Part-Time/Executive MBA

Stanford Graduate School of Business Extends Executive Program for Entrepreneurs to India, France

Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) plans later this year to expand its Ignite program – an executive program designed to provide scientists, engineers, and graduate students with the business skills they need to launch successful entrepreneurial ventures – to Bangalore and Paris, the Financial Times reports.

Stanford Ignite debuted in California in 2006, where it is offered both full and part time. In France and India, it will be taught as part of a part-time, nine-week program, according to the FT.

Yossi Feinberg, a Stanford economics professor and the Stanford Ignite faculty professor, told the FT that the program is designed for professionals in their fields who lack managerial experience. “It’s remarkable how much innovation there is and how much is lost through the lack of business skills,” he said.

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UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business Welcomes Inaugural Executive MBA Class

Members of the first class of the Berkeley MBA for Executives Program will take in majestic views of San Francisco Bay tonight while enjoying dinner and hearing from a Nobel Laureate, all part of orientation for the new 19-month program, which began on Wednesday.

Haas launched the new program after reaching a mutual decision last year with Columbia Business School to end the joint Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program. Based in Berkeley, Haas’s new program will include three off-site blocks, one in Washington, DC, one in Shanghai and one in Silicon Valley. The school’s Berkeley Innovative Leader Development (BILD) curriculum, introduced as part of the full-time MBA program in 2010, will serve as the basis for the new executive MBA program. Continue reading…

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University of Chicago Booth School of Business Adjusts Executive MBA Program

The Executive MBA (EMBA) program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is getting a makeover to include new courses, more time devoted to international exchange and more opportunity for students to specialize through their choice of electives, the school announced this week.

Chicago Booth’s EMBA program, which is taught at campuses in Chicago, London and Singapore, is part-time and designed to be completed by experienced professionals as they continue working full time. Continue reading…

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UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School Partners with Chinese University to Launch Dual-Degree EMBA

The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School will partner with Tsinghua University in China to offer a dual-degree Executive MBA (EMBA) program combining business and engineering, the school announced this week.

Called the Global Supply Chain Leaders Program, the new offering is targeted toward Chinese executives seeking to enhance both their leadership skills and technical knowledge. Those who complete the program will receive an MBA from UNC and a master of engineering management (MEM) from Tsinghua’s Department of Industrial Engineering. Continue reading…

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UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business Launches New MBA for Executives Program

The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley this week launched a new MBA program for executives and will begin recruiting for it with events later this month. Called the Berkeley MBA for Executives Program, the new course is designed to help seasoned executives learn to generate innovative ideas that can help further their businesses and fast-track their careers. It will enroll its first class in May 2013.

The new Haas program targets senior executives with an average of 12 years of professional experience, but it is based upon the same rigorous general management curriculum that distinguishes Haas’s full-time, evening and weekend MBA programs. As a school, Haas prides itself for having a cutting-edge innovative leader curriculum, which the new program will feature as well. Continue reading…

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Longtime Wharton Vice Dean Leaves to Join Yale School of Management

Anjani Jain, vice dean of the MBA program for executives at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, will end a 26-year run at the Philadelphia business school to join the Yale School of Management (SOM) later this summer, Wharton Dean Thomas Robertson shared in an email to the Wharton community last week.

Jain, who began his tenure at Wharton as an adjunct faculty member in 1994, has served as vice dean and director of the Wharton Graduate Division and as vice dean of the Wharton MBA Program for Executives. In that time, he was won numerous teaching awards, including the Miller-Sherrerd Award for Teaching in the Core Curriculum, the Wharton Graduate Association MBA Core Curriculum Award, the Excellence in Teaching Award, the Wharton Graduate Association “Whatever It Takes” Award and the Howard E. Mitchell Award. Continue reading…

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Columbia Business School Launches New EMBA Americas Program

Columbia Business School (CBS) yesterday announced the launch of a new modular Executive MBA (EMBA) program designed for executives in the United States, Canada and Latin America. Called EMBA-Americas, the new program is intended to provide more convenient access to the Columbia MBA.

“With this new modular design, we have eliminated a significant barrier to achieving that goal by providing yet another way that high-potential executives can learn to incorporate management theory into everyday practice,” CBS Dean Glenn Hubbard said in a statement. Continue reading…

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Business Schools on Three Continents Partner for New International EMBA

The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, Spain’s ESADE and Brazilian business school Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (FGV) will join forces as part of a new tripartite degree for executives working in European and U.S. multi-nationals that have interests in Latin America, the Financial Times reports.

The new one-year program will consist of eight modules taught in Madrid; Washington, DC; Rio de Janeiro and Shanghai with online tutorials between each module.

Executives who complete the new Corporate International Masters degree, as it is being called, will receive a corporate MBA from ESADE, a Masters in International Business from McDonough and an executive masters degree from FGV, according to the FT report. Completion of the degree will also require a thesis. Continue reading…

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Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program to End

The February 2013 graduating class of the joint Executive MBA (EMBA) program of the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the Columbia Business School (CBS) will be the program’s last, deans from the two schools announced Friday. The goals and future directions of each school contributed to the mutual decision to end the joint EMBA program, according to Berkeley-Haas Dean Rich Lyons and CBS Dean Glenn Hubbard.

The Haas School has plans to launch a stand-alone EMBA program in 2013 to complement its existing full-time MBA and evening & weekend MBA programs, that school announced. CBS, for its part, recently launched a Saturday-only option to augment its EMBA-New York program. It also has EMBA-Global partnerships with London Business School and the University of Hong Kong as well as its full-time MBA program.
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Clear Admit Co-Founder Discusses EMBA Programs in Delta Sky Magazine

Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond shared his expertise in graduate management admissions as part of a recent feature story on Executive Masters of Business (EMBA) programs for Delta Airlines’ inflight magazine. Entitled “Next Generation (E)MBA,” the article focuses on the ways in which top business schools are evolving their EMBA programs to remain competitive and relevant for the changing needs of the C-suite in a challenging economy. It appears in the March 2012 issue of Delta Sky Magazine.

“There is definitely a clamoring for more soft skills—more training in ethics, leadership, the touchy-feely stuff people need to master to be successful managers,” Richmond told Delta Sky Mag. “That is now a common theme across graduate management education.” Continue reading…

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UMichigan’s Ross School of Business Helps Fund Promising Student Startups

The Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business has awarded almost $90,000 to promising student startups through its annual business challenge and other grant programs, the school announced this week.

Fashion Forward Maternity, an online boutique enabling career women to borrow high-quality designer maternity and nursing clothing at discounted prices, took first prize of $20,000 in the Michigan Business Challenge, now in its 29th year. The team, comprised of Erin Lewis, an executive MBA student at Michigan Ross, along with Judy Skiles Lavers and Sannie Sapier, beat out 44 other teams in a competition that began last fall. Runners up – which included a medical device company that uses neuroscience to develop patient brain-function monitoring solutions and a for-profit social entrepreneurial company devoted to helping the blind use modern touchscreen devices – received an additional $42,000 in award money for their startup ventures. Continue reading…

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