You’re already leading teams, making consequential decisions and navigating increasing complexity. But the demands on today’s leaders are shifting fast. AI, evolving markets and higher expectations are changing what it takes to lead effectively. The Cornell Executive MBA NYC is built for this moment.

Delivered in-person on the Cornell Tech campus in New York City, this unique program places you alongside experienced executives who are actively managing real-world challenges across industries. In a high-engagement, team-based environment, you refine how you think, lead and make decisions, all while continuing to work.

The alternating weekend format allows you to stay fully engaged in your career, applying new ideas immediately and seeing the impact in real time.

As technology, global shifts and rising expectations reshape leadership, you’ll keep pace and move ahead by strengthening how you think, decide and lead in a rapidly changing environment. You learn alongside accomplished peers in a team-based environment earning the same MBA as Cornell’s full-time program, taught by world-renowned Cornell faculty.

The rigorous curriculum builds a holistic view of how organizations operate, building strength across strategy, finance and operations, with the flexibility to specialize through pathways in areas like AI leadership or executive leadership. Classroom sessions and immersive residential weeks, combined with applied projects, leadership workshops, career sessions and guest speakers, sharpen your judgment, expand your perspective and strengthen how you lead. Coursework is both individual and team-based, often grounded in your own organization, so what you learn delivers immediate value. Alternating weekend sessions and immersive residential weeks in Ithaca and NYC create space to focus, collaborate and build lasting relationships.

Throughout the program, your cohort and Cornell’s global network of more than 250,000 alumni become a source of support and opportunity.

Offered in NYC, one of the world’s most influential business hubs, this program connects you to ideas, industries and leaders shaping the global economy. Through a diverse cohort, up-to-date, rigorous curriculum and a global Cornell alumni network of more than 250,000, you gain perspective that extends well beyond your immediate market. The result is a broader understanding of how business operates across regions and cultures and the ability to lead with confidence in a connected world.