Learning collaborations’ with your executive education provider for mutual benefit
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present a number of ways organizations can collaborate with their primary, university-based executive education provider (EEP) in order to co-create learning and enhance a company's strategy-development and strategy-execution capability.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper synthesizes the multi-varied ways in which one leading, globally oriented business school has collaborated with a Fortune 200 company over the past eight years, involving over 1,200 of the company's managers.
Findings
In total, 14 fruitful ways to leverage an existing corporate/EEP relationship in order to foster a company's strategy-development and strategy-execution capabilities at the business unit level are presented.
Practical implications
The field-inspired ideas presented here are immediately, broadly, and beneficially applicable across the corporate landscape.
Originality/value
Readers are provided with a number of specific, actionable ways to tap into the often-underutilized capabilities of an existing EEP affiliation with the intent of transforming that affiliation into an on-going collaboration that enhances various corporate personnel, strategy, and operational capabilities.
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Citation
E. Haskins, M. and R. Shaffer, G. (2013), "Learning collaborations’ with your executive education provider for mutual benefit", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 32 No. 10, pp. 1080-1092. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-04-2012-0049
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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