The Graziadio School of Business and Management’s staff and faculty are dedicated to creating a learning experience designed specifically for your organization’s needs. Whether you are seeking to strengthen skills in leadership, management, finance, ethics, marketing, information technology, strategy, or an interdisciplinary program, we offer a depth of expertise in areas essential to yoru company’s success.

Our programs can be hosted at one of Pepperdine's six convenient graduate campuses or at the Villa Graziadio Executive Center located at Pepperdine's Drescher Graduate Campus in Malibu. Programs can also be hosted at a conference center of your choice or your own corporate headquarters – whatever works best for your organization. Programs range in length from a few days to a few weeks.... [-]

Executive Space Course

The Executive Space Course, taught in English, provides an overview of space and of space-related subjects for professionals of diverse backgrounds, including marketing, finance, law, and contracts management. Providing them with a better understanding of space technology and business, professionals leave with the knowledge and skills that will enable them to communicate more effectively with their technical colleagues. The course also provides its participants with exposure to a unique interdisciplinary, international and intercultural learning environment.

Faculty

The ISU faculty constitutes an international group of space experts joined by visiting lecturers from industry, space, academic and research organizations. The Faculty is specialized in integrating the technical and non-technical aspects of the space field, into clear, complete interdisciplinary programs for students with a range of professional and educational backgrounds.... [-]

Program Overview

The University of Washington is well positioned to offer a program such as this due to our Business and Economic Development Center (BEDC). For ten years, the BEDC has linked students, faculty, and staff from the UW Business School with a racially and ethnically diverse business and nonprofit community to expand students' knowledge and skills, help small businesses grow, create and retain jobs, open educational opportunities for under-represented minority students, and stimulate innovative economic development research.

Executive Education and BEDC have created a strategic partnership with the Northwest Minority Business Council (NMBC) to launch the MBEP program which has been designed to increase the competitiveness of Minority Business Enterprises.... [-]