EXECUTIVE MASTER IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

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Welcome to Your Executive MBA Journey

Ready to transform your leadership journey? The Executive MBA from Africa Business School is designed for experienced professionals like you who are ready to drive change across Africa and the world. In partnership with Columbia Business School, this hybrid, flexible program blends academic excellence with real-world application, empowering you to lead with confidence in today’s complex business landscape.

You’ll revisit core management principles, explore emerging technologies, and develop the strategic and operational skills needed to lead digital transformation. Learn to navigate complexity and ambiguity, drive innovation, and integrate environmental and social priorities into responsible decision-making.

Grounded in Africa’s unique business realities and connected to global frameworks, this program helps you create competitive, context-aware solutions. Join immersive modules in selected African countries and New York to deepen your regional insight and global perspective. Through interactive classrooms, action-based learning, and close engagement with world-class faculty and peers, you’ll strengthen your leadership and expand your global network—all while maintaining your executive responsibilities.

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DURATION

24 months

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LOCATIONS

Rabat, Benguerir, New York, African countries

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LANGUAGE

English

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NEXT START

December 10th, 2025

What Will You Gain?

By joining the EMBA at Africa Business School, you will transform your leadership capabilities:

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Core Management Mastery

Revisit core management concepts to analyze their application in complex, real-world business contexts

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Navigate Complexity

Cultivate the ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity, and to drive agility and innovation in fast-changing environments

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Digital Transformation Leadership

Develop the strategic and operational capabilities needed to lead and manage the digital transformation of organizations

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Responsible Decision-Making

Integrate environmental and social priorities into responsible and high-impact business decision-making

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Global-African Context Solutions

Combine insights from the African context with global frameworks to create competitive, context-relevant business solutions

How You Will Apply This Training Immediately

Our EMBA is designed to empower experienced professionals to lead with impact in complex and evolving environments. The program delivers value across five core dimensions:

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Internationalisation

Benefit from a dual immersion in New York City and Africa, supported by diverse faculty from Columbia Business School and Africa Business School

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Personal Transformation

Grow as a purposeful and adaptive leader through individual coaching, dedicated leadership modules, and group-based learning

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Regional Relevance

Engage deeply with Africa’s business landscape through modules on geoeconomics, Intercultural Management and African footprint

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Academic Excellence

Learn from joint faculty of renowned professors from Africa Business School and Columbia Business School

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Executive Flexibility

The modular format, delivered over 24 months, blends in-person residencies and hybrid sessions to fit senior professionals’ realities

This program is more than a degree—it’s a platform for transformation, offering you the tools, insights, and network to create lasting value for your organization, your region, and the world.

Program Structure

Strategic Leadership & Organisational Impact

  • Leadership (3 modules)
  • Strategy & Innovation

Foundation of Advanced Management

  • Corporate Finance
  • Operations Management
  • Strategic Marketing
  • Strategy

Digital Strategy & Transformation

  • Digital Transformation
  • Business Analytics, Big Data & AI
  • Fintech & Blockchain

Agility & Decision Making in Complex Environment

  • Managing with & within Complexity
  • Entrepreneurial Behavior & Action (2 modules)
  • Collective Intelligence for decision making

Responsible & Sustainable Business

  • Global Sustainability
  • Creating Sustainable Value

African Business in a Global Context

  • Intercultural Management / African Footprint
  • Geoeconomics
  • Doing Business in Africa
  • Africa Trip

Immersion, Reflection & Impact

  • Orientation Week (team building, vision, onboarding)
  • Executive Coaching sessions
  • US Immersion (Trip – Columbia Business School)
  • African Consulting Project

Immersive Learning Trips – Africa & United States

As part of your EMBA journey, you’ll take part in two transformative immersion trips designed to connect academic insight with real-world complexity.

🌍 Africa Study Trip (Optional)

Held each year in a different country. Explore first-hand the dynamics of African business environments through dedicated courses, executive meetings, site visits, and socio-economic briefings.

🗽 United States Trip

One working week academic residency at Columbia Business School in New York. Engage with leading faculty, attend high-level sessions, and meet with business leaders and policymakers.

Both trips are designed to deepen your understanding of diverse ecosystems, sharpen your cross-cultural agility, and expose you to a wide range of business challenges and leadership models.

Africa Consulting Project

Your EMBA experience culminates in an Africa Consulting project, a capstone project that brings together your learning and leadership development into a concrete, high-impact engagement.

In small teams, you’ll collaborate with senior professionals from leading global consulting firms to address a real-world business challenge. The project may involve a strategic review, a transformation roadmap, or a problem-solving intervention for a company, sector, or ecosystem.

Throughout the journey, you’ll be guided by faculty and expert practitioners, gaining structured feedback and mentoring while delivering actionable recommendations. This experience not only consolidates your knowledge—it strengthens your consulting mindset, client engagement skills, and capacity to generate societal value.

What Makes This Program Unique?

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Columbia Partnership

Strategic partnership with Columbia Business School, offering access to a world-class academic ecosystem in New York

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Cutting-Edge Curriculum

Enhanced with sustainability, artificial intelligence, geoeconomics, and fintech themes

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Personalized Leadership Journey

Combining individual coaching, experiential modules, and immersive learning

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Executive-Optimized Format

Modular format allowing you to balance professional commitments and academic engagement

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Strong African Focus

Regional immersions and context-specific modules to address local challenges and opportunities

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Real-World Impact

Final consulting project (Capstone) designed to deliver real-world impact and mobilize acquired competencies

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High-Caliber Network

Access to a diverse peer network, fostering long-term collaboration and global professional exposure

Application Process

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Selection Process

CV + Motivation Letter + Copy of the Master’s Degree Certificate

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Application Deadline

Rolling Admissions

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Next Start Date

December 10th, 2025

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Eligibility Requirements

  • 10+ years work experience
  • 3+ years in decision-making role
  • Master’s degree required