LBS ends international executive MBA Week with graduation

Lagos Business School, Ajah, Lagos, a leading business and management school in Africa, recorded another milestone, celebrating the accomplishment of participants in its inaugural International Executive MBA Week.

The International Executive MBA Week with the theme: “Playing to Win in Africa: Exploring Business Opportunities in Nigeria,” which held from Monday 10 – Friday 14 September 2018, is a cultural immersion programme to expose Executive MBA students and alumni from global partner institutions to the values and business environment in Nigeria and Africa while building their personal and business thinking agility through immersive experiences.

The five-day programme according to Dr. Uchenna Uzo, the Academic Director, International EMBA, Lagos Business School, helped to prepare participants for greater business opportunities, enabling them to manage business across borders and to face higher leadership responsibilities after their MBA programmes.

He hinted that during the course of the programme, the participants visited strategic locations that represented growing markets and entrepreneurship hubs in Lagos such as Balogun Business Association Market, Computer Village, Eko Atlantic, among others, just as they were hosted to networking events with CEOs, selected LBS alumni and students to enhance their cultural immersions.

According to the Executive MBA Academic Director, “the International Executive MBA Week programme was built around strategies for managing business in a complex or turbulent environment; using innovation to cope with uncertainty, as well as aligns with the School’s missioners’ imperative to be the leading business school with the greatest impact on the knowledge and practice of management and business in Africa’”

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He noted also that the programme content explored the most promising aspects of the country’s potential. Participants were equipped with the knowledge to: “understand growing market opportunities, the spot where the action is, and what it takes to invest and improve intercultural exchange among people interested in investing in Africa.”

The highlight of the a-week long programme was an investment challenge; a Dragon’s Den contest, where participants were required to use the knowledge gained during the course of the programme to develop an action plan for investing in any of the identified growing markets, while a panel of industry leaders in consulting, real estate and technology and business integration judged the keenly contested challenge.