International Masters Program for Managers

Lancaster

McGill

IIMB

YNU

EBAPE

International
Masters Programfor Managers
Innovative Approach • Global Reach • Expert Faculty
Leading Schools • Worldly Executives
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International Masters Program for Managers

Transforming
executives,
developing
organizations

Lancaster University
IIM Bangalore

McGill University
Yokohama National University

Co-founded by Professor Henry Mintzberg, one of theworld’s leading management thinkers, the IMPM has
been breaking new ground in management educationand leadership development for over two decades,
inspiring new ways of thinking among senior managers
to revitalise organizations.
IMPM helps seasoned managers and executives realize their leadership and career
potential, refresh and extend their outlook, and achieve maximum organizational
impact. The program is designed around five managerial mindsets and four impact
ventures because the opportunities and challenges executives face go beyond
conventional business functions.
The IMPM is the most international program you will find. It creates many perspectives,
insights and breakthroughs in management and business practice with different
mindsets and world-leading business schools. When enrolling in this intensive masterslevel executive program, you commit to developing your knowledge, capability andlearning in ways that make you an engaged and worldly leader.
IMPM is taught by 50+ world-class faculty from five top management schools
around the world. The program also leverages the collective wisdom of a supportive
community of diverse participants and uses innovative pedagogical tools andpersonalized program support to improve learning and fast-track transformationalchange. It uses a modular format that minimizes time away from work and family
resulting in a substantial return on learning.

FGV EBAPE#1
International Management

Eduniversal North America
2017-2021

The IMPM combines conceptual depth, practical applicability, with learning fromexperience - your own and that of your peers - with the latest ideas and thinking inmanagement and business. Preparing you for the most senior responsibilities in yourorganization, every aspect of the program ensures that participants apply what theylearn to their own business goals and challenges.
This proven approach takes your learning beyond the confines of the classroom,brings it back into your work environment, and creates real and lasting change.

“This is next generation
management education:
leadership is managementwith lasting impact.”
Professor Henry Mintzberg
Founding Chair

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Mindsets
Schools
Countries
WorldsInternational Masters Program for Managers

A truly global
program forworldly
management
The IMPM is unique in the world of experienced
management education. We reinvent
management education. Focusing on improving
the practice of managing, the program
integrates participants’ work context withpersonal and professional development.
Every aspect of the program ensures that participants apply what
they learn to their own business context. Unlike the conventional
business school approach, the IMPM curriculum is designed around theactual experiences and needs of the participating managers and theirorganizations. Throughout the program, learning takes the form of aconstant exchange of ideas and insights. Participants move back and forth
between management concepts and their experiences, reflecting uponthem individually and together. This integrated and hands-on learning
process allows participants to improve their managerial practice anddevelop organizational impact from the outset of the program.
Concepts and frameworks are provided by world-class academic faculty ateach business school. These are expanded upon by participants who share
their knowledge and experience with each other to accelerate and enhancelearning. To ensure the focus is on participants’ experience, the IMPM
breaks away from the traditional lecture format. Sessions give half thetime to participants to spend in discussion at roundtables with their peers,
learning from others’ insights.

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Lancaster University, UK

Managing Self:
The Reflective Mindset
The Reflective Mindset is designed to help participants gain a better
understanding of their management style - how they present themselves
to others, their strengths and weaknesses, and their current leadershipskills and capabilities. Participants learn how to be thoughtful andreflective, to step back from always doing, to see familiar experiences fromnew and enriched perspectives.
Faculty sessions include the nature of reflective and engaging
management, action inquiry, the art, craft and science of management
practice, virtue ethics and responsibility, and business as practical wisdom.
Faculty workshops at an historic cotton mill bring alive the role of businessmodels over the long-wave of commerce, and practicing a deliberative
corporate business meeting demonstrates group decision making. Walking
in the footsteps of poet William Wordsworth evokes the importance ofvision, community and place for creativity and insight in management.
Exploring cycles of personal and professional experience, reflection andinsight for engaged managing, participants also visit a range of companies
to undertake a reflective analysis and learn about managerial values,
responsibility and ethics.

Find new sources ofinspiration and enrich
your ambition throughreflective and engaged
managing

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Managing Organizations:
The Analytic Mindset

Managing Context:
The Worldly Mindset

The Analytic Mindset provides techniques for analysing organizations andequips participants with a deep knowledge of different management concepts
in relation to strategic thinking.

Enhance strategic insight and capabilities for worldly action. Culturally
diverse India is the ideal environment to learn about other people’s
mindsets in order to better understand our own and to learn to act inentrepreneurial and worldly ways.

McGill University, Canada

Develop strategic
thinking andorganizational acumen
to create lasting impact

Faculty sessions focus on the role of evidence and experience in businessand management, examining how decisions are made and negotiations takeplace, financial management and business valuation, emerging innovations in
artificial intelligence and global cross-cultural awareness.
During the Analytic Mindset participants are also introduced to the analytical
tools used to manage specific organizations and to formal approaches
that improve managerial and organizational effectiveness. Key concepts inaccounting, people management, organizational strategy and technologicalinnovation allows participants to view the managing process as an amalgam ofart, craft and science.
Analysing evidence and experience in strategic thinking and in organizations,workshops on eco-cycle management and the theory of constraints expand
analysis beyond function to fusion. Along with taught sessions, visits tocompanies create a unique learning community of participants, dedicated to
exploring management mindsets, analytical judgement and impact.

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India

Managing takes place within highly complex systems that varyenormously across the world. This module focuses on these contextual
systems, exploring the various socio-political-ethical institutions withinmanagement and business. The goal is to increase understanding of the
dynamics of system change.
Sessions focus on political dynamics in diverse settings, non-market
strategic management, bottom of the pyramid markets, the role of societal
values in business, frugal innovation and inclusive market development,
managing sustainably and digitalisation, and sustaining business growth.
Field study visits to a micro finance institution and to an organic orchard
farm connects learning from nature to network business models anddigital platforms.
To cultivate a worldly mindset, participants visit companies focused ontechnology consulting, digital business, medical innovation and social
entrepreneurship to integrate insights from all modules.

Worldly senior
executives andorganizations withthe ability to create
exceptional value forthe future

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5Managing Relationships:
The Collaborative Mindset

Managing Change:
The Action Mindset

In this module, participants focus on managing collaboration including
relationship-building, negotiating, stakeholder coordination, teamwork andknowledge management. The integration of knowledge and wisdom frommultiple disciplines and perspectives is also examined.

The Action Mindset expands assumptions, frameworks and perspectives
on personal, professional, organizational and societal change andcontinuity. The focus is on catalytic change and how business and global
dynamics interact with management and organizational action.

Drawing on a wealth of management expertise in Japan and East Asia, themodule focuses on managing relationships between individuals, withinteams and across businesses, with strategic alliances, joint ventures andsupply chains.

To develop an advanced and incisive perspective on managerial action,
there are sessions on change management, processual perspectives onchange and continuity, managing hierarchies for action, governance andknowledge for action across businesses and societal contexts.

Participants learn about world-famous contributions to management
thinking such as knowledge creation, wisdom and kaizen in relation
to collaboration. Workshops on cross-sector collaboration as well as
insights into relationships with nature and new technologies connect tocontemporary innovations in robotics and machine learning.

Visits to companies and public sector enterprises, a school for youth
development and workshops on diversity and gender, refresh and extend
the scope for managerial and organizational action.

Yokohama National University, Japan

Harness the value ofteams, cross-functionalgroups and collaborationin and beyond yourorganization

Visiting organizations in the private, public and plural sector sharpens
insights into collaboration within and between organizations and acrosssectors.

FGV EBAPE Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Enriching concepts and understanding of change and continuity, themodule also focuses on learning innovative practices of management andorganizational action, with advanced action inquiry techniques such as
Friendly Consulting and In-Reach for organizational action learning andimpact.

Equipping you with newcapabilities, tools andconcepts for leading
breakthroughs, change
and continuity

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International Masters Program for Managers

CatalyzingchangePractical
pedagogy

Competency sharing is a central facet of the program that makes it possible
to tap into participants wealth of experience. Participants practice various
techniques to enhance this process of learning from experience and in
dialogue with others to turn experience into actionable knowledge and create
breakthrough insights. Program techniques are used by participants once
they return to their organization to create wider impact.

The IMPM pedagogy focuses on learning applied in real-time, so thatmanagerial practices can be developed and improved during the course of the
program. The program encourages participants to share their experiences,delving into each other's issues to provide innovative solutions to thechallenges they face in their respective work environments. Our innovativeeducational architecture gives our experienced participants the opportunity to
be the initiators of change within their organization.

Impact Ventures
IMPM changes people with a view to changing organizations: the program is
more than management development, it is also organizational development.
One of the many ways the IMPM helps you carry your learning back to yourorganization in a transformative way is through impact teams. After each
module you debrief your team and discuss how to apply what you learned
and how to bring about constructive change. This can be in the form of anindividual program-long project focused on bringing about change with ateam. Participants are asked to reflect on their ability to affect change, andpresent this at the final module.

Action Inquiry and ResearchParticipants learn advanced techniques in action learning and inquiry
throughout the program. This focus is connected to the emphasis onparticipants’ managerial and business context at each module. Action
learning techniques create new forms of knowledge and action from within
the organization.

Friendly Consulting and Peer Coaching
Friendly consulting is an inquiry process that focuses on the kindsof challenges and opportunities participants face in their businessenvironments. Drawing on techniques from action learning and inquiry,
participants share issues they are grappling with at work and benefit from theexperience, insights and advice of other participants in the program.

Mini-Modules
Between modules participants have access to 20 IMPM Mini Modules which
extend the learning to participants’ companies and organizational teams.
Each one hour mini module is designed to disseminate the insights and ideas
from the modules throughout the business to create organizational impact.
Participants often lead workshops on specific IMPM sessions back in thecompany using IMPM Mini-Modules to enhance their team’s capability andfoster new approaches to management.

Morning Reflections
Evidence shows that impactful management learning from experience does
not happen without reflection. Without probing, wondering, analysing andsynthesizing. The program provides techniques for advanced reflection
to enhance the impact of learning. Each morning, participants have theopportunity to take time for thoughtful reflection individually, in groups andas a cohort to enhance the learning for breakthrough insights. Taking timeeach day of the program to consider input by faculty, contributions fromparticipants, and experiences from the previous day fosters a worldly approach.

Managerial Exchanges
To become a worldly executive, you have to learn how other people think
and act in various situations. At the start of the program, you pair up withanother participant for a managerial exchange. This process is considered oneof the most enriching experiences of the program, as the benefit is twofold.
Participants receive constructive feedback after being closely observed in theirown organization and gain insight into how they themselves work by watchinganother manager in action.

Company and Organization Visits
To broaden participants’ experience of organizations throughout the program,participants visit companies at each module across commercial, public
and plural sectors applying concepts introduced during modules. Sectors
include banking and micro finance, retail and consumer, energy, advanced
manufacturing, pharmaceutical and medical, regional government, not for
profits, IT consulting and digital innovators.

Reflection Papers
Between modules, participants return home to their work life, where they
write a reflection paper relating what they have learned at the module to theirorganization. This is also when in-depth learning takes place, as participants
use reflection papers to explore serious work-related challenges applying
concepts from the module to their work. Throughout the reflection paper
process, you will discuss with your academic tutor and a group of fellow
participants who will work with you as peer coaches providing mutual support
and guidance for your reflection papers.

“I am surprised how
small the global village
is. Learning from my
30 colleagues, from11 countries, was anexperience in itself. The
deep learning comesfrom dialogue aroundthe tables. Throughrespectful sharing anddiscussions, new cultural
bridges are built aroundthe globe. What an
amazing way to learn.”
Sheilagh Ross
Sheilagh Ross Holdings

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Program participants and entry requirements
Participants usually have more than 15 years of work experience,
substantially in management. They are generally over 35 years old andover the last few cohorts participants have come from more than 25
countries. Participants typically comprise vice presidents, directors, headsof divisions, experienced managers and senior managers, entrepreneurs
and founders, and family business CEOs. They come from a wide variety ofbackgrounds including banking, finance and insurance, travel andlogistics, IT and telecoms, manufacturing and engineering, construction,
bio-sciences and health, and not for profits.

“Management is apractice where art,
craft, and science
meet. Most managers
tend to tilt one way or
another: toward creativeart, practical craft, ororganized science. The
trouble is that when
you tilt too far, yourmanaging can go out ofbalance.”
Professor Henry Mintzberg

Participants
and companies
Participants and companies attend the programfrom organizations worldwide including:A typical cohort consists of around 30 participants from countries andsectors around the world. While most participants have degrees andsome have MBAs, the program is open to individuals without a university
qualification who have relevant experience (around 10 percent ofparticipants enrol without a formal degree). The program can be taken as astand-alone executive program leading to the International Management
Program certificate but most participants continue to complete themaster’s degree.

Asahi Kasei Pharma
Corporation

International HIV Aids Alliance

Assystem Technologies India

Kilmarnock Enterprises

Continue working while developing yourmanagement practiceBalfour Beatty

Returning to business school education mid-career is a significant
commitment and one with immense personal, professional andorganizational rewards. Developed over more than 25 years, the 16-monthmodule structure is highly effective at fast-tracking your knowledge andlearning. The mindset modules and the managerial exchange focus onparticipants learning using their work as a key context of learning anddevelopment.
Between modules participants are supported by a personal faculty
tutor, program and module readings and other resources to accelerate
professional and organizational impact. Once completed, participants earna master’s degree in 6 months, graduating in 2024.

Digital program app
Participants have access to a dedicated community app throughout andafter the program.

AstraZeneca
Baxter Company Ltd
Bayer AG
Boeing Company
Brazilian Development Bank

Kenya Red Cross
Knock Inc
LOrealLG Corporation
LG Hausys
Lufthansa
Matsushita Electronics Ltd

BT Group

Mines Advisory GroupCAF Power

Mochcom Group

Deutsche Lufthansa AG

Panasonic

Deutsche Telekom AG

PepsiCo

Ecobank

POSCO

Edelweiss Air

Rio Tinto

EDF

Royal Bank of Canada

Etisalat Nigeria

SAP

Fairway Offshore

Sasken Technologies

Fujitsu

Sealweld

Fairmont Hotels

SinocareFlatworld Solutions Inc
Gabon Oil Company
Gaz de France
Glencore
Goldwind
Hewlett Packard

Swiss Air
Swiss Re
Tata Steel
United Nations
UnitedHealth GroupVia Rail Canada Inc

IBM

World BankInternational Federation of
Red Cross and Red Crescent

Yokohama BankWorld Scout Foundation“What attracted me to
the IMPM program wasthe ability to learn frommy fellow participants
and immediately apply
the learning we gained
from the modules in avery practical way.”
Sharon Cohen
Vice-President
Fairmont Brand Management
AccorHotels
France

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Helping you make the next big change in your world

What our alumni say

During the Analytic Mindset,
we were exposed to different
approaches to strategy andplanning. This had a major
impact on our company. We
did a complete review of thestrategic planning process.
This new process allowed us
to be more agile, encouraged
flexibility and allowed
for emergent strategies
outside the normal businessplanning cycles. Near theend of the program, when
visiting with one of my
LG colleagues in Korea, I
realized that our company
is vulnerable to a disruptive
technology. As a result,
we launched a start-up
company together with a
top IT university in Brazil.
We believe this will saveour business.
Gustavo Miotti
Board Chair
Soprano Eletrometalugica
Ltd Brazil

I’m humbled to say that since
my graduation, KNOCK hasgrown 78% in revenue andhas increased employees by
44%. It is clearly a testament
to IMPM’s philosophy andlearning methodology, andits inspired two of my managers to enrol in the program!
Lili Hall
Founder, President and
CEO KNOCK Inc
USA

As an entrepreneur, my
experience on the IMPM has
shown me that the programis strategic, helpful and timelessly relevant.
Charles Mochiah
CEO Mochcom Group Ltd
Ghana

The IMPM made a lasting
impact on my management
practice overall. It has
taught me the importanceof listening and reflection,
as well as the importanceof taking a step back toquestion yourself, yourapproaches and your overallmanagement style.
Christina Foerster
Member of the Executive
Board Lufthansa Group
Germany

Learning how to become abetter manager is one thing,changing and growing tobecome one is another. To
have impact, knowledge
leaders must pause, reflect,
inquire and then act. IMPM
empowered me to do justthat. Previously, I acted
without proper insight. Now,
as a reflective leader, I focus
on listening, observing andfurther understanding myteam, the business andour customers. With thisenriched insight, now when
I act, it has real impact.
Miles Kotylak
VP Advisory Services
ATB Financial Services
CanadaWith the IMPM I learned toreflect and by traveling to
the different modules I increased my understanding ofinternational management.
Chang Yeob Lee
Planning Manager
LG Hausys
Korea

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A must attend
progeramme for senior
managers looking
for an holistic sharedlearning experience
for re-energizing theircompany.
Joydeep Chakrabarty,
Global Head of People andHR, Expleo GroupInternational Masters Program for Managers

Transforming
howorganizations
are ledworldwide
Academic faculty and program
IMPM is a partnership consisting of five business schools, and participants
have a wealth of resources available to them during and after the program.
This includes 50+ academic faculty at the five schools who teach on
the program including the program’s co-founder, the world renowned
Professor Henry Mintzberg at McGill University's Desautels Faculty ofManagement in Montreal. As a longstanding proponent of providing
management education for working executives, his philosophy serves as
the foundation of the IMPM.
For any advanced leadership learning experience to be transformational
it should provide a combination of the latest management thinking,insights and tools with open space and time to allow participants to reflect
individually and with other participants. IMPM typically comprises adiverse mix of approaches to advanced management learning anddevelopment comprising 80 taught program classes and module
workshops, 45 morning reflections, 25 visits to companies, 25 participant
led sessions, 20 classroom outside the classroom sessions, and more than
15 formal social events with participants, companies, alumni and faculty.

Roundtables
Throughout the program, participants sit at roundtables in a flat classroom
not in a lecture theatre. Participants own the space together withacademic faculty, with workshops to share insights built into each classsession. Participants share their insights from their own business to learn
from each other’s ideas and experiences at their roundtables. Typicallyconnecting a wide range of economic, ethical, political and business issues,and often followed by plenary discussion. Participants find this reflectiveroundtable design enlightening and transformational as they come to grips
with their own perspectives and discover new ideas. There is also a faculty
and alumni roundtable at each module to enhance learning.

Top 10 benefits
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Established in 1996 by Professor Henry Mintzberg, the IMPM is one of theworld’s most innovative, renowned and advanced management development
programs.

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Continue to work while earning a master’s degree from a world-leading
university using your management and organization’s challenges as a focus
for your learning.

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Learn cutting-edge frameworks, tools and perspectives to increase yourconfidence, ability to influence, and create value.

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Fast-track your global experience and knowledge in 8 weeks with residential
modules in 5 countries.

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Develop breakthrough ideas and insights to solve leadership and businesschallenges you and your organization face.

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Strengthen your capability to lead creative and complex challenges
authentically by turning experience into actionable knowledge.

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Develop mindset thinking and execution with your peers and work closelywith dedicated tutors between mindset modules.

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Create team development and inspire the people you lead with 20 minimodules integrated with impactful management mindsets.

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Maximise your personal, professional and organizational leadership andimpact with 50+ world-class academic faculty, and peers from many
countries and sectors.

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Become an alumni of a worldwide network and return throughout yourcareer as an alumni in residence to continue your executive development andlearning.

Breakthrough insights, impact, and performance

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IDPM-PhD in Theory andPractice of Management
The International Doctorate in the Practice of Management (IDPM) is
founded upon the IMPM program and is only open to graduates of the
program. The part-time PhD in the Theory and Practice of Management at
Lancaster University combines the rigour of a PhD with the accessibilityof a structured, part-time program. There is a significant overlap between
IMPM and IDPM to offer the richest possible learning and development.

Researching Management and Organizations
for Impact
The PhD pathway is for IMPM graduates and alumni. It is a response to
demand for engaged research and advanced business and organizational
impact. We expect participants to research their professional context toproduce actionable knowledge and practical PhD level research insights.

Program Design and Community
Through a combination of online resources and facilitated activities, faceto-face workshops, and collaborative supervision, the program will beaccessible to participants from the private, public, and third sectors aroundthe world. Working closely with academic faculty, you will be supported
in developing research and communication skills at the same time as
generating a valuable contribution to engaged knowledge and advanced
practice. You will also be part of a supportive peer community of IMPM
IDPM-PhD participants.

IDPM Enrollment and PhD Degree
Engaged PhD research
for advanced practiceParticipants who enrol for IMPM Cycle 24 in 2022 will be able to continue
to the IDPM-PhD in September 2024. Places on IDPM are strictly limited,
selective and based on a participant’s graded performance throughout the
IMPM including the IMPM Degree Major Paper.
Following completion of the IMPM Degree Major Paper, participants will
undertake tailored research training designed to enable them to produce
a piece of PhD-level research. Participants will also need to undertake
tailored research training in relation to data collection and data analysis,in alignment with their research project.
Program supervisors will be typically drawn from across Lancaster
University Management School. Participants will be awarded a Lancaster
University PhD in the Theory and Practice of Management on successful
completion of the research training modules plus a 45,000-word thesis
and an academic paper of publishable quality. It is expected that 2024
participants complete the IDPM-PhD in a 4 year registration period
including the viva voce examination in 2027-28.

IMPM is ranked #1 for International Management
Best Masters North America 2021.
Lancaster University Management School

Lancaster offers a long-established and ambitious community of students, academics andindustry experts from across the globe. As one of the UK’s top business schools, research isat the heart of Lancaster’s success, informs teaching and engagement with business.
With worldwide recognition for innovation in management learning, Lancaster’s
collaborative approach, leadership and access to cutting-edge knowledge make it a beacon.
Ranked in the Global Top 100 in the 2021 QS World Rankings for Business and Management and#7 in Europe for Teaching in Times Higher 2019.

McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management

McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management is ranked one of the top international businessschools by Businessweek, Canadian Business, Forbes, The Economist, and the Financial
Times. The faculty's innovative programs and historic reputation for worldwide excellence
continue to attract the finest students and the most prominent professors from around theworld, as well as the most demanding recruiters from the world's top employers.
Ranked #1 in Canada in Maclean’s Magazine. Global Top 100 in the 2020 QS World Rankings for
Business and Management and #27 in QS World University Rankings 2021.

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

IIM Bangalore’s distinctive feature is its strong focus on the leadership and entrepreneurial
skills that are necessary to succeed in today's dynamic business environment. IIMB
collaborates with more than 100 leading business schools across the world for various
research initiatives as well as student and faculty exchanges. Known for innovation andlongstanding academic expertise, in 2020, for the twelfth consecutive year, Eduniversal
ranked IIMB as the top business school in Central Asia.
Ranked in the Global Top 100 in the 2021 QS World Rankings for Business and Management andWorld #1 for strategy in Financial Times MBA ranking 2020.

Yokohama National University

Yokohama National University is one of the leading national universities in Japan, with an
MBA program which consistently ranks among the highest in student satisfaction and has
one of the lowest admission rate for entry of business schools in Japan. Partnering closelywith universities across East Asia, Yokohama been committed to playing a regional andinternational role for nearly 150 years. Known for its close collaboration with business,
Yokohama is committed to playing a global role.
Ranked in the top 30 in Japan in Times Higher World University Rankings 2021 and#26 QS Japan Ranking 2019.

FGV EBAPE

Located in Rio de Janeiro, FGV EBAPE offers students a focus on international studies.
Founded in the 1950s, the school was a pioneer in formal administration education in Latin
America. FGV EBAPE is a leader in education in Brazil and abroad with highly regarded
graduate and doctoral programs as well as consulting services. Its academic output is on parwith that of the world's most renowned education institutions.
Ranked #3 in the world in the Global Think Tank Index Report 2020 and #1 in Latin America for
twelve consecutive years.

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Ron Duerksen, Global Executive Director
ron.duerksen@affiliate.mcgill.ca

International Masters Program for Managers

To apply to the program, please email info@impm.org or visit
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