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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Columbia University

Columbia Business School

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Columbia Business School Executive Education
      • Columbia Business School
      • 2880 Broadway
      • Armstrong Hall, 4th Floor
      • New York, 10025, New York
      • United States
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? No
      • Status:
        • Private
      • Executive nondegree open enrollment programs offered: 37
      • Executive non-degree custom programs offered: 32
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 2,078
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? No
      • Does the school offer temporary housing for executive education participants?: No

    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

  • SCHOOL BASICS

      • Open-enrollment executive programs run in other countries: 2
      • Custom executive programs run in other countries: 8
      • Companies for which the school ran custom programs in previous year: 25

    • School partnerships with non-business schools:

      • Title: Risk Management
      • Partner(s): PRMIA
      • Title: Ariane de Rothschild Fellows Program
      • Partner(s): Edmond de Rothschild Foundation
      • Title: Greater Returns: Restarting Your Career
      • Partner(s): Bank of America
      • Title: Center for Curatorial Leadership Program
      • Partner(s): Center for Curatorial Leadership

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 2,281
      • Full-Time MBA: 1,278
      • Executive MBA: 888
      • PhD Program: 95
      • Other graduate degree programs: Other, Master of Marketing

  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $2,650.00
      • High: $50,000.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 31 %
      • Percentage of attendees who live/work abroad: 58 %

    • Percentage of Participants in open enrollment executive education programs are:

      • Female: 31 %
      • International : 57 %

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Title: Columbia Senior Executive Program (CSEP)
      • Type of Course: Comprehensive Management
      • Course Length: 26 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $50,000.00
      • Comments: The Columbia Senior Executive Program is an incomparable 26-day journey of intellectual, personal and professional discovery, transformation and growth for senior executives. Scheduling options include four consecutive weeks or the 2 x 2 option.
      • Title: General Management Leadership Program
      • Type of Course: Comprehensive Management
      • Course Length: 13 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $25,450.00
      • Comments: The General Management Leadership Program is designed to help new leaders meet challenges. Through lectures, interactive simulations and dynamic discussions, participants prepare for their new role and develop critical skills allowing them to succeed.
      • Title: Columbia Essentials of Management
      • Type of Course: Comprehensive Management
      • Course Length: 13 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $22,950.00
      • Comments: Columbia Essentials of Management is a comprehensive program that allows participants to build critical business foundations in strategy, marketing and finance—all while developing leadership skills.
      • Title: Columbia Management Institute
      • Type of Course: Comprehensive Management
      • Course Length: 13 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $21,750.00
      • Comments: The Columbia Management Institute provides an MBA-inspired core management education focused on the practical execution of business concepts in a modular format convenient for busy professionals.
      • Title: Value Investing
      • Type of Course: Finance
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $5,200.00
      • Comments: Exclusively offered at Columbia, Value Investing led by Professor Bruce Greenwald upholds the traditions of Graham and Dodd’s value-based theory established at Columbia Business School and its successful applications.
      • Title: High Impact Leadership
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Strategy
      • Course Length: 6 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $10,200.00
      • Comments: High Impact Leadership provides a profound understanding of how you are perceived as a leader in the context of your organization. It also enables you to develop an action plan on how to manage yourself and lead others to improve performance.
      • Title: The Emerging Leader Development Program
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Strategy
      • Course Length: 6 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,700.00
      • Comments: Successful companies develop their high-potential leaders in order to remain competitive and grow. The Emerging Leader Development Program is designed especially for executives who have been targeted to assume significant managerial responsibilities.
      • Title: Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Executive
      • Type of Course: Finance
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $7,950.00
      • Comments: Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Executive provides executives with limited financial background the opportunity to gain practical understanding of financial concepts and become more discerning of possible problems.
      • Title: Creating and Executing Breakthrough Strategy
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Strategy
      • Course Length: 6 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,850.00
      • Comments: Creating and Executing Breakthrough Strategy provides executives with proven techniques for skillfully developing highly differentiated strategies and action plans that take full advantage of market opportunities and build a competitive edge.
      • Title: Leading Strategic Growth and Change
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Strategy
      • Course Length: 6 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,850.00
      • Comments: Leading Strategic Growth and Change focuses on the process of finding opportunities, launching new ventures and leading necessary organizational changes to revitalize your corporation.

    • International programs:

      • Title: Global Account Manager Certification Program
      • Type of Course: Marketing
      • Partner(s): St. Gallen University
      • Year Established: 2007
      • Title: King Khalid Foundation
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Strategy
      • Country: Saudi Arabia
      • Partner(s): King Khalid Foundation
      • Year Established: 2009
      • Title: Siam Cement
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Strategy
      • Country: Thailand
      • Year Established: 2006

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 299

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 72
      • Non-Tenured: 75

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 154

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 9
      • Non-Tenured: 35

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 17
      • Non-Tenured: 23

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 33
      • Non-Tenured: 39

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 72
      • Non-Tenured: 68

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Main teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 5 %
      • Experiential Learning: 50 %
      • Lectures: 25 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 15 %

    • Faculty for executive education:

      • Full-time faculty (with tenure and/or permanent): 45 %
      • Full-time faculty (without tenure): 19 %
      • Adjunct faculty: 7 %
      • Other: 29 %

    • Percentage of faculty who are:

      • Female: 24 %
      • International: 49 %

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: In the last three years technology enhancements have continued to be aligned directly with the School’s focus on providing its students with a distinguishing student academic experience. In the last year, to improve student services, the School has performed upgrades to its wireless service infrastructure, upgraded student kiosks and printers, as well as introduced a new mobile application for iPhones to provide constituents as well as the public with easier access to services and information.

  • COMMENTS

      • #17 - Program Title: Ariane de Rothschild Fellows Program: Dialogue and Social Entrepreneurship

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