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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Ross School of Business

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Executive Education
      • Stephen M. Ross School of Business
      • 724 E. University Ave
      • Rm 3700
      • Ann Arbor, 48109, Michigan
      • United States
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? No
      • Status:
        • Public
      • Executive nondegree open enrollment programs offered: 24
      • Executive non-degree custom programs offered: 31
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 2,347
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? Yes
      • Year building opened: 1935
      • Number of classrooms: 6
      • 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: 15
      • Custom executive programs run in other countries: 14
      • Companies for which the school ran custom programs in previous year: 30

    • School partnerships with non-business schools:

      • Title: Theory and Practice of Investor Relations
      • Partner(s): National Investor Relations Institute
      • Title: National Arts Strategies: The New Nature of Competition
      • Partner(s): National Art Strategies
      • Title: National Arts Strategies: Advanced Alumni Program
      • Partner(s): National Arts Strategies
      • Title: Leading the Intelligence Community
      • Partner(s): National Intelligence University
      • Title: Clariant Business Management Program
      • Partner(s): University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 1,914
      • Full-Time MBA: 1,046
      • Part-Time MBA: 432
      • Executive MBA: 129
      • PhD Program: 104
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 1,206
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Other

  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $3,450.00
      • High: $39,500.00

    • Range of costs, custom programs:

      • Low: $50,000.00
      • High: $1,200,000.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 6 %
      • Percentage of attendees who live/work abroad: 41 %

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

      • Female: 35 %
      • International : 63 %
      • Completely sponsored by their employers: 100 %

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Title: The Ross Executive Program
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Course Length: 28 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $39,500.00
      • Comments: Intensive, month-long immersion in what it takes to lead organizations in a dynamic, global economy. Challenges you to expand your thinking. Provides powerful, practical tools to move your organization forward. A transforative learning experience.
      • Title: Business Acumen for High-Potential Executives
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Course Length: 8 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $15,950.00
      • Comments: 8-day program deepens understanding of how companies create value in the marketplace. Gain knowledge of how stakeholder perspectives should be integrated to add value to an organization. Features state-of-the-art conceptual frameworks and best practices.
      • Title: Management of Managers
      • Type of Course: Leadership
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,900.00
      • Comments: Explore the Competing Values Framework, a world-renowned conceptual tool for understanding and strengthening individual leadership capability. Leadership Competencies Survey will form the basis of your personalized action plan.
      • Title: Emerging Leaders Program
      • Type of Course: Leadership
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,900.00
      • Comments: Interactive group process clarifies strengths and opportunity areas via concept of human potential. Effectively manage relationships while achieving organizational goals. The challenges of managing teams through change play a prominent role in the course.
      • Title: Positive Leadership
      • Type of Course: Leadership
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $9,250.00
      • Comments: Developed by pioneers of POS. Integrates cutting-edge research with practical applications to foster a culture of "positive deviance." Uses frameworks, tools, & applications proven to elevate employee motivation and engagement and enhance team creativity.
      • Title: Advanced Human Resource Executive Program
      • Type of Course: Strategic Human Resource Management
      • Course Length: 11 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $22,250.00
      • Comments: Two-week program. Use HR practices to deliver business strategy; create a leadership agenda and strategy for your firm's HR function; and understand how to innovate, align, and integrate HR Practices that add value to investors, customers, and employees.
      • Title: Strategic Human Resource Planning
      • Type of Course: Strategic Human Resource Management
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $8,950.00
      • Comments: Five-day course illuminates the logic and process for linking HR to business strategy. Combines cutting-edge research, practical tools, and powerful frameworks. Real HR issues and practical knowledge to build and implement a business-driven HR strategy.
      • Title: Global Program for Management Development-India
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Course Length: 10 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $10,000.00
      • Comments: Develop a global, enterprise-wide perspective, gain in-depth understanding of the primary functional areas of your firm. Strategy, co-creation, financial management, information technology and business value, HR management, and leadership.
      • Title: Senior Executive Program in Asia
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Course Length: 9 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $13,800.00
      • Comments: Flagship senior executive level program in Asia. Broad leadership development experience examines high level executive challenges. Leading-edge techniques and ideas contribute to the examination of these challenges and to their successful integration.
      • Title: Essentials of Business
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $9,000.00
      • Comments: In-depth 5-day program covers financial management and accounting, strategic marketing planning, negotiations, and operations management. Provides the framework & tools to successfully manage and develop projects, allocate resources, and adapt to change.

    • International programs:

      • Title: Senior Executive Program Asia
      • Type of Course: General management
      • Year Established: 2003
      • Title: Global Program for Management Development - India
      • Type of Course: General Management
      • Country: India
      • Year Established: 1996
      • Title: Human Resource Executive Program
      • Type of Course: Strategic HUman Resource Management
      • Country: China
      • Year Established: 1987

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 199

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 68
      • Non-Tenured: 62

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 13
      • Non-Tenured: 56

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 16
      • Non-Tenured: 33

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 24
      • Non-Tenured: 21

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 22
      • Non-Tenured: 30

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 81
      • Non-Tenured: 87

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Main teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 15 %
      • Distance Learning: 5 %
      • Experiential Learning: 25 %
      • Lectures: 15 %
      • Simulations: 15 %
      • Team Projects: 25 %
      • Other: 0 %

    • Faculty for executive education:

      • Full-time faculty (with tenure and/or permanent): 70 %
      • Full-time faculty (without tenure): 8 %
      • Adjunct faculty: 13 %
      • Other: 9 %

    • Percentage of faculty who are:

      • Female: 21 %
      • International: 32 %

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Room availability signage; iTunes U site; 6-seat multimedia production lab; Enterprise-enabled Instant Message and desktop video conference; 802.11n wireless; Microsoft SharePoint
      • Amount spent: $7,075,000.00

  • COMMENTS

      • The University of Michigan's Ross School of Business is consistently ranked among the world's top business schools for the depth, breadth, and quality of its executive development programs. In addition to thought leadership that will give managers and executives the new perspectives needed for the next breakthrough, Ross's programs bring action-based learning into every executive education offering to enable participating executives to make those breakthroughs a reality in their organizations.

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