Learning collaborations’ with your executive education provider for mutual benefit

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present a number of ways organizations can collaborate with their primary, university-based executive education provider (EEP) in order to co-create learning and enhance a company's strategy-development and strategy-execution capability.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper synthesizes the multi-varied ways in which one leading, globally oriented business school has collaborated with a Fortune 200 company over the past eight years, involving over 1,200 of the company's managers.

Findings

In total, 14 fruitful ways to leverage an existing corporate/EEP relationship in order to foster a company's strategy-development and strategy-execution capabilities at the business unit level are presented.

Practical implications

The field-inspired ideas presented here are immediately, broadly, and beneficially applicable across the corporate landscape.

Originality/value

Readers are provided with a number of specific, actionable ways to tap into the often-underutilized capabilities of an existing EEP affiliation with the intent of transforming that affiliation into an on-going collaboration that enhances various corporate personnel, strategy, and operational capabilities.

Citation

E. Haskins, M. and R. Shaffer, G. (2013), "Learning collaborations’ with your executive education provider for mutual benefit", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 32 No. 10, pp. 1080-1092. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-04-2012-0049