Hi all

First time posting on this site and hoping for some advice.

I am considering an EMBA as it feels the right stage in my career and it looks possible that my employer could sponsor.

My current situation:
I am 35 with just over 10 years of work experience. I am a Chartered Accountant with most of my career spent in management positions in commercial/ strategic finance in a FTSE100 airline group. I am based in London and married with 3 children and a 4th on the way(!).

I am very driven and want to accelerate my career, preferably using the EMBA to move me into a commercial/ strategy-leadership position, using my commercial finance background rather than staying in finance itself. The network of whichever program I choose is therefore important and, to me, this discounts most online EMBAs.

However the main difficulty I am finding when researching the available programs is that work-life balance is clearly important to me, given my young family, but also I am not able to attend classes on Friday evenings or Saturdays as I am an Orthodox Jew.

I would appreciate any advice on a program that would allow me to still achieve the EMBA at a good school, attend any classes in the London area and not have to attend on a Friday night/ Saturday - does this exist?!

Thanks in advance

Cass is on Tuesday and Thursday evenings
https://www.cass.city.ac.uk/study/mba/executive-mba

Maybe Warwick at The Shard?
http://www.wbs.ac.uk/courses/mba/distance-learning-london/teaching/

Cass is on Tuesday and Thursday evenings
https://www.cass.city.ac.uk/study/mba/executive-mba

Maybe Warwick at The Shard?
http://www.wbs.ac.uk/courses/mba/distance-learning-london/teaching/

Cass is an excellent school and, for most of the most of the last 30 years, it's weekday evening model has meant that it's been the major competitor of LBS's EMBA in the city. I was a TA there in the 1990s, and even then the EMBA had an even stronger reputation than the school's very good full-time MBA (as is still the case now). For salary, which is a good proxy for class quality, it is well above Warwick, Henley and Imperial's EMBAs: http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/executive-mba-ranking-2017

Yes, the distance learning MBA is a much weaker alternative, and will be less selective.

Cass is an excellent school and, for most of the most of the last 30 years, it's weekday evening model has meant that it's been the major competitor of LBS's EMBA in the city. I was a TA there in the 1990s, and even then the EMBA had an even stronger reputation than the school's very good full-time MBA (as is still the case now). For salary, which is a good proxy for class quality, it is well above Warwick, Henley and Imperial's EMBAs: http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/executive-mba-ranking-2017

Yes, the distance learning MBA is a much weaker alternative, and will be less selective.

MSc students go to Cass to learn finance. Because of its location in the City, most Executive MBAs students there (and perhaps also on the Chicago EMBA around the corner) known about finance already: they are there to learn about general management: https://www.cass.city.ac.uk/study/mba/executive-mba/programme-structure As a huge school, I think Cass is very strong for all the core management domains. The EMBA has a big focus on people in strategy, finance and marketing/business development.

What option seems most viable for you: distance learning?

MSc students go to Cass to learn finance. Because of its location in the City, most Executive MBAs students there (and perhaps also on the Chicago EMBA around the corner) known about finance already: they are there to learn about general management: https://www.cass.city.ac.uk/study/mba/executive-mba/programme-structure As a huge school, I think Cass is very strong for all the core management domains. The EMBA has a big focus on people in strategy, finance and marketing/business development.

What option seems most viable for you: distance learning?

Okay, so Cass must be the best option?

Okay, so Cass must be the best option?

Yes, I don't think that is very unusual for an EMBA where the career history is a much better guide to management aptitude than a GMAT.

Yes, I don't think that is very unusual for an EMBA where the career history is a much better guide to management aptitude than a GMAT.

Try and bring your wife to sit in on a class with you. With an EMBA you can earn more in less time, and have more time for the family.

Try and bring your wife to sit in on a class with you. With an EMBA you can earn more in less time, and have more time for the family.