Word: wiltsey
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Nevertheless, the tuition costs are not a major factor for the large corporations, says George Wiltsey, administrative director of external relations at the school. He says that "the big cost" for the company of enrolling an executive in the program is the executive's absence from the company for a three to four month period. The Owner/President Program actually divides its nine weeks into three separate three week sections so as not to disable the participant's companies for a long period of time during their absence...
...executive education programs also receive individual attention from faculty. Each executive education program, along with the MBA program, draws its faculty from the pool of faculty at the Harvard Business School, Wiltsey says. But a faculty member concentrates exclusively on one program at a time. "Each program has a group of faculty assigned to that program for the year or usually for two or three years. At every given point in time, there is a group of faculty whose assignment is teaching in a particular program," he says...
Since 1974 these types of programs have become increasingly popular. "The interest in executive education in business is increasing not only in this country, but in Europe too," says Wiltsey. "An increasing number of companies are finding that this is a very useful thing...
However, the enrollment in the AMP has not changed from its standard 400 in many years, making the demand for executive education programs outweigh the supply. Despite the increasing interest, Wiltsey says that the school manages to limit the number of applicants to any specific session. "We in various subtle ways manage the pool of applicants," he says. "The worst thing that could happen to us is to have the same kind of chaos in the application process as Harvard College," he says, because the school is dealing with companies who might not send executives to them again if their...
Addressing concerns that the executive programs are of secondary importance to the B-School's MBA program, Wiltsey explains that the executive education programs now have all their own facilities and professors. "The executive education programs are just as much a part of the Harvard Business School as the MBA program," says Wiltsey. "We have our own basic executive education space here...