As a senior functional manager ready to take that next step in your career, you need access to the latest thinking and tools to competitively position yourself and your business. You also need to focus on daily operations. How do you gain the critical insight you will need as a general manager without taking too much time away from work? The University of Chicago Booth School of Business offers a powerful solution: the Accelerated Development Program (ADP).

ADP presents highlights of our best programmes in a modular format that minimizes disruptions to daily life and career— and maximizes opportunities to gain a competitive advantage for your company, and for yourself.

The format is convenient. The content is compelling: You will learn general management essentials taught by world-renowned faculty from one of the most prestigious and highly acclaimed business schools.

Participants also learn from each other. From the first session, you will have the opportunity to apply new concepts to your company’s challenges and then confer with the professors and your peers about the results at later sessions. ADP provides a forum to share business problems and craft solutions; to learn the necessary skills to address whatever issue may arise.

Module Dates and Fee

£12,950

October 7-9, 2010
November 11-13, 2010
December 13-15, 2010
January 17-19, 2011 *new dates
February 24-26, 2011

This program is designed for executives who are responsible for key organizational activities but need to develop a wider general management perspective outside their traditional area of responsibility and expertise. The Accelerated Development Program is designed to provide maximum exposure to key business concepts and strategies in an intensive format.

The Accelerated Development Program admissions committee highly recommends that all applicants be sponsored by their employing organization. The sponsor should have a familiarity with the applicant's background and motivations for attending ADP. Typical sponsors include the person to whom the applicant reports, the company's chief human resources officer, or head of management and development. Candidates should have at least 10 years of business experience with a significant portion of that experience in a managerial or leadership capacity.

Jeff Anderson joined the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in January 2007. In this role, he has responsibility for the Leadership Effectiveness and Development (LEAD) program as well as other leadership development activities for full-time MBA students.

Phil Berger is the Wallace W. Booth Professor of Accounting at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He previously served on the faculty of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1991-2002) and also served as a visiting associate professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management (1998-99).

Ronald Burt is the Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In addition to teaching courses in Chicago Booth MBA programs, Professor Burt teaches Strategic Leadership, a capstone course in Chicago’s Executive Education programs.

Kathleen Fitzgerald is known at the University of Chicago as a superb educator. She teaches pre-MBA accounting and analytical methods at the University of Chicago Business School and Financial Accounting at the University of Chicago Law School. She holds the position as one of the few global Directors of Academic Support at the University Of Chicago Booth School of Business in London and Singapore in which she prepares members of the Booth Executive MBA program for the rigors of Chicago’s quantitative approach to finance, economics, statistics, and marketing.

Luis Garicano studies the theoretical and empirical approaches to the economics of organization. In particular, he is interested in the organization of knowledge and consequences for organizational design and the labour market.

Richard Leftwich teaches MBA courses and executive MBA courses in financial statement analysis and financial management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 1994, he received the prestigious McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Ann McGill joined the Chicago faculty in 1997. She teaches MBA level classes in marketing management and a doctoral level marketing workshop. Professor McGill is the 2005 recipient of the prestigious McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her research focuses on consumer decision making, in particular, causal explanations, evaluation of shared (versus individual) consumption experiences, effects of freedom of choice on the evaluation of alternatives, the use of imagery in product choice, and the causes and effects of product anthropomorphism.