Students meet company executives and have access to company white papers. They also get to assist professors with cutting-edge research. The e-commerce concentration advisory board reads like a Who's Who of top technology companies, including Nortel, Cisco, Sprint, BTI, IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft and Internet Capital Group. Other MBA courses focus on Internet marketing, IT strategy, data mining, intellectual property, global supply chain management, designing an online customer experience and technology commercialization. A unique offering in the Executive MBA Weekend Program this fall is an online course in e-commerce developed by Segars and replete with graphics, video, audio and interactive quizzes.
Alumni can take the online course for free.
PhD students had an opportunity to participate in an online course with students and faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and Indiana University. Professors alternated weekly topics, and students at both schools had the opportunity to address issues in real-time as well as post comments online. Future sessions of the course will involve other universities. As businesses reinvent themselves again and again, Kenan-Flagler is partnering with them to shape the future. The School's Executive Education Program is addressing the needs of companies in developing e-business strategies.