Tired of listening to gloomy economic reports about negative growth, shrinking GDP, decreasing consumer confidence and news that Britain has endured an even bigger slump than that experienced during the Great Depression? While there was initially great optimism for 2016, this buoyancy lasted just about as long as my New Year’s resolutions, and by mid February the economy was, at best, tepid. Capital Economics, an independent macro-economic research company, even went as far as declaring that “the crisis is not yet over” in Europe.
Hard work got you here. But in order to get there, it wouldn’t hurt to strengthen your business leadership knowledge, polish your executive skills and broaden your professional network. The timing might finally be right for that Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) degree. And you might even convince your employer to help pay for it. 
There is no doubt that, since its inception at the beginning of the 19th century, the MBA has been a very successful business education tool. It has evolved with the times to become more elaborate and varied and it has spread around the globe so that today almost any aspiring business leader has an interesting choice of programmes. With change comes increased diversity and that means more choice. Today’s challenges require an even quicker response from management educators who have to contend with a world where the capitalist view of optimising purely for profit is questioned, environment and sustainability are now integral to responsible business, and the digital era creates new opportunities.
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Aston Business School is recognised worldwide as a leading centre of business education. Our MBA programme has prestigious triple accreditation from AMBA (UK), EQUIS (Europe) and AACSB (USA) which puts us in an elite group of the top 1% of global business schools.