The Smith EMBA is built on a new structure. You won't sit passively as instructors lecture. Instead, you'll find yourself in discussions and conversations with a faculty that is unequalled in the region for breadth and depth of research and communications. And you will interact with special guests. Business and thought leaders from around the world. You will sharpen your understanding of business foundations and you will take on projects that are as real as what your company is facing at this moment in time– not some time in the future, or never at all. And that is why The Robert H. Smith EMBA is only for executives who believe that something different is needed. Executives who sense that what worked before is a start, but is no longer enough. The Smith EMBA can be conceptualized in three unique but interrelated and dependent components: The Foundation, The Project, and Mastery. Each component is vitally important on its own. But they don't stand alone. Nor are they presented in a linear fashion. Courses include Accounting, Financial Management, Global Economics and Public Policy, Information Systems, Marketing Management, Supply Chain Management, and so on. These subjects become more than fundamentals, they become the foundation for a lifetime of reaching higher. And, they will become second nature to you. Kind of like ice skating to a hockey player. After a while, you will find yourself automatically applying what you learn to your everyday approach to leadership and decision-making.