You are Tomas Rivas, Associate Dean for Executive Programs at Cordillera Business School. Enrollment and reputation for the flagship degree rest on your call.
Cordillera's Executive MBA once filled every seat, but applications have fallen for three straight intakes. Working executives cite rigid weekend residencies, dated case content, and travel burden. Global online providers and stackable micro-credentials now court the same mid-career managers with modular, employer-sponsored formats. Faculty are divided: some defend the immersive cohort model as the school's identity, others warn it is pricing out exactly the professionals it was built to serve.
You decide how to overhaul an executive masters program losing ground to flexible online rivals.