New Global Asia EMBA Launched

In an unprecedented collaboration between two of the world’s top business schools, London Business School and Columbia Business School have joined forces to offer the EMBA-Global. The EMBA-Global will provide graduates with an MBA degree from both institutions, as well as access to two distinguished faculties and alumni and student networks.

The EMBA-Global offers a unique once-a-month schedule alternating between London and New York, capitalizing on both Columbia’s and London’s locations as the top two commercial, financial and communications/media cities in the world. The program will also include a substantial international field project in Asia. The program’s flexible, mobile schedule—enhanced by sophisticated technology for online learning—will give students access to academic and experiential learning on an international level, and bring real rewards to their sponsoring companies.

“This is an extraordinary opportunity,” said Meyer Feldberg, dean of Columbia Business School. “Our partnership with London Business School enables us to offer a program that truly serves the needs of tomorrow’s marketplace. The students we admit will be exceptionally mobile and motivated by global opportunities.” Feldberg said, “Our vision for EMBA-Global is to combine two of the most outstanding academic faculties in the world and take advantage of the deep practitioner base in each city as visiting speakers and project leaders.”

Dean John Quelch of London Business School said: “Truly global companies need a new type of leader, one who can advance the frontiers of business practice by operating seamlessly and effectively across cultural boundaries. The EMBA-Global will develop such leaders through a unique and powerful partnership between two of the world’s top schools.”

The program’s distinct features include:

•A highly selected, internationally experienced group of participants from diverse cultural and industry backgrounds;

•Distributed campus learning supported by cutting-edge technology;

•Comprehensive, state-of-the-art core curriculum that compares the structure, strategy and implementation of business systems across cultural boundaries;

•Large, diverse elective courses drawn from both schools’ extensive offerings and

•Focus on leadership development.

Companies choosing to sponsor students through the EMBA-Global program serve as active partners in the learning process, focusing on leadership development. Susan A. LaMonica, Human Resources and Development executive of The Chase Manhattan Bank, said that her company is looking forward to exploring this unique international educational opportunity for Chase executives. “Our business is borderless; Chase is a leader in the global financial marketplace. Growth opportunities for our clients, our employees and our business revolve around the rapidly changing global economy,” she said.

For more information, visit the EMBA-Global Web site at: http://www.gsb.columbia.edu/emba-global