As a senior functional manager ready to take that next step in your career, you need access to the latest thinking and tools to competitively position yourself and your business. You also need to focus on daily operations. How do you gain the critical insight you will need as a general manager without taking too much time away from work? The University of Chicago Booth School of Business offers a powerful solution: the Accelerated Development Program (ADP).

ADP presents highlights of our best programmes in a modular format that minimizes disruptions to daily life and career— and maximizes opportunities to gain a competitive advantage for your company, and for yourself.

The format is convenient. The content is compelling: You will learn general management essentials taught by world-renowned faculty from one of the most prestigious and highly acclaimed business schools.

Participants also learn from each other. From the first session, you will have the opportunity to apply new concepts to your company’s challenges and then confer with the professors and your peers about the results at later sessions. ADP provides a forum to share business problems and craft solutions; to learn the necessary skills to address whatever issue may arise.

Module Dates and Fee

£14,950
5-7 October 2011
23-25 November 2011
12-14 December 2011
11-13 January 2012
9-10 February 2012

£14,950
6-8 February 2012
12-14 March 2012
23-25 April 2012
14-16 May 2012
20-22 June 2012

This program is designed for executives who are responsible for key organizational activities but need to develop a wider general management perspective outside their traditional area of responsibility and expertise. The Accelerated Development Program is designed to provide maximum exposure to key business concepts and strategies in an intensive format.

The Accelerated Development Program admissions committee highly recommends that all applicants be sponsored by their employing organization. The sponsor should have a familiarity with the applicant's background and motivations for attending ADP. Typical sponsors include the person to whom the applicant reports, the company's chief human resources officer, or head of management and development. Candidates should have at least 10 years of business experience with a significant portion of that experience in a managerial or leadership capacity.

Jeff Anderson joined the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in January 2007. In this role, he has responsibility for the Leadership Effectiveness and Development (LEAD) program as well as other leadership development activities for full-time MBA students.

Phil Berger is the Wallace W. Booth Professor of Accounting at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He previously served on the faculty of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1991-2002) and also served as a visiting associate professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management (1998-99).

Ronald Burt is the Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In addition to teaching courses in Chicago Booth MBA programs, Professor Burt teaches Strategic Leadership, a capstone course in Chicago’s Executive Education programs.

Richard Leftwich teaches MBA courses and executive MBA courses in financial statement analysis and financial management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 1994, he received the prestigious McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Ann McGill joined the Chicago faculty in 1997. She teaches MBA level classes in marketing management and a doctoral level marketing workshop. Professor McGill is the 2005 recipient of the prestigious McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her research focuses on consumer decision making, in particular, causal explanations, evaluation of shared (versus individual) consumption experiences, effects of freedom of choice on the evaluation of alternatives, the use of imagery in product choice, and the causes and effects of product anthropomorphism.

Douglas Skinner is a leading expert in corporate disclosure practices, corporate financial reporting, and corporate finance, with a focus on payout policy. His research addresses topics such as (1) the causes and capital market effects of managers' corporate disclosure choices (especially forward-looking information such as earnings forecasts, earnings pre-announcements, and guidance, corporate conference calls, etc.); (2) how the legal and regulatory environment affects managers’ corporate disclosure practices; (3) managers' incentives to use their discretion in the financial accounting and reporting process to manage reported earnings ("earnings management"); (4) how stock prices respond to earning releases, especially for high growth companies ("earnings torpedoes"); and (5) the determinants of firms' payout policies, including whether and how much firms should pay out, the form of payout (dividends versus stock repurchases), etc.

Chad Syverson teaches MBA courses in Competitive Strategy and Industrial Organization at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Before joining the Chicago Booth faculty, Professor Syverson was on the faculty of the University of Chicago Department of Economics. His research spans several topics, with a particular focus on the interactions of firm structure, market structure, and productivity. His work has been published in several top journals and has earned several National Science Foundation Awards, Olin Foundation Grants, and a Brookings Dissertation Fellowship.