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Executive MBA

The Executive MBA (EMBA) programme at Suleman Dawood School of Business has been designed to accelerate the growth of working professionals, connect them with industry leaders, and provide an opportunity to learn and put to practice the latest business and management strategies.

Spread over 22 months, this programme is designed for mid-career professionals with classes usually scheduled on alternate weekends.

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Suleman Dawood School of Business (SDSB) offers a uniquely designed Executive MBA (EMBA) Programme for mid-career executives to advance their managerial capability and take them to the next level in their professional lives. SDSB’s EMBA is Pakistan’s first and only programme in its category listed in the QS Executive MBA Rankings 2021. SDSB is also Pakistan’s first business school to achieve accreditation by AACSB International.

Over the years, our EMBA programme has flourished with world-class faculty, a carefully brought together body of students, participant-focused pedagogy, and the holistic ecosystem of SDSB, which continues to advance business practices and create positive social change. Our faculty brings rigour through in-depth research and relevance from extensive interaction with the industry. EMBA students bring diverse professional backgrounds and experiences, which, combined with a participant-centred learning approach, pioneered by SDSB in Pakistan, create an intellectually challenging and rewarding environment. This ecosystem at SDSB stimulates and supports executives to harness their full potential and prepares them for senior leadership positions in business and society.

The EMBA provides executives an unparalleled opportunity to be part of the most distinguished graduate programme in business education in the country while building a lifelong association with LUMS.

Dr. Ghulam Ali Arain

Associate Professor and Programme Director
Suleman Dawood School of Business

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Improve your organisation’s productivity, performance and profitability by increasing the effectiveness of key managers
Retain and motivate high achievers in your organisation
Develop a pool of sophisticated leaders who will enable your organisation to take on global challenges
Invest in employee development
Keep abreast of globally renowned practices and the skill set required to overcome the challenges of business expansion
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Participants do not have to put their careers on hold to earn the degree.
Most EMBA participants advance their careers during the programme, or upon graduation
The EMBA Programme is led by faculty with strong industry linkages, who have gained global recognition for their research work.
Participants learn from the industry experience of their cohort peers, and practical experience through the Globalisation Module.
The solid general management core courses enable participants to bring new ideas and skills to their workplace and put them to work right away.
This degree is an excellent investment in the future. It is also a wise investment for employers.
Work-life balance is maintained, with only three courses in each module at a time.
The entire programme is spread over 22 months with classes held on campus every alternate Saturday and Sunday to minimise required time out of the office.

Executive MBA Project

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The EMBA Project provides students an opportunity to apply classroom learning to address an issue of significant importance to an organisation. The project is approached as a management consultancy assignment. It requires students to explore key facets of the problem being faced by the organisation, and recommend alternative solutions. It is a challenging assignment, combining decision-making ability, teamwork, working under pressure, and an integrated approach towards management. It measures your ability to apply relevant theoretical concepts, tools, and techniques to the organisational problem being addressed. To the advantage of the current employer and the EMBA participant, the project is usually identified by the current employer (client) of the participant and a faculty advisor who provides guidance and counselling.

Globalisation Module

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EMBA participants learn first-hand about international business practices, competitive markets, and complex environments through the Globalisation Module. The Cross Cultural and Globalisation Module is an integral component of the programme spread over 7 to 12 days. It consists of sessions on globalisation and cross-cultural management with academics, experts and technocrats; and visits to local manufacturers, distributors and retailers. The module is currently offered in the United States of America. The class visits Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn the ropes of entrepreneurship from start-up gurus. Travel, visa, residential and entertainment costs are borne by the participants.

Rankings

The EMBA at SDSB LUMS sharpened my strategic thinking and expanded my vision beyond finance, empowering me to drive organisational growth.
Amjad Farooq (EMBA 2023)
Finance Director and Chief Financial Officer, Bata Pakistan Limited
Being an entrepreneur who comes from an engineering background, the EMBA journey at SDSB was an enriching experience that elevated my vision and approach to management. The case method pedagogy of the programme provided a unique opportunity to analyse diverse business problems from multiple facets and appreciate different approaches toward problem solving. It also encouraged me to do a lot of reflection about my past practices as a business manager and critically evaluate my decision-making and management style.

Usman Faiz (EMBA 2021)
Managing Director, Rachna Pearl Hotel
The EMBA programme helped me put things in perspective, taking learnings and lessons applied by the best companies and implementing the same in my work. This happened as we studied problems identified in various case studies that were developed on renowned local and international companies, which are very similar to the challenges we face, and helped diagnose problems with the best alternatives at hand.

Atif Arif (EMBA 2021)
Vice President, The Bank of Punjab
LUMS EMBA is one of the best designed programs in Pakistan for working professionals. The classes on every alternate weekend allow for day to day requirements of work, travel, and family life to continue almost uninterrupted. One of the other positives was the balance between academic theory and real world application - the case method was fantastic in grounding us in theoretical knowledge, and assignments typically focused on applying our learning to real world issues in our organisations.

Sadaf Rehman (EMBA 2016)
Non-Profit Consultant

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Your Lifelong Professional Network

LUMS is also a networking hub for its EMBA participants. As an EMBA participant, you are constantly networking with students, alumni, the corporate world and senior faculty members. You will form a strong connection with professionals worldwide, including top executives at leading national and international firms, successful entrepreneurs, community leaders, and passionate industry change-makers.

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Access to Cutting-edge Research

The SDSB faculty engages in cutting-edge research in all major fields of business and management. This research benefits the larger public—especially managers, executives, entrepreneurs and policymakers. These insights emerge from pioneering research published in the world’s leading academic journals and case hubs. Their teaching is informed by the most practically relevant lessons from such research. SDSB facilitates knowledge sharing and dialogue between academia and industry, thereby bringing LUMS a step closer to its goal of creating synergy between theory and practice.

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State-of-the-art Campus Facilities

EMBA participants have the option to avail accommodation facilities at the Rausing Executive Development Centre (REDC) at the University for the term. The residence at REDC is a single room accommodation. Rooms are well equipped with all necessary facilities, including direct dialling, WiFi access, and 24-hour customer service. From diverse food outlets, to a state-of-the-art swimming pool to excellent sports facilities, ATMs, a superstore, emergency medical services, first class gyms to library facilities, LUMS offers a complete ecosystem to all community members.