The Program
Fundação Instituto de Administração’s (FIA) Master of Business Administration degree is now available on Coursera. FIA is a top-ranked Brazilian university that offers one of the top Executive MBAs in Latin America (QS Ranking 2020). Learn business essentials while building a toolbox of models and frameworks to equip you with the skills needed to succeed in emerging markets.
This MBA is partnered with Coursera and will be primarily online, with asynchronous videos and learning materials tailor-made for an excellent online learning experience. You will also have about 12% of the MBA’s workload in live sessions with the professors and teaching assistants via Zoom.
PROGRAM STUDY
This MBA is structured around 27 courses, each with 25 hours of workload, and one capstone project with 40 hours of workload. We structured the MBA to be completed in approximately two years, with three terms per academic year. Please find below the list of courses:
Essentials
- Fundamentals of Marketing
- Communication Principles for Leaders
- Leadership and Disruption
- Organizations
- Strategy
- Career Management
- Economics
- Financial Accounting and Analysis
- Quantitative Methods
- Operations Management
Deep Dive
- Global Supply Chain Management
- Leading Transformation
- Valuation and Strategic Finance Analysis
- Decision Making
- Governance and Sustainability
- Negotiation
- Innovation Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Corporate Legal
- Marketing Strategy
- Strategic Management
Future Studies
- Disruptive Technology and Impact for the Future
- Models and Frameworks for Future Oriented View: Delphi
- Models and Frameworks for Future Oriented View: Scenario planning I
- Models and Frameworks for Future Oriented View: Scenario planning II
- Models and Frameworks for Future Oriented View: Systems Dynamics
- Corporate Foresight
Capstone project
DIRECTORS
PROFESSOR SAMANTHA MAZZERO PHD
ACADEMIC DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL MBA & AMERICAS MBA
Prof. Samantha Mazzero is a mathematician by University of São Paulo (USP), holds an MBA in Marketing, MBA in economic & financial management, and MSc and Ph.D. in Business from USP in Corporate Foresight & Strategy area. Her professional experience includes more than 18 years in multinational pharmaceutical companies in Business Intelligence and marketing. She has been a professor for postgraduate students since 2008 for research & market analysis, segmentation and targeting. She joined FIA in 2013 teaching International Management for the International MBA.
PROFESSOR RENATA SPERS PHD
GENERAL DIRECTOR OF PROFUTURO AND INTERNATIONAL MBAS
Professor Renata Giovinazzo Spers is an Economist, with a Master and PhD from FEA-USP. She had a Doctorate internship at University of Cambridge and her postdoctorate research was from Vanderbilt University. Her fields of study are Corporate Foresight and Strategy.
Associate Professor at the Business Administration department at FEA-USP. She has been working at the Future Studies Program (Profuturo) since 1996, having developed in this period more than 30 consultancy projects, advisories and technical reports.
She is also the Director of Profuturo, a program at Fundação Instituto de Administração (FIA) that has been offering, since 1993, MBA courses such as the International Executive MBA, the International MBA and the Americas MBA; in company courses and trainings. Professor Spers is the creator and co-founder of the Future Studies Research Journal, scientific journal maintained by Profuturo.
more information
ADMISSIONS
Daniana Santos Soueid
Head of Admissions & Communication
danianap@fia.com.br
Whatsapp: +55 11 99818 6543
Tel: +55 11 3732 3527
Cynthia Vital
Admissions Officer
mbacourseraprofuturo.adm@fia.com.br
Whatsapp: +55 11 98697 3581
Tel: +55 11 3732 3520
Access Coursera's website for more information
For more information about this MBA (princing, student resources, admissions etc.), please access Coursera’s website: MBA | FIA Business School | Coursera.
next class
September 20th 2021 cohort: apply until August 22nd 2021