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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Harvard University

Harvard Business School

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Harvard Business School
      • Soldiers Field
      • Boston, 02163, Massachusetts
      • United States
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? No
      • Status:
        • Private
      • Executive nondegree open enrollment programs offered: 82
      • Executive non-degree custom programs offered: 36
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 9,425
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? Yes
      • Year building opened: 1968
      • Number of classrooms: 7
      • Does the school offer temporary housing for executive education participants?: Yes
    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
  • SCHOOL BASICS

      • Open-enrollment executive programs run in other countries: 22
      • Custom executive programs run in other countries: 5
      • Companies for which the school ran custom programs in previous year: 30
    • School partnerships with non-business schools:

      • Title: Senior Executive Program for China
      • Partner(s): CEIBS, Tsinghua University
      • Title: Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
      • Partner(s): Stanford GSB
      • Title: Growing a Professional Service Firm–China
      • Partner(s): School of Management, Fudan University
      • Title: Driving Corporate Performance–China
      • Partner(s): Guanghua School of Management
      • Title: custom program
      • Partner(s): Oxford University
      • Title: Global CEO Program for China
      • Partner(s): CEIBS, IESE Business School
    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,937
      • Full-Time MBA: 1,802
      • PhD Program: 135
  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $3,500.00
      • High: $66,000.00
  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 3 %
      • Percentage of attendees who live/work abroad: 58 %
    • Percentage of Participants in open enrollment executive education programs are:

      • Female: 21 %
      • International : 70 %
      • Completely sponsored by their employers: 87 %
  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Title: Advanced Management Program
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Course Length: 60 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $66,000.00
      • Title: General Management Program
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Course Length: 60 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $59,000.00
      • Title: Program for Leadership Development
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Course Length: 145 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $41,000.00
      • Title: Owner/President Management
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Course Length: 60 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $33,000.00
      • Title: High Potentials Leadership Program
      • Type of Course: Leadership
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $14,000.00
      • Title: Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
      • Type of Course: Change Management
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $14,000.00
      • Title: Changing the Game: Negotiation and Competitive Decision Making
      • Type of Course: Negotiation
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $11,000.00
      • Title: Driving Corporate Performance
      • Type of Course: Financial Management
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $11,000.00
      • Title: Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
      • Type of Course: Strategic Management
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $12,500.00
      • Title: Launching New Ventures
      • Type of Course: Entrepreneurial Management
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $11,500.00
    • International programs:

      • Title: Global CEO Program for China
      • Type of Course: General management
      • Partner(s): CEIBS, IESE
      • Title: Building a Global Enterprise in India
      • Type of Course: Business Strategy
      • Country: India
      • Year Established: 2008
      • Title: Driving Corporate Performance-China
      • Type of Course: Financial Management
      • Country: China
      • Partner(s): Guanghua School of Management
      • Year Established: 2010
  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 264
    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 88
      • Non-Tenured: 137
    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 5
      • Non-Tenured: 34
    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 18
      • Non-Tenured: 40
    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 25
      • Non-Tenured: 41
    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 21
      • Non-Tenured: 66
    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 93
      • Non-Tenured: 146
  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Faculty for executive education:

      • Full-time faculty (with tenure and/or permanent): 69 %
      • Full-time faculty (without tenure): 17 %
      • Other: 14 %
    • Percentage of faculty who are:

      • Female: 16 %
      • International: 37 %
  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Major IT projects include:a new LMS with custom built applications to aid collaboration;a new research information system to improve sharing of faculty work;a new videoconferencing infrastructure;Web-based collaboration spaces; interactive learning tools, games, and simulations;an all-digital classroom media framework;enhanced traditional/mobile websites and social networking capabilities;a statistical computing grid to aid research;an iPhone powered HBS Learning Nexus for Executive Education.
      • Amount spent: $145,000,000.00
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