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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sloan School of Management

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • MIT Sloan Executive Education
      • MIT Sloan School of Management
      • 238 Main St
      • E48-501
      • Cambridge, 02142, Massachusetts
      • United States
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? No
      • Status:
        • Private
      • Executive nondegree open enrollment programs offered: 30
      • Executive non-degree custom programs offered: 19
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 4,926
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? Yes
      • Year building opened: 2010
      • Number of classrooms: 2
      • 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: 1
      • Custom executive programs run in other countries: 5
      • Companies for which the school ran custom programs in previous year: 15
    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,203
      • Full-Time MBA: 790
      • Executive MBA: 236
      • PhD Program: 82
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 126
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Finance, Other
  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $2,465.00
      • High: $11,500.00
    • Range of costs, custom programs:

      • Low: $50,000.00
      • High: $5,000,000.00
  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 16 %
      • Percentage of attendees who live/work abroad: 37 %
    • Percentage of Participants in open enrollment executive education programs are:

      • Female: 17 %
      • International : 37 %
      • Completely sponsored by their employers: 90 %
  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Title: Business Dynamics: MIT's Approach to Diagnosing and Solving Complex Business Problems
      • Type of Course: Systems Thinking
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,100.00
      • Title: Entrepreneurship Development Program
      • Type of Course: Entrepreneurship
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $9,500.00
      • Title: Creating High Velocity Organizations
      • Type of Course: Innovation
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $2,900.00
      • Title: Implementing Improvement Strategies: Practical Tools and Methods
      • Type of Course: Process Improvement
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $2,900.00
      • Title: Reinventing Your Business Strategy
      • Type of Course: Strategy
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $2,900.00
      • Title: Negotiation for Executives
      • Type of Course: Negotiations
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $2,900.00
      • Title: Leading Change in Complex Organizations
      • Type of Course: Change Management
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,800.00
      • Title: Intelligent Organizations: Collaboration and the Future of Work
      • Type of Course: Collective Intelligence
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $2,900.00
      • Title: Building, Leading, and Sustaining the Innovative Organization
      • Type of Course: Innovation
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $2,900.00
      • Title: Developing and Managing a Successful Technology and Product Strategy
      • Type of Course: Technology Strategy
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $2,900.00
    • International programs:

      • Title: Driving Strategic Innovation
      • Type of Course: Innovation
      • Partner(s): IMD
      • Year Established: 2003
  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 112
    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 74
      • Non-Tenured: 38
    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: NA
      • Non-Tenured: NA
    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 10
      • Non-Tenured: 14
    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 6
      • Non-Tenured: 4
    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 9
      • Non-Tenured: 21
    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 74
      • Non-Tenured: 38
  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Main teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 15 %
      • Distance Learning: 5 %
      • Experiential Learning: 20 %
      • Lectures: 25 %
      • Simulations: 20 %
      • Team Projects: 15 %
      • Other: 0 %
    • Faculty for executive education:

      • Full-time faculty (with tenure and/or permanent): 60 %
      • Full-time faculty (without tenure): 15 %
      • Adjunct faculty: 20 %
      • Other: 0 %
    • Percentage of faculty who are:

      • Female: 15 %
      • International: 23 %
  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Implemented SharePoint w/ Student Portal. Opened technologically advanced new academic building. Outfitted 12 classrooms with state-of-the-art technology: dual projectors, document camera, HD video and audio conferencing, HD lecture capturing, and dedicated Macs and PCs. Equipped 40 study rooms with small group presentation equipment-25 of them with HD video conferencing/recording equipment. WebEx and Qualtrics provided to community, Visix deployed, virtualized PCs in public labs and classrooms.
  • COMMENTS

      • In today’s increasingly complex world, leaders must be innovative, entrepreneurial, and global, in both thought and action. At MIT Sloan, our programs combine innovation and entrepreneurship with strategic thinking and global leadership, providing executives and managers with the critical skills required to create and lead successful organizations. Our programs reflect MIT Sloan’s core mission—to develop principled, innovative leaders and to generate ideas that advance management practice.
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