With Hult's one-year MBA course you will use Action Learning - the combination of theoretical
classroom training with real-life business simulations and the ideal hands-on approach to MBA education.
We believe that an MBA education should not take place entirely in the classroom. Our Action Learning approach ensures that you have the opportunity to test the theories that you learn from your professors in real business situations. During your fourth module of Hult's MBA course, you will join a small team coached by a faculty member or outside professional, and conduct a project with a real company. You will use your research, analysis, and management skills to tackle your client’s business needs, giving you an invaluable opportunity to network with industry executives and to work closely with your MBA course classmates.
Theoretical concepts will come to life during your Action Learning Project and business
simulation exercises. While most MBA courses strive to incorporate a similar "learning
by doing" philosophy into their curriculum, many are disadvantaged by their large
class sizes. Our relatively small class size enables us to include meaningful activities
that put your knowledge to work.
Innovation Olympics at Hult, powered by the IXL Center
The Center for Innovation, Excellence and Leadership (IXL Center) designs, manages and executes the Innovation Olympics Program, Hult's world-class action learning capstone project. The program is unique among traditional MBA classes and other “action learning” programs or business plan competitions because of its practical outcomes: 1) doing real work that makes a real impact on clients and 2) building student confidence and skills to be productive on the very first day after graduation.
The Innovation Olympics is offered simultaneously in Boston, Dubai, London and San Francisco and is a required course for MBA graduation. At each of these locations, Hult partners with five leading organizations and provides each of them with five diverse teams made up of five MBA candidates per team. Each set of five teams competes to develop the best solutions to a company’s growth challenges.
We are in the process of selecting 2010 Corporate Partners.
The Culminating Experience for all Hult MBA Candidates
This is The opportunity for Hult MBA candidates to demonstrate their mastery of innovation, marketing, finance, strategy, operations, project management, business communications, and other management disciplines. Furthermore, the program provides an exclusive opportunity for students to work closely with each other as well as senior executives from leading organizations and experienced business mentors in a real-world business context.
Previous projects have involved students working with senior executives at the following companies: Philips Healthcare, Pfizer, IBM, EMC, BAE Systems, Sherwin Williams, Osram Sylvania, Imaginatik, IHS Cera, Dubai World, Axiom Telecom, Dubai Mercantile Exchange, Al Rostamani Group, and American Cancer Society.
High Impact Results in Less Two Months for Corporate Partners
Diverse global teams of mid-career MBA students from over fifty countries spend their last semester focused on your firm’s growth challenge (determined by each Corporate Partner).
MBA teams follow a seven-week battle-tested approach that generates a wealth of insights, business concepts and business plans. Experienced innovation and growth consultants provide expert guidance and program management for each team and company. Corporate Partners are asked to participate in four structured meetings over the eight week period to guide the work of the MBA teams.
We are in the process of selecting 2010 Corporate Partners.
IXL Center’s Innovation Management Certification Program
Through its leadership in driving global standards for innovation management, IXL Center offers training and certification programs to Hult MBA candidates and to individuals in corporations around the world. IXL Center has certified over hundreds of innovation managers including executives from BAE Systems, Osram Sylvania, Natura, EmiratesNBD Bank and Arthur D. Little.
Hult students can get a Master's Certificate in Innovation Management if they successfully pass the certification test and the following Hult courses:
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Consulting Methods
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High Performance Innovation
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Innovation Olympics Project
About IXL Center
IXL Center helps Fortune 1000 businesses increase their return on innovation investments and initiatives. The Center works with clients to build the innovation management capabilities of leaders, teams, and organizations from concept to customer. Their clients achieve better, quicker, and more cost-effective results through our Innovation Boot Camps and Academies, Global Innovation Management Certification Program, the use of blended learning and action learning programs, and collaborative advisory and research projects.
IXL Center leaders have written and continue to develop country-wide innovation studies, innovation management white papers, books and articles. IXL Center has a broad network of experienced innovation leaders including Chief Innovation Officers, business innovation professors, and innovation consultants.
IXL Center was founded by senior leaders from Arthur D. Little Management Consulting, Monitor Group, Innovation Management Inc. and Innovation Associates and Professors from Hult International Business School. Each of the members of this team contributes their own unique set of global capabilities that were developed at each of institutions on the topic of innovation. Their collective experience has led to the creation of a comprehensive and differentiated approach to making innovation real and sustainable within organizations. You can learn more about IXl Center at www.ixl-center.com.
A well-rounded MBA Course
Hult's MBA education strives to mould you into a versatile business leader
. We equip you with essential skills needed to be successful in international business. During
your program, you will learn:
- Financial and analytical skills
- Micro-and Macro-economics
- Financial and Managerial Accounting
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Corporate Finance
- Investment Banking
- Financial Instruments
- Capital Markets
- General management
- International Negotiations
- Leadership and Team-building
- Communication and Presentation Skills
- Hiring Practices and Interview Skills
- Organizational Behavior
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Marketing and strategy
- Market and Product Segmentation
- Branding Strategy and Theory
- Corporate Strategy
- Consumer Behavior
Hult's MBA education: The case study method
Many class sessions are taught using the Harvard Business School case method of instruction. This works perfectly in an accelerated one-year timeframe, and encourages students to improve their communication and problem-solving skills by carefully analyzing real management situations. This approach follows a distinct progression: first, individual preparation and analysis; next, small group discussion and review; and finally, a full class debate. The functional, industrial, and geographic diversity within these discussions provides an opportunity for you to learn from your classmates as well as from your professors. It is also a valuable way for you to practice articulating and defending your ideas. There are no right or wrong answers in this MBA course case study method, though there is frequently follow-up information to illustrate how the problem was solved in reality.
An MBA course that puts learning into practice
Your classroom learning will be reinforced through exercises including:
- Team Building Excursion
You and your classmates will spend a day working on a series of leadership and team
building exercises in small groups.
- Multinational Management Simulation
Through a computer-generated simulation, small teams will act as managers operating in the international marketplace, and compete with other teams.
An MBA Course that emphasizes Practical Skills Development
Hult's MBA education has responded to business leaders’ requests for more practical
skill development by integrating five skills courses into the curriculum. These
five MBA courses are introduced through a series of workshops, exercises,
simulations, and lectures offered in the first two modules of the program. Specific
competencies that the Hult MBA courses will develop will be in the areas of:
- Global Citizenship
- Business Execution
- Management Communications
- Lifelong Career Management
- IT for Business Managers
An MBA education that emphasizes innovation and growth
Recognizing that innovation is key to sustaining competitive advantage and driving growth,
the Action Learning projects in Hult's MBA course are based around this. This integral part
of your MBA education will entail formulating a business plan, identifying innovation and growth
opportunities, and working in a small team during your fourth module to help a real business. Together,
under the guidance of a faculty advisor, you will help a business develop bold and bankable ideas for
future growth. Your team will aim to: develop insights about the particular industry and business;
identify breakthrough ideas; develop a business concept; and build an implementation plan to present
to senior executives and CEOs.
Previous Action Learning projects have included:
- Developing business plans for new product segments, such as hand-held lighting and
remote control devices, for the world's oldest lighting manufacturer, Osram Sylvania.
- Helping directors at BAE Systems, the global defense and aerospace company, to move
into new fields-of-play by leveraging their existing state-of-the-art competencies
and technologies in sensors, communications and systems engineering.
- Identifying new applications and customers for the Director of IBM's Human Ability
and Accessibility Center, to help drive demand of IBM's machine-to-human and human-to-machine
platform technologies.
- Identify new growth opportunities for HIS CERA, the leading advisor to international
energy companies, financial institutes and governments. From creating a new consulting
practice around oil rights under the Arctic ice cap, to creating a credit score for
companies trading on Alibaba.
- Generating credible new growth options for the CEO of Imaginatik, a recently IPOed
enterprise software company, that could be implemented in a six to 12 month window.
An MBA course with Real World applications
No matter which industry or area you focus on, Hult’s MBA education will not only provide you with the theoretical knowledge you need, but also the hands-on experience of actual business situations. With our well-rounded course curriculum and emphasis on practical skills development, Hult's MBA course is the epitome of putting learning into practice.