2006 Headlines
Cornell Brings Executive MBA Program to State of WashingtonNine Information Sessions for Top Ivy League Program Set for Seattle Area January 9, 2006, Ithaca, New York The Johnson School at Cornell University is pleased to announce that its Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA program has been approved for offering in Washington State. Information sessions for the program will be held January 23 & 24, March 13 and May 1 at the Grand Hyatt Seattle; March 14 and May 2 at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue, and January 25, March 15 and May 3 in Portland. The Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA program, which is taught in partnership with Queen's School of Business in Kingston, Ontario, enrolls 60 participants currently and has Learning Teams in several locations in New York State and across many provinces of Canada. There are two learning teams currently in Vancouver, Canada. "The Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA delivers an intense, interactive, and comprehensive business education to experienced and motivated managers and professionals," said Danny Szpiro, the director of this groundbreaking program. "This program enables our participants in Washington State to earn their MBA without disrupting their career, and without requiring frequent trips to the Cornell campus." The Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA program uses a different learning model from the Johnson School's residential MBA and its New York City-based Executive MBA program. Participants in this new program are organized into Boardroom Learning Teams of approximately 6-8 people and each team is assigned a boardroom location in the city where the participants live and work. The program is 17-months long and during this period courses are delivered in a combination of three on-campus residential sessions and three Saturdays per month. On these Saturdays, participants across the US and Canada gather in their respective boardroom sites as Learning Teams, and are connected via a multi-point, interactive videoconferencing to an on-campus studio where the professor is located and from which the professor conducts the class session. The partnership between the Johnson School at Cornell and Queen's School of Business in this program means that participants graduate with two MBA degrees - one from Cornell and one from Queen's - and become full-fledged alumni of both universities. The inaugural group of participants will complete this team-based, dual-degree program in November 2006 having met the same high academic standards and with the same MBA degree as the Johnson School's MBA, Twelve Month Option (TMO) and Executive MBA programs. The all-inclusive fee of $92,000 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.boardroomemba.com. 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, an executive MBA and the Cornell Boardroom EMBA. The Johnson School is located at the center of Cornell University-the largest of the Ivy League schools. Queen's School of Business (www.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. For More Information |
