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The IMM Program offers a unique and innovative alternative to the traditional part-time Executive MBA, due to its instructional delivery system, its emphasis on electronic linkage and the international character of its student body, faculty, and residential sessions.

IMM graduates earn both a European and an American MBA degree. Begun in 1994 in partnership with ESC Rouen, the IMM Program boasts over 450 graduates, with another 100 participants currently enrolled. IMM is accredited by AACSB and AMBA.

Unlike other executive MBA programs, IMM is truly international in scope with participants coming from many different countries. The faculty is drawn from the partner schools and the courses address international management issues across all disciplines. Furthermore, the residential sessions rotate among the campuses of the collaborating institutions in the US, the Netherlands, Hungary and Germany, and two new locations in China and in Mexico. This combines to make IMM one of the most comprehensive and intensive international Executive MBA Programs in the world.

The schedule of five concentrated two-week residential sessions scheduled throughout an 18-month period allows participants to maintain their job responsibilities while they acquire the broad range of managerial skills needed to be effective in a dynamic and highly competitive business environment.

The IMM Program schedule makes it possible for participants to come from around the world, principally from Europe and North America, and it eliminates the problem of potential interruptions for participants who experience job transfers during the Program. The Program provides an unusually rich environment for interaction among faculty and participants because of the intensive residential character of the instructional sessions as well as the electronic linkage during the non-residential intervals.

The Program will become even more interactive by the introduction of the new ‘Action through Learning" initiative. Each team will be assigned a project, i.e a real case situation. The company/organization participating in the case project will also participate through a representative (called the sponsor) who will help each team by providing necessary information, research data, etc. Faculty will have a coaching role, and will help with consultation throughout the process. Each team will be required to submit their solutions/decisions at the last in-residency through an interactive presentation where the sponsor and the faculty members also will be present online.