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Presented February 25, 2010 Joy C. Lubeck, Associate Vice President Thunderbird Corporate Learning and Partnerships Presentation Overview for BMC Software, Inc.
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An overview of Thunderbird Corporate Learning
Transcript of Thunderbird Overview
Presented
February 25, 2010
Joy C. Lubeck, Associate Vice President
Thunderbird Corporate Learning and Partnerships
Presentation Overviewfor
BMC Software, Inc.
In 1946, re-established as The American Institute for Foreign Trade
Dedicated to global management education for over 60 years
Founded as an Airbase in 1941 to train WWII pilots
from USA, China, UK and Canada
Thunderbird History
Thunderbird Today
• Today, Thunderbird is the leading education provider in the field of international management
• Alumni base of over 40,000
• Degree Programs (45 countries represented)– Full-time MBA in Global Management / Master of Arts in Global Affairs and Management– Executive MBA – US or Europe / Global MBA on Demand, Global MBA for Latin America
• Corporate Learning– 10,000 international executives– In 2006/07 Executive Programs run worldwide including China, Philippines, India, South
Korea, Singapore, France, Azerbaijan, UAE, South Africa, Czech Republic, USA, Mexico, Canada, Russia, and others.
• Centers of Excellence– Language and Culture, Global Management– Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility– Entrepreneurship & Innovation
THUNDERBIRD’s unique mission
“We educate global leaders who create sustainable
prosperity worldwide.”
Why Thunderbird?
ExperienceSixty-year history of global business education and service to international businesses.
World Class FacultyThunderbird faculty, ranked top five in the world, is recognized for their innovative teaching methods, global best practices, experience, diversity, pragmatic research and applied program design.
Flexibility Thunderbird has developed a wide variety of delivery formats and alliances that align with the geographically diverse population and will be adapted to specifically fit with the program purpose at every stage.
Innovation & Customization The Thunderbird team develops highly dynamic programs involving simulations, relevant cases, business games, business challenge projects, action learning, coaching, and assessment tools specific to our clients’ needs.Global program content includes business, culture, and communication.
Thunderbird: recognized leader
#1 Thunderbird School of
Global Management15th Consecutive #1 Ranking
“International Programs”
Full-time MBA 2011
U.S. News & World Report
Top 5 Thunderbird School of Global Management
“Distance Learning MBA Programs in the World” 2010
The Economist
#2 Thunderbird School of
Global Management
“Potential to Network”
School-Wide 2009
The Economist
Financial Times
#8 Overall Executive Education 2010
#5 Open Enrollment Programs #24 Custom Programs
#1 “International Location” #1 “International Clients”
#1 “Quality of Participants” #2 “Faculty Diversity”
#2 “Course Design”
#2 “Teaching Materials”
Campuses - Glendale, AZ (USA)
- Moscow (Russia)
Operations - Geneva (Switzerland)
- Beijing (China)
- Latin America
Alliances around the world
On-site delivery worldwide
THUNDERBIRD’s Global Reach
School of Global
Management
Corporate Learning
Knowledge Network
THUNDERBIRDOne Institution, Three Businesses
Partnering with THUNDERBIRD
Thunderbird offers more than the world's best education in global business. It also offers the world's most global business school partnership opportunity! Partnership with Thunderbird includes an extensive array of global learning opportunities, recruiting resources, and affiliation opportunities that can help your company adapt quickly to a rapidly changing global economy and increase your global brand awareness.
Partnership Opportunities
• Corporate Learning / Executive Education (click here to learn more)
What if your company could tap into a secret reservoir of unlimited global business knowledge? Would it make a difference in your company's future? At Thunderbird, our passion is to help organizations like yours unlock and unleash its full global business potential.
• Recruiting Opportunities (click here to learn more)
Your company wants to educate and recruit the best global business executives it can — executives that are successful beyond borders, time zones and your company's expectations. Learn more about how recruiting and hiring Thunderbird's enterprising MBA graduates and interns can enable your company to significantly accelerate its global business success.
Partnership Opportunities continued• Business Research Services (click here to learn more)
Planning business ventures in new, emerging markets in different parts of the world? Access our expertise in international business research that comes backed by a comprehensive resource bank of databases, internet sources, print and electronic journals and much more.
• Corporate Philanthropy for Thunderbird (click here to learn more)Discover the variety of ways in which you can play a part in molding the future of the new global economy. Help Thunderbird students — future global business leaders — exceed their potential.
• Thunderbird Centers for Excellence (click here to learn more)Thunderbird's centers of excellence give your company access to leading business and academic research in four critical global business areas, including the Lincoln Center for Ethics in International Management, the Center for Global Entrepreneurship, Thunderbird Private Equity Center, and the Garvin Center for Language and Culture.
Thunderbird Offers a Unique Value Proposition.…
Global ContentBusiness, Culture,
Strategy, Finance
Global PresenceCampuses, Operations,
Alliances
Global CommunityFaculty, Staff, Partners,
Students, Alumni
…world class faculty …
Global Faculty• International
• Experienced
• Practical
… and a portfolio of solutions that
address the diverse needs of our clients.
• Customized Executive Development Programs
• Global Mindset®
• Thunderbird International Consortia Programs
• Open-Enrollment Programs
• Executive and Corporate Custom MBA Programs
• Language and Culture Programs
• Online Learning
• Thunderbird Learning Consulting Network
Link to Thunderbird Corporate Learning website
Customized Development Programs
IF the challenges your company is facing have to do with global business issues…
IF you want global reach and cross-cultural experience…
IF you seek customer intimacy and partnership – to be listened to, to be respected, to be challenged, to be understood, to learn and work closely together …
IF you value innovation and global thought leadership…
...THEN Thunderbird is the very best custom partner you can choose.
Thunderbird Global Mindset®
The ability to influence individuals, groups, organizations, and systems that are unlike you and your own.
In a survey of 1500 executives from 12 large multinational companies, the respondents rated their ability to cultivate a global mindset in their organization dead
last – 34th out of 34 dimensions. THUNDERBIRD can help.
Thunderbird International Consortia (TIC)
• An innovative partnership opportunity for leading companies to truly globalize the thinking, behavior, and strategy of the entire organization.
• Concept based on cross-company, cross-industry, and cross-cultural benefits of exploring leadership, management, and business education.
• Broad curriculum focused on general management issues in global business.
• Comprehensive evaluation process allows each member firm to
assess value and consistency of the program. Some companies have been a TIC member for 15 years.
Open Enrollment Programs
• Non-degree two-day to one-week certificate programs that are “open” to all business people designed to develop the business skills of mid-to-high level corporate executives.
• Can be customized to fit clients’ specific needs.
• Created and taught by Thunderbird’s world-class faculty and can be delivered anywhere in the world.
• Relevant classroom and experiential-based learning that participants can apply to their positions and companies immediately.
• All programs deliver certificates and Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and some also convey Professional Development Units (PDUs).
Link to currently offered Open Enrollment Programs
EMBA and Corporate Custom MBA Programs
• Masters Degrees for working professionals - specifically designed for high-potential working executives with global business responsibilities or career plans:
- Comprehensive curriculum- Executive-style class sessions take place on alternating
weekends or in compacted modules connected by wed-based activities
• Corporate MBA programs
Q: What does a custom corporate MBA from Thunderbird look like?
A: It looks like your company’s global future. The number one benefit of Thunderbird’s custom corporate MBA is that it is a solutions-based program. Content, delivery, faculty, location and timing – all are focused around your company’s particular global strategy and vision, your products, your industry, even your competitors.
Degrees for Working Professionals link
Language and Culture Programs
Understanding language and culture is the bridge that connects companies and individuals in the global marketplace. The Thunderbird Language and CulturePrograms (TLCP) are uniquely designed for the needs of individuals around theworld.
Current programs include:
Intensive Spanish is also available and often taken by MBA IM students to fulfill their MBA IM graduation requirement to demonstrate proficiency in a second language.
The Pre-MBA/Masters Intensive English Program builds business English skills and confidence for international students entering Thunderbird's prestigious MBA program or another graduate business program.
GMAT and TOEFL Preparation Programs are available to students who need to prepare for the tests or improve their current scores to enter an MBA program
Customized Language and Culture Programs provide intensive training for executives to increase their ability to conduct business in different countries and cultures
On-line Learning
• Web-based certificate programs• Custom On-line Learning: 100% custom e-learning programs, both facilitated and non-
facilitated. Examples of custom e-learning programs are:
- Doing Business In Emerging Markets Series (China, India, Russia, Latin America)- Global Supply Chain Management, Global
Manufacturing
• Executive Certificates in International Management and International Marketing
Thunderbird Learning Consulting Network (TLCN)
• Dramatic departure from the standard University and Business School model of solely student-led projects.
• Represents the talents of faculty, alumni specialists across the globe, select teams of MBA students and partners among some of the world's top consulting firms.
• Provides unique, globally integrated services to clients in virtually any market.
• Specialty projects such as cross cultural communications, change management, go to-market strategies, and global brand management delivered with the global perspective of the world's top international management specialists.
Thunderbird provides variety of solutions for your talent & leadership development
First & Second Level
High Potentials
Middle Level
Top Executives/C-level
Upper/Middle Level
Planning retreat / Conference / Coaching & Mentoring, Executive Briefings, Language & Culture Center, Consulting, Custom Solutions
Individual mgmt. development, Open Enrollment, Consortium, E-learning / blended, Custom Solutions
E-learning, blended, Custom Solutions, Local/National Management Development (i.e. CBSD)
E-learning / blended, Custom Solutions, Open Enrollment
Consortium, Consulting, Language & Culture Center / Custom, Open Enrollment
Sample Global References
