Executive MBA in Business Transformation and Entrepreneurship
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 May 2025*
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
CHF 44,800 **
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning, On-Campus
* international applicants | 31 July 2025 - Swiss & EU applicants
** CHF 120 - application fee
Key Summary
Introduction
Two specializations, Sustainable Business & Business Transformation and Entrepreneurship, are designed for experienced professionals aiming to elevate their strategic leadership capabilities. This transformative program focuses on equipping participants with the skills necessary to navigate and drive change in today's dynamic business environment.
Program Highlights
Two Specializations: Specialization in Business Transformation and Entrepreneurship and Specialization in Sustainable Business
The curriculum emphasizes developing an entrepreneurial mindset, enabling participants to innovate and adapt business models effectively. Courses cover areas such as digital transformation, innovation, sustainability, leadership, and big data, all geared towards fostering concrete implementation skills in both corporate and entrepreneurial contexts.
Comprehensive Core Competencies
Beyond the specialization, the program offers core courses in Marketing, Leadership, Strategy, and Finance. This holistic approach ensures that graduates possess a well-rounded skill set, preparing them to tackle multifaceted business challenges.
Flexible Modular Structure
Understanding the demands on executive professionals, BSL offers a modular program structure. Participants can choose between full-time or part-time study modes, allowing them to pace their learning according to personal and professional commitments. The program also provides two options, full-time and part-time, to accommodate different schedules and international students.
Your Executive Education comes in 3D!
We have constructed BSL’s Executive Education with one central aim: empowering you as responsible actors of change. We have therefore designed the program three-dimensionally.
Dimension 1 – Specialization: Accelerating your career
The specialization in Business Transformation and Entrepreneurship aims at educating experienced managers who want to move to more strategic levels of leadership. This educational journey is a transformational, not transactional, experience that facilitates your learning and personal growth as a self-aware, adaptive, and responsible leader for a better world.
Dimension 2 – Focus and Core: Fine-tuning a unique mix of competencies
Students of the EMBA in Business Transformation and Entrepreneurship enhance their capacity as change-makers thanks to the focus on Data Analysis and AI. In addition, they all acquire and develop core competencies in Marketing, Leadership, Strategy, and Finance. The program results in a holistic learning experience that will transform you into a self-aware, knowledgeable and sustainability-conscious business practitioner.
Dimension 3 – Organization: a learning pace that will suit you
The program is modular, meaning that you progress one step at a time. You can choose between full-time or part-time, thus deciding on the intensity of your learning. The module calendar is available early enough to allow you to make sure the modules will fit into your schedule. All modules are available in Dual-Mode if a last-minute event prevents you from coming to BSL.
Learning Output
The EMBA journey is an invitation to explore new dimensions of your current business activities:
- You will embark on a personal transformation journey that will enable you to know yourself better, to (re)discover your unique purpose, and nurture your leadership capacity for making meaningful change in the world. The EMBA journey will immerse you in a learning space that fosters your personal growth through soft skills courses, one-on-one mentoring, and opportunities for coaching others.
- You will turn business on its head and get exposed to unconventional thinking beyond business-as-usual. Through our three-dimensional learning approach, “I,” “we,” and “all of us,” you will cultivate skills and perspectives that empower you to comprehend and respond to global business challenges from an individual, collective and systemic view.
- You will invest in your professional growth and explore opportunities to fuse your previous experiences, strengths, and passions into a fulfilling career path. You will stretch yourself and apply what you learn straight away through the EMBA Executive Project: You will choose and develop an entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial project that aligns with your career’s goal.
Ideal Students
The BSL Executive MBA in Business Transformation and Entrepreneurship is ideal for participants and professionals looking to build on their existing experience to make a real impact on business, with the added value of a specialization in the field of sustainability. Our program enables entrepreneurs to translate their vision into developing a business in line with the values for a sustainable future.
Our participants have an affinity for personal development and self-reflection and are eager to become change agents for a better world. The program is a perfect opportunity to combine your passion for a sustainable future with your career aspirations.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
BSL is proud to offer partial scholarships to worthy candidates on a need and merit basis, interested in leveraging business as a force for good! The Admissions Committee reserves the right to acquire financial statements to confirm the financial need of scholarship applicants. Applications will only be considered when submitted with a complete application file at the initial application stage. In return for a reduction in tuition fees, scholarship recipients will be able to make a positive contribution to the BSL community and have the opportunity to leverage their own talents.
Applicants are reviewed on an individual basis and are evaluated based on how they intend to contribute their talents to the community of students, faculty, and staff of BSL.
To apply for a scholarship, you should provide a Scholarship Letter together with your complete file at the initial application stage. Your Scholarship Letter should indicate whether you are applying for a scholarship based on merit or financial need. In case of the latter, you should emphasize your financial condition and the reasons why you need the funding. Regardless of whether you apply for a merit- or need-based scholarship, your letter should address the following:
- Why you believe you deserve the merit or need-based Scholarship;
- Describe your talent(s) or contribution to BSL and its student community (this should link to specific activities that are provided in the attached process document);
- Describe why your talent(s) would be important and add value to BSL and its student community;
- Outline your need and expectation in terms of a % of a scholarship and link this to the scope of contribution to the BSL community.
Curriculum
Core Courses
EMBA
- Strategic Negotiation
- Business Ethics and Compliance Management
- Strategy for Business Transformation
- Marketing Strategy and Competitive Positioning
- Building Brand in a Digital Age
Specializations
Sustainable Business
- Building Sustainability Strategies
- Implementing Sustainability Strategies
- Creating Sustainable Value / Supply Chain Focus
- Sustainable Finance
- Leading Sustainably
Business Transformation and Entrepreneurship
- From Social to Regenerative Entrepreneurship
- Managing and Developing People in the 4th Industrial Revolution
- Leading through crisis
- Business Transformation toward Sustainability
- Leading Sustainably
Focus
Data Analysis & Finance
- Strategic Corporate Finance
- Financial Investment, Optimizing Returns Through Data Analytics
- Data Science, Machine Learning and AI in Business
- Trend analysis and scenario planning
- Finance for Entrepreneurs
Program Outcome
The EMBA learning experience serves your personal and professional development. It helps your progress to help your career. Hence, the learning output of the program provides you with varied possibilities, such as:
- Accelerating your current career
- Assisting your transition to a new corporate career
- Supporting your entrepreneurial project
- Developing your consulting skills
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Career Impact
Graduates of this EMBA program are well-prepared to assume senior leadership roles that require adeptness in managing transformation and fostering innovation. The program's emphasis on practical application ensures that participants can immediately implement learned strategies within their organizations, driving impactful change and sustainable growth.
Career Services & Support
Throughout the E/MBA program, you will have access to our ongoing career services and support.
Personalized Career Advice
We want to help you find more than a job. We will encourage you to craft a meaningful and fulfilling professional path based on your interests, passions, and strengths. Our dedicated career counselor will work with you throughout the program, providing one-on-one career advice, job search guidance, internship support, resume writing consultation, and recommendations for suitable opportunities.
Jobs and Internships Online Platform
From day one on campus, you will access our internal job and internship search platform, allowing you to browse Switzerland and other opportunities abroad. The platform is updated regularly with opportunities that come through a broader community of alumni, partnering organizations, social enterprises, and other organizations.
Guest Speakers and Company Visits
You will expand your network of contacts and meet industry experts through regular guest speaker visits in class. You will take part in organized visits of companies and NGOs in the region, which provide an excellent opportunity to gain insight into how different organizations work, what specific challenges each industry faces, and how different roles and functions work together.
Global Alumni Network
You will become part of a worldwide network of students and alumni from over 60 nationalities. Many of our graduates have become entrepreneurs and successfully launched their own businesses. Others have chosen a corporate career in multinationals or a service-oriented path in the public sector. Regardless of which way you go, you will be encouraged to reach out to the network as you craft your future employment.
Faculty
Student Testimonials
Program delivery
Duration: 1 or 2 years
- 1 year for the full-time model
- 2 years for the part-time model
Course work: 16 courses
- 5 Core modules
- 5 Focus modules (Data Analysis)
- 5 specialisation modules (Business Transformation & Entrepreneurship)
- Courses are scheduled in three-day modules (Thursday to Saturday)
Workload
- Each module includes 3 days (27 hrs) of class time and 35-50 hrs of independent study
- The E/MBA Executive Project includes 300 hours of study time spread over your program, in parallel with your seminars (1 year full-time or 2 years part-time)
- Weekly time:
- Full-time model: Approximately 30 hours/week
- Part-time model: Approximately 15 hours/week
- Full-time model: Approximately 30 hours/week
- Part-time model: Approximately 15 hours/week
Learning Ecosystem
At BSL, a genuine Learning Ecosystem empowers Classroom learning. The EMBA students benefit from various features that will enable them to transfer the knowledge and skills they acquire into their personal and professional development. BSL Career Center provides a structured and holistic pathway toward career advancement, transition, or switch. The program is made of counselling sessions, self-development, and self-branding. It is plugged into the EMBA program through classroom modules, individual meetings, online webinars, and social events.
BSL is the partner of the Incub&Co incubator to provide a space entirely dedicated to entrepreneurial initiatives. Distinguished and inspirational Guest Speakers regularly visit EMBA classroom modules and open direct access to a wealth of real-world experiences and innovations.
Program Admission Requirements
Demonstrate your commitment and readiness to succeed in business school by taking the GMAT exam – the most widely used exam for admissions that measures your critical thinking and reasoning skills.
Download the GMAT mini quiz to get a flavour of the questions you’ll find in the exam.