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
global environment and delivery outstanding value to them through several consulting projects. This will position you as a leader who makes a huge contribution through effectively operating across borders.
In case travel is not easily possible, an intense virtual global study tour is available, or you may postpone this course until travel resumes.