Welcome from the MBA Director
Our Vision Regarding MBAs
Leaders instead of Business Administrators Francis Bidault |
No one questions the value of executive education today. Actually, quite the opposite is true. Correspondingly, there is a need for young, well-educated, high-potential managers endowed with an ability to steer changes and innovation, an ability gained through a broad understanding of all the forces at play in an organization.
The main priority of most business schools over the past two decades has been on “producing” MBA graduates. Expectations that the MBA would be a passport to riches and perks have themselves been proved wrong. But the ability to mobilize a team, a department, a subsidiary, perhaps an entire company around a common challenge is a quality any organization badly needs in today’s world. Future executives cannot just be technicians in finance, or marketing, or operations research. They need to excel through functional expertise, displaying a capacity to get them to work harmoniously. They have to be leaders working across boundaries, be they functional, departmental, legal or cultural. In other words, they need to know how to design and implement bridges between separate worlds.
We at ESMT have the special goal of developing integrative leaders with our MBA. If you think this goal matches your perspective, we would like to meet with you.
Prof. Francis Bidault
MBA Director