Transforming perspectives, fostering impact.

Next Start 8 May 2025 (Weekend)
3 Nov 2025 (Modular)
Duration 18 Months
Language Ita & Eng (Weekend)
Eng (Modular)
Format Modular or Weekend
Avg. working
experience
13 years
Where Milano and Roma (Only Weekend)

Would you like to broaden the horizons of your professional growth? The Executive MBA is a professional and personal transformative journey for high-potential executives who choose to invest in their future, enhancing abilities and skills without compromising their professional and personal commitments.

 

Participants can choose between two formats:

 

  • The Weekend format, available in Milano and Roma, a bilingual option that combines sessions in Italian with selected modules in English, is delivered through weekend sessions, providing flexibility for those managing professional and personal obligations.
  • The Modular format in Milano, fully international and conducted entirely in English, is structured around intensive training weeks, ideal for professionals seeking an immersive and global learning experience.

 

Both formats combine flexibility and excellence, allowing participants to tailor their educational journey while advancing their careers.

An Executive MBA means:

  • A unique transformational process, continuously adapted to your specific needs and your agenda
  • Differentiated formats and learning processes: EMBA Weekend, bilingual (Italian/English), available in Milan and Rome, and EMBA Modular, fully international (entirely in English)
  • More opportunities for integration between classes: a single professional network, broader than ever
  • SDA Bocconi, the first Italian business school, with the highest international rankings

 

 


 

#EMBAWOMEN



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Who is it for?

  • For high-potential professionals and executives with solid work experience who aim to pursue their aspirations and significantly expand their growth opportunities.
  • For those seeking to balance an investment in their skills and competencies with professional commitments, choosing the format and learning experience that suits them best.
  • For individuals looking to gain knowledge that can be immediately applied in a professional context, fostering a productive synergy between study and work.
  • For those aspiring to build an active network with fellow participants, faculty, and alumni, to enhance both themselves and the contributions they make to society.

 


My EMBA in 60 seconds: Giorgio Marchi

My EMBA in 60 seconds: Simonetta Formentini

 

 


Why choose the EMBA?

1. Gain theoretical knowledge, specific skills, and action-oriented methods

The EMBA is a unique experience for your managerial development. It allows you to enhance and expand your knowledge base, consolidate theoretical approaches and operational intervention methods, and strengthen your motivations.

2. Balance professional ambitions with personal needs

To better suit your requirements, the Executive MBA offers two formats over an 18-month period:

  • Modular: 7 full-time one-week modules (1 abroad) + 6 weekend modules + Concentration.
  • Weekend: 30 weekend modules + 1 full-time one-week module abroad + Concentration.
3. Engage with a high-caliber faculty

The faculty at SDA Bocconi School of Management forms the cornerstone of the EMBA.

Throughout the program, their expertise is enriched by contributions from managers, entrepreneurs, and professionals from the Italian and international business landscape.

4. Join a highly qualified international network

The Executive MBA is a gateway to a high-profile professional network

This network extends well beyond the program's completion, connecting you to the broader Bocconi and SDA Bocconi Alumni community. It is an invaluable resource for building relationships, exchanging ideas, and accessing professional opportunities.

5. Deliver lasting benefits to your organization

The Executive MBA is a high-return investment for companies as well, driving organizational innovation and enhancing employee motivation.

Highlights

2
formats

Weekend: 35 weekend classes + 1 min/2 max long weekend modules (Fri - Sat) for optional seminars

Modular: 7 one-week module / full-time (mon - sat), 1 abroad

1

High-profile professional network, enhanced by Bocconi Alumni Community

300+

sessions

#1
IT Executive MBA

1st in Italy Executive MBA FT Ranking 2024

#6
EU B-School

6th European B-School FT Ranking 2024

Scholarships and Tuition Waivers

Inside my EMBA SDA Bocconi programs provide a unique and personalized learning experience. Step into the world of the EMBA to explore its exclusive content.

“The EMBA at SDA Bocconi enables you to incorporate education into your career path. Thanks to formats flexibility and mixing of face-to-face and distance learning, you will gain new skills and develop managerial tactics you can immediately implement in your daily work.

 

Go to the CV

Renata Trinca Colonel
Academic Director

"The EMBA is a fascinating journey of professional and personal growth. Combining methodological rigor and continuous innovation research of the SDA Bocconi faculty with the passion and commitment of a community of top-level participants and alumni, the EMBA transforms students so that they're ready for the next stage in their career".

 

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Marco Morelli
Program Director

What they say about us

For years, I questioned the true value of an Executive MBA. Opinions from those around me were divided, yet all shared one characteristic: they were categorical.

Over time, I came to understand.

The world, in all its richness and diversity, also reflects a division: between those who have completed an Executive MBA and those who have not. If you have the privilege of being among the former, the answer to the question, “Is it worth it?” can only be one.

Of course, this answer will take on different shades depending on the degree of enthusiasm, yet it will never lose its conviction or clarity. Some may simply say, “It was enlightening” or “a formative experience,” while others might declare, “It changed my life.”

Each person's sensibilities will pull them one way or the other. In my case, I can only say it was a little of everything. This adventure—because that’s what it truly is—certainly opens your eyes to a wealth of knowledge that was always there but perhaps remained in the shadows, barely glimpsed or not fully understood. An Executive MBA is also a tool that offers new ways of interpreting and understanding life.

You study, but you also learn to improvise. You share your experiences, but you also learn to question them. You rely on your own abilities, yet you also learn to depend on others. Someone once said that great works require 1% inspiration—or genius—and 99% perspiration, and there may be no better way to describe what to expect from an experience like this.

An MBA demands patience and sacrifice, participation and collaboration, but it guarantees immense rewards, both personal and professional. Deep down, when I first asked myself whether enrolling in an MBA program was worth it, I already knew the answer.

Being able to attend the program here in Rome was both a privilege and a tremendous advantage, granting me access to the resources of one of the most prestigious business schools, all within steps of my workplace.

To anyone who asks, with the right motivation, I can only recommend diving headfirst into this experience.

Alessandro Errico
EMBA Weekend 2020
Head of Business Scenario, Unmanned Systems

I had long dreamed of returning to school, acquiring new skills, and developing a more strategic approach through an MBA. My company gave me the opportunity to invest in myself and my education. This allowed me not only to fulfill a desire for personal and professional growth but also to be immediately ready to take on greater responsibilities and accept significant challenges as soon as my organization needed me, with even more energy, technical expertise, and a desire to put my newly acquired skills into practice.

Ilaria Scarinci
EMBA Weekend 2018
Chief Financial Officer, NHOA

Meet the EMBA

Upcoming face-to-face meetings
4
Apr 2025 14:00 - 19:00 | LOCAL TIME
Orientation Meetings - New York
Language ENGLISH
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5
Apr 2025 09:00 - 13:45 | LOCAL TIME
MBAs Open Day
Language ENGLISH
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Next Steps

W.E. 09/24 | MOD. 04/25
Admission Process Begins

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W.E. 03/25 | MOD. 07/25
Application Submission Deadline
W.E. 04/25 | MOD. 10/25
Online Tutorial
W.E. 05/25 | MOD. 11/25
Program Start
W.E. 03/27 | MOD. 05/27
Graduation

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