MONARCH BUSINESS SCHOOL SWITZERLAND
Your experience.
Your ambition.
Your next professional chapter.
MANAGEMENT · LEADERSHIP · PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
Build on your experience through professional doctorates and the Executive MBA. Strengthen your professional authority, broaden your leadership perspective and develop your next contribution.
SCHOOL OVERVIEW · SEPTEMBER 2026
MBS
The MBS perspective
Strengthen your authority.
Extend your influence.
Take your experience further—whether you want to lead at a higher level, strengthen your advisory practice or deepen your specialist expertise.
Build on what you have achieved
Monarch Business School Switzerland connects these ambitions with advanced management education. Your professional experience provides the foundation; program study, applied research and faculty guidance help you examine important challenges and develop an informed contribution to practice.
Connect your development with the decisions, opportunities and challenges that matter to you. Build a broader perspective and bring new insight to your organisation, profession and community.
Our educational orientation
Responsible professional judgement.
Consider the evidence, the organisational context and the consequences of action. Connect analytical insight with responsible leadership and continuing professional growth.
Three connected areas of Monarch
MGRI
Academic doctoral inquiry and scholarly contribution through the Monarch Global Research Institute.
MBS
Graduate and executive management education, with a professional and applied focus.
MMI
Accessible professional learning and continuing development through the Monarch Management Institute.
Programme structure, availability and entry requirements vary. See the relevant programme page or speak with Admissions.
MBS
Find your pathway
Choose your direction of professional growth.
Explore professional doctoral and executive programmes across management and leadership.
Doctor of Business Administration
Strengthen your authority as an executive, consultant or business leader through advanced study of consequential organisational challenges.
Explore programme →Doctor of Management
Bring your management experience into focus and develop a contribution that reflects the leadership legacy you want to build.
Explore programme →Doctor of Leadership
Deepen your leadership perspective and strengthen your capacity to guide people, organisations and meaningful change.
Explore programme →Doctor of Applied Neuroscience
Develop specialist insight at the intersection of neuroscience, management and human performance.
Explore programme →Doctor of Professional Studies
Build on your professional expertise to develop an original, practice-focused contribution to your field.
Explore programme →Doctor of Coaching
Deepen your coaching expertise and strengthen your professional perspective through doctoral study connected to coaching practice.
Explore DCOACH →Executive MBA
Broaden your management perspective and develop the strategic understanding to take on greater leadership responsibility.
Explore programme →Looking for a PhD or Doctor of Social Science? Explore academic research pathways through the Monarch Global Research Institute.
MBS
The learning experience
Structured learning.
Connected to professional life.
Professional context, inquiry and reflection work together to support the development of responsible judgement.
01 · Start with meaningful questions
Bring challenges from your professional environment into your learning. Examine assumptions and identify where deeper understanding could make a difference.
02 · Develop evidence-informed insight
Connect management ideas with systematic inquiry. Strengthen your ability to interpret evidence and assess its implications for decisions and practice.
03 · Exercise responsible judgement
Consider people, context and the consequences of action. Develop a reflective approach to leadership and continuing professional growth.
Study alongside your career.
Build your future without leaving your career behind. Distance-based study and faculty mentoring help you connect your development with the professional challenges and opportunities that matter to you.
Develop your ideas with faculty guidance
Bring your experience, interests and ambitions—you do not need a finished research proposal to start a conversation. Once you choose a professional doctorate the faculty will guide you in developing your research proposal.
Explore the programme that fits your ambitions and discuss your next step with Admissions.
MBS
Professional scholarship in action
Experience becomes a foundation for contribution.
DBA graduates connect professional experience with questions of leadership, industry and organisational change.
Dr. Richmond Ezenwa Okafor
NIGERIA · DBA IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Drawing on more than twenty-five years of entrepreneurial experience, Dr. Okafor examined digital transformation and horizontal collaboration in Nigeria’s road-freight sector. His research developed a framework to support more efficient, transparent and digitally enabled collaboration among logistics providers, shippers and transport operators.
Dr. Scott Farrell
SOUTH AFRICA · DBA
Dr. Farrell completed his DBA while serving as Group Chief Financial Officer for B. Braun Companies Southern Africa. His research drew on managing a multi-territory healthcare enterprise, examining organisational factors that support financial resilience and strategic transformation in complex corporate environments.
Dr. Allison Ayodeji Aliu
NIGERIA · DUAL PhD / DBA
With nearly two decades of experience in the energy sector, Dr. Aliu investigated strategic options for Nigerian independent energy companies during international divestment. His work developed a framework connecting commercial decisions with stakeholders, sustainability and long-term shared prosperity.
YOUR EXPERIENCE. YOUR NEXT CONTRIBUTION.
Take the next step in your professional life.
Tell us about your experience and where you want to go next. Our Admissions team can help you explore the programme that best fits your ambitions.
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School overview · September 2026
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