Program Dates: June 20 - July 31, 2010 Application Deadline: April 30, 2010 Program Tuition: $54,000 USD
The program's six-week curriculum is highly integrated and designed to maximize linkages across three key themes:
Strengthening Strategic Leadership Competence
Every day senior executives must quickly yet thoroughly define and analyze ambiguous situations in order to take effective strategic action. Successful strategic leadership depends on making the most effective and efficient use of available economic, competitive, financial, and accounting information. Participants explore frameworks that enable them to make the right strategic decision given the information available to them.
Developing Core Functional Capabilities
Regardless of their functional background, senior executives must be able to foresee how their actions will impact the overall performance of their organizations. Participants develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of the functional capabilities with which they are less familiar and learn to anticipate the strategic implications of their functional decisions.
Managing the Extended Market and Nonmarket Environment
In addition to managing internal functions and operations, today's executives are deeply aware of the role that macroeconomic forces, international institutions, and national governments play in the global economy. Participants learn how to proactively influence these market and nonmarket forces and interact with employees, customers, and partners from a wide variety of national, socio-political, and cultural backgrounds.
Academic Courses
Sample Daily Schedule
6:00 am - Morning Group Exercise(optional)
Trail Jogging and calisthenics
7:00 am - Breakfast Full breakfast at Schwab Residential Center
8:00 am - Morning Session I Strategic Leadership in Turbulent Times
9:00 am - Morning Session II
Delivering Customer Value through Marketing
11:00 am - Morning Session III
Business Simulation Laboratory
12:40 pm - Lunch
Outdoor Lunch in Dohrmann Grove
3:00 pm - Afternoon Session
Financial Management and the Creation of
Value
4:00 pm - Late Afternoon
Panel: Presidential Politics and
Foreign Policy
6:30 pm - Dinner
Reception and Dinner in Vidalakis Hall
9:00 pm - Evening
Study group business case discussions
The first five weeks of the program consist of core courses that cover each of these three themes in depth. The sixth and final week of classes consists of elective courses that participants choose based on their individual development objectives.
The following table presents a summary of courses and lectures typically included in the curriculum of the Stanford Executive Program. For full descriptions of core and elective courses, please click on the course names below.
Please note that the following table does not include guest speakers and discussions, and that the program courses may vary slightly from year to year.
In addition to offering the world-renowned expertise of the Stanford Business School faculty, the Stanford Executive Program leverages its strong ties with past program participants, Stanford University at large, and the local Silicon Valley business community to enhance the program's relevance to the current global environment.
Each year, the program incorporates many special sessions featuring speakers, panelists, and discussion leaders with distinguished backgrounds in business, politics, and academia.
Listed are examples of speakers from previous years. Guest speakers for the 2010 program will not be finalized until after the application period is completed.
John P. Abizaid General in the United States Army; former Commander of the United States Central Command; Fellow of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University
Coit D. Blacker Director and Senior Fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute; Olivier Nomellini Professor in International Studies, School of Humanities and Sciences; Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Gerhard Casper President Emeritus of Stanford University; Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education; Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science, by courtesy; Freeman Spogli Institute Senior Fellow
John Chambers Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco Systems, Inc.
John Clendening Executive Vice President, Shared Strategic Services & CEO, Charles Schwab Bank
Carlos Ghosn President and Chief Executive Officer, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Andrew S. Grove Lecturer in Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Chairman of the Board, Intel Corporation
Mark Hurd Chief Executive Officer and President, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Dick Kovacevich Chairman, Wells Fargo & Co.
Sean Maloney, SEP '00 Executive Vice President, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Intel Corp.
William Perry, SEP '74 Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor (at Freeman Spogli Institute and Engineering) and Codirector of the Preventive Defense Project at CISAC; FSI Senior Fellow; Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Hasso Plattner CEO, Co-Chairman, and Co-Founder, SAP AG
Condoleeza Rice Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy, Hoover Institution; former U.S. Secretary of State
George P. Shultz Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Economics, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Former U.S. Secretary of State
Garth Saloner Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business
A. Michael Spence Former Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Winner, 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
In my opinion, the Stanford Executive Program is absolutely fantastic. It brings together strategy, innovation, corporate culture, and functional areas like marketing, sales, finance, and accounting in one very well communicated package. And, the multi-cultural network of relationships I built during the program will be of value to me for years to come.
Alberto Diaz
President, Latin America
Grupo Bimbo, SEP 2009
Program dates, fees, and faculty are subject to change. If a program is cancelled, Stanford will refund the program tuition in full but is not responsible for travel, accommodations or other expenses incurred by the participant.
Lisa Blair
Associate Director, Programs
Office of Executive Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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In my opinion, the Stanford Executive Program is absolutely fantastic. It brings together strategy, innovation, corporate culture, and functional areas like marketing, sales, finance, and accounting in one very well communicated package. And, the multi-cultural network of relationships I built during the program will be of value to me for years to come. 
