Full Time One Planet MBA

One Planet MBA

The One Planet MBA launches in September 2011. Working in partnership with WWF, the global conservation organisation, our vision is a completely new type of MBA producing unique planet-minded business leaders. Our current innovation cohort have worked alongside the Exeter faculty and WWF to develop the full programme.

The One Planet MBA from the University of Exeter Business School gives you an opportunity to really stand out in the global marketplace. Available in full-time and executive formats, it’s a first class business programme, delivered by world class faculty – that’s designed to help you get ahead and get noticed.

One Planet MBA

The One Planet MBA launches in September 2011. Working in partnership with WWF, the global conservation organisation, our vision is a completely new type of MBA producing unique planet-minded business leaders. Our current innovation cohort have worked alongside the Exeter faculty and WWF to develop the full programme.

The One Planet MBA from the University of Exeter Business School gives you an opportunity to really stand out in the global marketplace. Available in full-time and executive formats, it’s a first class business programme, delivered by world class faculty – that’s designed to help you get ahead and get noticed.

A world-class MBAThe programme

• AMBA accredited and delivered by faculty with world-class reputations who are driving cutting-edge research and knowledge application.
• Unique Roundtables for Practising Managers module, delivered by Henry Mintzberg and Jonathan Gosling bringing together EMBA participants from eight business schools around the world. The module is designed to enable participants to reflect on and share experience and styles of management in culturally varied environments exposing them to an authentic cross-cultural examination of international management.
• Individual coaching available from a dedicated MBA Career Coach, responsible for working with participants and business to develop opportunities for job shadowing, internships and dissertation projects.
• A personal tutor drawn from the MBA teaching team assigned to each participant to provide academic monitoring and advice, and access to further support from the dedicated Programme Director and Programme Manager.
• Further employability support offered through sessions focused on professional skills; access to an international database of employment opportunities where recruiters are seeking MBA graduates; and talks from practitioners and alumni about their own experiences and career.
• Our thriving MBA alumni network and contacts throughout industry are actively involved with the programme, contributing to programme development and delivery.
• Participants of the Exeter MBA are afforded affiliate membership to the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and have access to the CMI libraries.
• The campus, built on a human scale, offers an environment ideally suited to learning and personal development where you can really focus on yourself and your development through the programme.

Why One Planet?
“One Planet” means a very specific kind of education. It refers to the fact that business planning of the future must recognise that we only have one planet’s worth of resources, yet we are currently collectively using over one and a third planets, a figure which increases daily. The combination of very significant and asymmetric population growth over the next thirty years, the inevitable tendency for increased consumption of natural resources, and expected developments in the political economy make it essential that business people be educated in a manner, and with a curriculum, very different from that of the past. The One Planet MBA will address this.

The Experience
Our vision is that the One Planet MBA will be a traditional MBA with all the expected ingredients but global in outlook, developing leaders and managers capable of running organisations in a culturally diverse, resource-constrained world, influenced by radically different values and concerns from those of the recent past. You, as a graduate, will be capable of the business skills upon which MBAs have traditionally been based but will demonstrate a fully comprehensive grasp of global issues and cultures. The One Planet MBA will be a distinctive and innovative model for management education, transforming paradigms and priorities in the student experience, curriculum, and educational processes.

The MBA will be developed at Exeter, in partnership with WWF, an innovation cohort, and other organisations, some of whom will participate in the development phase (2010/11) as well as the long-term delivery and growth.

Full-time
The full-time programme begins in September and takes 12 months to complete. The year is divided into three periods: September 2001 to January 2012 for the core fundamentals, January to May 2012 for integration and elective modules, and June to September 2012 for the MBA project. Some modules are taught on a weekly basis (eg. three hours per week) whilst others are taught in a compressed block (4 – 5 days) and shared with executive MBA students.