Smith Executive Education uses a distinctive approach to designing customized management programs for organizations that want to enhance the capabilities of high-potential business professionals and leverage new economy business practices.

The core of our design process is in acquiring an in-depth knowledge of the organization, senior management team and relevant business units. We pride ourselves on developing programs that address both the current marketplace realities of the enterprise as well as future requirements and trends that can impact its competitive advantage. With an understanding of your educational goals and strategic direction, we then begin architecting a tailored curriculum and sequence of courses targeted to meet enterprise-specific learning objectives. Our curriculum design is differentiated around the Smith School's cross-functional educational model, which emphasizes a solid foundation in the traditional business disciplines overlaid with netcentric e-business practices.

All executive education programs that we design are grounded in the expertise of the Smith School's world-class faculty. As consultants and researchers, Smith faculty conduct leading-edge work in areas such as leadership, finance, strategic management, decision and information systems, marketing, entrepreneurship, and organizational design. Our faculty teach these disciplines, however, within the context of speed, globalization and the cultural and business penetration of the Internet. As a result, our participants benefit from the most relevant research and learn new applications driving today's electronic business value.

Smith Executive Education combines the teaching and research expertise of the Smith faculty with the design capability and client service of our office's professional staff in the U.S. and China. Smith Executive Education is unique in its experience with complex custom programs, particularly developing and implementing a multi-disciplinary curriculum that addresses the impact of technology on organizational effectiveness and value creation.

We view custom senior development programs as organizational interventions, taking steps to align Smith executive educational programs with any existing initiatives of the enterprise. Quite simply, your goal is our goal: To transfer knowledge and learning across the enterprise for optimum productivity and business value.