ISEG MBA is a unique learning experience for future leaders – leaders with a purpose and a vision who have a global and holistic perspective. You will not only learn about the core principles of management, but also of technology, innovation, design, ethics, and sustainability.
To achieve this objective, we’ve expanded the traditional core of this MBA into five strategic streams and designed the Leadership & Personal Journey, which allows you to develop a vision for both your personal and professional future. We also offer immersive experiences, in conjunction with a network of outstanding partners and remarkable people.
Core Courses
One of the competitive advantages of the ISEG MBA is the scientific and professional excellence of our Professors in the fields that form the "Core" or fundamental areas of any MBA.
From Finance and Economics, to Strategy and Marketing, Operations and People, the ISEG MBA offers an in-depth understanding of the key strategic and business challenges that organisations face.
The Strategic Streams and Global Partners of the ISEG MBA provide you with the opportunity to explore and expand your level of knowledge in major areas, which will enable you to identify strategic opportunities, expand your network, and master your analytical, creative and decision-making skills.
The program relies on the notion of positive leadership, which is essential to future leaders, managing students to work in groups in an international context thanks to the numerous nationalities, and also demands high standards.
Margarida Oliveira, 36th edition
Agency Development Manager Portugal at Google
In addition to the theoretical content, which greatly contributes to increasing my hard skills, of undeniable added value was the opportunity to experience appropriate outdoor training culminating in the Silicon Valley Immersion programme at San Francisco University.
Our faculty is a combination of full time professors and top managers, that are experts in their main domain, and are committed to help develop a new generation of leaders. These members are supported by a Scientific Board whose role is to guarantee the overall academic rigour and excellence of the programme.
Scientific Board
Ana Venâncio
Assistant professor, ISEG
João Carvalho das Neves
Full Professor, ISEG
Jorge Gomes
Full Professor, ISEG
Faculty members
Ana Morais
Vice-dean and Full Professor, ISEG
Ana Póvoa
Full Professor, IST
Ângela Marçal
Partner, Way Beyond
António Afonso
Full Professor, ISEG
António Goucha Soares
Full Professor, ISEG
Charmi Patel
Associate Professor, Hanley Business School
Francisco Banha
Chairman & CEO at Grupo Gesbanha
Filipe Barata
Managing Partner, FB&Associados
João Andrade e Silva
Senior Associate Professor, ISEG
João Duque
Full Professor, ISEG
João Menezes Leitão
Jurista
João Pargana
Visiting Assistant Professor, ISEG
José Azevedo Pereira
Full Professor, ISEG
José Veríssimo
Associate Professor and Vice-Dean, ISEG
Lasse Johansson
Director & Futurist, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
The ISEG MBA counts with the support of a Strategic Board, comprised of leaders of several renowned institutions and other influential personalities, which will regularly review the programme’s content plus suggest strategic and tactical improvement.
Clara Raposo
Dean of ISEG
Jorge Marrão
Partner, Deloitte and Chairman of the Strategic Board
Ana Loya
CEO, TheKeyTalent
Ana Torres
Cluster Leader, Pfizer
António Guerreiro
Chairman, Banco Finantia
António José Seguro
Lecturer, ISCSP
António Ramalho
CEO, Novo Banco
Artur Carvalho
CCO, HMR
Cátia Martins
CEO, L' Oreal Portugal
Carlos Rodrigues
Chairman, Banco BIG
Gilberto Jordan
CEO, Andre Jordan Group
Guy Pacheco
CFO, CTT
José Agostinho de Matos
Advisor to the Board, Banco de Portugal
José Gonçalves
Country Managing Partner, Accenture
Luís Alves Costa
President, SDG
Manuel Freitas Pereira
Advisory Judge, Tribunal de Contas
Mário Caldeira
Professor, ISEG
Miguel Fontes
Executive Director Startup, Lisboa
Miguel Stilwell d’Andrade
CFO, EDP
Olga Frazão
Head of Retail Marketing Europe, Staples
Pedro Faustino
Partner, Axians
Paulo Fernandes
CEO, Cofina
Paulo Macedo
CEO, Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Paula Gomes Freire
Partner, VdA
Pedro Janela
CEO, Wy Group
Pedro Leitão
CEO, Montepio
Ricardo Macieira
Country Manager, Revolut
The ISEG MBA has the support of the following partner companies:
Global Partners
Stream Partners
Corporate Partners
Through a Mentorship Program, Contact with Recruiters, Seminars with Guest Speakers and Networking events you will be able to strengthen skills and develop and maximize your career plan to better market yourself.
The ISEG MBA Career Centre also grants you access to a diverse Network of MBA Alumni, Teachers, Speakers and Partners.
Previous Events
Silicon Valley Immersive Experience
From February 14th to 19th
Virtual experience in partnership with the University of San Francisco
Immerse yourself in and interact with the most dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem of the world: Silicon Valley and San Francisco.
ISEG MBA Programme Presentation
ISEG MBA is a management program for experienced professionals. It aims to strengthen their management and behavioral skills so they can become leaders with a holistic view of companies and the business world.
In this live session, you will have the opportunity to join us for an online programme presentation by ISEG MBA’s Executive Director Paulo Soeiro de Carvalho.
Startup Lisboa is one of the partners of ISEG MBA’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation stream. This partnership provides ISEG MBA’s students with the opportunity to explore one of the most dynamic and fast-growing entrepreneurial ecosystems in Portugal, through an immersive and hands-on experience.
In this live session, you will learn how an ISEG MBA student will be able to use tools and instruments for creating and launching new products and services, through successful strategies, business models, frameworks, and practical cases.
Webinar: Leadership Journey and Personal Development Plan
ISEG MBA’s ‘Leadership Journey and Personal Development Plan’ is an innovative and immersive experience of self-development, that will help you to design your unique signature as a leader, to impact business, people, and society.
In this live session, you will have the opportunity to understand how you will be able to complement your leadership skillset using the Kets de Vries Institute platform and chart a Personal Development Plan. Through Individual Coaching sessions you will explore your strengths and areas for development, fine-tune your personal and professional goals, prepare future roles and responsibilities, and identify future career options.
Webinar: How to shift from selfishness to a humanistic management model?
This webinar will raise some of the major issues that impact businesses and the world today: climate change and its impacts financial impacts in the economy; biodiversity losses and the potential lack of raw materials; the response from regulators towards obliging companies and the financial sector to be aligned with the 6 environmental EU objectives; and the new governance model in which sustainability can become recognized as a fiduciary duty of the CEOs.
Is it time to have companies with a social and environmental purpose and not only profit maximization?
Is profit maximization compatible with a sustainable business model?
Webinar: Strategic Intelligence and Global Futures
In today’s world, individuals and organizations can find it difficult to keep up with the latest trends or to make sense of the countless transformations taking place around them.
How do you continuously adapt your vision and strategy within a fast-evolving global context? Leaders require new tools to make better strategic decisions in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. The World Economic Forum developed Strategic Intelligence Platform to help you understand the global forces at play and make more informed decisions.
Learn more about this partnership in the online session.
Olivier Woeffray
Practice Lead and Strategic Intelligence at the World Economic Forum. He oversees partners' engagement and innovations with the Forum's collective intelligence platform. He also co-manages the Global Future Council on Innovation Ecosystems.
‘Silicon Valley Immersive Experience’ is one of the most relevant experiences of ISEG MBA, in partnership with the University of San Francisco.
This programme will allow ISEG MBA students to meet the innovators and to discover the startup mindset by visiting some of the most iconic companies born in Silicon Valley, the hub of the tech world and one of the most dynamic entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems in the world. It will also help them to develop and practice their communication skills to pitch new business ideas.
Learn more about this immersive experience in this online session.
Rebecca Tower Executive Education Director, University of San Francisco
To apply for the ISEG MBA, you need to meet the following requirements:
1. +3 years of professional experience 2. Bachelor’s Degree 3. Fluency in English
Required Documents
- Identification Document (Identification Card from your Country or Passport) - English Proficiency Certificate - Updated CV (in English) - Graduation Certificate – The official document issued by the Educational Institution - 1 Reference Letter (in English) – From someone that knows you at a professional level. A manager, client or supplier, for example. - 1 Motivation Letter (in English) – addressing your motivation and expectations related to the ISEG MBA
If you have any questions about the Admissions process or need any help regarding the application form or the documents you need to submit, you can contact our team:
Enrolment Fee of €1200 and 7 installments of €3400
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
• Alumni Universidade de Lisboa - 10%
• Alumni ISEG e Instituto Superior Técnico - 20%
• Full Payment - 5%
• ISEG Executive Education Partnerships – contact us (This last condition is not cumulative with others)
Read here the emoluments table for the 2020-2021 school year.
Scholarships
ISEG MBA Scholarships aim to promote the development of professional and personal skills for leaders of the future who wish to acquire a broader vision of the market, the economy and society, and have a real impact in their organizations and industries.
Sustainability and Governance - Awarded to applicants with relevant accomplishments or potential to promote and instigate sustainable practices in their companies and societies.
Digital Transformation – Awarded to applicants with a broad and forward-thinking perspective on technology and its impact on the development of their organizations and communities
More information about conditions and evaluation criteria here.
Corporate Finance João Carvalho das Neves
Company Law António Goucha Soares / Filipe Barata Soares / João Menezes Leitão
Financial Accounting Joaquim Sarmento
Financial Markets & Institutions João Duque
Human Resources Management Jorge Gomes
Macroeconomics for Managers António Afonso
Marketing José Veríssimo
Management Control Systems Sofia Lourenço
Management Information Systems Mário Caldeira
Operations Management Ana Paula Barbosa Póvoa
Organisational & Cultural Change Teresa Lacerda / Charmi Patel
Quantitative Methods for Management João Andrade e Silva
Strategic Management Vítor Gonçalves
The Leadership and Personal Development process of the ISEG MBA is an innovative and immersive experience of self-development, which helps you design your unique signature as a leader, in order to impact businesses, people and society.
The Leadership Journey was designed to transform the way you lead in today’s dynamic and complex business environment, providing practical tools on emotional intelligence, influence and communication strategies, negotiation, building strong teams and managing change. You will benefit from a highly experiential learning practice with a wide variety of improvised scenarios, interactive exercises, and simulations.
In addition, you will have the opportunity to assess your existing leadership skill set using the Ketz The Vries Institute Platform, and chart a Personal Development Plan. Individual Coaching sessions will enable you to explore your strengths and areas for development, fine-tune your personal and professional goals, prepare future roles and responsibilities, and identify future career options.
We strongly believe that the leaders of a complex and unpredictable future will need to master multiple domains and be equipped with a new set of skills, in order make a difference and have an impact in the world.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a strategic partner of the ISEG MBA that invites you to explore and act on the most important driving forces that are currently affecting and shaping economies, industries and organisations world-wide.
How do you continuously adapt your vision and strategy within a fast-evolving global context? Leaders require new tools to make better strategic decisions in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. The World Economic Forum developed Strategic Intelligence to help you understand the global forces at play and make more informed decisions. In World Economic Forum
Global Futures also relies on a partnership with the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies (CIFS), an independent and non-profit global advisory think tank, with the aim of facilitating the decision-making process in your organisation through scenario planning, megatrend analysis, risk management, innovation and strategy.
We have designed a unique Strategic Stream on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in partnership with Startup Lisboa and the University of San Francisco.
This Stream provides you with the opportunity to explore two of the most dynamic and fast-growing entrepreneurial ecosystems in the world, through immersive and hands-on experience in both Lisbon and San Francisco.
More than 30% of participants in the ISEG MBA create and launch start-ups or new business ventures either during or after the program.
You will also gain knowledge from some of the most cutting edge Incubators, Accelerators, Fab Labs and Investors, and contact global digital Disruptors, Big Corps, Unicorns and fast growing Startups.
Técnico Lisboa - the largest School of Engineering in Portugal and one of the best in Europe, is the partner for the Digital Disruption Stream.
Technology plays an ever-increasing role in the definition of innovative business models, a factor that explains the added importance of the relations between engineering and business schools. This partnership between ISEG and Técnico creates the conditions to increase the familiarity of the students with several important technologies and their impact on businesses. The objective is not only to provide an in-depth understanding of several aspects of key specific technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Blockchain, but also the tools to perform a more enlightened analysis of the potential of these technologies in a number of business areas. Arlindo Oliveira
This Stream also offers a unique overview of how technologies such as Augmented & Virtual Reality, Robotics, IoT & 5G, Biotech & Neuroscience, Nanotech & New Materials are shaping our global future.
Design and Agility are becoming part of the DNA of an increasing number of leading and innovative organizations.
In the Design & Agility Stream you will learn to understand the value of Design for Business Strategy, Differentiation and Competitive Advantage, and also explore the use of Design Thinking and Strategic Design Tools to progress from consumer and market insight to designing actionable solutions.
You will be challenged to discover how you can encourage strategic and operational agility in your organisation and will participate in immersion sessions and masterclasses to learn and analyse how certain global companies based in Lisbon are quickly becoming agile and digital.
This Stream will explore the main sustainability issues in the national and international agendas and explain how these impact the day-to-day business of an organisation. It will further explain how the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals are related with both financial risks and new business models. As such, will also analyse the growing relevance of the extra-financial information - so called Environmental Social and Governance factors - for companies, investors, stock markets and rating agencies. It will also approach the increasing relevance of Sustainable Finance around the globe.
Ethical and Governances issues will also be analysed - from a theoretical and a practical perspective, since many Corporate Governance recommendation codes of several European countries already reefer to the importance of sustainability and ethics as part of good management practices. The current hard and soft law on these issues will also be discussed. During this course, several guests will be invited to share their views and experiences on the sustainability field.
Silicon Valley is the hub of the tech world, it is one of the most dynamic entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems in the world. This immersive programme, in partnership with the University of San Francisco, will allow you to meet the innovators and to discover the startup mindset by visiting some of the most iconic companies born in Silicon Valley.
For two days in the Portuguese Air Force Academy, you will focus on teamwork, coordination and improvisation activities. This is the moment to test your limits as you develop your leadership, strategic and time management skills, as well as your sense of cooperation.
During this experience with Startup Lisboa you will follow the creation of companies and their first years of activity supported by mentoring, strategic partnerships and perks, funding, networking activities and a community based on knowledge and sharing.
key details
September, 2021 - 2023
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday | 6:30pm - 11:00pm
English
18 months
25.000
Key Details
Includes:
Immersive Experiences in Lisbon and San Francisco (Silicon Valley);
Two day Bootcamp at the Portuguese Air Force Academy;
Premium subscription to the WEF’s Strategic Intelligence Platform;
Individual Assessment using the Kets The Vries Institute Platform;