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executive education
South Bend Executive MBA Curriculum Redesigned To better accommodate the demanding schedules of working professionals, the South Bend Executive MBA program moved from a bi-weekly schedule to a concentrated monthly format in 2004. Students now gather once per month from Wednesday afternoon through Saturday on the Notre Dame campus for instruction. The redesigned program also includes separate immersion weeks at Notre Dame focusing on strategic marketing and Executive Integral Leadership as well as a week-long international study experience in Brussels, Belgium. The South Bend Executive MBA program continues to be offered via distance-learning to students in Cincinnati and Toledo, Ohio. Executive MBA Alumni Offered Lifetime Learning Opportunities Alumni of Notre Dame’s South Bend and Chicago Executive MBA programs can now benefit from their Notre Dame education for a lifetime by enrolling in available courses offered to current Executive MBA students at little or no cost. According to Barry Van Dyck, Director of Executive MBA Programs, EMBA alumni have the opportunity to refresh their knowledge, reconnect with faculty and interact with current EMBA students.
EMBA Program on the Rise in Chicago  Since being launched in January 2002, the Chicago Executive MBA program has already grown to become the third largest executive MBA program in the Windy City behind Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. The program enrolled more than 120 students this year. They attended classes at the Summit Executive Centre, which is conveniently located on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. Classes are held on alternating weekends; the program also includes immersion weeks on the Notre Dame campus. Reasons cited for the growth in the program include: the commitment of outstanding Notre Dame faculty; the unique “weave” program format that integrates business disciplines; the program’s emphasis on values-based decision making; and the support of Notre Dame’s dedicated alumni base in Chicago.
Student Commutes to South Bend from New Jersey
“I am not a good airplane traveler.” So says Gary Stetz (EMBA ’05) of Newark, New Jersey, who took an estimated 95 flights throughout two years to participate in the South Bend Executive MBA program. Stetz is a managing partner in a medium-sized accounting firm and a director of a start-up bank, Denovo Bank in Newark. Stetz describes his EMBA coursework as “lightning in a bottle” and reports that he constantly thinks about what he learned and tries to apply the principles. Stetz readily admits that, trained as a tax accountant, he has always found innovation elusive. He credits Professor Matt Bloom with teaching him a framework for innovation and strategies to design an organization that works within its strengths. Stetz is not alone in going the distance. The current South Bend EMBA class includes residents of Colorado, Kansas, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Switzerland.
Executive Integral Leadership Provides Values-Based Model for Leadership
Now in its third year, Notre Dame’s one-week Executive Integral Leadership (EIL) program equips participants to resolve complex strategic issues in a principled manner. The program encourages self-understanding along seven dimensions: cognitive, emotional, interpersonal, values, moral, spiritual, and physical. To date, 471 participants from various business sectors and medical and professional fields have enrolled in the program. In a recent survey of program participants six to twelve months after program completion, 97% stated that “EIL enabled me to lead and manage more consciously,” while 91% agreed that “EIL has equipped me with new tools in such areas as effective communication, conflict resolution and decision making for greater leadership effectiveness.”
Custom Programs Expand to Healthcare and Financial Services Fields Building on the strength of Notre Dame’s highly ranked finance department, Executive Education is expanding its suite of custom program offerings into the financial services field, concentrating on applied investment principles, integrating acquisitions, and leadership and ethics. Notre Dame is also offering new custom programs for healthcare professionals that combine innovative leadership principles with solid business acumen. These programs enable practitioners and administrators to meet the challenge of delivering quality care and controlling costs while dealing with enormous complexity. These new custom programs in the healthcare and financial services fields are added to the wide-ranging custom offerings provided by Executive Education to corporations and organizations in a variety of industries. In the past year, Notre Dame developed custom programs for nine new executive clients.
Executive Education Explores the European Union
Technology Program Offered for Chilean Executives For the past three years, Notre Dame has offered a Management of Innovation & Technology course annually to local executives and students in Santiago, Chile. The certificate course, taught by Professor Sarvanan Devaraj, explores how to manage innovation and technology issues using advanced statistical and computer tools. The program is offered on location at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, which also hosts Mendoza MBA students studying abroad. Executive Education has a long-term strategy to develop value-added programming for the international market and is also evaluating pilot programs in Mexico, Central America and China.
Breaking Down Barriers with Office Redesign
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In July 2004, a new international immersion course debuted giving Executive MBA students an opportunity to learn first hand about the intricacies of the European Union (EU), particularly regarding its business relationship with the United States. During a week-long stay in Belgium and Luxembourg, students attend panels featuring government officials, ambassadors, scholars, journalists and European business leaders who share their expertise. There is a close economic relationship between the United States and the European Union. For example, the US and the EU are each other’s largest source of foreign direct investment and the “Trans-Atlantic Economy” employs more than 12 million people on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Executive Education staff recently sacrificed their private offices for an ideal: team camaraderie. In a culture in which office size and location usually indicates status, this group, under the leadership of Associate Dean Leo Burke (’70), chose to break down physical and organizational barriers by moving into a uniquely designed shared space animated by bright colors and friendly contours. More significantly, the Executive Education staff is truly living the philosophy they promote in Executive Integral Leadership, stressing a balance of cognitive, emotional, interpersonal, values, moral, spiritual, and physical dimensions.
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