Virginia Harvey
Postgraduate Programs Advisor
Executive MBA
Infos & applications At a glance
- Program formatPart-time
- Duration2 years
- CampusGrenoble, Online, Tbilisi
- LanguagesEnglish
- Admission level3-years Degree to Master's degree or more
- DegreeMBA
- Tuition feesFrom €41,000
- Program formatPart-time
- Duration2 years
- CampusGrenoble, Online, Tbilisi
- LanguagesEnglish
- Admission level3-years Degree to Master's degree or more
- DegreeMBA
- Tuition feesFrom €41,000
GEM Executive MBA – Part-Time, Blended EMBA for Business and Technology Leaders
Develop your leadership potential and deepen your global business perspective with GEM’s part-time, blended Executive MBA. Designed for experienced professionals, the program combines online learning, intensive in-person residencies, international study trips, and an applied Executive Capstone Project.
For engineers, scientists, technical experts, and technology professionals, the Tech Track builds on the Executive MBA foundation with specialized learning in Microelectronics or Energy. Develop the leadership, management, and strategic expertise needed to lead innovation in advanced technology sectors.
A Globally Recognized Executive MBA
GEM’s Executive MBA is ranked among the leading executive MBA programs worldwide:
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47
Worldwide
QS Executive MBA Ranking 2026
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63
Worldwide
Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking 2025
Program Highlights
Study while you work
Complete your Executive MBA through a flexible, part-time blended format designed for working professionals. Combine online learning with nine intensive in-person weeks: four in Grenoble, two at European hubs, and three specialist weeks in Grenoble or Paris.Apply as you learn
Strengthen your strategic thinking and decision-making while applying new tools and frameworks directly to current business challenges. Turn classroom learning into immediate value for your organization.Complete a high‑impact Executive Capstone Project
Work for six months on a strategic challenge for your organization or a partner organization. Diagnose a complex situation, design a value-creating strategy, build a business case, and produce an implementation roadmap.Choose your specialization pathway
Personalize your Executive MBA by choosing one general management specialization:Entrepreneurial Leadership for Starting and Growing Ventures
Transformation of Luxury for the Digital and Sustainable Age
AI and Data Strategy
Financial Management and Advisory
Technology professionals may choose one of two Tech Track specializations:
Microelectronics
Energy
Experience two international study trips
Develop a broader global business perspective through two one-week international study trips, including an immersion in Berlin. Learn from companies, innovation ecosystems, and business leaders while strengthening your ability to work across cultures.Engage with experts and industry
Learn from faculty and practitioner experts through real-world projects, consulting missions, company visits, and interactions with companies, R&D centers, and industry leaders within Grenoble’s innovation ecosystem.
Why Choose the GEM Executive MBA?
Develop the management, strategic, and leadership capabilities needed to connect technical expertise with business growth, innovation, and organizational transformation.
For engineers, scientists, and technical professionals, the Tech Track provides an opportunity to complement specialist knowledge with the business and leadership capabilities required to lead innovation.
Earn a recognized Executive MBA from GEM, a leading French business school. The program’s international rankings provide an external reference point for professionals seeking a globally oriented management qualification.
Study with GEM in Grenoble, a European center for technology, research, entrepreneurship, and industrial innovation. Connect with companies, research organizations, start-ups, and leaders working in advanced technology and emerging industries.
Join a diverse community of experienced professionals, faculty, alumni, and business leaders. Connect with more than 2,400 MBA alumni and GEM’s wider global alumni network of more than 50,000 graduates.
Develop the confidence and capabilities to lead people, projects, and organizations in complex and changing environments. Reflect on your leadership practice and translate new insights into action.
Use targeted career services, employer engagement, your specialization, and the Executive Capstone Project to support your next professional step.
The program can help you:
- Move into senior leadership
- Broaden your responsibilities beyond a technical or functional role
- Transition into strategy, consulting, entrepreneurship, or business development
- Lead innovation, digital transformation, or organizational change
- Progress into R&D, technology leadership, and innovation-management roles
6 Reasons to Choose GEM
Global recognition
Ranked Top 8 in France and Top 30 in Europe, GEM is among the top 1% of business schools worldwide holding triple accreditation (EQUIS, AACSB, AMBA).
Targeted expertise
Specialized programs designed to deepen knowledge in key management fields and develop distinctive expertise.
Real-world experience
Applied projects, company-based assignments, case studies and, depending on the program, work-study options — ensuring learning is firmly grounded in real business practice.
International outlook
Programs taught in English and multicultural learning experiences that prepare students to perform effectively in global professional environments.
Career acceleration
Programs designed to strengthen professional impact, increase market value and support ambitious career trajectories.
Trailblazing leadership with purpose
Campuses embedded in leading scientific, technological and industrial ecosystems, fostering innovation, engagement and the development of strong professional networks, in France and internationally.
GEM Grenoble – Alpine Campus
Located in the heart of the Alps, GEM’s Grenoble campus combines innovation, nature, and an outstanding quality of life. Students enjoy close proximity to mountains perfect for skiing, hiking, and mountain biking, while studying in a city known as a scientific and technological hub. Grenoble hosts numerous start-ups, research centers, and international companies, offering students ample opportunities for collaboration, internships, and projects. The city’s compact size allows for a lively and accessible student life.
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Executive MBA
The Executive MBA is designed for experienced professionals who want to strengthen their leadership, strategic, and business capabilities while continuing to work.
- Mid- to senior-level professionals seeking broader leadership responsibilities.
- Entrepreneurs and business leaders across industries.
- Professionals balancing work, study, and family commitments.
- Specialists and managers preparing to move into more strategic roles.
- Professionals seeking to transition into consulting, entrepreneurship, business development, or innovation management.
Executive MBA – Tech Track
The Tech Track is designed for professionals who want to connect technical expertise with business strategy, innovation, and leadership.
- Engineers, scientists, and technology professionals moving into leadership roles.
- Technical executives and innovators seeking to drive transformation and sustainable impact.
- Researchers and technical experts transitioning into industry or business leadership.
- Professionals working in microelectronics, energy transition, deep tech, and other advanced sectors.
- Entrepreneurs and managers developing technology-driven products, services, or ventures.
The Executive MBA includes 21 months of coursework followed by, or combined with, a six-month Executive Capstone Project. The overall program timeline is approximately two years. Participants should expect around 10–15 hours of study per week, including online learning, assignments, projects, and preparation for nine intensive in-person weeks.
International participants may apply to the Executive MBA. Because the program is part-time, it does not qualify for a French student visa. Participants should check whether they need a short-stay or travel visa to attend in-person sessions with their local French consulate.
The Executive MBA offers four general-management specializations:
- Entrepreneurial Leadership for Starting and Growing Ventures
- Transformation of Luxury for the Digital and Sustainable Age
- AI and Data Strategy
- Financial Management and Advisory
The Executive MBA – Tech Track offers two sector-focused specializations for professionals seeking to connect technical expertise with business strategy, innovation, and leadership.
- Microelectronics
- Energy
Participants can access career support through one-to-one guidance, CV workshops, mock interviews, career events, and individual appointments. They can also connect with more than 2,400 MBA alumni and GEM’s wider network of more than 50,000 graduates worldwide. These resources can support career progression, leadership development, sector transitions, and moves into strategy, consulting, entrepreneurship, business development, R&D, or innovation management.
The Executive MBA includes international study trips and learning experiences designed to broaden your understanding of global business, innovation, and leadership. Visit companies, research organizations, start-ups, and international institutions while exploring different business environments and innovation ecosystems.
Grenoble is a European innovation hub where technology, research, industry, entrepreneurship, and sustainability come together. Through the Executive MBA, you can connect with companies, research centers, start-ups, and international organizations while developing the perspective and practical capabilities to lead transformation.
Located in the French Alps, Grenoble also offers a distinctive quality of life, with easy access to mountains, outdoor activities, and a compact urban environment.
Discover GEM's full MBA portfolio designed for experienced professionals at different career stages:
An EMBA for Leaders Ready to Drive Innovation
The GEM Executive MBA curriculum combines core management knowledge, advanced leadership development, and an international business perspective. Through the Tech Track, professionals working in science, engineering, and technology can also develop the strategic and managerial capabilities needed to lead innovation in advanced sectors.
Program Overview
Intensive In-person Sessions (9 weeks)
Four weeks in Grenoble. Two weeks at European hubs. Three specialist weeks in Grenoble or Paris.
Regular Live Online Evening Sessions
Online sessions to keep you connected to faculty and peers while you progress through projects and assignments.
Two International Study Trips
Two one-week trips, including Berlin, combine company visits, business discovery, and cross-cultural teamwork.
Personalize Your Journey
The Executive Capstone Project helps you address a strategic challenge and deliver an executive-level report, business case, or implementation plan.
A Program Designed for Working Professionals
The GEM Executive MBA is designed for professionals who want to continue working while developing new management and leadership capabilities.
Participants should expect approximately 10–15 hours of study per week, including online modules, projects, assignments, and preparation for the intensive in-person sessions.
Core Courses
Learn how to analyze complex business environments, anticipate global shifts, and design strategies that drive sustainable growth.
Courses include:
- Managerial Economics & Business Environment
- Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Futures
- Strategic Risk and Geopolitical Foresight
- Corporate Finance
Develop the strategic and analytical capabilities needed to transform technological innovation into market success, integrating perspectives across key business domains.
Courses include:
- From Tech Innovation to Market
- Marketing of Innovation
- Digital Transformation
- Strategic Consulting
Enhance your leadership impact by developing the vision, influence, and collaborative skills needed to inspire action, lead diverse teams, and build strategic partnerships.
Courses include:
- Developing and Leading International Teams & Collaboration
- Leading & Inspiring Action
- Negotiating Strategic Partnerships
Build the capabilities to drive performance and resilience by mastering operational excellence, strategic program management, and advanced financial and contractual decision-making.
Courses include:
- Operational Excellence
- Strategic Program Management
- Financial Accounting and Analysis
- Managerial Accounting
- Contracting for Intangibles & Complex Contracts
Specializations
Customize your Executive MBA by choosing one general management specialization. Each specialization includes three intensive, week-long sessions focused on operational and strategic priorities in the chosen field.
Specializations require a minimum number of participants. Course content subject to change.
Build the strategic, operational, and leadership capabilities to launch, develop, and grow a venture.
- Entrepreneurial Leadership for Innovation and Change
- Business Modelling for Sustainable Value Creation
- Resources and Processes for Growing Ventures
Explore how luxury organizations can create distinctive experiences, respond to changing consumer expectations, and lead digital and sustainability transformation.
- Designing New Luxury Experiences
- Managing Transformation of Luxury Brands
- Changing Marketing & Communication Trends for Luxury Brands
Learn to create business value with artificial intelligence, analytics, and data-driven decision-making while addressing the strategic and ethical implications of emerging technologies.
- AI and Analytics for Business
- Data-Driven Value Creation
- Techno-Dilemmas: Responsible Management & Ethics
Develop the financial, analytical, and advisory capabilities needed to support value creation, international decision-making, and financial-technology transformation.
- Valuation & Financial Advisory
- International Financial Management
- Financial Technology and Analytics
Tech Specializations
The GEM Executive MBA – Tech Track combines advanced management education with sector-specific expertise for professionals in technology-intensive industries.
Developed with Grenoble’s innovation ecosystem, the Tech Track includes:
Microelectronics, developed with the French Alternative Energy and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).
Energy, developed with INSTN and GEM faculty.
These specializations are designed for professionals with technical or scientific backgrounds who want to strengthen their business, strategic, and leadership capabilities.
Current Tech Landscape
Develop a comprehensive understanding of the semiconductor and microelectronics ecosystem that powers the digital economy.
Explore:
- Integrated digital circuits and AI technologies.
- Computer-aided design tools and electronic design automation.
- Computing devices.
- Radio-frequency systems.
- Power electronics.
- MEMS sensors and actuators.
- Visible and infrared imaging technologies.
- 3D and integrated-circuit packaging for chiplets.
- Silicon photonics.
- Sector-specific applications, including cybersecurity.
Understand how these technologies integrate into real-world business solutions and inform strategic decision-making in technology-driven markets.
Current Markets & Strategies
Analyze the market forces and global dynamics shaping the microelectronics sector. Examine industry trends, geopolitical factors, technology disruption, and emerging opportunities.
Develop practical strategic skills to:
- Manage risk
- Foster innovation
- Evaluate business models
- Capture new market potential
- Translate strategic plans into action
Intensive group projects enable participants to address technology change and disruption in this fast-moving industry.
Current Tech Landscape
Explore the full spectrum of energy technologies shaping the transition to sustainable systems.
Topics include:
- Nuclear energy, its role, underlying technologies, and future prospects
- Clean-room operations and sustainability considerations
- Renewable and alternative energy sources
- Energy-storage solutions
- Future energy vectors
- Smart-grid digitalization
- Sustainable mobility and electrification
- Emerging technologies and innovation in the energy sector
Site visits to nuclear facilities and local energy companies provide direct exposure to industry practices and challenges.
Current Markets & Strategies
Develop strategic frameworks for navigating global energy markets and the energy transition.
Explore:
- Energy economics and market dynamics
- Supply, demand, and pricing mechanisms
- Energy-demand management and flexibility
- Complex and evolving electricity grids
- Stakeholder engagement and social acceptance
- Energy geopolitics
- International relations, policy frameworks, and resource distribution
Executive Capstone
The Executive Capstone Project is a six-month strategic project that turns learning into organizational impact.
Working on a real challenge from your organization or a partner organization, you will:
- Diagnose a complex situation
- Design a value-creating strategy
- Build a robust business case
- Develop an implementation roadmap
- Apply the knowledge and frameworks developed throughout the Executive MBA
The Executive Capstone Project consolidates your learning while delivering potential value for your organization and strengthening your strategic thinking, leadership presence, and decision-making confidence.
The GEM Executive MBA Experience
Experience GEM’s Executive MBA through immersive learning, international study trips, and meaningful connections with faculty, industry experts, alumni, and an experienced global cohort. Based in Grenoble’s innovation ecosystem, the program connects leadership development with real-world business and technology challenges.
Learn in Grenoble’s Innovation Ecosystem
Study in Grenoble, a European innovation hub where technology, research, industry, entrepreneurship, and sustainability come together.
- Connect leadership development with real-world business and technology challenges.
- Engage with companies, research centers, start-ups, and international organizations.
- Develop the perspective and practical capabilities to lead transformation.
- Enjoy life in the French Alps, with access to mountains, outdoor activities, and a compact urban environment.
Learn Through Experience
Apply management concepts to real organizational challenges through intensive residencies in Grenoble, Paris, and selected international destinations.
At GEM Labs in Grenoble, participate in:
- Interactive workshops.
- Live business cases.
- Applied projects.
- Industry discussions.
- Collaborative problem-solving.
Engage directly with faculty, industry experts, alumni, and fellow participants. Small class sizes and accessible faculty support active participation, practical learning, and meaningful collaboration throughout the program.
Connect with a Global Community
Learn alongside experienced professionals from diverse industries, functions, and cultures.
Collaborate with your Executive MBA cohort and connect with GEM’s wider MBA community to exchange perspectives, share practices, and explore opportunities for innovation and growth.
As a GEM participant, you can access:
- More than 2,400 MBA alumni.
- More than 50,000 GEM alumni worldwide.
- Cross-sector professional relationships.
- International collaboration opportunities.
- Lifelong learning and knowledge-sharing communities.
Develop an International Perspective
The Executive MBA includes two immersive international study trips designed to broaden your understanding of global business, innovation, and leadership.
During the Berlin immersion, meet industry innovators, connect with start-ups, and explore the city’s digital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
A second international study trip provides exposure to another global business hub, enabling you to examine different markets, business models, and leadership practices.
These experiences help you:
- Strengthen cross-cultural collaboration.
- Develop a broader global business perspective.
- Connect with international companies and professionals.
- Understand how innovation ecosystems operate in different markets.
- Apply international insights to your organization and career.
Have questions about our Executive MBA?
Connect with an advisor to get personalized guidance on programs and the application process. Our team is here to help you choose the program that best aligns with your ambitions and professional goals.