East to the Future Could education help a burgeoning Indian firm succeed at a dual strategy of internal and external growth — while it was going public? [Click here to read the case study.]
Interview with Rio Tinto's Barry Bloch Executive Director Liz Mellon interviews Rio Tinto Global Practice Leader Barry Bloch, who describes the pressures on the mining industry and the role of leadership development [video]
From Teaching Hospitals
to Teaching Professionals Stephanie Scott explains how elements of a teaching hospital can be refined and applied within the context of a business to encourage leadership development [story]
Diploma in Business Leadership Emirates Bank Group is one of the leading financial institutions in the UAE. Its top-ranked flagship, Emirates Bank, develops leaders on a continuous basis [story]
Getting to Know the CEO: Kim Taylor-Thompson Chaotic learning styles, personal avatars [video1], and leaders as listeners [video2]: watch our new CEO discuss the future of executive education[video3]
Workforce 2010 The Summer 2007 issue of LSE Magazine discusses what Generation Y students from around the globe are looking for from employers [LSE Magazine][article]
Is
it easy to be like Green?
Charlie Green embarks on a collaboration with Duke CE
to expand the reach of his Trusted Advisor program [story][video][audio]
Do Organizations
Have Values? Executive Director Liz Mellon analyzes the implications of applying human values to organizations in the first of a series of stories using Duke CE as an example [story]
When East and West Collaborate
Regional Managing Director Shailendra Mehta and Associate Director Bibek Banerjee talk about doing business in India [story]
Executive Education Reinvented
The new generation of executive education
must not differentiate learning from life, explains
Chair Blair Sheppard.
Larger than Life
Negro League baseball icons help senior business leaders build trust and relationships with clients in the Art of Biography experience [story]
Bridges Beyond Borders
The Nature Conservancy works with its up-and-coming leaders to help them build collaboration skills and take on the world [story]
Building the Future Global businesses are finding that learning can happen anywhere, according to our resident Second Life guru, Director of Learning Technology Steve Mahaley [story]
New Challenges Require New Behaviors Chief Learning Officers from diverse organizations gathered in Durham, N.C., for Duke CE's fifth annual CLO Roundtable to discuss global leadership [story]
As If We Cared
The second article in our series on corporate values looks at the Turning Point program, which educates employees to help them achieve success in work and in life [story]
Strategic Leadership Academic Director Robert Fulmer and Executive Director Jared Bleak talk about the perfect storm organizations face generating enough capable leaders to manage the challenges they face[Graziadio Business Report part 1] and lessons learned from the best [part 2]
Leadership Videos In a pair of videos, Executive Director Liz Mellon asks leaders what they are trying to achieve in the future [video1] and stresses the importance of being consistent in the shadow they cast [video2]
How Ingersoll Rand Develops Leaders
Duke CE Managing Director Greg Marchi teams up with Suzanne Miller, of Ingersoll Rand University, to discuss how managers are educated to become more effective leaders [story]
Great Expectations
Duke CE hopes that naming its conference rooms after eminent people and places throughout history will help inspire deep thought [story]
Social Networking
Educator Rob Cross maps business relationships with Duke CE's Michelle Hoover and Paul Baerman [story]
Out
of the Familiar
Duke CE's
Metaphoric Experience™ learning
method takes participants out of their familiar context,
getting them to experiment with new behaviors, skills
and perspectives [story]
Achieving Lasting Change Bob Reinheimer, an Executive Director at Duke CE, uses a three-part model that focuses attention on what people need to know, do and believe differently to attain business objectives and achieve lasting change [story]
Shell Weaves Web of Accountability Royal Dutch Shell actively equips senior executives with skills and structure to deal with "business unusual" [story]
Destination Mumbai
A financial services firm takes leaders on an expedition to India to learn something new about customer service [story]
Dubai Business Women
Addressing the Dubai Women Establishment, CEO Kim Taylor-Thompson talked about the challenges facing women around the globe and how women in the UAE can best use their talents, knowledge, understanding and perspectives to share critical conversations and rewrite the rules of business. [more]
The Game-Changer A member of Duke CE's educator network and a best selling author, Ram Charan has teamed with Procter & Gamble CEO A. G. Lafley to pen a new book about innovation [review]
FT Ranks Duke CE #1
Ranked #1 in custom executive education for the sixth consecutive year in the 12 May 2008 edition of the Financial Times, Duke CE placed first in nine of 16 ranking categories [article]
Learning Through Metaphors CLO Magazine's Jeanne Meister discusses the benefits of metaphoric learning, a method developed by Duke CE and successfully incorporated at Lehman Brothers [article]
New Thinking on
Global Mindset Academic Director Schon Beechler and Executive Director Dennis Baltzley have co-authored an article that will be published in CLO Magazine in June [pdf]
South Africa Office
Grand Opening CEO Kim Taylor-Thompson was in Johannesburg for a ribbon-cutting ceremony as Duke CE officially opened its sixth office [story]
Just Enough Anxiety Bob Rosen, an educator in Duke CE's Global Learning Resource Network, has written a book detailing how a little anxiety can be a good thing as you make your way up the corporate ladder [review]
The Impact of Goals on Competency Development
Setting goals is an implicit aspect of management, but most research on the topic has focused on setting a single goal related to a single skill. Project Director David Leonard wondered if goal setting was still effective when an individual set multiple goals to develop complex competencies. The answer: it is. His findings were published in the Journal of Management Development’s [website] February special issue, Competencies in the 21st Century.
Duke CE Helps Clients
Prepare Moveable Feasts In the 19 November issue [FT], Financial Times contributor Sarah Murray discussed management lessons learned from Bombay's tiffin carriers. Murray also described Duke CE’s program in a chapter about the dabbawallas – “dabba” meaning lunchbox and “walla” meaning the person associated with the trade – in her recently published book Moveable Feasts. [Read more about the program here.]
The Leadership Advantage Academic Director Bob Fulmer and Executive Director Jared Bleak have co-authored a new book titled The Leadership Advantage: How the Best Companies Are Developing Their Talent to Pave the Way for Future Success[more]
BusinessWeek Ranks Duke CE #1 for Third Time Duke CE has been ranked the world’s #1 provider of custom executive education, according to the November 12th edition of BusinessWeek[more]
Developing Strategic Leadership Marshall Goldsmith interviewed Duke CE Academic Director Robert Fulmer about strategic leadership development. Says Fulmer, “The best organizations ... tie human resources development activities directly to the business strategy and ask what business issue each developmental activity is designed to address.” The interview appears in the Managing section of BusinessWeek online. [BW]
Stars of India
Regional Managing Director Shailendra Mehta and Associate Director Bibek Banerjee comment on Indian ways of doing business in a Financial Times article on the global success of Indian managers [FT]
Practical Tools for Mid-Level Managers Duke CE's eight-book Leading from the Center series addresses key challenges faced by middle managers[more]
Is Education About People or About Outcomes?
A video/DVD featuring 14 Duke CE staff and clients is available to give people a sense of what it is like to engage us [more]
Joint
Venture with the London School of Economics
[more]
Collaboration with the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad [more]
Open
enrollment and MBA degree programs are offered by
the Fuqua School of Business [more]
How Ingersoll Rand Develops Leaders 
Social Networking
FT Ranks Duke CE #1
The Impact of Goals on Competency Development
Duke CE Helps Clients
Developing Strategic Leadership
