Webinars

The Graduate Business Curriculum Roundtable organizes virtual educational presentations related to graduate business curricular and co-curricular topics.


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Innovator Award Winners Webinar featuring
University of Iowa Tippie College of Business



Wednesday, April 24, 2024

1:00 p.m. EST/10:00 a.m. PAC
  

Join us to learn about the amazing innovations from our 2023 Innovator Award Finalists and Winners.  This webinar will feature the University of Iowa – Ready, Set, Lead, How the Iowa MBA prepares students to be Executive Ready.  

While preparing students to be the leaders of tomorrow is not unique for MBA programs, the Iowa MBA’s Executive Ready approach is. Here’s how:  The Iowa MBA now includes multiple robust capstone options that expand applied learning and communication skills are integrated throughout the capstones and poised to be added throughout the curriculum. Their capstone courses develop Executive Ready skills such as big picture thinking, strategy, decision making, thinking forward, negotiation, team management, change management, and communication regardless of which capstone option a student selects. The Executive Ready framework is two-fold: throughout the capstone courses, students are guided and supported to develop strategic recommendations that can be presented to an executive audience; the experience also arms students with skills needed to become the executives.

 

Presenter: Jennifer V. Blackhurst, Associate Dean
Tippie Graduate and Professional Programs,  University of Iowa
Professor of Business Analytics


In 2018, Jennifer Blackhurst was an early adopter of developing online courses working in collaboration with University of Iowa’s Distance and Online Education to develop one of nine core courses in the MBA program, Operations and Supply Chain.  In July 2020, Jennifer assumed the role of Associate Dean for Tippie Graduate and Professional Programs. In this role she oversees the graduate management program portfolio consisting of both full-time on-campus master’s degree programs and part-time off-campus MBA and Business Analytics programs along with a variety of certificates, and an MBA/MSBA dual degree program.


Presenter: Jill Tomkins, Assistant Dean, Tippie Graduate and Professional Programs, University of Iowa 
Jill Tomkins has been with the Tippie College of Business since 2012, where she has been instrumental in our growth and expansion of graduate and professional programming and manages a team focused on course planning, curricular changes, academic policies, registrar functions, advising and student experience. Prior to working in higher education, Jill was a Fulbright scholar in Malaysia and worked with a number of refugee agencies, including the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, throughout Africa and the Middle East. 




Moderator: Stephen Taylor, Managing Director, BusinessCAS, Liaison International











 



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