DTU Executive MBA, also called Master in Management of Technology (MMT), is a big personal investment, but it is likely to be one of the best investments you will ever make with a huge payback in both the short and the long run. It will give you the key skills and confidence you need to drive the corporate agenda. Innovation, digitalization and leadership are essential to the growth and survival of companies. For this reason, DTU Executive MBA focuses on Leadership, Innovation, and New Business Creation using current and future technologies.
DTU Executive MBA is accredited by AMBA, the Association of MBAs. This accreditation confirms the high quality of the programme and the benefits it provides for our participants and their companies.
Our Executive MBA is transformational – a journey that will have a deep impact not only on your own professional development but also on your company’s ability to cope with their future challenges.
Graduation Days at DTU EMBA
A brief look into the graduation process of our 2020 Graduates.
Why DTU Executive MBA?
YOUR benefits:
With DTU Executive MBA you will:
Learn to use tools, methods and insights from day one which will make your working life more efficient when dealing with challenges
Learn from our global faculty flying in from top universities and business schools from all over the world
Be able to manage work-life balance by spending every other Friday and Saturday on campus
Acquire higher personal insight and expand your leadership skills through presentations, teamwork, personalized feedback and structured reflection supported by business psychologists
Be qualified to inspire innovation in others and drive innovation processes and real change
Be able to create more value for your company and to create better career opportunities for yourself
Build your confidence and raise your profile by applying what you learned on the job, right away, through your MBA assignments
Go on two international study tours – and get to work there too
Expand your horizons by teaming up with peers from diverse backgrounds, functions, industries and age groups
Have access to a highly valuable knowledge-sharing network through your classmates, faculty and the alumni association.
Make friends for life, trusted friends who speak the same business language and can help you with honest opinions and contacts
Your COMPANY’s benefit
A direct contribution of at least 800 hours as a consultancy input from assignments and project reports (e.g. master project of 400 hours about a major business challenge)
A more knowledgeable leader especially within value creation
An internal expert in designing, planning and operating innovation processes and leading current and future technologies
A more loyal employee (as 43 per cent of the candidates stay with their company 10 years after graduation)
A direct impact from your leader having updated skills and contemporary knowledge on company performance.
DTU EMBA – Participant’s Perspective
Anne Kathrine Bjerregaard, Project Manager at Green Ship of the Future, discusses how DTU’s Executive MBA could help lift her competencies in mission critical areas such as innovation, technology, and sustainability.
Personalize for your career and work challenges
We use an applied learning approach, also called ’contextual learning’, throughout the programme. This means that all your assignments and cases are focused not only on enhancing your knowledge but also on having a direct and positive impact on your current business challenges. In practical terms, this means that your Executive MBA can, in a large part, be implemented in your daily work life from day one.
Company specific assignments
The structure of the programme ensures that theories and methods are applicable in practice. You will mainly address topics which have the potential for developing solution-oriented methods and tools. The programme is based on an ongoing interaction between participant experiences and relevant frameworks. During the courses of the programme, roughly 50 per cent of the total study time is spent on company specific assignments and projects.
Programme structure
Our general management curriculum gives you a solid foundation of practical business skills and experience and of applying knowledge in the real world. Teaching formats include case discussions, immersive team simulations, introspective exercises and feedback, real-world projects and group assignments, and international study tours.
The programme is divided into four semesters and begins at the end of August each year. The teaching takes place on every second Friday and Saturday. Each teaching day is divided into two sessions of 3½ hours each: from 08.30 to 12.00 and from 13.00 until 16.30, with a lunch break from 12.00 to 13.00.
During the first semester of the Executive MBA programme, you will go on a study tour to UC Berkeley as part of the Innovation Leadership course to find new inspiration. During the third semester of the Executive MBA, you will visit and work with local companies abroad through a real-life consultancy project.
Trip to UC Berkeley and Silicon Valley
DTU Executive Education and UC Berkeley have entered into a unique partnership which explores leadership concepts at the executive level. The Innovation Leadership course during 1st semester is taught at UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology by local faculty and industry representatives from Silicon Valley. The course explores key management and leadership concepts at the executive level that are relevant for innovation in public and private organisations.
The concepts taught in this intensive course, during our one-week stay in Berkeley, enhance your judgment and inspire new thought processes about innovation.
Participants get to learn from UC Berkeley faculty, talk to industry leaders, visit Silicon Valley companies and team up on a project presented to a venture capitalist and Berkeley professor.
Students will receive a certificate from UC Berkeley Extension upon completion of the module.
Lifelong network within a professional community
Working together intensively over 21 months creates safe and trusting relationships. You will be part of a network of inspiring classmates with whom you speak the same language, know well from having lived challenging times, and trust to help you with honest opinions and contacts.
The participants will automatically be members of the Alumni Association when they start the Executive MBA programme. The purpose of joining the association is to maintain and expand the close personal relationships established during the course of the programme. This also enlarges each participant’s professional network because it unites members of all classes through course-related activities and discussions on the association’s online platform and LinkedIn group. The alumni association offers year-round events and activities to foster lifelong learning in the areas of leadership, innovation, technology and sustainability, and connection between alumni and external experts.
Alumni activities
The Alumni Board have planned a range of activities throughout the year. Some of those activities are face-to-face and others are virtual. The diagram below captures the activities.
Join EMBA Alumni Group
Ongoing activities and events are managed via the EMBA Alumni on LinkedIn and when appropriate, via direct emailing.
The academic requirement for joining DTU Executive MBA programme is that you must at least have a bachelor’s degree, 5 years of work experience and 3 years of leadership experience. In addition, the admission team looks for qualities in participants such as curiosity, adaptability, reflectiveness, generosity and strategic acumen.
The admission process typically starts with an informal discussion of the programme, and the candidate’s needs and constraints. Once the candidate submits the application, an admission interview is scheduled with the Programme Directors.
Your acceptance to DTU Executive MBA is valid for 3 years. When we receive a signed admission letter, you are guaranteed a place in the program. Once payment for the first semester has been made, the contract is binding.
Finance
The total cost for DTU Executive MBA is DKK 380,000 excl. VAT. This price includes the following:
Tuition fee: DKK 315,000 Materials, food and beverage: DKK 25,000 2 International Study Tours: DKK 40,000
The tuition fee includes two International Study Tours, which are an integral part of the programme and take place in the 1st and 3rd semester. One month prior to the start of each semester you will be sent an invoice of DKK 95,000 excl. VAT. The cost of the programme can be covered by you, your company, or you can arrange to split the cost between both parties. Substantial cost savings can be gained by applying for the Gross Income Tax Credit (bruttolønsordning). For further information, please go to tax.dk or check out our video:
Gross Income Tax Credit
Substantial cost savings can be gained by applying for the Gross Income Tax Credit (bruttolønsordning). For further information, please go to tax.dk or check out this video.
Global Faculty
Watch Brent Smith, Professor of Management and Psychology at Rice University, discuss the positive educational environment for both professors and students at DTU EMBA.
Each module is taught by a professor from DTU or a visiting faculty member from one of the world’s leading business schools or from the industry.
Leadership & Strategy
Our leadership cast comprises renown faculty, industry leaders, consulting experts and psychologists, all working towards one goal: making you a better leader.
Peter Moran, Strategy, CEIBS
Brent Smith, Leadership, Rice University
Hervé Coyco, Leadership, HEC Paris
Amy Kates, Organizational Development & Change, KK Consulting
John Amis, Organizational Development & Change, University of Edinburgh Business School
Barry Stainthorp, Communication Skills, Partners in Training
Peter Moran
Strategy
Peter Moran is Associate Professor of Strategy at CEIBS, Shanghai. Prior to joining CEIBS, Dr. Moran was a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Australia Business School, and an Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Management at London Business School, UK. Peter received his PhD in strategy from INSEAD and an MBA in Business Policy from Cornell University. He has taught core courses in Strategy, General Management and Strategic Problem Solving for both full-time and Executive MBA programmes at London Business School, where he twice earned the “Best Core Teacher” award from the School’s Executive MBA Classes. In addition to his academic career, Peter also has extensive consulting experience with MNEs such as Booz-Allen & Hamilton and has held process, research and operations engineering positions with Continental Oil Company.
Brent Smith
Leadership
Professor Smith is currently Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and Associate Professor of Management and Psychology at Rice University. Prior to his current academic appointments, he was a member of the faculty at London Business School and Cornell University where he taught in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. He has also taught for shorter periods at the University of California at Berkeley, Oxford University, and the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and has conducted executive programs globally for many large companies, eg. Royal Dutch Shell, IBM, Barclays, KPMG, ExxonMobil, Microsoft, Phillip Morris International among many others. Dr. Smith has served as leadership faculty in the corporate universities for NationalOilwellVarco, Credit Suisse and Lufthansa. His teaching interests focus primarily on leadership and management development. Dr. Smith’s executive programmes include Leadership Development, Leading and Managing Change, Talent Development and Coaching, People Integration, and Leading and Managing High Performance Teams. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park.
Hervé Coyco
Organizational Development and Change
Hervé Coyco has been working for Group Michelin for 30 years. During this period, he took several executive positions in Europe, North America and Asia. Member of the Group Executive Council from 1996 to 2008, he spent 10 years as President of the Passenger Car Tire Division – an 8 Billion Euros/year, 50 000 employee Worldwide Business- before moving to Singapore, as President of Michelin Asia-Pacific Operations. During his career at Michelin, Hervé Coyco developed an in-depth Business-to-Consumers and Business-to- Business experience and worked extensively with both the Automotive and the Retail industry. Hervé Coyco left Group Michelin in 2008 to create a consultancy in the fields of Strategy and Management of International Operations. As an Affiliate Professor, he lectures regularly at HEC to executive audiences on the subject of Leadership Development and General Management. He is also Programme Academic Director for International Companies such as MBDA-the European missiles specialist-Total, Colas, Air France-KLM.
Amy Kates
Organizational Development and Change
Amy is Managing Partner at Kates Kesler Organization Consulting, a boutique organization design firm based in New York City. Kates Kesler has been named by Forbes as one of America’s best consulting firms for the past three years. Amy serves as a trusted advisor to business leaders in successful companies around the world, working with them to assess organizational issues, reshape structures and processes, and build management capability. In addition to her consulting work, Amy is a Visiting Fellow to the Government of Singapore for 2018 – 2020, a Resource Partner to the Center for Effective Organizations at the Marshall School of Business at USC, and a member of the i4cp Thought Leader Consortium. She was selected by LinkedIn Learning to develop their video course on organization design. In addition to DTU, she teaches at Cornell University. Amy is the co-author of four books on organization design, two with Jay Galbraith and two with Greg Kesler and a video series on YouTube. She also serves as a board member for Educate!, an innovative non-profit focused on secondary school reform in east Africa.
John Amis
Organizational Development and Change
John Amis joined the University of Edinburgh Business School in July 2013 as Chair in Strategic Management and Organisation. He is also Director of the School’s Doctoral Program. He has been a runner-up for the annual Academy of Management Journal ‘Best Paper’ award, and has also won Best Paper awards at the annual meetings of the Academy of Management (Organizational Development & Change division), Western Academy of Management, and Southern Management Association. He has received a number of teaching awards including the University of Memphis’ Distinguished Teaching Award. He sits on several Editorial Boards, including Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, and Journal of Management Inquiry, and is an Associate Editor at Journal of Change Management. He has carried out consulting assignments, sponsored research projects, and Executive Leadership Development programmes with various firms, including Fortune 500 US companies, FedEx and AutoZone.
Berit Sander
Leadership
M.Sc. (Psychology), University of Copenhagen, certified psychologist by the Board of Psychologists under the Danish Ministry of Social Affairs in 1994; M.A. (Business, Consulting) Copenhagen Business School. Positions: Training manager for Ludvigsen & Herman A/S; management development consultant for providing executive management training at the Danish School of Public Administration; consultant for Mercuri Urval A/S. Since 1996, owner of Sander Konsulentfirma ApS: executive development, sparring for management teams, team development, organizational development, coaching, recruitment, lecturing, courses, etc. International experience in management training, and author of a number of technical books.
Barry Stainthorp
Communication Skills
Barry Stainthorp is the Founder of Partners in Training, a U.K. based company specializing in the training and development of corporate personnel. Since it was founded in 1974 by Barry and three colleagues, Partners in Training has delivered training programs for over 1,200 international and multi-national companies all over the world, representing most industrial and commercial sectors, as well as government organizations and NGOs. Barry has degrees and professional qualifications from the Universities of Leeds and Sussex in the UK, and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK and a Member of the British Institute of Management. He was nominated in 1999 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in recognition of his work in business development. Barry has always tried to balance his training commitments with business consultancy work in order to keep his knowledge up to date and to refresh his work in the training room.
Innovation
Innovation is at the core of our programme, with an immersive week in Berkeley and no less than 4 other faculty using a wealth of tools, frameworks, case studies and exercises to bring you to the leading edge of strategic innovation management.
Oliver Alexy, Innovation, TUM School of Management
Roger Hallowell, Service Innovation, HEC Paris
Thomas Howard, Service Innovation, DTU Entrepreneurship
Iklaq Sidhu
Innovation
Ikhlaq Sidhu is the chief scientist for the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley and serves as the primary architect of its curriculum and integrated research. Professor Sidhu joined UC Berkeley in 2005 as founding director of UC Berkeley’s highly successful Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, which has grown to become the cornerstone of the Fung Institute. In 2009, he received the recognition as the 2009 Emerging Area Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley for his contribution to this new research and teaching area at UC Berkeley.
Darrell Mann
Innovation
Darrell is Managing Director of Systematic Innovation Ltd, a 40-person company offering a range of systematic innovation products and services to clients around the world. He has also been running the Systematic Innovation network since 2002. The network has offices and affiliates in 20 countries. With over 600 papers and articles to his name, plus the best-selling ‘Hands-On Systematic Innovation’ books, Darrell is now one of the most widely published authors on innovation in the world. Darrell is featured in Who’s Who in the World as one of the world’s most prolific inventors.
Oliver Alexy
Innovation
Oliver Alexy joined the TUM School of Management in July 2012 as Professor of Strategic Entrepreneurship. Previously, he held several roles in the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Group at Imperial College Business School in London, England. Oliver’s teaching encompasses lectures and seminars on topics such as organizational renewal, business models, open innovation, and entrepreneurial growth. He currently teaches on the undergraduate, graduate, and executive programmes at TUM School of Management and furthermore offers courses to students of other departments, such as Informatics. Oliver’s research revolves around the design of organizations in general, and of R&D organization in particular, and how this relates to the innovative success and strategic renewal of established companies and the establishment and growth of start-ups. In this context, he particularly focuses on the role of open and distributed innovation processes and networks, topics which are of high interest and relevance to academics and practitioners alike. His research has been published or is forthcoming in leading international academic journals, such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, as well as practitioner-oriented outlets such as Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Sloan Management Review, and McKinsey Quarterly.
Roger Hallowell
Service Innovation
Roger Hallowell, a former Harvard Business School professor and managing partner of the Center for Executive Development, has designed and delivered dozens of customized executive education programmes and seminars throughout North America, Central America, and Europe, and is on a regular basis teaching at Vlerick Business School and DTU Executive School of Business. A facilitator of strategy meetings, his focus lies in the intersection of strategy, marketing, operations and human resources. Roger’s other academic interests are in the leadership of organizations wanting to increase the value they deliver to customers, often through service. As such, his projects are designed to help executives and senior managers enhance their leadership abilities, including their ability to design and implement change. He is an authority on strategic initiatives with the goal of simultaneous cost reduction and quality improvement. Roger obtained his AB from Harvard College and an MBA and Doctorate from Harvard Business School.
Thomas J. Howard
Service Innovation
Thomas is an Associate Professor in Engineering Design, with research specialization in Design for Quality and Robustness. In 2014 Thomas won the DTU Innovation prize for his approaches and teaching related to Technology Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation. Thomas is now the CTO of spin-out company MASH Biotech ApS and runs a large innovation network and ecosystem around technology entrepreneurship. In 2013 he became the youngest elected member of the Design Society Advisory Board and holds a position as visiting faculty at UC Berkeley and Distinguished chair at CETYS University.
Technology and Digital Transformation
Technology is in the DNA of DTU. How to organize best leverage technologies for competitive advantage? Hear from those who have done it, sometimes repeatedly.
Jes Broeng, Management of Technology, DTU Entrepreneurship
Kathrin Kirchner, Business Analytics, DTU Management
Thomas Bolander, Artificial Intelligence, DTU Compute
Ian McCarthy, Management of Technology, SFU
Jes Broeng
Management of Technology
Jes Broeng is serial high-tech entrepreneur, photonics scientist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark, DTU. He has a Ph.D. and M.Sc. from DTU and is author and co-author of more than 200 publications, 1 textbook, and 18 patents. Jes Broeng’s research interests include business and leadership areas of entrepreneurship, innovation and technology transfer, and scientific areas of optics, photonics and communications. He has extensive experience in applied research, early high-tech business development, IPR and licensing, and high-tech sales (US, Europe, and Asia). Dr. Broeng is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences and a Fellow of SPIE (the international society for optics and photonics), and has served on the committee of several international conferences. Dr. Broeng was awarded the European Optics Prize in 1999 and DTU’s Innovation Award in 2016.
Kathrin Kirchner
Business Analytics
Kathrin Kirchner is Associate Professor at DTU Management Engineering and a member of the “Implementation and Performance Management” group at DTU. Her research comprises knowledge sharing and knowledge work, especially in virtual environments and supported by enterprise social software. Furthermore, she is interested in flexible working processes and data analytics.
Thomas Bolander
Artificial Intelligence
Thomas Bolander, PhD, is an associate professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). His research areas are logic and artificial intelligence, focusing primarily on the use of logic to model human-like planning, reasoning, and problem solving. Of special interest is the modelling of social phenomena and social intelligence with the aim of creating computer systems that can interact intelligently with humans and other computer systems. The application areas of interest are e.g. computer-controlled characters in computer games, intelligent personal assistants in mobile phones, and mobile robots. Thomas has developed and taught a wide range of highly praised courses in mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence, having received the “teacher of the year” award at DTU in 2006. He is also a book reviews editor for the Springer Journal Studia Logica, and scientific advisor for the Science & Cocktails initiative.
Ian McCarthy
Management of Technology
Ian McCarthy is the W.J. VanDusen Associate Professor of Innovation and Operations Management. He came to SFU from the University of Warwick, England where he was a Reader and Head of the Organizational Systems Strategy Unit. He worked for several years as a manufacturing engineer before earning his PhD in operations strategy from the University of Sheffield. Ian’s research and teaching focus on operations management, change and innovation management, and social media. His research has been published in many top journals, including: Academy of Management Review, Industry and Corporate Change, California Management Review, Technovation. He is also Director of the CPA Innovation Centre at the Beedie School of Business.
Sustainability
Sustainability has quickly become a new business imperative, with transformative power. But how do we think about sustainability in various industries? How will value chains be reconfigured?
Alistair Brandon-Jones, Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Bath
Michael Lewis, Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Bath
Simon Bolwig, Sustainability Management, DTU Management
Alistair Brandon-Jones
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Alistair Brandon-Jones is Professor in Operations and Supply Management; Associate Dean for Post-Experience Education at University of Bath, School of Management. He formerly held academic positions at Manchester Business School, University of Bath, and Warwick Business School. Alistair is an active empirical researcher in the field of Operations and Supply Management, focusing on e-enabled supply chain management, healthcare operations, and professional service operations. His research and executive development have involved collaborations with a wide variety of organisations in the private and public sector and have been supported with funding from the Design Council, ESRC, EPSRC, Welsh Assembly Government, and Local Government Association. Alistair’s work has been published in leading management journals and he is also co-author for the worlds’ market-leading portfolio of Operations and Supply Management textbooks. In his role as Associate Dean for Post-Experience Education, Alistair is responsible for providing academic leadership across the school’s portfolio of post-experience offerings, including the MBA, EMBA, DBA and Executive Development. Read Alistair’s article in the International Journal of Operations and Production Management here.
Michael Lewis
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Although always interested in an eclectic range of subjects, my research activities address two complementary themes across both public and private sector organizations: the strategic benefits of operational and supply competence and the dis-benefits of operational and supply failure. Moreover, these themes reflect a personal commitment to multi-disciplinary, practice-orientated but sometimes critical perspectives: employing a range of methodologies: from archive data work, to case studies and simple experimental game forms.
Simon Bolwig
Sustainability Management
Simon Bolwig is Senior Researcher at System Analysis Division, Department of Management Engineering, DTU, and is leader of the research group Climate Change and Sustainable Development in the same Division. Simon holds a master’s degree and a PhD degree in Geography from the University of Copenhagen. His main interest is the study of value chains for food, (bio)energy and organic residues, in industrialised as well as in developing countries, in the context of climate change and other sustainability dimensions. He is particularly concerned with the role of technological innovation, firm capabilities and strategies, consumer behaviour, and institutions (especially standards) for the transition to more sustainable value chains and sustainable development. He is engaged in several European, Nordic and Danish research projects that address these topics. He especially enjoys doing research in close interaction with stakeholders from industry and policy makers, including through in-depth research interviews, workshops and collaborative projects. Simon contributed to writing the latest IPCC report on climate change mitigation (2014) focusing on the inter-linkages between climate change mitigation and sustainable development. Prior to joining DTU in 2009, he worked for the Danish Institute for International Studies and the International Food Policy Research Institute and has extensive research experience from developing countries.
General Management Disciplines
General management disciplines round up the education with rigorous methods and deep understanding of the mechanisms needed to run businesses in complex, volatile environments.
Marcus Alexander, Business Problem Solving, London Business School
Sertan Kabadayi, Marketing, Fordham University (New York City)
Paul Matthyssens, Marketing, Antwerp University
Dennis Vink, Financial Analytics and Management, Nyenrode Business Universiteit
Stephan Schubert, International Business and Management, INSEAD
Zoran Perunovic, Business Problem solving, Rice University
Kasra Ferdows, International Business and Management, Georgetown University
Marcus Alexander
Business Problem Solving
PMA (Oxford), MBA (Harvard). Adjunct Associate Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School and director of Ashridge Strategic Management Centre since 1991. Has worked with multi-business corporations, including the relationship between their strategy and organisational design, with particular emphasis on how globalisation, new technology and outsourcing affect strategy. Has previously worked in the world of finance with mergers and acquisitions and provided training to Boston Consulting Group in London, Australia, Europe and Boston. M.A. from Christ Church, Oxford, and M.B.A. ditto from Harvard Business School. Winner of London Business School’s Faculty Teaching Award in 2004. Co-author of the book “Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value in the Multibusiness Company” and contributor to other books.
Sertan Kabadayi
Marketing
Sertan Kabadayi is Professor of Marketing, and the Chair of the Marketing Area at Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University in New York City. He holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from Baruch College, The City University of New York. In addition to his academic career, Sertan has held high-level marketing and sales positions in Philips Electronics Co. and Electrolux Home Appliances Co., having played a key role in the planning and introduction of new product lines. Dr. Kabadayi’s research focuses primarily on the areas of multiple distribution channel strategies, multichannel service delivery, and transformative service research. His work has been published in a variety of academic journals including: Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Service Management, Industrial Marketing Management, and Psychology & Marketing. He is currently the Associate Editor of the Journal of Creating Value and Editorial Board Member of Journal of Business Research and Journal of Service Theory and Practice.
Paul Matthyssens
Marketing
Paul Matthyssens is professor of Strategic Management and Global Strategic Management at the Department of Management, Antwerp University, Belgium and at Antwerp Management School, Belgium. He is a regular professor for global marketing and industrial market strategy in executive programs at Copenhagen Business School (SIMI) and Stockholm School of Economics (IFL). Matthyssens consults and trains multinational companies such as Roche Diagnostics, DSM, Finmeccanica, ERIKS and Oiltanking, as well as federations such as VIB, UNETO, Staalfederatie Nederland, NEVAT, and Agoria and government bodies such as VRWI (Flemish Scientific & innovation council) and the POM Antwerp.
Dennis Vink
Financial Analytics and Management
Dennis Vink is Professor of Finance and Investment at the Nyenrode Business Universiteit and is the Director of the Center for Finance at Nyenrode. He also serves as a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Moscow State University since 2012. He is known as the author of various academic papers that focus on structured finance. Dennis has worked at Nyenrode since 2002 where he has been given the professor of the year award for teaching excellence in the Nyenrode executive MBA jointly organized with Kellogg School of Management in 2009. He led training programs for (senior) management at major corporations, such as ABN AMRO Lease, BAM, Heijmans, Eneco, Eureko / Achmea, Oranjewoud, and ING Real Estate.
Stephan Schubert
International Business and Management
Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, faculty member at Ashridge Executive Education and Visiting Professor at DTU Business. Stephan Schubert has a deep interest in strategic issues, ranging from decision-making processes to business modeling, strategic leadership and organisational transformation. He pays particular attention to the role of mental frameworks, biases and hidden agendas in strategy development. Stephan has worked on client assignments in over 25 countries, from Chile to China, and has gained extensive experience in a wide range of industries.
Zoran Perunovic
Business Problem Solving
Zoran Perunovic is an associate professor at DTU Business. He has worked as a consultant in various managerial disciplines for numerous companies in Europe, North America, and Asia. He has helped several European governments in developing their national innovation systems. He is also on the editorial board of the Applied Innovation Journal, published by UC Berkeley. Zoran has taught innovation, entrepreneurship, outsourcing, and operations management at several European and US universities. His research in Innovation and Operations Strategy has appeared in prestigious journals like the California Management Review, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and International Journal of Production Economics.
Kasra Ferdows
International Business and Management
Professor at Georgetown University School of Business since 1990. Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a post doctoral degree from Harvard Business School. Visiting professor and faculty member at Harvard Business School. Has taught at INSEAD for ten years and is still a visiting professor there. Initiator and head of Global Manufacturing Futures Research, a collaborative project regarding the study of large multinational corporations in North America, Europe and Japan. Consultant to a number of major corporations and World Bank Group. Watch: Kasra on global production management
DTU Executive MBA Staff
Stephane Guerraz
Programme Director, DTU Executive MBA
Stephane Guerraz holds an MBA from UC Berkeley in California, a Master in Artificial Intelligence, is a CFA Charterholder and an actuary. After starting his career as a financial engineer, he spent more than ten years as a management consultant, helping corporations with digital transformation, organizational reviews and change, transition to agile and M&A integration. He co-founded a cryptocurrency startup, taught business at Langara School of Management in Vancouver, coached teams in business competitions, and on the side, runs personal development workshops. Stephane joined DTU in early 2019, and has been appointed Program Director for the Executive MBA at the end of 2019. Contact Stephane at stegue@dtu.dk or 8194 2121.
Mathew Jon Rushton
Program Director, DTU Executive MBA
Mathew Jon Rushton is an experienced HR Executive, skilled in partnering business leaders, defining strategy, leading organizational development initiatives and driving HR processes and services in large, global organizations. Mathew has worked in 25 different countries with organizations such as Danfoss, Siemens and FLSmidth. His education is in social sciences and the arts having studied at the University of Cambridge. Mathew joined DTU Executive Business Education in 2020 as Program Director for the Executive MBA. Contact Mathew at matru@dtu.dk or 3093 2543.
ALUMNI
DTU Executive MBA Alumni Association
The EMBA Alumni Association is a non-profit organisation open to everyone who has joined or are currently studying DTU’s Executive MBA. The purpose of the alumni association is to gather members across education, classes and years to create a common framework for continued improvement of skills and a strong network.
The strength of our network
Working together intensively over 21 months often creates safe and trusting relationships. Those safe and trusting relationships are highly valuable for us as Executives. That is in order to share and explore our practice, be challenged by our peers and keep learning.
Learning is often rife where there is diversity and as you may remember, there is much diversity in the profiles of the Alumni at DTU. The diversity of each class is what enables us to best address the themes in our MBA: Leadership, Innovation, Technology, Digitalization and Sustainability. That is our strength!
Join EMBA Alumni Group
Ongoing activities and events are managed via the EMBA Alumni on LinkedIn and when appropriate, via direct emailing.
The Alumni Board have planned a range of activities throughout the year. Some of those activities are face-to-face and others are virtual. The diagram below captures the activities.
Face-to-face activities
Reunion – The reunion is a one-day event at DTU. Once a year. Organized by the Alumni board, through consultation with Alumni. Involving Faculty.
Masterclass – Masterclasses are half-day events at DTU. Typically six Masterclasses each year. Designed to give prospective students a flavor of the Executive MBA at DTU. Organized by Program Directors. Masterclasses are taught by the Faculty.
Out and About – Evening events, close to DTU. Twice a year. Organized by the Alumni board, through consultation with Alumni.
Electives – Electives are two-day events at DTU. Typically two or three electives each year. The topic of the elective is selected by the existing class. Electives are taught by the Faculty. Organized by Program Directors.
Virtual activities, through the Alumni Platform
Interest Groups – An online discussion forum with Alumni. Interest groups can be established at any time by Alumni. No fixed duration. Alumni can join and leave an interest group at any time.
Hotseats – An online discussion forum with an Expert. Hotseats are established three times a year by the Alumni Board, through consultation with Alumni. Fixed duration of 12-weeks. Alumni can join and leave a Hotseat at any time.
Book Review – Book reviews are published by the Alumni board, through consultation with the Faculty and Alumni. Published four times a year.
Purpose
For the Reunion, Masterclass, Out-and-about, Electives and Book Review, the purpose of the activities is to up-to-date with new practices related to the framework and focus-areas of the MBA program at DTU and within the context of the external environment.
For Interest Groups and Hotseats, the purpose of the activities is to seek advice from other Alumni and Experts, share learning and build new insights.
Upcoming Events
DTU Executive MBA, Master in Management of Technology, is more than an education, it’s a journey. Choosing to sign up and spend 21 months at school, while still working, is a big decision. To help you make this decision we offer EMBA Masterclasses and EMBA Information Meetings.
EMBA Masterclass will give you the opportunity to get a feel for the school, check out the auditorium, and meet our professors and staff while experiencing top-level teaching and starting new friendships.
EMBA Information Meeting will help you explore the fit between the design of the Executive MBA at DTU and what you are looking for in detail, together with potential classmates and EMBA alumni profiles who will share their experiences.