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Executive MBA: photo of Dr. Peace teaching EMBA students.

Meet some EMBA Alumni

With every graduating class, our Executive MBA students use the program as a springboard to achievement and success. They're interested in getting to the top, up where the horizon is much, much wider...

Yet these objectives are not always fundamental goals. Sometimes they are by-products of even stronger motives. We've checked in on four graduates from the first EMBA class of 1997 and found that although success is important, personal improvement, being an inspiration to others, and a desire for the latest knowledge caused them to climb higher in their careers. And they enjoy the challenge.

"Our EMBA program is a rigorous course of study and, it attracts a particular type of person," said Paul Speaker, program director. "Most applicants have personalities that invite constant personal challenges. They view the EMBA program as the mountain they must climb to reach their rewards on the other side. But, rather than seeing the mountain as some obstacle, they relish the climbing as much as they do the rewards."