Study a Executive Master of Business Administration – EMBA

An EMBA that works for you

As a busy executive, we know your time is precious. This qualification is taught on 10 weekends spread over 15 months plus a multi-month consulting report, complemented by online sessions with your lecturers and fellow students. This convenient structure allows you to schedule the learning  around your life. The classes offer focused and relevant learning with heavy participation by industry leaders, and to provide opportunities for you to network with like-minded peers.

 

The Massey MBA programme is the longest continuously running MBA programme in New Zealand (since 1972). It is well-respected among its extensive alumni network and it is well-known by business leaders throughout the country and globally.

 

Develop your leadership skills

Our unique practice-led courses will enhance your critical and reflective skills, as well as your strategic leadership capability. You will grow in self-awareness and confidence and develop your own personal leadership style. In cooperation with Governance New Zealand, you will develop specific skills to assume company director roles.

 

You will learn how to apply world-best business strategies to help you develop and implement successful changes at your workplace.  The EMBA helps you apply the cutting-edge learnings to become more effective at work, and to qualify for future opportunities.

 

The EMBA is taught in a practical format

The Massey EMBA teaching faculty have extensive international and local management experiences. Classes feel more like being in a boardroom with your CEO than in a classroom with a professor. The teaching is practical and  relevant to your work. Your learnings will also draw from the most recent research and is assessed through  practical assignments, some completed at work or through consulting with other firms. There are no  exams.  

 

Our world class teaching team is complemented by many corporate leaders from New Zealand and overseas, who will push you to participate in discussions around the current challenges in their firms. The  Massey EMBA is unique as a programme that immerses you in real-life corporate issues from which you  learn. You will experience the practice of being a Company Board Director, and the direct-entry to the Governance NZ Affiliate member level gives you post-nominal letters when you have finished several specific EMBA courses. There will be consulting-style board-level assessments including for overseas firms, during your 10-day international consulting trip to two countries.

 

In many of the courses, you will engage in live case studies and develop your consultancy skills with external business clients, leading to a substantial consulting report at the end of the EMBA.

 

You will develop superb options for your future

Every part of your EMBA journey will help you develop additional skills necessary to position yourself for new career opportunities in the future. Your studies will give you superb options to select new and exciting pathways for your career.

 

You gain global management experience

The 10-day EMBA international consulting trip is a unique highlight in the final year of your studies. You will  visit organisations outside New Zealand, learn from their leaders how they operate in a competitive 

 

Insights

The QS World University Ranking by Subject ranks Massey in the top 350 universities worldwide in this subject area. Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2021 ranks Massey in the top 101-150 universities globally and 1st in New Zealand in this subject area.

 

Our AMBA (Association of MBA’s) accreditation encourages our programme to ensure students have:

• A positive impact on themselves, organisations, and society for the benefit of all stakeholders

• Understand and respond through sound business practices to the challenges facing the planet 

• Lead themselves and others in the achievement of organisational goals within the context of  sustainable development, contributing effectively to a diverse and inclusive team environment

• Think critically and make decisions with integrity based on complex information, understanding the overall impact of managerial decision-making

• Understand organisations and their stakeholders, and have an awareness of public policy and the regulatory environment  

• Integrate functional knowledge and apply strategic management skills at a senior level in changing business environments

• Operate effectively and respectfully in cross-cultural settings

• Enhance their careers and commitment to lifelong learning.