Your blended learning journey
High-impact learning
Your journey provides you with a powerful variety of learning experiences to upskill as a general manager for a rapidly changing world. You will develop your strategic thinking and decision making and accelerate your leadership with business and leadership coaching. You will also benefit from an integrative consulting project with an external organization to maximize exposure to different real-world contexts and perspectives.
You can take Global Management Foundations as a stand-alone program or as credit toward your IMD Executive MBA degree.
5 weeks online: August 26 – September 29, 2024
- Strategic thinking: 20 hours of workload (watch videos, submit assignments, peer review discussions, attend 2 x 90’ liVe sessions)
- Accounting: 12 hours of workload (preparatory work, attend 4 x 120’ liVe sessions)
- Negotiation: 12 hours of workload (preparatory work, attend 4 x 120’ liVe sessions)
5 weeks online: October 7 – November 10, 2024
- Marketing: 12 hours of workload (preparatory work, attend 4 x 120’ liVe sessions)
- Generative AI for business: 15 hours of workload (watch video unit, assignments, attend 4 x 90’ liVe sessions)
- Finance and macro-economics fundamentals: 20 hours of workload (preparatory work, attend 5 x 120′ liVe sessions)
8 days on campus: 18-25 November, 2024
- Leadership (2.5 days)
– Leading self and others
– Team contracting
– Experiential exercise (VR)
– Feedback and action planning
– Moving forward - ESG fundamentals (1 day)
- Executive presence – with professional actors (1 day)
- LiVe consulting integrative project (3.5 days)
Discover the live case consulting projects
As part of the Live Consulting Project, Global Management Foundations participants create business case studies to solve problems that are happening in the real world. IMD has partnered with the following companies for consulting projects: Agathon, Gavi, Medair, ICRC, and iamtheCODE.
Considering the IMD Executive MBA?
Global Management Foundations and Foundations for Business Leadership are approved first credits towards IMD EMBA. You can compare both programs here.
