In the newly redesigned Executive MBA (EMBA) at Drexel University’s AACSB-accredited LeBow College of Business, you’ll do more than broaden your business knowledge. You’ll expand your perspective beyond your area of expertise, increasing your leadership impact across the organization. You’ll learn to turn strategy into action, leverage AI to create business value and transform how you lead — all while building your executive network.
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The information we received was invaluable. I got a leadership and management position and that was a big goal I set for myself when joining Drexel, I really believe this program propelled me to where I am now.
Sarah Lockley ’22
Regional Program Manager
Amazon
CEO Magazine, 2026
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)
A Global Campus in the Heart of Philadelphia
Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business is a top-ranked, AACSB-accredited business school known for its pioneering experiential education. Located in Philadelphia’s University City — just a short train ride away from New York and Washington, D.C. — our students have access to our many industry partners and leaders in business, research and government.
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