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Desperately Seeking Specialization
Educational opportunities know
few bounds among university-affiliated institutes
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Business New Haven
4/28/2003
By: Melissa Nicefaro
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Educational opportunities know
few bounds among university-affiliated institutes
Chief Executive Leadership Institute
Educational affiliation: Yale School of Management (SOM)
Director: Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Associate Dean for Executive Programs, SOM
Overview: Offers intensive regional CEO roundtables and national CEO leadership workshops of short duration. The institute asserts that the content and format of its candid seminars are unmatched by any other university, consulting firm or mass vendor-driven celebrity convention. Participating CEOs expect to gain perspective on their own current leadership challenges, looking both at their personal styles and the global strategic context of their industries.
Mission: To bring together top executive leaders and to encourage leading scholars to share their perspectives, and promote further research in the field of leadership. The institute's collaboration of renowned academics with their business, economic, theological, legal, political and medical backgrounds brings refreshing insights to the world of leadership.
Center for Women's Leadership
Educational affiliation: University of New Haven
Director: Zeljan Shuster, interim dean, UNH School of Business
Overview: Offers support for females in the workplace primarily through networking, mentoring, information-sharing and open discussions. Center is designed to provide life-long learning for students, alumni and the community at large, and enhance the university's diversity initiatives. The center is planning to hold annual conferences for practitioners and academics as well as regular executive-type seminars, panel discussions and workshops. Plans also in works to publish a magazine and develop a resource database for women.
Mission: The CWL hopes to reach out to the thousands of women alumni from the university and its business school, including more than 600 whom it has identified as holding top positions in organizations in and near Connecticut. (See related story, page 3.)
UConn Family Business Program
Educational affiliation: University of Connecticut/Storrs
Director: Richard N. Dino, associate dean, UConn School of Business
Overview: Founded in 1995, UConn Family Business Program is a membership organization dedicated to providing families in business with professional advice, education and peer networks to gain insight into problem solving and to learn how others have solved similar challenges.
Mission: To foster the growth of Connecticut family businesses by providing education, professional advice and peer networks to facilitate positive and cooperative interaction among family members, managers, advisors and professionals on the unique challenges of business-owning families.
Offerings: Workshops, focus groups, roundtable discussions.
Quinnipiac
University Entrepreneurship
& Small Business Management Institute
Educational affiliation: Quinnipiac University, Hamden
Director: Matthew Smith
Overview: The institute offers professional courses and consulting services designed to assist small-business owners and enterprise managers with the skills needed to overcome specific business problems and issues. Membership is for individuals, not businesses, and provides access to professionals who can provide solutions for specific business needs. Members are offered discounts on professional program course fees.
Mission: Designed to help individuals develop entrepreneurial attitudes including being open to change, developing new ideas and thinking “outside the box” and beyond the limitations of existing paradigms. This blend of tools, skills and attitudes intended to equip the entrepreneur to organize and manage new ventures. The process links students with entrepreneurs possessing similar interests in a mentoring relationship.
Source: Individual institutions
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