{"id":3268,"date":"2010-05-30T10:37:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T18:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2010-05-30T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T18:37:24","slug":"specialized-executive-training-programs-pick-up-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/specialized-executive-training-programs-pick-up-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Specialized, Executive Training Programs Pick Up, Globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <em>Financial Times<\/em> article, \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/0035efae-59c4-11df-ab25-00144feab49a,dwp_uuid=b842e46c-59bf-11df-ab25-00144feab49a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Winds of change blow for business schools<\/a>.\" 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/IMDbschool.aspx\">IMD<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/HarvardHBS.aspx\">Harvard Business School<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/Wharton.aspx\">Wharton<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.\"<\/p>\n<p>Related Accepted.com Resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/emba.aspx?utm_campaign=blogcontent&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_source=blogvisitors&amp;utm_content=EMBAadvice\">Executive MBA: Applying to EMBA Programs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/embaadmissionscourse.aspx?utm_campaign=blogcontent&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_source=blogvisitors&amp;utm_content=EMBACourse\"><em>Ace the EMBA: Admissions Advice for EMBA Applicants<\/em><\/a>, a free, 6-day email course.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/Ecommerce\/mba\/EMBAEssay.aspx?utm_campaign=blogcontent&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_source=BlogVisitors&amp;utm_content=EMBAEdge\"><em>The EMBA Edge: A Guide to EMBA Admissions<\/em><\/a>, an instantly downloadable ebook.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Want our news sent directly to your inbox? <\/strong><a title=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/blog\/subscribe.aspx?utm_campaign=BlogContent&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_source=BlogVisitors&amp;utm_content=SubscribeBlog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/blog\/subscribe.aspx\"><strong>Subscribe to the Accepted Admissions Almanac by clicking here!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/MBA\/Default.aspx?utm_campaign=MBAContent&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_source=BlogVisitors&amp;utm_content=MBAIcon\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"full-image-block ssNonEditable\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/object3\/947\/54\/s8255073883_9880.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1260090948492\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span>Accepted.com<\/a> ~ Helping You Write Your Best<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[60,244,49,197,189,39,298,36],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-current-events","tag-emba","tag-esade","tag-harvard-hbs","tag-imd","tag-international","tag-mba-admissions","tag-part-time-mba","tag-wharton","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}