The IE Brown Executive MBA

The IE Brown Executive MBA

IE Business School and Brown University have joined forces to offer a unique program that goes beyond the boundaries of the traditional MBA. Firmly anchored in the values and strengths of both institutions, the IE Brown Executive MBA integrates innovative management studies with the liberal arts, providing a unique platform for future leaders to explore the increasingly complex economic, social and political forces shaping our world.

Delivered over 15 months utilising a blended methodology of face-to-face and online modules, it allows busy executives to remain on the job whilst developing cutting edge management techniques and a deeper knowledge of the global business environment.

History of Harvard University

History of Harvard University

History

Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United states, established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was named after the College's first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown, who upon his death in 1638 left his library and half his estate to the institution. A statue of John Harvard stands today in front of University Hall in Harvard Yard, and is perhaps the University's best known landmark.

Harvard University has 12 degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The University has grown from nine students with a single master to an enrollment of more than 20,000 degree candidates including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. There are more than 360,000 living alumni in the U.S. and over 190 other countries.

Harvard University Archives

The Harvard University Archives are maintained by the Harvard University Library system and are a great resource to access Harvard's historical records.

The Harvard Shield

On Sept. 8, 1836, at Harvard's Bicentennial celebration, it was announced that President Josiah Quincy had found the first rough sketch of the College arms - a shield with the Latin motto "VERITAS" ("Verity" or "Truth") on three books - while researching his History of Harvard University in the College Archives. During the Bicentennial, a white banner atop a large tent in the Yard publicly displayed this design for the first time. Until Quincy's discovery, the hand-drawn sketch (from records of an Overseers meeting on Jan. 6, 1644) had been filed away and forgotten. It became the basis of the seal officially adopted by the Corporation in 1843 and still informs the version used today.

Why Crimson?

Crimson was officially designated as Harvard's color by a vote of the Harvard Corporation in 1910. But why crimson? A pair of rowers, Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, and Benjamin W. Crowninshield, Class of 1858, provided crimson scarves to their teammates so that spectators could differentiate Harvard's crew team from other teams during a regatta in 1858. Eliot became Harvard's 21st president in 1869 and served until 1909; the Corporation vote to make the color of Eliot's bandannas the official color came soon after he stepped down.

But before the official vote by the Harvard Corporation, students' color of choice had at one point wavered between crimson and magenta - probably because the idea of using colors to represent universities was still new in the latter part of the 19th century. Pushed by popular debate to decide, Harvard undergraduates held a plebiscite on May 6, 1875, on the University's color, and crimson won by a wide margin. The student newspaper - which had been called The Magenta - changed its name with the very next issue.

U.S. Presidents and Honorary Degrees

After George Washington's Continental Army forced the British to leave Boston in March 1776, the Harvard Corporation and Overseers voted on April 3, 1776, to confer an honorary degree upon the general, who accepted it that very day (probably at his Cambridge headquarters in Craigie House). Washington next visited Harvard in 1789, as the first U.S. president. Since then, a few other men who were, or were to become U.S. presidents, have received honorary degrees:

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Yale University. Working at Yale University

Yale blends its Ivy tradition of excellence with a modern work culture that values different points of view and thrives on respect and innovation. The University offers challenging, exciting, and rewarding careers to those who seek opportunities to grow and excel. Regardless of role, Yale values each person’s contribution and nurtures his or her professional development through tuition reimbursement programs and numerous opportunities for on-campus learning. The diversity of Yale is reflected in a vibrant and stimulating work environment.

Along with exceptional benefits such as health care, pension plans, competitive pay, generous paid time off, tuition assistance, life insurance, and long-term disability insurance, faculty and staff enjoy Yale’s world-class museums, performing arts, libraries, and sporting events.

Please contact the individual academic departments in your particular discipline for information regarding open faculty positions.

Princeton University

Princeton University is a vibrant community of scholarship and learning that stands in the nation's service and in the service of all nations. Chartered in 1746, Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the United States. Princeton is an independent, coeducational, nondenominational institution that provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering.

As a world-renowned research university, Princeton seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching.

Today, more than 1,100 faculty members instruct approximately 5,000 undergraduate students and 2,500 graduate students. The University's generous financial aid program ensures that talented students from all economic backgrounds can afford a Princeton education.

The Mini-MBA for the Oil & Gas Industry

The Mini-MBA for the Oil & Gas Industry

Course overview

The global Oil and Gas industry presents a constant stream of challenges for all organisations working within it. The markets are undergoing major structural change, there is continual uncertainty and volatility of prices, indecision over integration and the role of the NOCs and the environmental issues brought to the forefront by the recent BP crisis. These are just some of the critical strategic issues facing managers in this transforming industry. If you don’t have the commercial awareness, solid understanding of the business drivers and the decision-making skills necessary to traverse the commercial maze successfully then neither yourself nor your business will survive.

This global Mini-MBA has been designed to deliver the core curriculum from an academic business school programme intertwined with solid, practical and current Oil and Gas Industry know-how. It will provide you with an invaluable understanding of the essentials of working within the industry, while developing your knowledge and capability as a key manager for your organisation.

The industry faces a challenging and competitive time for resources, opportunities, customers, qualified employees and for capital. In order to operate at the top of the field you need to have current industry know-how combined with exceptional business and management skills. This 5-day practical and intensive programme offers just that in a environment away from your organisation that will allow you the space and time to think strategically, and act commercially.

What this programme will do for you

By attending this programme you will:

SHARPEN your appreciation of the economics of oil and gas to understand the driving forces behind the industry

REINFORCE your decision-making capabilities through understanding the strategic, commercial and financial aspects of the industry

UNDERSTAND the financial impact that you can have on your organization and its profitability

DEVELOP an understanding of the importance of contracts in oil and gas projects

UNDERSTAND the key questions and areas you should be addressing as a manager who needs to be more commercially aware

ENHANCE your strategic leadership and people management techniques to allow you to leverage the most out of you, your team and your business partners

DEVELOP your understanding of the strategic issues for NOC’s and IOC’s

Is this programme for you?

This programme is suitable for all managers who wish to raise their commercial awareness of the global oil and gas industry

All managers in the industry who need to see how the whole ‘picture’ of upstream fits together.

Specialists; geologists, geophysicists, economists, finance, engineering – all those who have managerial roles and need to focus on the commercial success of their projects

Executives who have worked in other industries that need a good overview of the Oil and Gas industry

Managers who have worked in Downstream and are now working in Upstream

Bankers and financiers

Government representatives in Oil and Gas

Executives working in NOCs and IOCs

Oil and Gas industry context

This programme has been specifically designed for managers and executives working within the oil and gas industry who want to improve their general management capability and explore what the high achieving executives of the industry are thinking and doing.

Business cases, examples and exercises based on and built around real-life scenarios have been specifically developed for this programme. Participants will work in groups throughout the course applying key techniques learnt in Oil and Gas and, on occasion, comparing the results to real-life outcomes in companies using a unique case study developed solely for this programme.