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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Stanford University

Stanford Graduate School of Business

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Education
      • Stanford Graduate School of Business
      • Knight Management Center
      • 655 Knight Way
      • Stanford, 94305, California
      • United States
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? No
      • Status:
        • Private
      • Executive nondegree open enrollment programs offered: 26
      • Executive non-degree custom programs offered: 24
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 2,270
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? Yes
      • Year building opened: 2011
      • Number of classrooms: 2
      • 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: 2
      • Custom executive programs run in other countries: 5
      • Companies for which the school ran custom programs in previous year: 22

    • School partnerships with non-business schools:

      • Title: Stanford Executive Program
      • Partner(s): Continuous Learning Group
      • Title: Leadership 4 Growth
      • Partner(s): Continuous Learning Group
      • Title: Strategic Leadership 4 CFOs
      • Partner(s): Continuous Learning Group
      • Title: Customer-Focused Innovation
      • Partner(s): Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
      • Title: Design Thinking Boot Camp
      • Partner(s): Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
      • Title: Directors' Consortium
      • Partner(s): Stanford Law Sch, Tuck, Chicago Booth

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 977
      • Full-Time MBA: 803
      • Executive MBA: 67
      • PhD Program: 107
      • Other graduate degree programs: Other

  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $1,500.00
      • High: $58,000.00

    • Range of costs, custom programs:

      • Low: $150,000.00
      • High: $2,000,000.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 17 %
      • Percentage of attendees who live/work abroad: 51 %

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

      • Female: 25 %
      • International : 41 %

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Title: Stanford Executive Program
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Course Length: 42 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $58,000.00
      • Comments: The 6-week Stanford Executive Program, the flagship executive program offered by the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is customized to the needs of senior executives in global companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.
      • Title: Executive Program for Growing Companies
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Course Length: 14 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $21,500.00
      • Comments: The Executive Program for Growing Companies offers a general management curriculum for organizations facing the opportunities and challenges of growth. The key theme is strategic leadership, but the curriculum covers all major business areas.
      • Title: Executive Leadership Development: Analysis to Action
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Course Length: 19 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $30,000.00
      • Comments: Analysis to Action program is delivered in two modules between Jan and April. It is designed for the emerging leader who will navigate the firm through tomorrow's business challenges.
      • Title: Strategic Marketing Management
      • Type of Course: Marketing
      • Course Length: 10 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $16,500.00
      • Comments: Strategic Marketing Management provides a comprehensive examination of all major components of marketing strategy and their integration. By completing this program, executives can enhance their company's profitability and marketplace position.
      • Title: Directors' Consortium
      • Type of Course: Leadership & Strategy
      • Course Length: 4 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,900.00
      • Comments: This is a joint offering by the Stanford GSB, Stanford Law School, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth; offers research-based, comprehensive approach to complex boardroom decisions.
      • Title: Customer-focused Innovation
      • Type of Course: Leadership & Strategy
      • Course Length: 7 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $12,000.00
      • Comments: Takes a hands-on approach to innovation. Participants learn strategic frameworks to better understand customer experiences, develop deeper customer insights, and diffuse customer learning throughout their organizations.
      • Title: Executive Program for Women Leaders
      • Type of Course: Leadership & Strategy
      • Course Length: 7 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $9,500.00
      • Comments: Confronts the critical areas of negotiation, power and relationships, social networks and influence, and communication, empowering participants with techniques to navigate these complex management issues.
      • Title: Executive Program in Strategy and Organization
      • Type of Course: Leadership & Strategy
      • Course Length: 14 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $21,500.00
      • Comments: Enables executives to apply the results of pioneering research in strategic management and organizational theory to their specific business situations.
      • Title: Interpersonal Dynamics for High-Performance Executives
      • Type of Course: Leadership & Strategy
      • Course Length: 7 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $13,500.00
      • Comments: This unique program, hailed as a transformative experience, was developed from 30 years of pioneering work. Offered as part of the Stanford MBA curriculum, now business executives have the opportunity to benefit from this personally rewarding experience.
      • Title: Leading Change and Organization Renewal
      • Type of Course: Leadership & Strategy
      • Course Length: 7 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $13,000.00
      • Comments: Directed by senior faculty from Stanford and Harvard, emphasizes action learning and provides tools, time and structure for participants to apply the learning to their own business situations.

    • International programs:

      • Title: Stanford-Nat'l Univ of Singapore Exec Prog in Intl Mgt
      • Type of Course: General management
      • Partner(s): National University of Singapore
      • Year Established: 1982
      • Title: Business Strategies for a Low Carbon Economy
      • Type of Course: Leadership & Strategy/Social Innovation
      • Country: Germany
      • Partner(s): European School of Management and Technology
      • Year Established: 2011
      • Title: Insights into Leadership 4 Growth
      • Type of Course: Leadership & Strategy
      • Country: Ireland
      • Partner(s): Enterprise Ireland; Continuous Learning Group (CLG)
      • Year Established: 2007

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 182

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 71
      • Non-Tenured: 41

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 4
      • Non-Tenured: 66

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 11
      • Non-Tenured: 20

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 10
      • Non-Tenured: 8

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 7
      • Non-Tenured: 19

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 75
      • Non-Tenured: 65

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Main teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 35 %
      • Experiential Learning: 10 %
      • Lectures: 25 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 15 %
      • Other: 10 %

    • Faculty for executive education:

      • Full-time faculty (with tenure and/or permanent): 70 %
      • Full-time faculty (without tenure): 10 %
      • Adjunct faculty: 10 %
      • Other: 10 %

    • Percentage of faculty who are:

      • Female: 23 %
      • International: 19 %

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Moved to Google Apps for email, calendar, and basic collaboration; adopted smartphone polling tech for immediate feedback in class; developed suite of sales management simulation tools and a situational negotiation simulation tool to educate students on the need to gather information and observe organizational behaviors when negotiating; introduced social enterprise collaboration platform.
      • Amount spent: $10,000,000.00

  • COMMENTS

      • In today's business environment, participation in an Executive Education program must be more than an opportunity to gain a particular skill set. The Stanford Executive Education experience focuses on preparing executives to harness their ingenuity and drive to reshape organizations. Program participants interact with the world's most influential and forward-looking faculty in a challenging environment steeped in an 86-year history of innovation and success.

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