The Master in Sustainable Business and Innovation is a truly unique, holistically driven program offering a different business paradigm for today´s young professionals. Our unique methodology ensures that you will develop the critical and design thinking skills to analyze, perform and inspire in an ever increasing volatile, uncertain, and complex business environment. However, we go one step further. While hard skills may be enough to get your foot in the door, the soft skills obtained in communication, negotiation, teamwork, and leadership are what will lift you in developing a world-class career in a company, organization, or even your own business.
The Master in Sustainable Business and Innovation is targeted towards students from diverse backgrounds, both cultural and academic, who aim to develop their career and skills in helping businesses and organizations to solve urgent and emerging environmental, economic, societal, and welfare global challenges.
Where | Face-to-face in Barcelona, Spain or live online |
Fall intake | October - June |
Timetable | Monday - Friday full time (schedule subject to change) |
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Your School
Why EADA?
Your year at EADA is a transformative experience. Our Master in Sustainable Business and Innovation positions you to reimagine and pursue your highest aspirations – both personal and professional.

Enjoy the Barcelona lifestyle
EADA offers a unique learning environment, with the hustle and bustle of one of the most beautiful cities in Europe waiting to be explored just a few steps away.

Get your hands dirty
You actively participate in engaging class discussions, sharing your insights and debating innovative solutions to real business problems – all under the guidance of our experienced faculty.

Stand out from the crowd
Small class sizes and individual follow-up make the most of your unique potential. Joint activities allow you to integrate into the larger EADA community without losing that personal touch.

Develop the leader in you
Our intense leadership development programme takes you from the reflection phase right through to implementation, preparing you to be a self-aware, effective leader of change.

Internationalise your profile
There is no better preparation for your future career than spending a year at EADA, with multicultural, multidisciplinary teams working together to solve the business problems facing today’s top companies.

Hack your dream career
With a curriculum focused on sustainability and innovation, regular networking opportunities and recruiting events with top organisations, it is no wonder that graduates have their pick of careers.

Accreditations

EADA is among the 9
Best Business Schools
FOR The World
Level 4: Transforming Schools
FROM BEING THE BEST IN THE WORLD TO BEING THE BEST FOR THE WORLD
The Positive Impact Rating measures how business schools contribute to solving societal challenges by energising the school and its culture, by educating responsible leaders and by being a role model institution.
Your campuses
Your home away from home.
At EADA, we believe that diversity is the spice of life, and we are committed to providing a rich and varied experience for our students. Our unique multi-campus methodology guarantees that your master's will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

EADA-Barcelona City Centre Campus - Professional know-how
Practical, hands-on classes with experienced professionals to develop the strategic vision and problem-solving skills to excel

EADA-Residential Training Campus - Leadership development
Role plays, outdoor training and business simulations to make you an expert in building relationships and inspiring teams

EADA partner schools around the world - a Global mindset
A trimester or a whole year at one of our prestigious partner schools to hone your skills and fine tune your cultural agility
Your Master in Sustainable Business & Innovation
Develop the knowledge and skills to be a change-maker.
Our unique programme molds you into a multifaceted professional especially adept at engaging with diverse stakeholders and creating win-win scenarios to generate value. You are equipped to deal with today's greatest business challenges with a value-driven strategic vision.
Core courses
- Applied Analytics for the Global Development Industry 4.0
- Decision Making in Marketing & Consumer Ethics
- Design Thinking
- Environmental Sustainability & Climate Change Management
- Financing for Inclusive Development & Social Impact Investment
- Global Supply Chain Management
- Holistic Management & Organisational Development
- Impact Evaluation
- International Development Agenda & the Sustainable Development Goals
- Marketing Fundamentals
- New Economies (circular, sharing, collaborative, smart cities)
- Organisational Development & Change
- Present & Future of Geopolitics
- The Role of Business in Society:New Holistic Management Models
- Strategy & Sustainability
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation
- Sustainable Operations
- Technological Management & the Changing Nature of Work
Leadership development programme
- Self-Leadership Foundations
- Leading Individuals & Teams I
- Leading Individuals & Teams II
- Leading Change
Complementary components
- International Business Trip
- International Week
- Company visits, presentations & conferences
- Practical Final Project
- Exchange & Double Degree (optional)
Your conferences & off-campus visits
See best practices in action.
Conferences and off-campus visits in collaboration with leading organisations are an integral part of the programme, providing you with the opportunity to network with world–renowned professionals from around the world. You gain an inside look into the culture and day-to-day life of a wide range of organisations and explore different professions in real operating environments.
JUST SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED THIS YEAR

Alternatives to plastic

Big Data

Bioplastics & biofuel

The circular economy

The carbonisation of waste

Corporate Social Responsibility

Design thinking

The refugee crisis

Renewable energy

Smart cities

Sustainable fashion

Urban green infrastructures

Message from the new Dean
of EADA Business School
to the International Masters
Candidates

Anouk Hut, Netherlands
"One of the key values of EADA is a commitment to personal development. I was challenged to find out what drives you and who you want to be. EADA's methodology challenges you to speak up and share your opinion in class discussions.The faculty and students from all over the world meant that I was constantly exposed to new perspectives. This translated into great opportunities for networking, both inside and outside of EADA."
Your International Week
Focus on sustainability and responsible management.
This week gives you a broader vision of the field with visiting experts and professionals from all over the world. Electives, workshops, round tables and challenges provide the opportunity to engage with leaders in sustainability.
- Digital transformation
- Humanitarian emergencies
- Innovative entrepreneurship
- The sharing economy
- Social enterprise models
- The social impact of marketing
Your International Business Trip
Explore, learn, grow.
During the International Business Trip, you get out of EADA for a first-hand look at innovation and its role in sustainability through classes in partner universities and visits abroad. Hear from the professionals facing today's most pressing business challenges every day: How are they adapting? What solutions have they found? Where do we go from here?

Extend your network

Learn from experts in the field

Discover a fresh perspective

Connect with your classmates
Previous classes have visited Maastricht (the Netherlands) and Brussels (Belgium), where participants networked with innovative leaders in a wide variety of fields in both the public and private sector. This is your opportunity to learn about the day-to-day life of different industries in real operating environments.
As a complementary learning component, you gain unique insight into the purpose, goals and approach of the United Nations University-Merit and explore new ground with in-depth lectures from faculty at our partner Maastricht University.
Agriculture
Healthcare
Innovation
Product design
R&D in the European Union
European politics & strategy
Sustainable Development Goals & public policy
Artificial intelligence
Blockchain
The circular economy
Innovation
Tech-driven economies
Your final project
Make change.
You work as a business consultant – this is your chance to put what you have learned throughout the year to the test, integrating theory and practice to address management challenges and make the most significant impact. You select your challenge and develop it together with your group under the guidance of an experienced tutor.

Hone your skills
Employ quantitative and qualitative methodologies to define priorities
Identify, select and analyse potential partner companies and organisations
Develop, test and adapt prototypes
Define strategic plans for sales, marketing and communications teams
Analyse how companies create value for stakeholders and design results-oriented proposals for improvement
Examine the gap between the perceived value of new technologies and technical capabilities

Work with top companies in fields of growth






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