An Integrated Curriculum for Enterprise Leadership
Drexel LeBow’s Executive MBA curriculum is designed to help experienced professionals expand their perspective beyond a single function and lead across the enterprise. Throughout the program, students connect strategy, finance, leadership, operations, technology and global business to make informed decisions and address complex organizational challenges.
Plan of Study
Each semester is organized around an integrated theme, creating a progression that builds broader business perspective, strategic judgment and the ability to turn strategy into action.
- Leadership and New Ways of Thinking
Begin the program by expanding how you think, decide and act as an enterprise leader. Examine complex business challenges from strategic, organizational and market perspectives while strengthening your leadership awareness and exploring how human judgment and AI can work together to improve decision-making.
Courses include:
- Strategic Leadership (2.0 credits, In person)
- AI Execution Workshop (1.5 credits, In person)
- Leading in Dynamic Environments (1.5 credits, Virtual)
- Strategy Analysis (1.5 credits, Virtual)
- Marketing Strategy (1.5 credits, Virtual)
- Financial Infrastructure and Decision-Making
Build the financial fluency to evaluate performance, investments, risk and value while making sound business decisions using quantitative and qualitative information. Extend that decision-making into execution by applying contemporary project management approaches, including agile practices, design thinking and AI.
Courses include:
- Financial Decision-Making for Executives (2.0 credits, Virtual)
- Accounting for Executives (2.0 credits, Virtual)
- Next Gen Project Management: Agile, Design Thinking and AI (2.0 credits, In person)
- Enterprise-Enabling Functions
Examine how talent, legal considerations and financial performance shape decisions across the enterprise. Learn to align people and organizational systems with business strategy, navigate the legal environment and connect cross-functional decisions to sustainable value creation and organizational performance.
Courses include:
- Strategic Human Capital (1.5 credits, Virtual)
- Legal Considerations for Business Practices (1.5 credits, Virtual)
- Value Creation Across the Enterprise (2.0 credits, In person)
- Building Global Perspective
Broaden your perspective on the forces that shape business decisions across markets and borders. Strengthen your ability to assess economic and industry conditions, negotiate agreements and resolve disputes, and evaluate how country-level factors influence organizational strategy and performance.
Courses include:
- Executive Negotiation Essentials (2.0 credits, Virtual)
- Managerial Economics for Executives (2.0 credits, Virtual)
- International Business Seminar, Pre-Residency (1.0 credit, Virtual)
- International Business Seminar and Residency (3.0 credits, 10 days in person)
- Business Performance and the AI Environment
Apply strategic judgment to the opportunities and challenges of AI-enabled business. Learn to evaluate and prototype AI solutions, build business cases for adoption, navigate governance and ethical considerations, and lead the organizational change required to turn innovation into sustainable business value.
Courses include:
- Applied AI in Business (2.0 credits, Virtual)
- AI Ethics and Governance (1.5 credits, Virtual)
- Innovation Incubator (1.5 credits, In person)
- Change Management Experiential Capstone for Executives (2.0 credits, In person)
Put Your Learning Into Practice
The EMBA culminates in an experiential capstone focused on one of the most consequential challenges leaders face: turning strategic decisions into organizational change. Drawing on perspectives and skills developed throughout the program, students apply approaches for leading change, navigating stakeholder resistance and translating strategy into action.
Graduate With an AI Leadership Certificate
As part of the Executive MBA curriculum, students complete the requirements for Drexel LeBow’s AI Leadership Certificate, earning an additional credential alongside their Executive MBA degree.
The certificate recognizes the AI-focused learning built into program courses and projects, from evaluating opportunities for AI adoption and building the business case for implementation to addressing governance, project execution and organizational change. Together, these experiences prepare leaders to make informed decisions about AI and lead AI-enabled initiatives from strategy through execution.
View the EMBA Degree Requirements and course descriptions in the Drexel University Catalog.
Take the Next Step
Have questions about the Executive MBA or the application process? Schedule a consultation with Director of Recruitment Mark E. Dierkes to discuss your questions, learn more about the program and get guidance on the application process.