Business Week

1999 EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROVIDER SURVEY

This is a replica of Business Week's 1999 online executive education provider survey.


School or Company Name
Address
Name of Official completing this survey
Title of Official completing this survey
Years in this Position
Phone Number
EMail Address

1. Please provide the following information for the 1998-1999 academic year, and for the 1993-1994 academic year (5 years ago). If you are not a school, please use your fiscal year.

1998-99 1993-94
Number of executive non-degree programs (excluding multiple sessions of the same program)
Number of executives attending above programs (not including EMBA or part-time degree programs)
% % Percentage of attending executives who live or work within 45 miles of your school or company
% % Percentage of attending executives who live or work overseas (outside of your home country)
Total participant days
$ $ Total revenues generated by "non-degree" executive education programs (including open enrollment and custom programs)
$ $ Total budget for non-degree executive education
% % Percentage of overall executive education revenue that comes from custom programs to a single company
% % Percentage of total revenues coming from custom programs to a specific group of companies or a consortium.
Number of custom programs run
$ $ Total revenues generated from custom programs

2. Please name the five organizations that have sent the most participants to each of the following programs over the past five years. Please list in order of numbers of participants.

Non-degree functional programs
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Non-degree general programs
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Custom programs to a single company or a consortium
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3. What percentage of your participants come from organizations with whom you have done business for three or more years?

Percentage: %

Please name these organizations:

4.If you have an executive education center, please provide the following details:

When was it built?
Number of classrooms
Cost of construction $ (do not use commas or decimals)

Does your organization have any plans to expand its executive education offerings? If so, please detail current commitments in terms of additional buildings, classrooms, and courses.

5. What percentage of your executive education professors have at least 5 years of full-time corporate experience?
Corporate experience means fulltime employment with one or more companies for a total of at least five years.

Percentage: %

6. Please name what you would consider to be your school or organization's ten best executive education programs.

Please include full title, type of course (e.g. finance, general management, marketing), length of course, class times and up to five sentences of description of the course. Please place the program you consider to be the school's flagship executive education program in the number 1 spot.

Course #1 (Flagship Program)
Full Course Title:
Type of Course:
Course Length:
Class Times:
Comments:
Course #2
Full Course Title:
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Course #3
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Course #4
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Course #5
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Course #6
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Course #7
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Course #8
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Course #9
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Course #10
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7. Please list the open enrollment programs your school or organization has launched within the past two years.

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8. Please list any programs you are currently running in a foreign country, whether you have a partner there and when they were established:

Program #1
Program:
Country:
Partner:
Year Established:

Program #2
Program:
Country:
Partner:
Year Established:

Program #3
Program:
Country:
Partner:
Year Established:

Program #4
Program:
Country:
Partner:
Year Established:

Program #5
Program:
Country:
Partner:
Year Established:

9. Are you partnering with any non-business schools (i.e., non-profit organizations, for-profit organizations)? Please list any joint programs and the organizations with which you are working.

ProgramPartnerYr Est.
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10. Please name five non-degree executive education programs now being offered by business schools that you consider to be the most innovative and creative (excluding the programs at your own school or organization).

ProgramSchool
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11. Please name five non-degree executive education programs now being offered by organizations or companies other than business schools that you consider to be the most innovative and creative (excluding the programs at your own school or organization).

ProgramCompany
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12. Which types of non-degree executive education providers do you feel are your greatest competition?

Please rank order the following by placing 1-6 in each of the boxes with 1 being the highest. Each number should be used only once.

Private Company Providers
Other B-Schools
Internet-based distance learning
Corporate Universities
Company's own in-house training
Other

13. Which schools or organizations offer the best executive education programs in advanced and/or mid-level general management (i.e., a program of at least two weeks duration with no degree granted)?

Please list in order of preference (do not include your own school or program)
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14. Which schools or organizations offer the best programs in functional areas? Please name the school and the area of expertise (example: School - Marketing):

Please list in order of preference (do not include your own school or program)
SchoolFunctional Area
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15. Which schools or organizations do the best job of offering custom programs for organizations (i.e., tailor-made programs designed for and attended exclusively by a single company's executives and managers)?

Please list in order of preference (do not include your own school or program)
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16. Which schools or organizations offer the best industry-specific or professionally specific programs for executives (i.e., programs designed for and attended exclusively by the managers of a specific industry or profession?

Please list in order of preference (do not include your own school or program)
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17. Which courses or subjects are getting the most interest from executives attending open enrollment courses?

18. What subjects or courses are companies most interested in for custom programs?

19. Does or will your school or program teach long-distance courses via the Internet or some similar medium? If so, which subjects? Is teaching this way viable for all types of courses?

20. Are you finding that executives and companies are interested more in "hard" skills (such as accounting) or in "soft" skills (such as leadership training)?

21. Has corporate in-house executive education had a significant impact on attendance at your programs? Is it an increasing phenomenon?

22. Why do you believe the popularity of custom programs has increased so greatly? How has the type of custom programs that you offer changed in the last five years?

23. Is there a single trend in executive education that would seem to indicate what direction it will take in the future?

24. What has been the impact of private companies on the executive education business?