2004 Headlines
Johnson School Unveils New Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA ProgramPartnership with Canada's Queen's University Brings New EMBA to Workplace December 7, 2004, Ithaca, New York The S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management is pleased to announce the launch of its new Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA program that will bring the classroom into workplaces in the United States and Canada. The program, which will be delivered live by multipoint interactive videoconferencing to major cities in the United States and Canada starting in June 2005, has been developed through a partnership with Queen's School of Business of Kingston, Ontario. "With this new Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA we can extend the reach and accessibility of the Johnson Graduate School of Management and Cornell University, while retaining the qualities that have always distinguished a Cornell MBA," said Robert J. Swieringa, Dean of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. "With Queen's as a partner, we benefit from their expertise and proven success in using videoconferencing to deliver a quality MBA program." The Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA program is different from the Johnson School's residential MBA and its Palisades, New York-based Executive MBA as participants will learn in boardroom-settings located in cities where they live and work. Students will be organized into Boardroom Learning Teams of approximately 6-8 people and courses will be delivered via a series of boardroom sessions using interactive multipoint videoconferencing combined with three two-week, on-campus residential sessions. Classes will be held three Saturdays per month during the seventeen-month program. Approximately half the participants will be located in each country, with Cornell and Queen's sharing the teaching responsibilities equally. The first group of participants will graduate from the intense, team-based program in November 2006 with two MBA degrees—one from Cornell and the other from Queen's—and will be full-fledged alumni of both schools. The Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA program will enroll students who meet the same high academic standards required for the Johnson School's MBA, Twelve Month Option (TMO) and Executive MBA programs. "This program offers our students the best of all worlds," said David Saunders, Dean of Queen's School of Business. "Through our partnership with Cornell, the largest of the US Ivy League schools, our students will emerge with knowledge, perspectives, contacts and MBA degrees from not one, but two of the world's premier business schools." The all-inclusive fee of $89,000 covers tuition, books, cases, learning materials, meals and accommodation during residential sessions, as well as travel, lodging and expenses for a one-week international business project. The fee also covers all of the software required for the program and in-house technical support. For more information about the program visit: www.johnson.cornell.edu/academic/cqemba. "We are targeting students in eleven northeastern cities where learning teams might be located and are ready to begin significant outreach and marketing to identify our inaugural class of fifty participants from the United States," said Danny Szpiro, Director of the groundbreaking program. "Most Boardroom Learning Teams will be comprised of managers from different organizations within the same city or region. However, an exciting feature of this program is the opportunity to create a Corporate Learning Team comprised of managers from the same organization. In this case, employers would designate their own boardrooms as team sites for the program." Queen's School of Business (business.queensu.ca) is one of the world's premier business schools. Its programs include: Queen's MBA for Science & Technology, ranked by BusinessWeek magazine (US) as the #1 MBA in the world outside the US; the one-year Queen's Accelerated MBA for Business Graduates, offered across Canada by real-time, interactive videoconference; the market-leading Queen's Executive MBA - delivered at Queen's facility in Ottawa, as well as by videoconference to 14 cities across Canada; Queen's Executive Development Centre, Canada's largest provider of executive education, ranked #1 in Canada and in the world's top-12 by the Financial Times (UK); the undergraduate Bachelor of Commerce, renowned for its rigorous entrance standards that stress both academics and leadership potential; and MSc and PhD programs that produce leading researchers for industry and academe. The Johnson School at Cornell University, founded in 1946, is Cornell's graduate school of management. The Johnson School combines leading edge intellectual capital with "real time, real world" business practice and is among the top business schools in the world. Opportunities for experiential learning, such as immersion programs and student-run venture capital and mutual funds, distinguish the Johnson School's curricula. Programs include MBA and doctoral degrees, a twelve-month MBA option for students with advanced degrees in science or engineering and an executive MBA. The Johnson School is located at the center of Cornell University-the largest of the Ivy League schools and one of the world's top research institutions. For more about the Johnson School please visit: www.johnson.cornell.edu. For More Information |
