High-impact learning

Your journey provides you with a powerful variety of learning experiences to upskill as a general manager for a rapidly changing world. You will develop your strategic thinking and decision making and accelerate your leadership with business and leadership coaching. You will also benefit from an integrative consulting project with an external organization to maximize exposure to different real-world contexts and perspectives.

You can take Global Management Foundations as a stand-alone program or as credit toward your IMD Executive MBA degree.

Virtual module 1 – Build your foundations

5 weeks online

Strategic thinking: 20 hours of workload (watch videos, submit assignments, peer review discussions, attend 2 x 90’ liVe sessions)
Accounting: 12 hours of workload (preparatory work, attend 4 x 120’ liVe sessions)
Negotiation: 12 hours of workload (preparatory work, attend 4 x 120’ liVe sessions)

Virtual module 2 – Shift into higher gear

5 weeks online

Marketing: 12 hours of workload (preparatory work, attend 4 x 120’ liVe sessions)
Generative AI for business: 15 hours of workload (watch video unit, assignments, attend 4 x 90’ liVe sessions)
Finance and macro-economics fundamentals: 20 hours of workload (preparatory work, attend 5 x 120′ liVe sessions)

On-campus module 3 – Achieve real impact

8 days on campus

Leadership (2.5 days)
– Leading self and others
– Team contracting
– Experiential exercise (VR)
– Feedback and action planning
– Moving forward
ESG fundamentals (1 day)
Executive presence – with professional actors (1 day)
LiVe consulting integrative project (3.5 days)

Detailed schedule

Week	Format	Dates & Time CEST
Week 1	LiVe virtual	28 August (12:00-14:00) 30 August (12:00-13:30)
Week 2	LiVe virtual	3 September (12:00-14:00) 6 September (12:00-14:00)
Week 3	LiVe virtual	11 September (12:00-14:00) 12 September (12:00-14:00) 13 September (12:00-13:30)
Week 4	LiVe virtual	18 September (12:00-14:00) 19 September (12:00-14:00)
Week 5	LiVe virtual	25 September (12:00-14:00)

Week	Format	Dates & Time CEST
Week 1	LiVe virtual	8 October (12:00-14:00) 10 October (12:00-14:00) 11 October (12:00-13:30)
Week 2	LiVe virtual	15 October (12:00-14:00) 17 October (12:00-14:00) 18 October (12:00-13:30)
Week 3	LiVe virtual	23 October (12:00-14:00) 24 October (12:00-14:00) 25 October (12:00-13:30)
Week 4	LiVe virtual	29 October (12:00-14:00) 31 October (12:00-14:00) 1 November (12:00-13:30)
Week 5	LiVe virtual	5 November (12:00-14:00)

Agenda to be shared closer to date.

Detailed schedule – 2025 sessions

Module	Dates	Format
Module 1: Build your foundations	March 21 – April 25	LiVe virtual
Module 2: Shift into higher gear	May 2 – June 6	LiVe virtual
Module 3: Achieve real impact	June 13 – June 20	On Campus

Module	Dates	Format
Module 1: Build your foundations	September 8 – October 12	LiVe virtual
Module 2: Shift into higher gear	October 20 – November 23	LiVe virtual
Module 3: Achieve real impact	December 1 – December 8	On Campus

Discover the live case consulting projects

As part of the Live Consulting Project, Global Management Foundations participants create business case studies to solve problems that are happening in the real world. IMD has partnered with the following companies for consulting projects: Agathon, Gavi, Medair, ICRC, and iamtheCODE.

ICRC Live project 2022.

Medair Live project 2021.

Considering the IMD Executive MBA?

Global Management Foundations and Foundations for Business Leadership are approved first credits towards IMD EMBA. You can compare both programs here.

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Join a free information session

Join online and experience a walkthrough of the General Management programs, how they work, what you can expect, and how it will impact your career.

Discover our Executive MBA

Thinking of a degree in the long-term? Completing Global Management Foundations is your first step towards IMD’s Executive MBA program.