Executive Strategy and Sustainability In Copenhagen

Executive Global: Why is it so fundamentally important for leaders with a global outlook to seek further education in 2025? 

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Jesper Rangvid: The global business environment is becoming more volatile, fractured and uncertain, making it more important than ever for executives with ambitions for global roles to have an agile and strategic mindset, an ability to lead across borders with a forward-thinking mindset and a capacity to see business challenges from a big picture view.
 

EG: What attributes would you say that a successful leader must possess in order to succeed,  and how does an education at Copenhagen Business School play a fundamental role in developing these attributes?

JR: General managers must understand how the different business functions integrate, so they can create holistic solutions to complex business challenges. Further, they must be leaders with emotional intelligence and agility, with an ability to not only think strategically, but to bring an organisation along with them in enacting that strategy.
 

Through the EMBA’s final thesis, the Integrated Strategy Project, participants will identify a business problem of strategic importance to their own organisation, and then develop a strategy and plan to address it. In this way, participants will put into practice this holistic strategic thinking in a

practical and real-life scenario.
 

EG: What are some of the notable features of your Executive MBA Programme? 
 

JR: One of the defining features of the CBS EMBA is the quality of the participants. We are ranked #6 in the world (Financial Times) for Work Experience, illustrating the seniority and quality of the cohort. This creates an atmosphere of insightful class discussions, allowing participants to see business problems from different angles. The CBS EMBA provides participants the chance to apply their learning immediately. Almost every course in the programme concludes with an assessment that is designed by faculty for the individual to apply into their own organisation, thereby cementing the learning while providing immediate return to the organisation.
 

CBS allows its participants to choose between finishing the EMBA in one go over two years, or taking a step-wise approach and taking it on a term by term basis with the chance to pause your studies if circumstances change.

EG: Tell us a little about the four Concentrations in Governance and Sustainability, Digitalization and AI, Entrepreneurship and Finance? 

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JR: The EMBA is a general management degree, but participants have the chance to customize their EMBA learning journey and to deep dive

into one of four areas that play a critical role in business success. Given their importance, each of the four Concentration areas are still addressed as

mandatory courses, with the Concentrations complementing the core course learning.
 

EG: Give us an example of how relationships developed through the network of peers in the Executive MBA Programme have resulted in future success? 

JR: We keep our EMBA class size small, which allows for more direct interaction with faculty, but also deeper networks within a senior group of high-achieving classmates. These networks create lasting relationships that can provide counselling for work related matters but also in moments like when participants opt for a career shift, or when participants embark on establishing their own start-up. We also witness many examples where peers are invited as member of advisory boards of start-ups or on established companies.

EG: What experience can the prominent executives and leaders of tomorrow look forward to when studying at Copenhagen Business School? 
 

JR: They can look forward to being pushed beyond their comfort zone by a supportive network of seasoned executives who are, like them, seeking professional and personal development. Our participants are already leaders before they join the EMBA, but the programme pushes them further, empowering them to lead among leaders, to see business challenges from whole new perspectives, all while making a deep and diverse network of friendships along the way.   EG