San Francisco Business Times: Top colleges take class... -
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Published on: 4/10/2006
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"BP came to us with the idea of putting 100 of their major project leaders through a one-year program on business acumen and technological excellence that would help them in new and unique projects like deepwater drilling or a pipeline across Central Asia," said Marie Eiter, executive director of executive education at the Sloan School.
Eiter said that custom courses for big businesses have been growing fast over the last five years.
"In the past, companies used university executive education programs to train individual managers for greater responsibility," said Eiter.But the new programs are much more ambitious, she said.