Chicago - Kellogg
Global education at its finest
A pioneer in business education, the Kellogg School of Management offers one of the world’s most prestigious Executive MBA programs. Since 1976, the program has attracted top-tier management professionals from around the globe.
Situated in the heart of downtown, Kellogg's Chicago campus places students amidst a vibrant ecosystem of international business leaders. Our location offers unparalleled access to Fortune 500 companies, leading consulting firms, and a thriving entrepreneurial scene, providing an immersive environment for global leadership development.
Sample global electives offered in Chicago
Creating & Managing Strategic Alliances is a highly collaborative program guided by senior Kellogg faculty. You’ll learn how to create and manage a variety of strategic alliances, both domestic and international, including joint ventures, licensing agreements, buyer-supplier partnerships and consortia. You’ll examine the specific conditions under which alliances are preferred to other growth strategies, develop a better sense of the related costs and benefits, and leave with practical tools you can apply immediately.
Visualization for Persuasion covers the neuroscience behind the path from understanding to memory, the power of engaging an audience’s visual and motor systems, and the importance of leveraging existing brain networks through stories and metaphors. Students will learn to convince clients, customers, and colleagues of the merits of their views, using the latest breakthroughs in cognitive science, computer science, and graphic design.
Leading High Impact Teams looks at the design, management, and leadership of teams in organizational settings. Students will focus on the interpersonal processes and structural characteristics that influence the effectiveness of teams, the dynamics of intra-team relationships and sharing knowledge and information in teams.
Advertising Strategy is designed to teach students to be stronger critical thinkers with an emphasis on developing more effective advertising across traditional and digital channels. Created for client-side managers tasked with advertising responsibilities as well as general managers overseeing communications, the class tackles both advertising strategy and execution. In a rapidly evolving marketing ecosystem, it's never been more important to have a strategic lens. This course emphasizes the development of the central nucleus of any advertising strategy — the creative brief — to manage and guide relationship with your creative partners.
Winning with Networks prepares leaders to use the powerful tools of computational thinking and network analysis to better anticipate, understand, and respond to these challenges. The content involves in-depth training within vis-a-vis diverse use cases, including patenting, innovation adoption, influentials, social contagion, crowdsourcing, hot streaks, and prediction markets. Content delivery is lecture-based with in-class experiential exercises and a final group project aided by a "genius bar" where students work hand-in-hand with data scientists. Students leave the course with a practical toolkit for leadership vision enhancement, value creation, and the contagious adoption of your ideas and innovations.
Advanced Marketing Management is designed by senior members of Kellogg’s renowned marketing faculty and former CMOs of leading corporations. The program builds participants’ understanding of the fast-evolving marketing environment and digital capabilities. Upon completing this program, you will be equipped to translate high-level aspirations into tangible marketing initiatives — and lead those initiatives successfully.