| Rank | Provider/ Location | 2000-2001 Revenue (millions) | 5-yr. Growth (%) | Open Programs Offered | % female in open programs | % custom programs* |
| 1 | Harvard Boston | $91.0** | 122%** | 47 | 20% | 30%** |
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New programs in China and Egypt; links with Stanford for custom and Web-based work.
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| 2 | INSEAD France/Singapore | 47.7 | NA | 41 | 15 | 50** |
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Tops in global business; exec ed alums have access to new materials on the Net.
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| 3 | Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. | 28.6 | 61 | 50 | 29 | 16 |
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Offers 30 programs in Hong Kong and Singapore and a supply-chain course on the Web; tops in HR.
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| 4 | Stanford Palo Alto, Calif. | 16.0 | 300 | 19 | 16 | 15 |
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No. 2 behind Harvard in innovation and entrepreneurship; programs for nonprofit leaders.
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| 5 | Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia | 43.0 | 72 | 43 | 25 | 37 |
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Gains global business strength from new INSEAD partnership; tops in accounting.
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| 6 | Northwestern (Kellogg) Evanston, Ill. | 30.0 | 67 | 31 | 23 | 50 |
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New dean considers offering more company-specific mini-MBA programs; No. 1 in marketing.
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| 7 | London Business School London | 28.6 | 154 | 24 | 22 | 47 |
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Strong in accounting, global business, and HR; corporate users include IBM and ExxonMobil.
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| 8 | IMD Lausanne, Switzerland | 46.3 | 93 | 21 | 11 | 48 |
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Opening a $15.4 million exec ed center next April; will Webcast to partners in 2002.
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| 9 | Columbia New York | 18.3 | 79 | 23 | 21 | 30 |
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Offering new exec programs with London Business School, one in Tokyo with Sumitomo.
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| 10 | IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL Barcelona | 24.0 | 176 | 76 | 24 | 42 |
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Programs in Spanish or English, tops in custom ranking; strong ties to Boeing and Telefónica.
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| 11 | Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, Va. | 22.0 | 75 | 23 | 21 | 63 |
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Plans more programs in northern Va.; shortening senior-level exec program to four weeks.
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| 12 | DUKE/Duke Corp. Ed. (Fuqua) Durham, N.C. | 15.0 | 58 | 5 | 23 | 80 |
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Custom work handled by for-profit Duke Corp. Ed.; new open program on creative leadership.
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| 13 | Center for Creative Leadership Greensboro, N.C. | 49.0 | 32 | 13 | 34 | 51 |
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No. 1 for leadership with flagship program offered 126 times a year worldwide; No. 4 in custom programs.
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| 14 | MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, Mass. | 10.4 | 352 | 16 | 15 | 40 |
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Best in e-commerce; new courses on supply-chain management and Internet business; No. 1 in IT.
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| 15 | Cranfield Cranfield, England | 23.7 | 86 | 111 | 23 | 63 |
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Offering strategy program with Duke; some courses take lessons from Shakespeare.
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| 16 | Thunderbird Glendale, Ariz. | 12.8 | 100 | 55 | 30 | 52 |
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No. 4 in global business; new facility in Archamps, France, to be completed in mid-2002.
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| 17 | Dartmouth (Tuck) Hanover, N.H. | 5.5 | 199 | 10 | 29 | 11 |
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Exploring partnerships with non-B-schools for custom work; offers programs for minorities.
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| 18 | UNC (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, N.C. | 7.9 | 70 | 17 | 45 | 70 |
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Partners with N.C.-neighbor Center for Creative Leadership to deliver company-specific leadership programs.
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| 19 | UCLA (Anderson) Los Angeles | 8.0 | 33 | 35 | 30 | 40 |
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Leadership seminars for women, African Americans, and lesbian, gay, and bisexual managers.
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| 20 | Chicago Chicago | 10.2 | 1,033 | 25 | 26 | 19 |
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From zero to 25 open programs in five years; courses offered in Chicago, Barcelona, and Singapore.
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*Percent of total revenue **BusinessWeek estimate
Data: BusinessWeek, Cambria Consulting Research by Brian Hindo, Mica Schneider, Jennifer Merritt, Jessica Loudon |