At Porto Business School, our AI-first GOMBA develops ambidextrous leaders who balance exploration with execution. Students learn to reframe complex challenges, apply and iterate ideas in real contexts, and lead confidently in non-linear environments.
Learning Journey
The Global Online MBA is your launchpad to become a future-oriented leader — equipped with the mindset, skills, and tools needed to navigate complexity and drive change. Strengthen your analytical and creative thinking, leadership capabilities, and digital fluency, while exploring the potential of Artificial Intelligence, innovation, and sustainability.
AI First Leadership
By applying AI-driven tools to real strategic challenges, participants strengthen their capacity to decide, execute, and recalibrate in real time. This carefully structured Global Online MBA ensures leaders are not only proficient in AI, but prepared to govern and leverage it responsibly within complex organizations.
Together, these pillars equip you to steer transformation with strategic clarity, operational agility, and long-term impact.
AI Across the Program:
From technical foundations to real-world strategy, AI runs through every stage of your learning. You’ll engage with AI Labs, tackle the AI Business Impact Challenge, and master how to apply AI for Business.
Leadership in Action:
A structured and continuous development path helps you grow as a leader — through coaching, storytelling, neg…A structured and continuous development path helps you grow as a leader — through coaching, storytelling, negotiation, and personal reflection.
Sustainability & Entrepreneurship Tracks
Personalize your learning journey by combining AI with Entrepreneurship to drive innovation and venture-ready skills, or with Sustainability to create technology-powered positive impact. Students completing the optional courses receive a certificate for their chosen track.
The choice is yours: shape your MBA around your ambitions and the future you want to lead.
Entrepreneurship Track
If you aim to convert ideas into viable opportunities and build a strong innovation mindset, the Entrepreneurship Track is the right fit for you.
Entrepreneurial MindsetIf you aim to convert ideas into viable opportunities and build a strong innovation mindset, the Entrepreneurship Track is the right fit for you.
Sustainability Track
The Sustainability Track prepares students to lead with purpose in organizations that value environmental and social impact. It provides essential tools for creating sustainable strategies and solutions.
Sustainability and Value Creation
Explore sustainability as a strategic lever for long-term value. Through real-world cases and frameworks, participants learn how organizations integrate ESG into business models and leadership decisions—aligning purpose and performance to build sustainable competitive advantage for business, society, and the environment.
Team Building for Social Impact
At PBS, each year we join together to revitalize community spaces—building teamwork while creating meaningful impact.
Impact Experiences
The PBS Executive MBA is built on action-based learning. Each experience strengthens your ability to lead, decide, and deliver results.
Global Immersion Week
Gain hands-on experience exploring destinations across Europe, the U.S., and Asia (locations vary each year).
Social Teambuilding
Serve on nonprofit boards, gaining governance experience while contributing to real community impact.
Business Impact Challenge (BIC)
Collaborate with industry partners to design and implement innovative solutions to real business problems.
Executive Edge Talks
Learn directly from CEOs, entrepreneurs, and global executives through our curated speaker series.
Innovation X Hub (IXH)
PBS ecosystem for innovation. “YOU” are part of this vibrant community, actively shaping ideas and change.
Arts & Leadership
A one-day experience using art, architecture, and nature to reflect on individual, relational, and systemic leadership.
Learning Journey
Faculty
Our faculty members are recognized for their extensive knowledge, research, and insights in the field of management.
PBS Dynamic Learning Model
Dynamic Learning is an interplay of two interconnected forces: Innovation & Exploration and Real-World Application.
Innovation & Exploration sparks creativity, critical thinking, and the courage to challenge convention. It encourages learners to imagine new possibilities and embrace uncertainty. At the same time, Real-World Application ensures that knowledge is grounded in experience—translating ideas into action and learning into lasting impact. Together, these forces create a continuous loop of inspiration and implementation, preparing learners to lead with purpose in a fast-changing world.
Flex Learning Model
Personalize your MBA journey
An innovative approach designed to help our Global Online MBA students balance their professional, academic, and personal commitments.
Understanding the challenges of executive education, particularly for those commuting to Porto, we have introduced Flex Learning to enhance convenience while maintaining the high-quality standards that define our programs.
Contacts
Admissions Director
Angelique Garcia
Admissions Advisor
António Santos