The Tuck School of Business has developed an executive education program designed to reintegrate professionals into the fast-moving world of business, focusing on the leadership skills and knowledge required by world-class employers.

This program, offered in three modules in Hanover, New Hampshire and New York City, will update and refresh the management skills of business professionals who want to reenter the workforce and return to corporate careers. By delivering up-to-the minute knowledge and perspectives that top-tier employers demand, this program will help participants step forward with confidence and build a new career in line with their experience and aspirations.

In addition, participants will have the opportunity to tap into Tuck's well-known network to reach employers in a variety of industries and peers who share similar backgrounds and work-life challenges.

This intensive program—delivered by Tuck's renowned faculty—is intended for professionals with MBAs or MBA-equivalent experience who have worked in high-potential careers. The program will be particularly attractive to women who have left the business world and are now eager to reenter the formal workforce. Participants may be sponsored by partner corporations or may choose to make the individual commitment to participate.

PROGRAM GOALS

The Back In Business program will:

• Facilitate participants' return to the workplace in meaningful career opportunities
• Update and refresh participants' knowledge and skills, and develop the assurance to deal with key business concepts/tools that have emerged since participants left the workforce
• Provide a context in which participants have the opportunity to network with high-potential peers who share similar backgrounds, career aspirations, and work-life challenges
• Immerse participants in an intensive, high-impact learning setting with strong leadership, career development and self-assessment components

PROGRAM CONTENT

The program consists of three classroom modules to be held at the Tuck campus in Hanover, NH, and in New York City. Modules 1 and 3 will be held at Tuck; module 2 will take place in New York City. The overall program length will be 11 days. There will be approximately 55 class sessions. These would include classroom pedagogy, "fireside chats" on leading-edge topics of current managerial concern, and sessions oriented towards career planning and facilitating career reentry. In addition there will be a required capstone project.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Women and men who have obtained MBAs (or who have MBA-equivalent experience), and:

• Have work experience in a high-potential career
• Display a strong aspiration to return to the corporate workforce
• Are willing and able to make the time and learning commitments that the delivery of the program will entail in its entirety
• May be sponsored by partner corporations, or may choose to make the individual commitment to participate.

There will be a formal process for application, and admissions will be competitive. The application will be available on line at the beginning of April.

CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

Companies can engage with Tuck in three ways: by providing financial support, by helping to identify participants, and by supporting career components of the program.

Financial Support: provide scholarships to contribute toward the cost of attendance, fund costs of initial program design, offer (and fund) internships to employ participants for short-term assignments, and provide other underwriting or in-kind contributions (media underwriting).

Participant Identification: help identify desirable candidates for the program and publicize the program via corporate alumni network, company newsletters, websites, or other media.

Career Support: A key to the success of this program will be companies' commitment to recruiting graduates. We expect that our corporate partners will be actively involved in the career stream of the curriculum, and interact with participants throughout the program. It will also require companies to define and develop appropriate positions.

For information about becoming a corporate partner, please contact Tuck Executive Education at the email address listed above.

PROGRAM FACULTY

Faculty Directors

Constance Helfat is J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy at Tuck. Her research focuses on firm capabilities and knowledge, involving technological innovation and adaptation and change of firm capabilities over time. She has also conducted research on corporate executives, including women executives, and boards of directors. Her research is published widely in academic journals. She is co-author of the forthcoming book Dynamic Capabilities: Understanding Strategic Change in Organizations (Blackwell), and two previous books. Professor Helfat serves on the editorial board of of five management journals, and is associate editor of Management Science.

Anant Sundaram, Faculty Director of Executive Education and a member of the finance faculty at Tuck, specializes in global finance. His research, teaching, and consulting focus on linking value creation to global strategy implementation. He has published dozens of articles and cases in finance, law, and corporate strategy in leading journals, and is coauthor of The International Business Environment. He is a highly acclaimed teacher, and has won numerous teaching awards. He has led courses for senior executives and consulted for many well-known global firms and business schools worldwide. His specific areas of expertise include business valuation, corporate governance, and mergers & acquisitions.