Duke Corporate Education
What makes Duke Corporate Education different to other business schools?
As digitisation and automation continually disrupt traditional business, Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE) provides its clients access to the most innovative thought leaders in the world to tackle their most pressing challenges. Learning anytime and anywhere is still our philosophy. Part of Duke University, Duke CE is a blend of a business and university — but distinct from both. From the business world, we bring an outcomes-driven focus on client service and real-world insight. From our academic heritage, we bring intellectual rigour, incorporating the latest research in design innovation, neuroscience and other disciplines across leadership and business.
What will executive education students experience there that they won’t elsewhere?
We deliver customised, immersive experiences with a design methodology that stretches participants to achieve their best because the right level of discomfort empowers people to create positive change. Our newly launched Advisory Services enables us to develop the right leadership systems for clients seeking to survive and thrive in an increasingly dynamic and complex business context.
How would you describe your teaching methods?
Learning from experience resides at the core of Duke CE’s approach. Duke CE focuses its teaching methods on over 150 highly immersive, metaphoric, real-time experiences that range from replicating a medical emergency room, where participants sharpen their perceiving and sense-making skills, to country immersions that give leaders access to local companies at the forefront of innovation. Learning as a process is also a core philosophy at Duke CE. These teachings are embedded in the organisation through a system of micro-learning to drive long-term capability development with respect to real client challenges.
How much executive education is online and how much classroom-based?
We continually work on new digital products, like virtual reality and gamification, to strengthen our focus on leadership and human interaction to solve problems. At Duke CE we recently expanded our digital presence and launched an online finance programme. Moreover, this year’s Davos human capital symposium will showcase our digital efforts and focus on maximising human potential as well as trends disrupting leadership.
Does Duke have particular subject strengths/specialties?
Duke CE specialises in enabling individuals and organisations to reach their full potential through principles of design thinking and practices rooted in neuroscience. The rapidly changing digital world requires that we continually reinvent the educational landscape and respond with speed and agility to what is happening in the context of a market. Our educator network includes the most innovative thought-leaders specialising in cutting edge technology such as AI, machine learning, Internet of Things, and virtual reality. Duke CE challenges its clients to think beyond the now and cultivate leaders for what’s next.
What is your involvement in community development?
Duke’s "Fundamental DNA" plays in the ethos of building leaders for the future and Duke University’s mission is Knowledge in Service to Society. Within this larger frame, our purpose at Duke CE is to get leaders ready for what’s next. Duke CE has established women’s enterprise development programmes and women’s leadership programmes, as well as mentoring circles like "Multiply." Furthermore, we have sponsored programmes to connect Africa to the rest of the world, where we send future leaders overseas to study programmes in the USA.
Executive education background
- Full-time faculty: 0
- Part-time faculty: 161
- Employed in SA business: 144
- Involved in politics: 4
- International: 17
- Students attending open courses: 30
- South African: 30
- Students attending customised courses: 1,760
- South African: 1,700
- Black South African: 1,400
- Women: 1,000
Customised programmes in 2016: Middle Management Programme, Senior Management Programme, New Management Programme, Junior Management Programme, Business Management Programme, Future Leaders Development Programme, Management Development Programme, Senior Leaders Development Programme, Intermediate Leadership Programme, Foundation Leadership Programme, Accelerated Management Development Programme, Management Advancement Programme, Programme for Management Development, Advanced Leadership Programme, Emerging Leaders Programme, Women in Leadership, Senior Executive Programme.
Other customised courses in 2016: Leadership, project management, strategy, management, action learning, team-building, systems thinking, interpersonal skills/emotional intelligence,operations, finance, coaching/mentoring, public sector, customer service, personal development, supply chain management, networking, creativity/innovation, entrepreneurship, marketing, research, human resources, labour relations, public relations, banking, information management, B-BBEE, diversity management, HIV/Aids in the workplace
Other open courses in 2016: Leadership, networking, interpersonal skills/emotional intelligence.
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