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Experiential Learning in the Executive MBA

Each course is designed to integrate experiential learning into the curriculum. Hands on opportunities build leadership and teamwork skills, and put analytic knowledge to practice. Students gain hands on experience through case-based coursework, consultative projects with corporate partners, high-intensity virtual simulations, and global immersion trips.

War Games Elective

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Cox launched War Games, a high-intensity immersive course that simulates the moves and counter moves of key companies and influencers in the marketplace to anticipate what they are likely to do when there are changes in market dynamics. Students participate in an immersive competition and gain experience building and deploying a competitive intelligence framework, scenario planning, and timely decision making skills with a focus on industries undergoing rapid and disruptive change.

Global Business Environments

Get a close-up view of other countries' business mechanics while you expand your understanding of the cultures. Through an immersive global trip that includes face time with high-level executives and interactions with government officials, you'll immerse yourself in different economic, political, and cultural environments. Students most recently traveled to Lima, Peru, Santiago, Chile, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, and most recently, Dubai and Abu Dhabi and United Arab Emirates (UAE).

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½s And Institutes

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Cox is home to numerous ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½s and Institutes, serving as resources to the University, the community and the world. Many also offer opportunities for scholarly research and writing, conferences, periodic lectures and symposia. The expansive range of focus includes entrepreneurship, leadership, energy, real estate, customer engagement, financial studies, economic freedom, and more.

Learn all about Cox ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½s and Institutes

One of the most utilized centers by Executive MBA students is the Business Leadership ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ which offers specialized training in leadership and communication — critical skills necessary for success as an executive. The BLC offers skill-building experiential learning seminars, executive speaker series, experiential learning programs and coaching. More than 90 experiential learning seminars are offered, 4 per week on average, that build your strengths in communication, interpersonal relations, management, and leadership.  

Experiential learning programs through the BLC give you a chance to study with experts and apply your newly acquired skills. One of the favorites is the five-day program “Leading and Sustaining a Service Culture” held at the Disney Institute in Orlando Florida. ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Cox is the only graduate school to offer this customized program on-site at the Disney Institute. 

Students with the desire to give back to the community can do so through the Nonprofit Consulting Program. Students work in groups on projects that address real-life challenges faced by various local nonprofits. 

Learn more about the Business Leadership ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½

The Dallas Advantage: Does it matter where you get your EMBA?

We see Dallas as a hub of experiential learning. Not only does ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Cox encourage immersions, seminars, and real-world case studies, we encourage stepping into the Dallas culture. Deemed a capital of so many industries (we've recently been called "Y'all Street" instead of "Wall Street"), our city is thriving in real estate, healthcare, automotive, and finance.

Attending ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Cox for your Executive MBA doesn't just stop at your cohort in the classroom...Dallas is also your classroom.