Olin Offers Finance for Non-financial Pros Program
F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business is offering the Executive Education course “Finance for Today’s Nonfinancial Professionals.” The course will be held Nov. 13-14, 2014. The program will be held at the Babson Executive Conference Center, in Wellesley, MA. The program is led by Virginia Soybel, senior lecturer in accounting in Babson’s Accounting and Law Division and Victoria Sassine, adjunct lecturer in Babson’s Finance Division.
This program is designed for nonfinancial mid- and senior-level professionals in any industry or organization, and attracts a varied mix of participants. Whether you are a Vice President of Operations, Sales Representative, Product Manager, Director of Marketing, Systems Engineer, or anything in between.
Fordham Offers New Exec. Ed. Program
The Fordham Graduate School of Business Administration is offering a new executive education program. The Fordham Forum on Leadership and Growth Executive Development Program will be held from Nov. 18-20, 2014 at the Fordham Westchester campus. This executive education program is a three-day intensive program aimed to increase participants’ productivity and sharpen their decision-making skills.
The program designed to equip executives with the tools they need to thrive in today’s challenging and unpredictable business environment and to lead their organizations to prosperity and growth. The course will be delivered in a 3-day intensive format. The Forum offers a high-level strategy briefing and peer networking opportunity for executive decision makers.
Columbia Offers New Exec. Ed. Program
The Columbia Business School is offering a brand new Executive Education program. “Brand Leadership: Strategy, Management, and Performance,” will first be offered Nov. 3-5, 2014. It will be held at the Columbia University campus in New York.
Brand Leadership: Strategy, Management, and Performance will teach students how to build a strong brand identity, a superior brand experience, and lasting brand loyalty. Participants will be able to differentiate your brand from the competition, sustain its differentiation and competitive advantage and maximize its impact and profitability.
Anderson to Hold Creativity and Innovation Seminar
UCLA’s Anderson School of Management is holding a Creativity and Innovation Seminar. The program is for chief officers of global concerns, leaders of corporate functions across the enterprise, rising executives and entrepreneurs. The seminar will be held Oct. 27-31, 2014.
The Creativity and Innovation in the Organization seminar prepares attendants to foster a creative mindset across their enterprise and to exploit uncertainty and chaos to unleash powerful ideas that drive results. The program is the brainchild of the incomparable Moshe Rubinstein, who, in 2000, was named one of the Top 20 Professors of the Century at UCLA. It aims to immerses participants in comprehensive insights, frameworks and tools on how to ignite innovation that drives results.
Wharton and IBM Launch New Exec. Program
The Wharton School of Business and International Business Machine Corp. have joined to launch a new executive education program. The program has been designed to help chief marketing officers navigate the explosion of data available and will be focused on big data and analytics for marketing executives.
Forty-eight CMOs, chief customer officers and others in related leadership roles will be selected to participate in the new program, called “The CMO Advantage: Evolving Beyond the Digital Revolution.” Faculty members from The Wharton School’s marketing will teach the two-week course. The course will address the impact of big data, analytics and new technologies on customer engagement. The program will take place in June and applications for the course will open on Oct. 20.
Henley and Santander Offer Loan to Studying Executives
Henley Business School and Santander banking group are partnering to offer a new loan to executives in the former’s UK-based programme. Aimed at individuals looking to further their business education with part-time study whilst continuing in employment, the loan provides the opportunity to borrow up to £20,000 to help towards course fees, with market-leading rates from 4.3% APR on loans from £7,500 to £15,000.
This loan is designed to serve the business community by supporting and developing the engine room of sustained economic growth – business executives. Key to this initiative is to help widen access to education for business executives and is available to people starting or continuing Henley’s programmes including: Part-time Postgraduate courses, Executive Education programmes, Executive MBA, Flexible Executive MBA and the MBA for Music & Creative Industries.
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