Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management - General Management Education

The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is recognised globally as a pioneer in general management education that offers innovative academic opportunities for today's leading thinkers in both its MBA and executive education offerings.

Its world-renowned research-based faculty creates new knowledge and solutions, bringing a visionary, multi-disciplinary perspective to real-world business challenges. At the Kellogg School, innovation and thought leadership shape strategy while team leadership powers performance.

The Kellogg School is consistently ranked among the best in the world for executive education. The Wall St. Journal and Business Week have ranked our Executive MBA Program #1 in the world. This is because of our commitment to making lifelong learning a truly valuable resource for our executive participants.

Executive education

In today's dynamic marketplace, it is not enough to excel in your current environment, you must also anticipate future trends, challenges, and opportunities. You must possess the leadership skills that develop winning strategies and, just as important, sustain them. Success depends upon your ability to innovate, to lead change and ensure that learning, design, and execution become natural rhythms in your organization.

For more than 50 years, the Kellogg School of Management has provided executives with the tools to accomplish these objectives by offering a complete portfolio of non-degree open enrollment programs covering topics such as marketing, technology, finance, and leadership.

Leading practitioners and scholars

Senior members of the Kellogg School of Management's outstanding faculty design and teach in all of our executive programs. They are both leading practitioners and scholars of distinction, well-known for their experience and research. Kellogg faculty regularly serve as consultants to organisations in industry, government, finance, health care, education, and transportation.

This familiarity with current trends and challenges enables them to provide our executive participants with the most cutting-edge approaches to management problems and solutions. Research is a vital component of the Kellogg School, and faculty members have developed ground-breaking theories in many academic fields such as marketing, banking, and game theory. More than 20 formally recognised centres on topics ranging from dispute resolution to non-profit management and biotechnology carry out research.

Advanced executive program

Senior management training that reenergises your career and helps you to develop the knowledge and skills you need to formulate clear, comprehensive strategies for your organization. This program is designed for senior executives with 15-25 years of experience who have or will soon have cross-functional, profit-and-loss responsibilities.

Executive development program

General management training that prepares executives with at least ten years of experience to assume general management responsibilities and become more effective leaders and change agents. You will learn leadership skills to manage at the interface of key functions and will be able to use strategic thinking to establish appropriate goals and get results.

Women's senior leadership program

The women's senior leadership program focuses on equipping women for C-level positions. The uniquely structured program, involving four three-day sessions over a 12-month period, offers lectures, case studies, workshops, and individual career appraisals in an interactive learning environment that promotes camaraderie.