You will begin your Executive MBA experience with a one-week immersion (Week-in-Residence) in New Harmony, Indiana. Intentionally remote from the everyday demands of personal and professional life, the historic community of New Harmony provides the perfect backdrop for students to be fully immersed in the program from the outset. The weeklong residency also eases the transition to the alternating Saturday class format of the Executive MBA program.
While the experience provides time to get to know your classmates and faculty, become acquainted with the objectives and mechanics of the program, and regain the mentality of being a student, the Week-in-Residence also accounts for 25 percent of your first semester curriculum.
The residency begins with a course in leadership. You’ll assess your own style and integrate it into a team dynamic. In fact, the formation of formal Study Groups takes shape in New Harmony, with groups completing their first assignments there.
For the remainder of the week, a major focus is placed on introducing the quantitative lessons that will become the foundation of your two-year Executive MBA curriculum. Additional Week-in-Residence course topics include accounting, statistics and finance.
During Week-In-Residence, Executive MBA students also get their first taste of application at a high level in microeconomics. Each Study Group chooses one of their employers, examines a “perverse incentive”— an incentive program with good intentions but wrong behavioral outcomes—and discusses with the class what could be done to make the incentive work as intended. Thereafter, students work hard to discover and apply their own takeaways regularly back at the office.
