Master of Business Administration (Executive) (37O2)

By undertaking the Executive MBA, you’ll be prepared for senior executive roles with the professional capability to amplify opportunities for your organisation and provide guidance and insight to your peers. You’ll study in a collaborative learning environment with other experienced professionals, share your experiences, and develop deep insight into the ‘new business as usual’ as it applies to your world.

Utilising Tasmania as your classroom, you will learn from key business leaders who have created local and international brands, and forged success though a range of challenges.

Capabilities, knowledge, and experience developed through extra-curricular events such as quick decision exercise simulations and face-to-face networking opportunities will mean you emerge prepared and confident, ready to take the next step in your career or enhance your current leadership abilities.

Intensive sessions make Tasmania your classroom, and our business leaders your teachers

There are two, 4-day intensive learning sessions in Tasmania each semester, running Friday to Monday. Over this four-day weekend, you may find yourself in Hobart, Bruny Island, or Queenstown, engaging directly with business and community leaders who have iconic Tasmanian stories to tell. Hear first-hand how they have faced local and global challenges and disruption head-on, connected Tasmania to the world, created genuinely sustainable enterprises, and embraced the local community and history in the development of modern, robust business models.

Mainland and options further afield are also part of your learning journey, as you will attend a study tour prior to embarking on the research project in the final year.

Real time learning experience

Our Executive MBA program offers an opportunity for networking with peers, access to industry partners and a chance to generate deep insights from the experience of others. You will explore how businesses address complex business challenges in uncertain times.

Practical application of learning via case methods, simulations, guest lectures, and industry visits are key benefits of the intensives. A full suite of extracurricular activities and novel learning opportunities will challenge you to develop the capabilities demanded of a leader, drawing on insights from scholarly, professional, and personal development activities you’ll blend academic achievement with executive insights.

Personal and Executive Development (PED)

While the academic content of the program is important to underpin your scholarly achievements, developing an understanding of yourself as a leader and a person is just as important. Embedded into the extracurricular content are elements that will challenge you to review your behaviours, values, career, and professional capacities.

The PED offers the opportunity to align knowledge gained from academic content with your personal evolution as a leader.  The program includes design thinking workshops to accelerate your career, media training to prepare you for the spotlight and psychometric testing to deliver deep insights into your capabilities.

‘Rethink’ seminar series

Leaders must view the world through multiple lenses.  The capacity to generate new ideas and innovative practices comes from being able to challenge prevailing thought and action. The ‘Rethink’ seminar series encourages emerging leaders to reimagine responses to existing and potential challenges associated with the big issues of our time such as inclusion, sustainability, ethics and human centred leadership.

Networking with industry and access to industry partners

As part of a comprehensive suite of extracurricular activities, networking and social functions offer you the opportunity to build valuable working and social relationships with peers, the academic community and industry stakeholders. Given that professional networks offer opportunities to become connected to a wider scope of the community, connections made are often longstanding and valuable.  Relationships often continue long after graduation and alumni networks can be a powerful professional learning and collaboration tool.

Scheduled into the fabric of the timetable, these events are designed to support the sharing of learning, experience and to build strong professional bonds.

Stimulation Sessions

In a complex and volatile business environment, knowing how to make decisions under difficult and dynamic circumstances is important. Simulated business activities put emerging and seasoned leaders alike to the test.  You will draw on your learning to practice, decision making, leadership behaviours and managerial actions in a simulated environment.

You may front the media and be interrogated about a company cyber-attack or find your decision making about a pressing ethical issue being scrutinised by the board, or you may find yourself in the spotlight dealing with a business-related calamity.

Embedded elements in the extracurricular activity simulations are delivered as part of the long weekend intensives and draw on learning from multiple units.

Our projects give you the opportunity to draw experience from a wide range of industries and apply new ideas to the opportunities and challenges of your industry while you’re studying.

When engaging with the course content and assessment, you can draw upon examples from your own business, tailoring the learning experience through project work to directly address the challenges and opportunities present in your world.

We also encourage collaboration between your peers, all of whom are entering the course with similar tenures of management experience. This provides you with professional insight and perspective from a diverse range of industries, using others’ experience as your own, to help you consider and address compelling business challenges in real time.

All students will undertake a major research project which offers the opportunity to develop robust research abilities. The project can be based on your own organisation, exploring a key business topic in-depth.