Executive MBA (EMBA)
Executive MBA
The USC Marshall Executive MBA is a 22-month, part-time program designed for experienced professionals looking to advance into senior leadership while continuing to work. The curriculum is organized around ten integrated modules that combine strategy, finance, leadership, and more, reflecting real-world business challenges.
EMBA AT A GLANCE
Integrated Modules
Executive MBA curriculum is structured around ten integrated modules that mirror real-world business challenges. The program blends areas like strategy, finance, and marketing into thematic blocks that build on each other.
International Component
The six-day international experience focuses on the challenges of conducting business effectively in a global market. Students visit local businesses and meet with executives from national, joint venture, and transnational corporations.
Work While You Earn Your EMBA
Keep your career moving forward while earning your EMBA. Apply new skills and insights on the job immediately, strengthen your leadership abilities, and advance professionally without stepping away from your current role.
Distinctive Advantages
Case Studies
Case studies bridge theory with practice, allowing students to test frameworks against actual business challenges.
Group Projects
Students engage with teammates who see challenges differently, which sharpens their ability to integrate multiple viewpoints. An ability that is critical for making strategic decisions at the senior leadership level.
Executive Coaching
Coaches provide candid feedback that helps students better understand how their leadership style impacts others. Coaching refines the ability to inspire teams, navigate boardrooms, and build executive presence.
Faculty
Nandini Rajagopalan is the Joseph A. DeBell Chair in Business Administration and Professor of Management and Organization. Her research examines platform-based markets, diversification and strategic alliances, CEO succession, and corporate governance. She has published in the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Management, and Business Horizons among others. She is a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at USC’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, and recipient of USC’s Provost’s Mentoring Award. She is past Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal.
Dan's research and teaching examines how entrepreneurial processes drive socio-economic change. He has published in leading journals in management (AMJ, SMJ, SEJ, JMS) and business history (BHR, BH, E&S), and is co-editor of Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods (Oxford University Press, 2014). Dan is former chair of the AoM Management History Division and currently president-elect of the Business History Conference, the leading business history association in North America. He has received research and teaching awards, most recently the Williamson Prize which is awarded every 2-3 years to a mid-career scholar "who has made significant contributions to business history."
Laurence "Larry" Vincent is an award-winning author, researcher, and marketing leader. He has developed strategies for many of the world's most beloved and respected brands, including Disney, Mattel, Mastercard, Microsoft, the NFL, Nikon, Qualcomm, and Sony Playstation. He specializes in brand strategy, new product development, marketing innovation, consumer research, and marketing for media, entertainment, and technology. Professor Vincent has received three Golden Apple teaching awards (2021, 2023, and 2024). Before joining the Marshall full-time faculty, Professor Vincent held senior marketing positions at several companies, most recently as Chief Branding Officer at United Talent Agency from 2011-2021, where he founded the agency's award-winning Brand Studio. He is the author of Legendary Brands (2002) and Brand Real (2012), and also produces The Findings Report blog and podcast.
News + Analysis
NEWS + Events
Marshall Boosts MBA Consulting Track with New Resources and Industry Connections
MBA students accepted in top Pre-MBA consulting programs have increased twenty-fold in just a year’s time.
From Music to Coffee: MBA Alumnus Charts New Path to Success
Together with his wife and co-founder, Lillard Anthony Wong MBA ’17 is utilizing his business acumen and operations management experience to build Owlverick’s Coffee into a success.
The USC Marshall MBA Student Experience
MBA students sharpen business fundamentals, technological fluency, and leadership skills while expanding their professional network to transform their careers.
Marshall Minds Ep. 7: “Divergent Reactions to Perceived Gender Discrimination Among Women and Men”
Associate Professor Leigh Tost and PhD student Jacob Roberson explore the narratives and impacts of perceived gender discrimination between men and women.
2024 USC Marshall Grad Programs Open House
Join us at our upcoming Open House to explore the exceptional MBA and MS programs available at USC Marshall, a nationally ranked top 20 business school. Whether you are an early-career professional or seasoned executive, we offer a broad range of flexible programs to fit your academic and career goals with options to pursue your degree on-campus in the heart of Los Angeles, or online.
INSIGHT + ANALYSIS
Quoted: Baizhu Chen in Reuters
Chen explains how South Korea’s relatively small economy makes it difficult to gain leverage in trade deals with the United States.
Quoted: S. Mark Young in BBC
Young dissects the fallout of celebrity tell-all memoirs and the potential harm they cause.
Quoted: S. Mark Young in National Journal
Young explains why implementation of the “”movie tariff” faces multiple obstacles and challenges.
Quoted: Larry Vincent in The Wrap
Vincent explains how the now-closed Cinerama Dome once appealed to tourists and residents alike by presenting a unique and authentically Hollywood film-going experience.
Quoted: Larry Vincent in Deadline
Vincent describes how the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce engagement announcement represents a new standard for marketing and audience development, combining the power of social media, the creator economy, and the importance of controlling one’s own brand and platform.
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