Dear UNICON Membership Community, I walked into my first UNICON conference 23 years ago, brand new to executive education, wondering what this UNICON thing was all about. By the time I left three days later,
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge Business Research for Business Leaders "Which universities will step into the void as American colleges decline? In the book Empires of Ideas, William Kirby explores how the history of higher
UNICON announced the results of the board election and appointment process for fiscal year 2021-2022 Serge Lafrance, Associate Professor and Director of Executive Education, HEC Montréal, won the board election held last month and will
Working at INSEAD Executive Education for the past 10 years, Alex MacDougald is responsible for the marketing of a number of open enrollment programmes, as well as the marketing management of custom programme partnerships.
Over the past 35 years I’ve been associated with UNICON, first as the head of executive education at the University of Minnesota and serving as UNICON’s Executive Director. I have a lot to be
Markus Frank Lise Hammergren At the annual meeting of UNICON Board of Directors in July, Emeritus status was granted to Markus Frank, University of St. Gallen and Lise Hammergren, BI Norwegian Business School.
Executive education undergoes profound change Markus Frank, UNICON Board Chair 2021-2022 The 2021 Membership Survey revealed an unforeseen setback in university-based non-degree executive education. Before the pandemic, the average gross annual revenue of all
Higher-ed leaders and executive education teams are working to re-imagine what university-based learning for executives can and should be in response to dynamic market forces, specifically, the notion of executive education providers as ‘lifelong learning
Jai Arya works with the National University of Singapore Business School, where he is Senior Adviser to the Dean and Head of Executive Education. Arya is an independent director of Max Financial Services, the parent
Kieran MacCourt joined the Alliance Manchester Business School during the summer of 2019 and works as part of the executive education team. Before joining the school, Kieran has worked for multinationals including Stanley Black &
At the 2022 Directors' Conference, UNICON Executive Director Bill Scheurer received the UNICON Lifetime Achievement Award for service to the organization. The award states: UNICON honors Bill Scheurer with the UNICON lifetime achievement award
The UNICON Research Committee is pleased to share this new research conducted by Pat Cataldo and Kelly Bean. The result is an updated organizational look at the topic of university and non-university executive education identification,
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