The 12-Week MBA
Equip yourself for business leadership
The 12-Week MBA is a leadership development program for experienced professionals and new managers who want to accelerate their careers.
Discover how 1LT Nicholas Schroeder secured a top consulting position after leveling up his business acumen and people management skills.
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Designed for the high performance workplace
For over two decades, we've developed rising leaders at the world's most admired companies. Our online, part-time program fits into your professional life with no compromises in depth and quality of instruction. We carefully select candidates who can contribute to rich discussions in small, interactive cohorts.
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100K+
Learners
950+
Clients
50+
Countries
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Go deep where it counts
Grow your management knowledge, skills and mindsets
Creating economic value through managerial decisions
Measuring value creation using financial analysis
Communicating in the language of finance
Cultivating individual talent to achieve great things
Coordinating a diverse team to act as one
Delivering today's results while building tomorrow's capabilities
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Your Commitment
Our cohorts are small, our activities are intense, and our discussions are lively.
We carefully select candidates who can contribute to each others’ learning.
We award our certificate based on attendance in at least 80% of the sessions and successful completion of a group project and a final 1-1 interview with an Abilitie executive.
Time investment
6 hours of virtual classroom time per week
*Wednesdays, 12:30pm - 2:30pm ET
*Fridays, 10:00am - 2:00pm ET
3 - 5 hours of weekly preparation
Next cohort
September 10 - November 21, 2025
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Mastery is a Matter of Experience
Our proven methods emphasize application over theory and collaboration over solitary study.
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AI-enabled simulations
Business simulations with AI characters allow you to practice complex, realistic business scenarios.
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Expert faculty
Expert faculty with real-world business and management experience introduce new frameworks, and tools.
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Peer network
Our transformative learning experiences forge a learning community and alumni network.
Our Manifesto
Now translated into six languages and available in bookstores around the world, The 12-Week MBA book explains what we teach in the program and why we believe our focus and our methodology are the right way to learn how to lead in today's world.
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"For the thousands of managers we’ve had the privilege of training, the limiting factor is rarely their functional expertise. The limiting factor is the ability to see the forest for the tree and to see it as a collection of resources and a web of relationships at one and the same time."