Part-time or short executive MBA programs are sprouting up in countries not traditionally served by business schools in an initiative to spread the availability of executive education, reports a recent Financial Times article, "Winds of change blow for business schools." Lagos Business School in Nairobi is one such school that works together with Nairobi's Strathmore Business School to bring management education to an otherwise educationally underserved (business-wise) population. Emerging markets are working together to bring the best education to their emerging businesspeople.
Top western business schools are also working to extend their reach to diverse and non-traditional b-school zones. Esade, for example, will be starting a manager training program in Cuba in an effort to expand its global footprint and to help build-up a developing business school education.
One thing schools are doing to strengthen their relationships with clients and other global programs is to take advantage of modern technology by distributing course materials online. IMD, Harvard Business School, and Wharton are leaders in this area. These programs are able to expand their executive education programs (at home and abroad) because of the simple technology of videoconferencing.
Such short programs in these far corners of the world have trouble attracting course participants, faculty/scholars, and corporate clients, but, according to Kim Taylor-Thompson, chief executive of Duke Corporate Education, optimism is on the rise. "There is an uptick. We've hit the bottom and we're on the way up."
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