Reminder & Update: The SUNY/Stony
Brook MBA
Program exclusively for law firm managers is starting
the last week of April. I’m a faculty member,
teaching the core (a/k/a required) course, "Strategic
Technology
& Innovation," and we have an utterly distinguished Advisory
Board and a convenient midtown Manhattan location. (OK,
so it’s convenient to me, and to your firm if and only
if you have senior business-side people in New York.)
Here’s
what it’s about in a nutshell, from the program description:
"Stony Brook’s MBA, with its focus on law
firm managers, is the first program of its kind in the
United States. It takes a real-world approach including
the use of adjunct faculty members who have top reputations
for their work in or with law firms. The program features
classroom sessions that are informative, stimulating, and
embrace a number of learning techniques. Professors will
explain basic principles and guest lecturers will provide “from
the frontlines†perspectives and insights."
My take? It promises
to be an unprecedented, rigorous immersion into what senior "business
side" law firm leaders—Executive
Directors, COO’s, CFO’s, et al.—need to know to do
their jobs on a par with their counterparts in peer-group
organizations in corporate America.
If your firm
has a qualified candidate, it’s not too late to apply. Feel
free to contact the
Dean of the Graduate School of Business, William (Bill)
Turner, and tell him I sent you.
