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I felt the only way I could do this was to try to take a more managerial role within the health sector. However, it is in the corporate world that the EMBA has traditionally been particularly attractive, as it enables companies to retain their high-flying managers while grooming them for board-level appointments. Indeed, the degree was originally viewed as the ultimate corporate programme. Companies paid for their employees to attend in their droves. No more. The recession has only exacerbated a situation that started developing up to a decade ago, when corporations began to reduce their level of financial sponsorship.

But there is a more fundamental problem. EMBA programmes pose a peculiar dilemma for corporations: on the one hand, they are potentially investing in the next generation of board members, but on the other, they are investing in credentials to make those executives more corporately mobile. The result of all this belt-tightening is that application and enrolment numbers are flat or even decreasing at many business schools, says Patty Keegan, associate dean for the EMBA programme at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

She says one of the biggest challenges is that many students are taking a long time to commit. They are waiting until the time is right. Business schools that are seeing growth are often offering programmes in countries and regions that have traditionally been underserved by management schools, in general, and by this kind of programme in particular.

Dubai and Abu Dhabi are proving increasingly significant for centres of learning such as London Business School and Insead. As a result, it is teaching students as far afield as Winnipeg and Bermuda. It is a trend that is seen across all EMBA programmes as managers take more control over their own careers.

As a result, this aspiring group of participants is demanding services from the business schools that would have been unheard of when the programmes were company sponsored — most notably career counselling. For other students, the degree is a way to jump-start a new career.

And to jump to the next level, I feel I need to experience working and living abroad. The trick is to utilise this technology without diluting the important human elements of teaching and community.

I expect this will not be online education — instead, business schools, perhaps using locally sourced staff, will offer EMBAs in multiple locations. The future EMBA will further mix the private and public; exploit symbioses between pedagogy and technology; integrate academic and clinical faculty; promote cultural diversity in class profiles; and foster alliances between business schools across continents. EMBA programmes must equip students and companies to retool for slower growth at home, and uncover opportunities in emerging markets.

Global offerings, engaged international alumni, career support and integrated solutions to complex business problems are imperative.

Manage cookies. If you think the same, join us. She says one of the biggest challenges is that many students are taking a long time to commit. They are waiting until the time is right.

Business schools that are seeing growth are often offering programmes in countries and regions that have traditionally been underserved by management schools, in general, and by this kind of programme in particular.

Dubai and Abu Dhabi are proving increasingly significant for centres of learning such as London Business School and Insead. On a more local level, Queen's School of Business in Canada is expanding the reach of its videoconferencing MBA by using the latest technology to deliver the programme to individual desktops.

As a result, it is teaching students as far afield as Winnipeg and Bermuda. It is a trend that is seen across all EMBA programmes as managers take more control over their own careers. As a result, this aspiring group of participants is demanding services from the business schools that would have been unheard of when the programmes were company sponsored — most notably career counselling.

For other students, the degree is a way to jump-start a new career. And to jump to the next level, I feel I need to experience working and living abroad. International Club of Journalists. Messages octobre Business schools face EMBA challenge. By Della Bradshaw In May this year, all eyes in the medical world were on a Spaniard as he stepped in front of the television cameras.