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Executive Education Center Name:	Thunderbird School of Global Management Executive Education
Website:	http://www.thunderbird.edu/sites/GlobalExp/ed_degrees/index.htm
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1 Global Place

Glendale, AZ 85306-6000 USA

Thunderbird Campus

Thunderbird Globe

Thunderbird Global School of Management

Thunderbird’s certificate programs for executives and business professionals help you meet the challenges of international competition, cross-cultural management issues and develop truly global leadership skills. The programs include topics such as:

• Leadership
• Strategy
• Marketing
• Regional Environments
• Cross-cultural Communication
• Finance
• Supply Chain Management
• Language and Culture Programs

• Leading and Managing in Turbulent Times: Global Leadership Certificate Program (PMI Certified)
• Leading Global Projects for Strategic Results (PMI Certified)
• Advanced Management Program for Oil and Gas Industry Executives
• Emerging Global Leaders*
• Executive Certificate in International Management
• Seeing the Global Leader in You

• Globalization: Merging Strategy with Action
• Strategy Essentials

• Executive Certificate in International Marketing
• Branding for Global Success*
• Marketing Essentials
• Marketing for Global Entry

Doing Business in Emerging Markets Series:

• Doing Business in China
• Doing Business in India
• Doing Business in Russia
• Doing Business in Latin America (Starts May 1, 2009)

• Communicating and Negotiating with a Global Mindset
• Multicultural Negotiations (Starts July 1, 2009)
• Negotiating to Win in a Multicultural World*
• Global Communications Essentials

• Finance Essentials
• Financial Management of Global Currency Exchange

• Global Customer Relationship Management Essentials
• Global Manufacturing Essentials
• Global Supply Chain Management Essential

• Pre-MBA/Masters Intensive English Program
• Spanish Intensive Language Classes
• Mandarin Chinese Intensive Language Classes

“Unlock Your Company’s Global Business Potential

FACT: Nearly all of the top 50 business schools in the world offer “custom programs.” Just how do you choose between them? What differentiates Thunderbird from other leading providers?

• If the challenge your company is facing has to do with global business issues, then Thunderbird is one of the very best custom partners you can choose. Thunderbird’s custom programs are 100% focused on teaching your executives how to unlock your organization’s maximum global business potential. Unlike other business schools, Thunderbird has specialized in global business for more than 60 years. As a result of our intense global focus, the Financial Times ranks our custom programs “Top 10” in the world.
• If you want global reach and cross-cultural experience, then Thunderbird is one of the very best custom partners you can choose.Thunderbird has locations, assets, networks and partnerships around the globe in North America, Europe, Russia, Asia, and Latin America. Through this global learning network we deliver custom programs anywhere in the world. Imagine this: a global business school, based in the United States, delivering a custom program in China, for a French company, using faculty from 6 different countries. That’s Thunderbird.
• If you seek customer intimacy – to be listened to, to be respected, to be challenged, to be understood, to learn and work closely together – then Thunderbird is one of the very best custom partners you can choose.Thunderbird custom programs deliver results because they are grounded in the reality of your unique business, market, employees, objectives and strategies. Our programs are superior because we work closely with you to get you what you need.
• If you value innovation and global thought leadership, then Thunderbird is one of the very best custom partners you can choose.Refreshing, creative, smart, innovative, different, unpretentious – these are just a few of the words our clients use to describe not only who we are, but how we deliver our programs. One day or four months, 10 participants or 100, on campus, on location, or online - whatever it takes to improve the capabilities of your organization and its people, Thunderbird will make it happen.”

• Focus on developing customer intimacy at graduate and executive education programs between students and faculty
• Focus on global business issues and worldview of businesses in different countries
• Innovation and global thought leadership