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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

University of South Carolina

Moore School of Business

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Daniel-Mickel Center for Executive Education
      • Darla Moore School of Business
      • 1705 College Street
      • SC
      • Columbia, 29208, South Carolina
      • United States
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? No
      • Status:
        • Public
      • Name: N/A
      • Executive nondegree open enrollment programs offered: 22
      • Executive non-degree custom programs offered: 30
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 779
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? Yes
      • Year building opened: 1970
      • Number of classrooms: 11
      • 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: 0
      • Custom executive programs run in other countries: 1
      • Companies for which the school ran custom programs in previous year: 14

    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 875
      • Full-Time MBA: 187
      • Part-Time MBA: 387
      • Executive MBA: 34
      • PhD Program: 64
      • Undergraduate business school enrollment: 4,030
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Accounting, Other, Master of Human Resources, Master of International Management/Business

  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $1,390.00
      • High: $2,800.00

    • Range of costs, custom programs:

      • Low: $8,000.00
      • High: $18,000.00

  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 12 %
      • Percentage of attendees who live/work abroad: 0 %

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

      • Female: 35 %
      • International : 1 %
      • Business owners: 8 %
      • Completely sponsored by their employers: 95 %

  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Title: Developing and Executing Strategies that Work
      • Type of Course: Executive Development
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $2,200.00
      • Comments: Focuses on translating strategy into clearly defined priorities, communication strategies and the role of goal alignment and internal capability analysis in strategic resource allocation.
      • Title: Advanced Negotiation
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Management
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $1,690.00
      • Comments: “MBA-level” program where participants learn how to successfully manage the negotiation framework.
      • Title: Business Acumen and the Balanced Scorecard
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Management
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $1,690.00
      • Comments: Focuses on not only monitoring present performance, but capturing information about how well the organization is positioned to perform in the future.
      • Title: Communication Strategies for Improving Performance
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Management
      • Course Length: 3 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $1,690.00
      • Comments: Discover how you behave and react in interpersonal relationships, conflict resolution, decision making and how you are perceived by others so you can become an effective coach for effective group performance.
      • Title: Strategic Thinking and Analysis
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Management
      • Course Length: 3 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $1,690.00
      • Comments: Focuses on the integration and coordination of operations, marketing, finance and understanding future market conditions, long range strategies and finance to ensure enterprise success.
      • Title: Finance for the Non-Financial Manager
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Management
      • Course Length: 3 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $1,690.00
      • Comments: Quantitative data evaluation and its use in the decision making process, cost management and cost control strategies, budget management, value-enhancing investments and financial statement interpretation.
      • Title: Leadership Through People Skills
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Management
      • Course Length: 4 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $2,800.00
      • Comments: Learn how leaders use strong interpersonal skills to extend influence to peers and managers; using power and collaborative leadership, conflict resolution, communication with peers, managers and direct reports.
      • Title: Leading and Facilitating High Performance Teams
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Management
      • Course Length: 3 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $1,390.00
      • Comments: Experience-based class format offering a 360° view of teams from the perspective of an organizational team member.
      • Title: Supply Chain: Lean Process Improvement
      • Type of Course: Leadership and Management
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $1,950.00
      • Comments: Lean process improvement means creating smooth process flows: efficiently performing activities that generate revenue while eliminating wasteful actions that reduce profits. Deliver exactly what the customer wants while properly utilizing resources.
      • Title: Supply Chain Management Strategies
      • Type of Course: Executive Development
      • Course Length: 2 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $2,200.00
      • Comments: As organizations mature, quickly changing supply chains can be difficult. Aligning supply chain strategy and performance with corporate strategy creates unified direction to allow businesses to respond nimbly to market & environmental pressures.

  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 169

    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 60
      • Non-Tenured: 61

    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 48

    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 13
      • Non-Tenured: 26

    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 7
      • Non-Tenured: 4

    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 4
      • Non-Tenured: 11

    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 60
      • Non-Tenured: 48

  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Main teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 12 %
      • Distance Learning: 1 %
      • Experiential Learning: 50 %
      • Lectures: 8 %
      • Simulations: 12 %
      • Team Projects: 12 %
      • Other: 5 %

    • Faculty for executive education:

      • Full-time faculty (with tenure and/or permanent): 44 %
      • Full-time faculty (without tenure): 3 %
      • Adjunct faculty: 0 %
      • Other: 53 %

    • Percentage of faculty who are:

      • Female: 34 %
      • International: 14 %

  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Cisco Telepresence / Polycom immersive Telepresence / System wide high definition video conferencing / Windows 2010 directory infrastructure including messaging / IP based desktop management services / Upgraded computers for computer classrooms and computer lab / Research computing resources / Remote access & remote desktop capabilities / Internet based file sharing for intranet & extranet (beta) / Vendor based student email / Web based application process for Graduate Division CRM
      • Amount spent: $1,821,026.00

  • COMMENTS

      • Our executive education is designed to leverage our outstanding strengths including international business, insurance and operational management to deliver solutions most relevant and cost effective in today's challenging economic environment. The approach is a combination of both campus and virtual learning. The recent introduction of our extensive telepresence capabilities has provided an ability to deliver unique, flexible and wide-ranging programs both within the US and internationally.

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