Purdue University
In 2004, the Executive Master’s Program (EMB) at Purdue University will offer a new option for students, the Advanced Manufacturing Management
Option (AMMO). AMMO will provide the concepts and tools necessary for manufacturing leaders to meet the challenges in an ever-changing global manufacturing and technological environment.

The concentration in AMMO will occur primarily, but not exclusively, in the third module of the regular EMB program schedule. Participants who choose this new option will enter the cohort program and proceed through the first two modules with those who remain on the standard EMB curriculum. Special seminars on energizing technologies and manufacturing issues will occur throughout all modules.

As the third module begins, the AMMO participants will take a set of specialized manufacturing courses, which include Six Sigma, global supply chain management, design for manufacturing and assembly, and a projects in manufacturing course involving the participant’s sponsoring company. Participants will act as team leaders using some of the full-time MBA students as a resource to accomplish these projects.

Rollins College
Rollins College recently announced a new Saturday MBA Program (SMBA), which will start in January 2005.

Designed for executives and professionals with at least five years of experience, the intensive 19-month program meets every Saturday, all day. The 50-credit program includes a three-day orientation and a two-day intensive course on legal, ethical, and social aspects of business. Students enter as a cohort and work together in study teams. Each class votes on a slate of electives.

This program is one of three programs that Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College offers for working professionals. The other two are the Executive MBA Program, which meets on alternating Fridays and Saturdays, and the Professional MBA (PMBA) Program, which meets in the evenings. In addition, Crummer offers two programs for full-time students.

University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina (UNC) Kenan-Flagler’s Executive MBA Programs held its second annual Executive Business Symposium April 30–May 2. The yearly symposium for alumni and current students of UNC Kenan-Flagler's Executive MBA Programs features speakers, panels, and social activities. Class gifts from the weekend and evening classes of 2002 and 2003 fund the symposium.

The keynote speakers Ted Childs, vice president of Global Workforce Diversity, IBM, and Bob Ingram, vice chair of pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, highlighted this year’s theme of global business. Other sessions included Sustainable Enterprise, the Global Economy, Women in Business, the Money Management Industry, and Marketing Yourself and Your Career.

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CURRICULUM CHANGES

Rollins College
Rollins College recently added a new entrpreneurship concentration to its offerings. The increasing demand for education on starting or growing new businesses led to the addition. Rollins also established a Center for Entrepreneurship with widespread support from the business community. The new concentration will include courses in business planning, management of innovation, negotiation, marketing research, and advanced financial management. Other MBA concentrations include finance, international business, management, and marketing.

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MILESTONES

Columbia University
Sid Jackson has joined the Columbia Business School Executive MBA Program as director of marketing and admissions. Jackson recently served as a vice president of diversity recruiting at Morgan Stanley and previous was associate director of MBA admissions for Columbia Business School's full-time program. He is completing his doctorate at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University.

Mercer University
In April 2004, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International accredited the undergraduate and graduate programs, including the Executive MBA Program, at Mercer University’s Stetson School of Business and Economics.

The AACSB team that visited the University in February praised the innovative and excellent Executive MBA Program, located on the University’s Atlanta campus. Mercer began its Executive MBA Program in 1995 and joined the Executive MBA Council in 1996.

Northeastern University
On May 20, Executive MBA alumni, faculty, and students gathered for the 25th anniversary celebration of Northeastern’s Executive MBA Program. The afternoon program’s theme, “Is the U.S. Gaining or Losing Competitiveness?” focused on three phenomena shaping the future of U.S. business – education, healthcare costs, and off shoring.

Speakers included Professor Terry Garrison of Henley Management College and frequent host of Northeastern’s European residencies, and Thomas Payzant, superintendent of the Boston Public Schools and former assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education with the U.S. Department of Education. The event also featured panel discussions on the rising cost of healthcare and its impact, and on the pros and cons of white collar off shoring.

Washington University
Ken Bardach has been named associate dean and director of ExecEdge Corporate Education at Washington University’s Olin School of Business. Bardach joins Olin from Case Western Reserve, where he served as associate dean of Executive Education Programs at the Weatherhead School of Management.

Bardach brings more than 30 years of academic and corporate experience. As associate dean and director of executive education at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Bardach doubled annual total programs and developed 15 senior-level executive programs. He also served as associate dean and director of the MBA Program at Michigan State University, as associate dean of Masters’ Programs at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Management, and director of the Office of Executive Programs at Boston University. He also worked for Harris Corporation and Deere & Company and served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Peru.

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ALUMNI SUCCESS

University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota's Carlson Executive MBA (CEMBA) Program recently launched an Alumni Council to assist the program in the areas of recruiting and student affairs.

The program involves alumni in several ways. Its Recruiting Committee has established a Corporate Alumni Ambassador Program where alumni will host corporate luncheons for prospective students, as well as assist prospective students in their companies as they work through the organizational decision process. In addition, the Student Affairs Committee has developed the "Executive MBA Life Cycles,” which provides a program of unique and meaningful experiences at different points in the student life cycle.

Southern Methodist University
Thanks to a generous pledge of $1 million from the Executive MBA Class of 2001, each year the Executive MBA Program at Southern Methodist University invites alumni to participate in a case discussion. The last two years, Professors Gordon Walker and Roger Kerin have written cases on American Airlines and Kinko’s. This year’s case focuses on Dell Inc. In addition to the case discussion, Dean Albert Niemi provides lunch and a reception. This event offers alumni a great opportunity for an informal reunion and networking.

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