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Balancing Work and Life, Career and Aspiration: An Executive MBA Structured to Meet Your Needs
How can you earn a prestigious, career accelerating MBA - without pausing your life and work? This is the question that inspired the creation of the Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA.

In continuing the innovative legacy of The Johnson School and Cornell, we have developed a program for leaders who cannot be served by our main campus in Ithaca, NY or the Palisades Executive Conference Center outside Manhattan - bringing our unique learning experience beyond our physical walls while maintaining all of the acclaimed values of a Cornell MBA.

Designed with the needs of practicing managers, professionals, and executives in mind, the Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA allows you to learn the way you work: in a team-based setting, facing your colleagues around a table. Program participants within one city are organized into Boardroom Learning Teams, typically comprised of six to eight individuals. Each team is assigned a boardroom location in its home city, and these teams stay together for the entire length of the program.

For the class starting in July 2007, we are targeting selected sites in New York State, Ohio, Washington State, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. for Boardroom Learning Teams. We plan to expand to other locations in future years.

The Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA program is delivered over 17 months in a combination of residential sessions and videoconferencing-based boardroom sessions. The three residential sessions are each between 10 days and two weeks in length and held on the campuses of both Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In addition to these residential sessions, the international collection of Boardroom Learning Teams is connected via a multi-point, interactive videoconferencing network for boardroom sessions. Typically, these sessions are held on sets of three consecutive Saturdays with the fourth Saturday off. As a result, the timing of the boardroom sessions does not require time away from your workweek. This provides you with more flexibility in setting your own study schedule around the demands of your career and family commitments. The Global Business Project's one-week field study rounds out this learning experience.

The bottom line: this team-based, technology supported program allows you to earn prestigious dual degrees in just 17 months - without sacrificing the quality of the learning experience and without interrupting your job or life.