McGill Executive Institute

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McGill Executive Institute
Company typeFor Profit
Industry Executive Education
Founded Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1956 (1956))
Headquarters
Montreal, Quebec
,
Canada
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Professor Louis Gialloreto, Executive Director
ProductsManagement Seminars, Custom Business Programs
Owner McGill University
Parent Desautels Faculty of Management
Website www.executive.mcgill.ca

The McGill Executive Institute is the corporate education and management development unit of the McGill University Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It provides a variety of public business seminars as well as custom executive education and coaching for all levels of management.

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Founded in 1956, [1] the Institute has a full-time staff of learning design and program managers working with professors at McGill’s Faculties of Management, Law, Arts, Education and Medicine, external guest experts in specific fields, as well as visiting professors from universities worldwide. The Institute’s clientele includes businesses, not-for-profit organizations and government/public sector services.

History

After establishing the first management diploma in 1906, McGill University began offering evening classes in business education in 1912. [2] Following Canada's post World War II expansion, McGill University responded to the needs of senior executives by offering seminars in personnel management, marketing, and finance. [3]

Concurrent to business seminars offered by McGill, the Executive Development Institute, a private business education organization, began to offer the Executive Development Course (EDC) in 1949, in affiliation with the Montreal Board of Trade. It was developed with support from the Graduate School of Business at Harvard University. [4] [5] [6] A precursor to the existence of many MBA and later EMBA programs, the EDC was designed to provide a comprehensive look at management practices in strategy, human resources, marketing, negotiations and financial acumen. [1] [7]

In 1956, the McGill Management Institute was founded to facilitate the more effective delivery of business seminars offered at McGill University. [1] In 1973, the Executive Development Institute merged with the McGill Management Institute and, under the McGill banner, continued the facilitation of the EDC. [8] [9] The merger coincided with a move to its current home in the Bronfman building at McGill University on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal, where it underwent a significant expansion of its offerings. By 1984, the McGill Management Institute was offering 70 day-time seminars and 20 evening courses each year, in addition to the EDC. [1]

In 1993, the McGill Management Institute was renamed the McGill International Executive Institute. It took its current name, the McGill Executive Institute, in 2002. It is a division of the Desautels Faculty of Management.

Philosophy

The McGill Executive Institute has been noted for its approach to action-based learning, [10] as well as for its international dimension. In his 2009 work, Executive Education in Canadian Firms, Bruce Gordon R. Fowler states the following:

The executive programs at this Institute recognize better than most schools, even among the other eight illustrious institutions discussed here, the need for international diversity and content. Indeed, McGill has been recognized as having an international dimension unsurpassed in North America for diversity among students and faculty, and for program style and content. The scope of McGill's global outlook is certainly equal to that of Harvard and INSEAD, also featured here as giants of international connectivity, which simply must be part of any program involving executives of international or multinational firms. [11]

Products and Services

The McGill Executive Institute now offers between 80 to 100 open enrollment seminars annually, addressing a broad range of business topics. The institute's oldest program, the Executive Development Course (EDC), was launched in 1949. This program has since been expanded into two main cycles—the Executive Development Course and the Advanced Management Course—forming the Mini-MBA Series. [12]

The institute organizes its offerings into several key areas:

Programs are accessible on campus at McGill University, [18] online, in Toronto, and in Ottawa.

In addition to open enrollment seminars, the McGill Executive Institute designs and delivers customized learning solutions tailored to the unique needs of an organization's team of managers or executives. These custom programs vary from brief workshops to multi-year global initiatives and are available in English, French, or a bilingual format. [19]

The McGill Executive Institute previously offered the International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM) and the Advanced Leadership Program (ALP), in collaboration with:

Both programs were known for their global approach, conducted over several modules in various international locations. The ALP and IMPM were co-founded and co-directed by Professor Henry Mintzberg. [20] The Advanced Leadership Program has been discontinued. The International Masters in Practicing Management is now administered separately under the McGill Executive Education umbrella, distinct from the offerings of the McGill Executive Institute.

Faculty and Guest Speakers

Well-known McGill faculty members include Professor Henry Mintzberg on advanced leadership issues and Professor Nancy Adler on organizational behavior. Recent guest speakers of note have included business leaders Daniel Lamarre, Larry Smith, Jim Cherry, Alan Allnutt, Paul Côté and Pierre Boivin. [21] [ circular reference ]

Partners and Collaborators

The McGill Executive Institute has established partnerships with various organizations to deliver specialized educational programs:

These partnerships are part of the institute's efforts to address the educational needs of professionals in different fields.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 McGill Management Institute teaches the unusual...it’s where executives go to learn about computers, The Montreal Gazette, Aug 18, 1984, Retrieved on August 7, 2010
  2. ↑ Desautels Faculty of Management: Programs, Courses and University Regulations 2010-2011, Desautels Website, PDF retrieved on August 9, 2010
  3. ↑ McGill University Evening Extension Course listing, The Montreal Gazette - Sep 8, 1950, Retrieved on August 9, 2010
  4. ↑ Executive Development Institute, 12th Annual EDC, The Montreal Gazette - Sep 5, 1961, Retrieved on August 11, 2010
  5. ↑ Executive Development Institute, 13th Annual EDC, The Montreal Gazette - Sep 7, 1962, Retrieved on August 11, 2010
  6. ↑ Executive Development Institute, 15th Annual EDC, The Montreal Gazette - Aug 3, 1964, Retrieved on August 11, 2010
  7. ↑ To Help the Executive Grow, The Montreal Gazette - Jul 11, 1963, Retrieved on August 11, 2010
  8. ↑ Ross Plans Book on University Growth, The Montreal Gazette - Aug 31, 1973, Retrieved on August 7, 2010
  9. ↑ Psychological Survival for Executives, The Montreal Gazette - April 10, 1974, Retrieved on August 9, 2010
  10. ↑ Executive Education in Canadian Firms Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine , Bruce Gordon R. Fowler, University of Calgary, 2009, pg 213, Retrieved on September 9, 2010
  11. ↑ Executive Education in Canadian Firms Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine , Bruce Gordon R. Fowler, University of Calgary, 2009, pg 138, Retrieved on September 9, 2010
  12. ↑ Mini-MBA Series information, McGill Executive Institute, March 22, 2024
  13. ↑ General Management Programs, McGill Executive Institute, March 22, 2024
  14. ↑ Business Essentials Programs, McGill Executive Institute, March 22, 2024
  15. ↑ Strategic Innovation and Operations Programs, McGill Executive Institute, March 22, 2024
  16. ↑ Lean Six Sigma Programs, McGill Executive Institute, March 22, 2024
  17. ↑ Leadership Programs, McGill Executive Institute, March 22, 2024
  18. ↑ McGill University, Wikipedia, March 22, 2024
  19. ↑ Custom Learning Programs, McGill Executive Institute, March 22, 2024
  20. ↑ Executive Education in Canadian Firms Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine , Bruce Gordon R. Fowler, University of Calgary, 2009, pg 135, Retrieved on September 9, 2010
  21. ↑ "McGill Executive Institute - Wikipedia". en.m.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
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