated Core Organized around stakeholder perspectives, not narrow functional disciplines	Global Network Week Intensive study abroad

Year 2
Areas of Focus and Other Electives Choose from courses across asset management, healthcare, sustainability, and more	Advanced Management Develop business skills and competencies needed at a more strategic level of the organization	The Executive Your capstone core course

The Competitor: Learn to use tools from economics, marketing, organizational behavior, accounting, and politics to achieve success in competitive environments. This course emphasizes anticipating the actions of the marketplace participants, including governments, nonprofit organizations, and corporations, that function as competitors and cooperators.
The Customer: Learn to develop a deep understanding of customer behavior, integrate that understanding across an organization, and align the organizational structure to satisfy current customer needs and adapt to changes in customer needs, using tools from economics, psychology, and sociology.
The Investor: This course is about investors: what they do, how they think, and what they care about. Course topics include returns, risk, and prices; asset allocation; efficient markets; valuation and fundamentals-based investing; the capital asset pricing model (CAPM); quantitative equity investing; bond markets; evaluating money manager performance; futures and options; and investment errors and human psychology.
Power and Politics: Organizations are fundamentally political entities, and power and influence are keys to getting things done. After taking this course, you will be able to diagnose the true distribution of power in organizations, implement skills that build cooperative networks, influence others, and expand your sources of power, understand your unique leadership strengths and points of improvement, and contend with the fundamental ethical challenges of leadership.
Sourcing and Managing Funds: This course considers groups within the firm tasked to raise money from different sources as well as manage different aspects of those funds within the organization. Topics include measuring corporate value creation, company valuation, capital structure decisions, and capital budgeting.
State and Society: This course helps students understand how organizations interact with the societies that surround them, examining the role of nonmarket constituencies such as public officials and NGOs; legal and regulatory environments around the world; and the impact of societal trends on the opportunities and risks faced by businesses.
The Workforce: The purpose of this course is to enhance the student’s capability as a manager and leader to take actions that align employees’ actions with organizational goals and objectives, using levers such as recruitment and selection; employee evaluation and development; extrinsic rewards, compensation systems, and job design; and the connection between the employee’s identity and organizational objectives.
The Innovator: This class studies issues of idea generation, idea evaluation and development, creative projects, and fostering and sustaining innovation in organizations. Students generate ideas in a number of contexts, and evaluate ideas that they and others have generated in terms of customer adoption and feasibility.
Operations Engine: The course broadens the traditional operations management course by including and emphasizing linkages to organizational behavior and workforce management, strategy, accounting, finance, and marketing. At its heart, this course is about using quantitative models to provide managerial insights into the improvement of work processes, the design and improvement of the supply chain, and the competitive strategy.
The Global Macroeconomy: This course develops a framework for understanding the causes and consequences of macroeconomic events in real time, a useful input to the management of any enterprise, local or global, profit or nonprofit. We compare countries’ economic structure and performance over time and consider models in which the choices of private and public agents interact to produce aggregate outcomes in response to policy or economic shocks.
The Executive: This course consists of series of interdisciplinary cases structured to describe challenges faced by leaders of organizations of differing size, scope, and sector, asking students to bring together skills learned throughout the core curriculum. All of the cases involve current situations, and much of the class material is “raw,” consisting of financial filings, data sets, news reports, company material, and other primary source data.

Designed for working professionals, the Yale MBA for Executives program aims to enhance leadership, accelerate careers, and grow your network with:

Yale’s network of peers leading change at the intersection of business and society
The rigor of the Yale MBA integrated core curriculum
The opportunity to dive deep into an area of focus — asset management, healthcare, or sustainability — issues at the nexus of business and society
Friday and Saturday classes on alternate weekends on campus
Four residency weeks, including Global Network Week

The Integrated Core Curriculum

Our MBA for Executives combines the rigor of the integrated core curriculum and advanced leadership study with the chance to specialize in an area at the nexus of business and society: Asset Management, Healthcare, or Sustainability.

Asset Management
For leaders with sound analytic skills and expertise in finance.
Healthcare
Be at the forefront of change and define the future of healthcare.
Sustainability
Innovate, lead, and embed sustainability into every facet of your organization.

Meet your classmates

I had fairly specific objectives in pursuing an MBA. I wanted to build on the skillset that I already have, so that I could become a more effective member of my firm and a better fiduciary for our investors. The chance to pursue a curriculum focused on asset management was really attractive. It provides a platform where I can learn from some of the brightest minds in my field, while also letting me collaborate with MBA candidates who have similar professional backgrounds and goals.

Jess Thompson ‘21

Investment Director, IFM Investors

Area of Focus: Asset Management
The retail industry is playing a significant part in the environmental crisis. The sustainability focus of my MBA will better prepare me to advocate for sustainable practices — I’m getting an overview of the core problems and learning some innovative ways to approach them. I want to help influence the industry overall to shift to a more long-term reward model that incentivizes decisionmakers to make the type of environmentally friendly decisions that may pay less today but will pay huge dividends in the future.

Carlos Guzman ‘21

Senior Manager, Pricing, Walmart

Area of Focus: Sustainability
There’s a real need in the healthcare industry for leadership. While the industry in the U.S. has changed rapidly, with incredible advances in therapies and technology, the same isn’t always true for the quality of care that populations receive. When it comes to shaping policy, healthcare providers are in the optimal position to advocate for patients and for standards of care. But until the “business of healthcare” is taught to healthcare providers, this gap is being filled by clinicians like me who pursue business education.

Linda Amah ‘21

Physician, Yale New Haven Health – Bridgeport Hospital

Area of Focus: Healthcare

Profile of the MBA for Executives program

Average age 40
Women enrolled 50%
Years of experience 16
Advanced degrees 56%

Connect to a unique integrated core curriculum

The Yale approach puts an emphasis on viewing questions and problems from many perspectives and taking into account the connections between organizations and the broader society. The capstone course is called “The Executive” and synthesizes everything you learn in the core courses in one master class.

Connect with the best thinking

At Yale, you will connect with the best thinking in business, management, and leadership. The Yale SOM curriculum is unique in how it ties together the pieces of a business school education into a meaningful whole. In fact, your experience might look a lot like Patricia's day.

Connect to Yale University

Yale SOM is closely tied to the broader university both in its location and its curriculum. That means you have easy access to the splendors of the university's neogothic campus and the wealth of art museums, performance spaces, and libraries. Take classes, attend talks, and exchange ideas with students from around the world.

Connect to a Global Network

For one week, you’ll pursue intensive study at a Global Network partner school. This experience is like none other and will position you to thrive in roles requiring a broad understanding of the differences in diverse markets and stakeholders.