Executive Education Emerging Leaders

Rice University Executive Education

Emerging Leaders Program www.rice.edu/ee 713-348-6060

In this economy,

savvy companies and employees alike are wondering, how can we be innovative in tough times? How can we be relevant both as individuals and as part of an organization?

In the thick of the downturn lies opportunity. With our talented faculty, fantastic educational facilities and the development of our new management program, Emerging Leaders, we are here to help you promote your most valuable resources — your people.

Emerging Leaders was specifically created to prepare promising employees for management positions. This comprehensive program will help participants sharpen their leadership skills and re-enter the workplace better equipped to be a strategic, successful member of the company.

Welcome to the next phase of your business’ bottom line: Rice University’s Executive Education.

Regards,

D. Brent Smith, Ph.D.

Associate Dean of Executive Education Jones Graduate School of Business Rice University

Emerging Leaders

Inspire, inform and invest in your most valuable resource—your people The Emerging Leaders program from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business is designed to prepare high-potential employees for management positions. The Executive Education program features two one-week modules separated by an intermodular period back on the job. During this time, participants continue to work on a simulation with their teammates and receive one-on-one coaching to address individual challenges.

This structure allows participants to apply what they are learning, formulate action plans and accelerate their performance.

By combining assessments, class discussions, a business simulation, and sessions (both group and one-on-one) with professional executive coaches, participants focus on key leadership challenges and fresh insights relevant to their organizations. The program’s rigorous curriculum helps business professionals reach their leadership potential through this unique and interactive process.

The Rice University Campus Participants of the Emerging Leaders program attend classes on Rice University’s vibrant campus.

Courses are conducted in McNair Hall, home to the Jones School, and taught by Rice MBA faculty.

Rice University is consistently ranked one of America’s best teaching and research universities.

As one of seven academic units of the university, the Jones School of Business and its Executive Education department are distinguished by their expertise in the fields of energy, finance, and healthcare.

Specifically tailored for individuals with an average of five years of experience who may or may not have held management roles, the program enlists the expertise of world-class faculty and global business leaders to create a corporate curriculum that delivers relevant results.

Participants acquire skills to navigate the transition from highpotential individual to high-performing leader. Organizations gain more effective team members who assume greater responsibility and a strategic understanding of their company’s operation.

Group discounts are available to companies with teams of three or more participants.

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You and Your week Leadership Skills 1

Identify, Develop and Customize Your Leadership Skills

In the first week, participants are fully immersed in the art of leadership, team dynamics, strategies, and marketing. From making the transition and defining your leadership style to motivating peak performances and correcting performance problems, classes delve into the bricks and mortar of leadership.

Designing, launching and maintaining high-performing teams is essential in today’s work environment. This program includes a section in team dynamics so that participants develop an awareness of the five conditions that enable high levels of performance in teams, also how to diagnose team dysfunction, intervene when necessary, and recognize the value of a team’s diversity.

Strategy formulation and implementation are complex management skills that require vision. The Emerging Leaders Program provides experienced expertise to walk participants through the steps of defining and integrating the right strategies for their organizations.

The essence of marketing focuses on how firms attract, retain, and enhance relationships with customers. Participants in the program examine key marketing concepts and best practices, get acquainted with a set of tools to analyze the competition, conduct STP (segmentation, targeting and positioning) analysis, and choose and implement the marketing mix, the so-called Four Ps (product, price, place and promotion).

Competitive Business Simulation Both weeks include competitive business simulations, which divide participants into teams. (Participants from the same organization may be on the same team.) Teams run an imaginary company and set strategy and structure, discuss a business plan, and make financial, operational, and marketing decisions.

Contact with team members continues throughout the inter-modular period.

Inter-modular Period Just prior to the break, participants will define their work-project objectives for the inter-modular period. During the time participants are back on the job they may conduct one-on-one discussions with their executive coach to check on the progress of key development areas that have been identified and to resolve any difficulties.

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Making it 2 Happen week

Putting Your Knowledge and Business Acumen to Work for You The second week is packed full with an assessment of the inter-modular period, a carryover of the competitive business simulation, as well as the assigned courses in accounting, finance, negotiations and decision making, and communications.

In accounting, participants learn how to understand and use the information in financial reports to make management decisions. Skills to be mastered include: understanding the relationships between primary financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows) and the meanings of terms and data, the significance of accrual accounting concepts, and the differences between income, cash flow, assets and expenses. Participants also learn how to calculate and interpret basic financial ratios used in management decision making.

The finance course develops a unified framework for understanding the concepts of time, money and risk and how they are interrelated.

Participants learn the basic approach to the time value of money, risk management, financial derivatives, and hedging. They develop metrics for value creation and measures of risk and the tradeoff between risk and return. The course also teaches the interaction between the decisions of managers and the financial markets.

The module on negotiations and decision making focuses on techniques.

In the first half of the course, participants examine how to make effective organizational decisions at both an individual and group level of analysis.

Special attention is given to decision biases and how they can be circumvented. Also addressed is the growing line of work focusing on intuitive decision making. The highly interactive second half of the course turns to negotiations. Participants engage in a number of exercises designed to illustrate key principles of distributive and integrative negotiations.

The course in communications teaches the elements of strategic communication: audience, context, outcomes, message, medium, messenger; the creation of ethos in presentations; the effective use of PowerPoint; and the application of best practices to deliver high-impact presentations.

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Explore the faculty excellence of Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University.

Michael Grojean

Professor of the Practice of Management Director for Custom Programs for Executive Education ELP Focus: Leadership Education: B.S. Park University, M.A. and Ph.D. University of Maryland Mike Grojean serves as Director for Custom Programs in Rice University’s Executive Education. His functional background is as an industrial/organizational psychologist specializing in leader development. Mike’s broad experience base includes having served as a director for a consultancy firm, the head of executive education at a business school, an associate dean for corporate activities and the leadership policy officer for the U.S. Army.

Faculty

The groundbreaking research, unparalleled experience, and first-class instruction of Jones School professors are developing principled, innovative thought-leaders in global communities and bringing Rice University to the forefront of world-wide management education.

H. Albert Napier

Professor of Management Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and IT Faculty Director, Emerging Leaders Program Education: B.A., M.B.A., and Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin Al Napier teaches graduate-level entrepreneurship, information technology (IT), and e-business courses at the Jones School. He is the Director of the Center on the Management of Information Technology (COMIT). Al’s current research interests include entrepreneurship, e-business, and human-computer interface.

He has also made hundreds of executive and management development presentations through the Executive Education department and has served as the faculty director for many of their custom program clients. Examples of topics covered have included entrepreneurial strategy, supply-chain management, IT in healthcare management and other industries, and e-business.

As Faculty Director of the Emerging Leaders program, Al will act as supervisor and advisor of both the week-long coursework and the inter-modular projects.

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His 28-year career in public and private service has given him experience in the application, development and instruction of numerous leadership, training, mentorship and change programs. He has facilitated thousands of instructional hours as well as developed training support packages, lesson plans, course curricula and 360-degree diagnostic tools for executive leaders.

David Niño

Assistant Professor of Management ELP Focus: Teams Education: B.A., B.B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin David Niño is on the management faculty at the University of HoustonDowntown, where he teaches undergraduate and executive graduate courses in management and leadership. Prior to this appointment, he served on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership, management, corporate communications, and organizational cultures.

With more than 15 years teaching executives, David’s courses have focused on topics such as managerial and leadership skills, teamwork, internal and external communications, and strategic management. He has also developed specialized courses for executives on creating and implementing change, developing and executing strategy, assessing and managing organizational cultures, and managing knowledge in organizations. He has consulted with corporations in the energy, travel, and high technology industries and with municipal governments in both the U.S. and Mexico.

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Margaret Cording

George Kanatas

Education: B.B.A. Temple University, M.B.A. The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. University of Virginia

Education: B.S. CCNY, Ph.D. (physics) University of Kansas, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University

Jesse H. Jones Professor of Finance ELP Focus: Finance

Assistant Professor of Management ELP Focus: Strategy Formulation and Implementation

Margaret Cording joined the faculty at the Jones School in July 2003. She teaches strategy and ethics in the MBA programs and numerous executive education programs.

Her research explores the linkages between strategy and business ethics, management of the post-acquisition integration process, and the measurement of firm performance. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Margaret was a managing director at The Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) where she was responsible for managing the foreign exchange sales business. During her 14-year tenure at Chase, Margaret was also responsible for the development and management of a program to improve the strategic relevance, risk-adjusted economic performance, productivity and efficiency of a diverse set of businesses, including capital markets globally and wholesale banking activities in Europe and Asia.

Karen Nelson

Scott Sonenshein

Associate Professor of Management ELP Focus: Accounting

Assistant Professor of Management ELP Focus: Business Simulation

Education: B.S. University of Colorado, Ph.D. University of Michigan

Education: B.A. University of Virginia, M.Phil. University of Cambridge, Ph.D. University of Michigan Scott Sonenshein is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior at the Jones School. His research examines how interpretive processes contribute to explaining three types of change: social, strategic and individual.

Scott’s current research projects include completing a multi-year engagement at a Fortune 500 retailer.

He is developing new insights about how large organizations implement complex strategic initiatives.

He is also collecting data for a field-study of how to strengthen change agents working on intractable social issues, particularly environmental issues.

Uptal (Paul) Dholakia

Education: B.E. University of Bombay, M.S. Ohio State University, M.S. and Ph.D. University of Michigan

Paul Dholakia currently teaches the core marketing course in the Rice MBA for Professionals program and various custom executive education programs at the Jones School. He is a leading expert on the use of data-mining and statistical methodologies to develop effective marketing solutions.

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Karen Nelson joined the Rice faculty in 2003. She teaches financial reporting in the Rice MBA Full-Time and Rice MBA for Executives programs. Prior to her appointment at the Jones School, Karen was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan.

Her research focuses on earnings management and the interaction between corporate financial reporting strategies and securities litigation. She has held research seminars at leading business schools around the country, and published in a variety of major academic journals. In addition, her research has been featured in the financial press in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Forbes.

Faculty

William S. Mackey, Jr. and Verne F. Simons Distinguished Assistant Professor of Management Marketing ELP Focus: Marketing

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George Kanatas joined the Rice faculty in 1994. Prior to his arrival, he served as chairman of the finance department at the University of South Florida, and before that, he was a professor of finance at Indiana University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and at Northwestern University. In addition, he has worked as a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Prior to becoming a financial economist, he was on the physics faculty at the University of Kentucky and also worked at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. At various times, George has taught financial economics to students at all levels, from undergraduates to executives and doctoral students. His teaching has been in corporate finance, financial markets, financial strategy, international finance, managerial economics, and financial theory. His work with industry has been in the areas of capital budgeting, strategic financial analysis, and bank regulation.

His research interests lie in studying motivational psychology of consumers and online marketing issues such as virtual communities and online auctions. Paul also studies relational aspects of consumer behavior. He has published in a number of marketing and management journals, and consults with firms in financial services, energy, healthcare and other industries.

He has worked extensively with large and small firms in various industries including financial services, high tech, energy and packaged goods and services. He frequently is requested to address marketing and industry conferences.

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Early Application is Strongly Encouraged Rick Schell

Lecturer in Communications ELP Focus: Communications Education: B.A. Eastern Michigan University, M.A. and Ph.D. Rice University

Rick Schell teaches Leadership Communication and Consultative Selling in the Jones School.

He is also the director of the undergraduate business minor program, where he teaches Business Communications.

Prior to joining Rice, he spent 30 years in the information technology industry, working in sales, marketing, and education for IBM, the Amdahl Corporation, and Fujitsu Ltd. His business career included executive assignments in field sales, strategic and industry marketing, media and analyst relations, sales education, and global business development. He also served as chief of staff to his company’s president and CEO, where he developed and delivered strategic communications to all internal and external audiences. Throughout his business career, he has taught English language and literature courses at area colleges and universities.

We carefully monitor the balance of companies, functions, and regions represented in each session to promote a strong peer learning environment.

Applicants will be notified of their admission status within one (1) week of applying. Enrollment in the program is confirmed only upon completion of personal and sponsoring executive forms and receipt of payment in full. All information is strictly confidential.

Cost $11,900 per person Fee includes all educational materials, instruction, coaching, breakfasts, lunches, snacks, some dinners and special events, parking, commemorative gift, and a certificate of completion. Fee does not include transportation and accommodations. Discounts given for groups of 3 or more.

Schedule of Events Continental breakfast will be available from 7:45 a.m. - 8:30 a.m., Monday through Thursday; 7:15 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. on Fridays. Lunch is scheduled from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. each day.

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Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

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Friday

Leadership

Leadership Style

Managing People

Strategy Formulation

Marketing

Group Coaching Sessions

Group Coaching Sessions

Team Dynamics

Strategy Formulation

Preparation for Intermodular activitiesSimulation rounds 3 & 4

Erik Dane

Assistant Professor of Management ELP Focus: Negotiations and Decision Making Education: B.A. and M.B.A. Tulane University, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Erik Dane’s research focuses on how professionals leverage their experience and intuition to make decisions and solve problems. He is currently investigating the conditions that foster effective intuitive decision making. He is also exploring connections between professional experience and a range of phenomena including professionals’ attentional capacities, problem solving methods, and work orientations.

In investigating these areas, Erik employs several methodological approaches including field surveys, laboratory experiments, research interviews and behavioral observations.

Return to your Leadership Challenge Welcome, Program Introduction & Team Building

Business Simulation Introduction

F&A Business Simulation Overview

Cocktails & Dinner

Simulation Round 1

Simulation Round 2

Evening Group Function

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Should any of these faculty members become ill, have conflicting schedules, or otherwise be unable to teach the program, Rice will substitute another qualified faculty member to teach the program.

Development Plans Video Snippets Welcome Back Reception & Dinner

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Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Implementing Strategy & Change Management

Accounting

Finance

Negotiations & Decision Making

Communications

Implementing Strategy & Change Management

Accounting

Finance

Negotiations & Decision Making

Communication/ Simulation Wrap-up

Simulation Round 5

Simulation Round 6

Crystallization of Learning and Leadership Action Plan Simulation Round 7

Cocktails & Dinner

Simulation Shareholder Meeting

Graduation Dinner

Please be advised that these are tentative schedules. Scheduled activities may change throughout the week.

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