London Business School Dubai Center added. LBS Dubai started offering an Executive MBA program with DIFC in September 2007, and appears to be going great guns. Question is, are LBS MBA graduates more or less likely to have been wiped out in the global financial crisis of 2008-2009? Given that it costs over AED 300,000 to get an LBS MBA (or EMBA), you’d hope to have learnt enough to avoid getting melted down.