MBSC Advanced Management Program (AMP)

MBSC Advanced Management Program (AMP)
Seize the moment...Deliver the Future

DATES: Block 1: Sep 4th - 6th, 2022 Block 2: Sept 18th - 20th, 2022 Block 3: Oct 2nd - 4th, 2022

DURATION: 9 Full Days
*Divided into three modules
of three days each.

COURSE FEES DELIVERY: In-Person

COURSE FEES WHERE: Block 1: Riyadh City
Block 2: Riyadh City
Block 3: MBSC Campus - Located at King Abdullah Economic City

COURSE FEES: 35.000 SAR
*Tax not included.
*The program fee Includes tuition, course materials, and access to Alumni Membership benefits.

STARTS Date KAEC ACCOMMODATION: Special rate for 3 nights including (breakfast & lunch) at a 5-start hotel located at King Abdullah Economic City for 2,250 SAR.
*Accommodation is not included in the program tuition.

As part of our prestigious GMP series, MBSC’s Advanced Management Program (AMP) is a world-class flagship course. It is exclusively designed to provide you with the skills, tools, and knowledge to guide you and your organization confidently & effectively through the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of the extremely competitive business environment.

Confident and effective managers rely, among other things, on:

a carefully molded and widely espoused organizational purpose;
a relentless attention to service excellence which is coupled with full appreciation, respect, and collaborative trust to the employees, suppliers, and partners in the product/market & technology ecosystem;
an agile organizational mindset characterized by curiosity and innovation, and
the operational foresight to navigate steadily in constant change through learning and continuous improvement to deliver VALUE.

With an emphasis on large and mid-sized companies, this unique 9-day non-consecutive course will allow you to challenge your assumptions, introduce you to uncharted areas and help you achieve a forward-looking, forward-thinking one-team, and results-oriented approach in your organization. Above all, it will allow you to become a fully confident & effective manager.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

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Participant profile

General Managers in any industry seek continuous improvement to address change in the local and international business environment.
Entry-level General Managers and executives who are currently;
- Business-unit Leaders
- Functional Heads
- Managers
- Future Decision-makers who need to develop a holistic and broader perspective on company operations.
Talented individuals identified by their firm with the potential to become business-unit, divisional, or regional leaders within their respective firm and industry.

IMPACT & KEY BENEFITS

Our focus is the same as yours: growth and an immediate and long-lasting return on investment. At MBSC’s Advanced Management Program, you can expect the following:

Complete the Program In 9-days

Complete an intensive, practical, hands-on interactive program in 9 days online

Earn a Prestigious
Certification

Receive a Certificate in Business Excellence on Advanced Management Program from Prince Mohammed bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship

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Note: After successful completion of the program. Your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program.

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Learn From world-renowned Faculty Experts

Learn from accomplished Professors who are respected worldwide, are based in Saudi Arabia and come from diverse international backgrounds

Be a Member of MBSC Executive Education Network

Enjoy the immense learning and networking benefits by becoming a part of the MBSC’s network of professionals

COACHING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

“The Focused Management & Leadership Support”

Throughout your Advanced Management Program (AMP), you will be supported by our dedicated consultant. This online service is designed for managers wishing to accelerate their careers by defining, planning, and reaching their full potential. This service is fully integrated into the program and has your personal development at its core.

In the one-to-one meeting with our consultant, you will…

Re-imagine your career goals

Reflect on the areas you need to improve

Track your progress throughout the program & beyond

*Further details will be shared via email after registration.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Participants will learn how to...

How to re-ignite curiosity and innovation.
How to earn the full potential of your employees.
How to leverage emerging technologies.
How to create financial prowess & assess investments.
How to use modern financial instruments to enhance your company’s “green” profile.
How to gain the hearts & minds of your customers.
How to make better decisions.

After attending the program, the participants will be able to:

Adopt effective business problem modelling, interpretation, and data-driven decision-making.
Apply customer orientation outlook that drives sustainable competitive advantage.
Acquire operational confidence in a fully connected world.
Use strategic scenario planning that balances market-driven and market-driving approaches.

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Your Learning Journey

THE PROGRAM CURRICULUM IS BUILT AROUND 3 COMPREHENSIVE BLOCKS THAT CONSIST OF 36 SESSIONS

For more information about the program syllabus
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The Advanced Management Program (AMP) Framework.

You will learn through a holistic framework, from leading with passion, innovation, and transformation to leading with an entrepreneurial mindset. Practicing strategic thinking with decision making, operation design, control, and improvement, and using advanced financial instruments to make better decisions in uncertainty.

In between, you will get a chance to benefit from 2 coaching sessions with MBSC’s coach and take the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) test for your ongoing professional development.

THE IN-PERSON
LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Participants will take advantage of

Distinctive Pedagogy

A program curricula that include simulations, localized & international case discussions, the world's top companies cases, negotiations, interactive lectures, and coaching led by our world-class faculty.

Group Experience & Discussions

Get involved in the transformational experience in our classrooms infused with a synergistic environment with participants from different experiences, backgrounds, and viewpoints.
Experience the distinctive MBSC culture that is collaborative, creative, and focused on supporting individuals and organizations to succeed.

Network With Professionals

Bonding with members and world-class faculty in the program will enrich and create a long-lasting knowledge experience after the program.
Continue the conversation with the faculty and your fellow leaders on different social media platforms after the program.

Meet the Faculty

Nikolaos Tzokas, Ph.D.

Program Director, Vice Dean of Faculty & Research, Professor of Marketing

Function and Specialization

Marketing Management

Background

Dr. Nikolaos Tzokas earned his Ph.D. in Marketing Management from the University of Bath, UK, and an MBA from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. His academic career began as Research Fellow at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and continued at the University of Strathclyde as a Marie Skłodowska Curie Senior Research Fellow.

In 2000 he joined the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, as a Full Professor of Marketing. For the next 14 years, he held numerous leadership roles, including Director of Research, Dean of the Business School, Associate Dean for Research, Enterprise, and Engagement in the Social Sciences Faculty. From 2014 to 2018, he led the Faculty of Business at the University of Plymouth as their Executive Dean. In 2019 he joined MBSC as Professor of Marketing, leading the Case Center at MBSC.

His research, consultancy, and executive training focuses on value co-creation through new product development, relationship marketing, and knowledge management. Within these areas, he has successfully supervised several Ph.D. students, who are currently holding significant positions in essential institutions in the UK and elsewhere.

For his research, he received over £5m external funding from sources such as the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the European Union’s Interreg, Marie Skłodowska Curie Horizon 2020 programs. His research has been published widely in international journals such as the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, and Industrial Marketing Management.

Dr. Tzokas has served on several Boards and held positions of responsibility such as elected Council member of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS), UK; Chair of the International Committee of the Chartered Association of Business Schools; and Chair of the Special Interest Group on Relationship Marketing of the UK’s Marketing Academy, as well as an international ambassador of the UK’s Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE), among other.

Zeger Degraeve, Ph.D.

Executive Dean

Function and Specialization

Professor of Management Science
Decision-making, risk, operations research

Background

Dr. Zeger Degraeve is the Dean of Prince Mohammad bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship. With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Degraeve is an expert in decision-making, risk, operations research and managing project portfolios. An award-winning teacher, he has contributed to executive development programs in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Russia, and North America for leading businesses.

Dr. Degraeve Started his academic journey as a Professor of Management Science at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, his home country, before joining London Business School in 1999.

After studying at the Universities of Ghent and Leuven in Belgium, Dr. Degraeve gained his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, now Booth School of Business, in 1992.

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He was the Associate Dean of the Executive MBA and Executive MBA-Global Programs. March 2002 until August 2005
Served as London Business School’s Deputy Dean Programs and a member of the School's Management Committee and Board of Governors. August 2005 until August 2007
Became Dean of Melbourne Business School in November 2011, as well as Co-Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics of The University of Melbourne
Established an alliance between Melbourne Business School and The University of Melbourne in May 2013.
Provided consultancy support across a range of issues including: operations management, logistics and supply chain management, environmental planning and purchasing strategy.
Consultancy clients include the European Commission, Andersen Business Consulting, National Economic Research Associates (NERA) and McKinsey and Co.
With his extensive executive education expertise, Dr. Degraeve has been sought after to contribute to executive development programs in numerous leading international businesses, including: HSBC, Cadbury Schweppes, Novartis, Rio Tinto, E.on, Carlsberg, Merck Serono, SABIC, BP, Shell, Hess Oil, Premier Oil, Zain/Celtel, Orascom, Dubai Holdings, Majid Al Futtaim, and IBM.
Dr. Degraeve’s research has won several awards, including: Association of the European Operational Research Societies’ (EURO) Prize for Best Applied Paper and the Chairman's Award for the Best Applied Contributed Paper by INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences).
He has published over 50 articles on decision making, optimization, scenario analysis and risk assessment for leading journals, including: Management Science, Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, Interfaces and Harvard Business Review. He is also a regular speaker at international conferences.

Muhammad Azam Roomi, Ph.D.

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Function and Specialization

Entrepreneurship Leadership
Growth of Entrepreneurial Ventures
Leading Family Businesses
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Islamic Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship for Youth and Women
New Venture Creation, Business Idea Generation, and Opportunity Recognition
Creativity and Innovation for Entrepreneurial Ventures

Background

Dr. Muhammad Azam Roomi is a passionate entrepreneurship ‘activator’ and has successfully conceptualized, designed, and conducted executive and continuing programs in more than fifty countries worldwide. He served as the Director of the Executive MBA program and MSc Management and Entrepreneurship program at the Cranfield School of Management, UK. He also held a principal lectureship at the University of Bedfordshire, where he played a major role in developing the business school’s graduate program portfolio. He was also instrumental in setting up the research agenda for the Centre for Women’s Enterprise, with a focus on the growth and development of women-owned enterprises in the UK and other Asian and Islamic countries.

His teaching and research focus on entrepreneurial leadership, growth of entrepreneurial ventures, women’s entrepreneurship development especially in the context of Muslim countries, family business management, and Islamic entrepreneurship.

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Acted as a consultant to national governments including the UK, Qatar, Oman, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Honduras; multi-lateral agencies such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Union Higher Education Social Fund, ILO, and UN-APCTT; and numerous private organizations worldwide.
Served as the Chair of Marsh Farm Community Development Trust, UK (2009-2015) and the Vice-Chair of the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, UK (2008-2010).
A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts-UK, Higher Education Academy - UK (HEA), National Council for Entrepreneurship Education - UK (NCEE), Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD), and European Entrepreneurship Educators Program (3ep). His innovative teaching and capacity building pedagogies have been recognized, acknowledged and appreciated globally.
Works with charities and corporates on how to encourage and implement entrepreneurship.
He has been an invited member of the judging panel for UK Corporate Entrepreneurship Awards, the Asian Entrepreneur Awards, and The Case Centre’s case method competitions.
His work has been published in the Journals such as; Small Business Management, International Small Business Journal, Technovation, and Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, among others.
Published several cases and teaching notes.
He has been a workshop tutor for The Case Centre, with experience of delivering case teaching and writing workshops to private, public sector, academic and corporate clients from around the globe.

Awards & Honors

Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference, Highly Commended Paper Award-2016
Cranfield School of Management ‘Researcher of the Year’ Faculty Award-2016
International Council for Small Business World Conference Best Paper Award-2015
ICSB/GIWE/IJGE/CWEL Best Paper Award on Women’s Entrepreneurship-2013
Emerald Literati Network Outstanding Reviewer Award-2013
Vice-Chancellor Student Experience Award (Highly Commended)-2013
NCEE European Entrepreneurship Educators Fellowship Award-2012

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Joel Evans, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Management

Function and Specialization

Organizational leadership
Negotiations
Team leadership
Ethics and social responsibility

Background

Dr. Joel M. Evans carries a Ph.D. in management from the University of Arizona, an MS in management from Penn State University. His research focuses on topics such as organizational fairness, knowledge transfer, and team performance, and has been published in Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior, and Human Decision Processes, and the Academy of Management Learning and Education, in addition to the Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management. Joel also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Business and Psychology.

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Worked for six years at SKK Graduate School of Business in Seoul, Korea, teaching organizational leadership, negotiations, team leadership, and ethics and social responsibility at the MBA level
Provided corporate training for some of Korea’s largest corporations, including Samsung, LG, and Doosan, assisting them in developing their corporate practices to promote greater creativity and entrepreneurial thinking in areas such as global leadership, innovation, and managerial communications
Lectured for two years at the College of Business (CoB) at Alfaisal University in Riyadh, KSA, in which he taught negotiations and business statistics
He has been privileged to be a Visiting Fellow at MIT and a visiting scholar at Babson College.

Passionate about MBSC’s culture of entrepreneurship, and the promise that entrepreneurship holds for Saudi Arabia.

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Konrad Grabiszewski, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Economics

Function and Specialization

Economics and Strategy

Farzad R. Khan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Management

Function and Specialization

Change Management
General Management
Leadership
Organizational Behavior
Strategy

Background

Dr. Farzad R. Khan has taught for 20 years at leading universities in Canada, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. He is presently an Associate Professor in Management at the Prince Mohammad bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship (MBSC).

Dr. Khan graduated with a Ph.D. in Strategy and Organization from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) in 2005. His Ph.D. dissertation was co-supervised by Professor Henry Mintzberg considered the top ten management thinkers alive by the Financial Times of London. While at McGill University, Dr. Khan received the “Teacher of the Year Award” from its Management Undergraduate Society. Dr. Khan also has a Masters in Economics of Developing Countries from the University of Cambridge (UK) and a Bachelor with Great Distinction from McGill University in Accounting and Finance.

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Involved in consulting assignments as well as in executive development programs.
Educated and coached executives in leadership-related skills from leading Saudi and international organizations such as;
- Cisco Systems, Costa Coffee, Huawei, Nestle, Proctor and Gamble, SABIC, Saudi Arabian Railways, Saudi Aramco
A guest speaker on many prestigious forums:
- Hanken School of Economics (Finland), Harvard Medical School’s Leadership in Healthcare Management Executive Program, the EMBA Program at Hult International Business School, and the National Institutes of Health Bio-Ethics Program for Aga Khan University.
Published various research papers in:
- Leading academic business/management journals: Human Relations, Organization, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Change Management.

Georgios Daskalakis Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Finance

Function and Specialization

Corporate Finance
Investment Management
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Electricity Markets and Energy Policy
Carbon Markets and Environmental Policy
Finance Interfaces
Finance Education

Yasser Bhatti Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation

Function and Specialization

Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Background

Dr. Yasser Bhatti is a scholar of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship with a focus on the study of emerging models of innovation and strategies which promote inclusive and sustainable growth. He merges an understanding of innovation concepts, mainly frugal, social and reverse innovations with strategy concepts, mainly cost leadership, business models, and scenario planning. He draws on institutional theory and resource-based view to understand the role that organizations play in the market and in society. For impact of scholarly work, he also works at the intersection of management and health, relying on mixed methods research.

He contributes to and speaks regularly at international forums on innovation. For instance, he provided expert feedback to Pakistan’s new Social Protection Ministry (called Ehsaas); he was invited for knowledge sharing by the Danish Ministry of Science and Technology; offered expert advice to the UK's Innovation think tank NESTA; and served on the scientific advisory board of the European Commission Project on Frugal Innovation. He was also invited to Google Headquarters in New York City to present to Chief Innovation Officers of healthcare organisations on how to scale frugal innovations. His book ‘Frugal Innovation: Models, Means, Methods’, published by Cambridge University Press, was nominated for best book award at the Academy of Management annual meeting 2020. The book sheds light on how entrepreneurs and firms can pursue competitive strategies by innovating for humanity to improve lives for everyone, everywhere.

Yasser completed his PhD in Innovation and MSc in Entrepreneurship from University of Oxford's Said Business School. His MSc thesis at Oxford received best dissertation prize. He also has an MSc degree in Computer Science and PG certificate in Management of Technology both from Georgia-Tech with distinction and BSc in Mechanical Engineering with special distinction from the University of Oklahoma. Following five years of practice in the manufacturing industry (Met-Pro Corporation and IBM) and in the multilateral development sector at the United Nations, he pursued a renewed passion for teaching and research in academia to bridge the gap between the academic community and business world. He worked at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, Imperial College London, and Queen Mary University of London. At QMUL he served as Director of the MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Director of Admissions and Recruitment.

He grew up in Jeddah in the 1980s to early 1990s, moved to the United States for his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in the late 1990s, and then to the United Kingdom for his PhD degree in the late 2000s. Going full circle, he is delighted to return to Saudi Arabia after almost three decades and looks forward to making a positive contribution to MBSC and the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.

Paul Frijters

Professor of Wellbeing Economics

Background

University education (Undergraduate and Masters equivalent) 1988-1994 Econometrics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Econometrics at the University of Groningen.
The Masters project consisted of a stay of 7-month in Durban, South Africa, where he gathered and analysed micro-data on interrelationships between education, discrimination and productivity in the clothing industry in the Durban Area. It led to two articles. One applied search theory to develop an empirical model of the hiring and firing policies of the analysed firm and looked at statistical discrimination issues
The second translated and refined sociological ideas about discrimination into a game-theoretic model.

Ph.D. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A study on welfare and well-being in Russia. This thesis applies and extends psychological insights about the causes, definition, and measurement of well-being into economics. As such, it led to publications in both economic and psychological outlets. The Ph.D. was written under supervision of and in co-operation with Prof. B.M.S. Van Praag at the Economics faculty, University of Amsterdam. The defense was on April 14th 1999.

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Prince Mohammed Bin Salman College, September 2021-now

Professor of Wellbeing Economics. Mainly responsible for developing academic research, and for the economics and wellbeing parts of the curriculum.

London School of Economics, December 2016-now

Professor of Wellbeing Economics. Co-director of the wellbeing group from 2016 to Nov 2019 at the Centre for Economic Performance, thereafter emeritus visiting professor at the Department of Social Policy.

University of Queensland: March 2010 – 2016

Professor of Health Economics. Official duties include teaching, supervision and research.

Queensland University of Technology: January 2006 –March 2010

Professor Economics. Official duties include teaching, supervision and research.

Australian National University: January 2003 – 2006

Post-doc, then Adjunct professor of the Research School of Economics.

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Free University Amsterdam: September 1998-December 2002

Post-doctoral research fellow at the labour econometrics research group of the Vrije Universiteit headed by Professor Gerard van der Berg. Official duties included research, limited teaching, and some supervision. This period included a 12-month secondment at the University of Melbourne from September 2001 to September 2002, where he engaged in teaching and research

Leadership Highlights:

Research Director of the Rumici Project 2008-2015: rural to urban migration in China and Indonesia, a project sponsored by the Australian ministry of foreign aid (AusAid), the Australian Research Council (ARC), the ministries of labour in China and Indonesia, the Australian National University, the Ford Foundation, the World Bank, and the German Institute of Labour (the IZA). This required organizing dozens of scholars around the world, including large grants.
Co-director of the Wellbeing group at CEP-LSE from 2016 till the end of 2019. This required setting up a new master’s wellbeing course, interacting with over 10 government Departments to jointly develop new wellbeing frameworks, organizing conferences and workshops, and co-leading the UK/World efforts into bringing more wellbeing into policy making. This culminated in a 2019 Handbook of Wellbeing Policy and we were directly involved in re-writing the Treasury Green Book to include wellbeing as a valid goal of policy.

Awards & Honors

Best economist under 40 in Australia for the 2009-2011 period, as voted on by th members of the Economic Society of Australia.
Top 1% cited economists in RePec.
Top 1% economists in Europe in RePec.

Kimberly Deatherage-Mominah, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

Function and Specialization

Influence of culture on behavior
Inclusion, diversity, & engagement
Personal Development

Program Overview

*Source: MBSC GMP Promo, 2020.

Participants Experience

*Source: MBSC GMP Testimonials, 2020/21.

Participants Profile

Industry

Position Levels

Years of Experience

*Source: MBSC Executive Education GMP Analysis, 2020/21.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Reserve Your Seat

Participant profile

IMPACT & KEY BENEFITS

COACHING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

“The Focused Management & Leadership Support”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Your Learning Journey

THE PROGRAM CURRICULUM IS BUILT AROUND 3 COMPREHENSIVE BLOCKS THAT CONSIST OF 36 SESSIONS

The Advanced Management Program (AMP) Framework.

THE IN-PERSON LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Participants will take advantage of

Meet the Faculty

Nikolaos Tzokas, Ph.D.

Function and Specialization

Background

Zeger Degraeve, Ph.D.

Function and Specialization

Background

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Muhammad Azam Roomi, Ph.D.

Function and Specialization

Background

Select Professional Experience

Awards & Honors

Joel Evans, Ph.D.

Function and Specialization

Background

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Konrad Grabiszewski, Ph.D.

Function and Specialization

Background

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Farzad R. Khan, Ph.D.

Function and Specialization

Background

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Georgios Daskalakis Ph.D.

Function and Specialization

Background

Yasser Bhatti Ph.D.

Function and Specialization

Background

Paul Frijters

Background

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Leadership Highlights:

Awards & Honors

Kimberly Deatherage-Mominah, Ph.D.

Function and Specialization

Background

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Program Overview

Participants Experience

Participants Profile

Industry

Position Levels

Years of Experience

THE IN-PERSON
LEARNING EXPERIENCE