Anderson Marks 10th Year of GEMBA Program

This summer marks the 10th anniversary of the UCLA-NUS Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific program at UCLA Anderson School of Business. The program is a 15-month, dual-degree program in which graduates earn two MBAs, one from UCLA Anderson School of Management and another from the National University of Singapore Business School.

The program offers senior executives from around the world a global perspective on leadership and management. Students meet for six, two-week sessions across Shanghai, Bangalore, New Delhi, Singapore and Los Angeles, where they are immersed visits, meetings with executives and projects with international companies. The program culminates with a Management Practicum, a global strategic consulting project.

On August 23, 2014, the UCLA-NUS GEMBA program will graduate its 10th class comprised of 46 students. The program now boasts about 350 alumni worldwide, from more than 30 countries. At the time of the program’s founding, it was one of the first dual-degree programs offered by a business school, and the first degree program ever approved between a University of California school and a foreign university.

The UCLA-NUS GEMBA program is among the world’s top executive MBA programs, most recently ranked No. 3 by The Economist and No. 5 by The Financial Times. In addition to being a dual-degree program, the program offers executives the flexibility to meet in different locations and to communicate electronically in between sessions, as well as an evolving curriculum that reflects the changing needs of the marketplace.

The program’s alumni, faculty, students and staff celebrated the program’s 10-year milestone with a private dinner on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014, at the Annenberg Beach House, followed by a global summit on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014, at UCLA Anderson, and a closing celebration organized by GEMBA alumni Saturday evening at Yamashiro Hollywood.

Commencement takes place at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014, on Alumni Plaza, featuring Craig Ehrlich, chairman and co-founder of Novare Technologies and board chair of UCLA Anderson’s Center for Global Management, as commencement speaker.

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