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Curriculum

Curriculum

A dedicated Global Advisory Council of business leaders, public administrators, policy experts, and career educators works to support and oversee the GLI’s delivery of a responsibly managed MBA in Arts Innovation. Council members also play hands-on roles supporting a wide range of GLI Cohort experiences, from Innovation Summit Residences and mentoring Capstone Projects to moderating interactive sessions and participating in Shark Tank panels.

COURSEWORK
Curated Modules

FIELDWORK
50+ Global Partners

APPLIED LEARNING
Case Studies & Capstone

REFLECTIVE
COLLABORATION LABS
Personal Transformation

52

Growth Weeks

13

Industry
Certificates

1

Arts Innovation MBA

MBA Components

INDUSTRY MODULES

Cohort Members complete Courses, Substreams, and Labs co-curated by nine world-class university think tanks.

FIELD EXCHANGES
Field and Leaders-in-Residence Exchanges help Cohort Members master MBA learnings through adaptive application in real-world settings.
INNOVATION SUMMITS

Global Cohort Members gather for weeklong Innovation Summits with Harvard faculty centered on creative problem-solving.

MINDSET LABS
Through the Reflective Mindset Labs, carefully balanced Cohort teams acquire and learn to leverage a range of collaboration styles.
CHANGE PROJECTS
Cohort Members participate in yearlong Change Projects that unlock blind spots and overcome limiting beliefs to enhance growth potential.
CASE STUDIES
Cohort Members create case studies that explore opportunities in real-world enterprises, leading to actionable ideas and transferable insights.
CAPSTONE CHALLENGE
Capstone Enterprise Challenges task Cohort Teams to design feasible five-year models for a new organization linking the arts and social impact.
FIREBIRD ROADMAP
Cohort Members link and adapt comprehensive tools from the MBA journey into a future action plan to implement in their home contexts.
PUBLISHING TOOLS

Cohort Members are supported in writing groundbreaking articles for respected journals and periodicals as a component of the growth journey.

  • Engaged Aesthetics
  • Value Creation
  • Business Models
  • Market Strategy
  • Impact Evaluation
  • Innovative Thinking
  • Systems Entrepreneurship
  • Human-centered Design
  • Revenue Strategies
  • Financial Modeling
  • Operational Excellence
  • Risk & Renewal
  • Applied Economics
  • Principles of Accounting
  • Behavioral & Decision Science
  • Marketing Analytics
  • Storytelling for Impact
  • Case Study
  • Field Internship (in-person elective)
  • Innovation Summit (in-person elective)
  • Capstone Enterprise Challenge
  • Team Dynamics Lab
  • Change Project with Dedicated Support Coach
  • Firebird Roadmap Graduation Project

As sub-components of successfully undertaking the GLI journey, Cohort Members receive a range of module completion certificates co-signed with partner institutions confirming mastery of a given unit’s critical concepts and learnings. These institutions include —

  • Duke University’s Social Science Research Institute
  • Georgetown University’s Business for Impact
  • New York University’s Entrepreneurial Institute
  • London School of Economics’ Growth Lab
  • Stanford Business School’s Center for Social Innovation
  • McGill University’s Schulich School of Music
  • Oxford University’s Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship

Upon succesfully completing the twelve-month curriculum including all courses amounting to 90 ECTS credits, participants are awarded an MBA in Arts Innovation from The Global Leaders Institute in alliance with its accrediting body.

Academic Curators

The Arts Innovation MBA curriculum empowers creative industry professionals in multi-dimensional leadership roles with powerful social science, innovation, entrepreneurial, and operational tools for accelerated career impact. The curriculum readies participants for the complex challenges of an evolving cultural sector through its unique balance of foundational coursework, tailored substreams, immersive field studies, innovation summits, applied learnings, reflective labs, and growth-oriented retreats, all curated by top academic institutions to build practical skills and actionable insights.

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“The MBA taught me to move forward with purpose while giving myself the space to reflect and trust the right timing.”

LISA SCHLINKMANN
Director of Development 
Daniel Barenboim Foundation (Germany)
2025 Global Arts MBA