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The Kellogg School of Management (The
Kellogg School or Kellogg) is the business school
of Northwestern University located
in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time,
part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs
with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel, Germany, Canada,
and Thailand, granting the M.B.A and Ph.D.
Founded in 1908 in downtown Chicago as a part-time evening
program, the school was chartered to educate business leaders with
"good moral character."[3] Kellogg
pioneered the use of group projects and evaluations and popularized
the importance of "teamwork" and "team leadership" within the
business world.
Kellogg has historically been ranked as one of the top business
institutions in the world by BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World
Report, The
Economist Intelligence Unit, and other business news outlets.
Alumni from the Kellogg school hold leadership positions in
for-profit, nonprofit, governmental, and academic institutions
around the world.
History
The Jacobs Center on the Evanston campus.
The school, originally founded in 1908 as Northwestern
University's School of Commerce, a part-time evening program, was
one of 16 founding members of the American Assembly of Collegiate
Schools of Business, the organization that sets accreditation
standards for business schools. As one of the organization's
original members, the school later played a major role in helping
to establish the Graduate Management Admission Test. In addition,
faculty associated with the school have made contributions to
fields such as marketing and decisions sciences. For instance,
Walter Dill Scott, a pioneer in applied psychology, helped
establish some of the earliest advertising and marketing courses in
the first decade of the twentieth century. He went on to serve as
president of Northwestern University from 1920-1939. More recently,
Philip Kotler and Sidney J. Levy's groundbreaking 1969 Journal of
Marketing article, "Broadening the Conception of Marketing," laid
the foundations for a greatly expanded understanding of marketing.
Similarly, Kotler's Marketing Management text has played a key role
in deepening the field's scholarship.
In 1951, Kellogg began offering executive education courses. The
Institute for Management, a four-week summer program based in
Evanston, expanded the following year to two sections. The
program's success eventually led to it being expanded in Europe in
1965 with a similar program offered in Bürgenstock, Switzerland. In
1976, the school expanded its executive education offerings in
Evanston, introducing a degree-granting program known as the
Executive Management Program (EMP, today known as the Executive MBA
Program). A watershed event in the school's history was the opening
of the James L. Allen Center, home of the Kellogg executive
education programs. The vision of legendary dean Donald P. Jacobs
(deanship 1975-2001; on faculty in Finance Department since 1957),
the Allen Center enlisted the help of significant business figures
in the Chicago-area, most notably James L. Allen, a Kellogg alumnus and
cofounder of consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton. The Allen
Center's cornerstone was laid in 1978 while the facility officially
opened Oct. 31, 1979.
In 1956, the school was renamed as the School of Business;
little more than a decade later, in 1969, the school once again
changed its name, this time to the Graduate School of Management, a
designation that reflected the demand among the business community
for sophisticated managers trained in both analytical and
behavioral skills. In addition, this training was oriented toward
general management, rather than narrowly functional skills, as had
largely been the case in many business schools for much of the 20th
century. The training was designed to provide management skills
suitable for leadership roles whether in the corporate, public, or
nonprofit sectors - rather than careers focused solely on
traditional business. To reflect this change, the school in 1969
stopped issuing the MBA credential in favor of the MM, or master of
management degree. A point of differentiation for nearly three
decades, the school more recently returned to the traditional
MBA.
These dramatic changes were predicated upon a key change under
Dean John Barr (1965-1975): In 1966, Northwestern elected to
discontinue its highly respected undergraduate program (the
School of Business) so as to focus its energies solely on
graduate education. In so doing, the school decided to pursue a
research-based faculty, quickly attracting a number of world-class
quantitative experts, many in the field of game theory, to build
the school's renowned Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
Department, founded in 1967 and initially led by Professor Stanley
Reiter.
In 1979, in honor of a $10 million gift made to the school on
behalf of John L. Kellogg, the school was renamed as the J.L.
Kellogg Graduate School of Management. The funds allowed the
school to significantly expand its research and teaching mission by
establishing three endowed professorships; two major centers of
interdisciplinary research; four research professorships; and a
large student rooming facility designed as a living-learning
center. Even prior to the Kellogg gift, the school had been
bolstering its research-based faculty: In 1978 alone the school
added six additional "named" professorships and two new research
professorships. In 2001, in an effort to solidify the school's
brand, the name was shortened to the Kellogg School of
Management." The story on the Kellogg Centennial site [1]highlights the
Kellogg School’s journey over the last 100 years.
In Sept of 2009, Kellogg announced that Dipak C. Jain would step
down as dean after eight years of leadership and return to
teaching[2]. At the same
time Sunil Chopra, former Curriculum and Teaching Senior Associate
Dean and IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management,
assumed as interim dean while the Dean Search Committee finds the
best candidate to lead the school. Later in 2009, Northwestern
University announced plans to construct a new building at the
northeast corner of its Evanston campus to serve as Kellogg's new
home. The new facility will be located adjacent to Lake Michigan
and will include classrooms, faculty offices, collaborative
learning spaces and administrative offices. As of the announcement
date, the timing for completion of the new facility had not yet
been determined.[3]
Campuses
The Kellogg School's Full-Time and Executive MBA facilities are
situated along the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston,
Illinois on Chicago's North Shore, while the
school's Part-Time MBA program is housed on Northwestern's Downtown
Chicago campus in Wieboldt Hall. Full-time and Executive students
of the Kellogg School enjoy access to a private beach, extensive
sports and aquatic facilities, bike paths, playing fields and a sailing and windsurfing center. The
downtown campus is in the heart of Chicago, only a few blocks away
from either Lake Michigan or Michigan Avenue, and conveniently
located near the many Loop office buildings where its students
work. In January 2006, Kellogg opened a new campus for its EMBA
program for Latin American executives in Miami. Kellogg-Miami EMBA Program
Executives fly in from all over Latin America and the United States
for weekend courses. Regardless of location, the Kellogg School
EMBA programs deliver the same exemplary content and traditional
leadership and teamwork approach that had kept Kellogg consistently
in the No. 1 position within EMBA rankings.
On November 11, 2009, Northwestern University announced plans to
construct a new building to house the Kellogg Full-Time program.
The new facility will be located on the northeast corner of the
school's Evanston campus and the timing of its construction will
depend upon fundraising efforts.
Academics
Programs
Kellogg offers Full-Time MBA, Executive
MBA, MMM (MBA + MEM),
JD-MBA, and Part-Time MBA,
programs, as well as non-degree Executive
Education programs.
The standard Evening MBA offers degrees across
19 different areas of focus including (Accounting Information and
Management, Analytical Consulting, Analytical Finance, Decision
Sciences, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Finance, Health
Enterprise Management, Human Resources Management, International
Business, Management and Organizations, Management and Strategy,
Managerial Economics, Marketing, Marketing Management, Media
Management, Operations Management, Real Estate Management, Social
Enterprise at Kellogg, Technology Industry Management. In addition,
the evening MBA offers experiential learning opportunities
maximizing direct experiences. Part-Time classes are held in
downtown Chicago at 340 E. Superior Street. Saturday
Part-Time MBA program, a program begun June 2007 which is
designed for students who do not live near Chicago or travel during
the week for work.
The Executive MBA program is offered as a joint
degree with the Schulich School of Business
at York
University in Canada, the WHU-Otto Beisheim
School of Management in Germany, Tel Aviv University's Recanati
Graduate School of Business Administration in Israel, and The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology.
In addition to its MBA programs, the school also offers a
PhD program whose principal objective is to train
candidates for academic positions in universities. Kellogg also
offers a JD-PhD degree that enables doctoral
students to earn a law degree and a PhD degree concurrently.
The MMM Program is a dual-degree program for MBA and
MEM (Master of Engineering Management) that integrates management,
operations and design, from concept to execution. This program
admits approximately sixty students each year. MMM students receive
the Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of
Management and the Master of Engineering Management from the
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern
University.
The JD-MBA Program is a
dual-degree program administered by both Kellogg and the Northwestern
University School of Law. The Northwestern JD-MBA program is
completed in 3 years, as opposed to the four years required at most
other institutions. Students graduate with both a Juris Doctor (JD)
degree and a Master of Business
Administration (MBA) degree. The program has a unique
application process among JD-MBA programs, in that there is a
single admissions application and the GMAT is required, but not the LSAT. The JD-MBA
program enrolls, on average, 25 students per year.
In addition to degree programs, the Kellogg School offers
non-degree executive programs [4] covering an
array of topics. Both open enrollment [5],custom [6] and longer form
general management [7] programs are
offered at the Kellogg executive education facility, the James L.
Allen Center and at the Kellogg School's Miami campus [8].
Rankings
Two of the Kellogg School's other executive MBA programs are
also highly ranked by the Financial Times. The School's
Kellogg-HKUST program at the Hong Kong UST Business School is
ranked No. 2 in the world, while the school's Kellogg-WHU program
at WHU Business School in Germany is ranked No. 12 in the
world.
Students
and culture
Kellogg students are part of a culture that emphasizes teamwork and leadership skills. Many
aspects of the school, from admissions decisions, to admitted
students weekend, to orientation week, to the annual conferences
and events that the school hosts, are organized and led by
students.
Kellogg was the first business school in the world to insist
that all applicants be interviewed to assess their leadership
potential and suitability for the Kellogg School's cooperative
environment. As a result, in addition to grades, GMAT scores,
professional achievement, and demonstrated leadership, 'fit' is an
important part of the admissions equation at Kellogg.
Full-time Kellogg students are grouped into 8 sections (commonly
referred to as cohorts at other top business schools): the Poets,
Cash Cows, Highlanders, Bucketheads, Bullfrogs, Big Dogs, Jive
Turkeys and Moose. Sections socialize and engage in competition
during the first few weeks of Kellogg's orientation, called its
Complete Immersion in Management (CIM). Most students also take
first year core courses with their respective sections. Students
completing their graduate studies in an extended 1-year program are
designated as a ninth section, the Roadrunners.
All students enrolled in a course offered by the Kellogg School
of Management agree to abide by the Kellogg Honor Code. The purpose
of the Kellogg Honor Code is to promote these qualities so that
each student can fully develop his or her individual potential.
Students who violate the Kellogg Honor Code violate this agreement
and must accept the sanction(s) imposed by the Kellogg
community.
Research
and academics
Some of the Kellogg School's most prominent scholars and
professors, past and present, include:
All of Kellogg's professors perform both teaching and research.
The school takes feedback from executives participating in
Executive MBA and Part-time MBA programs into account in defining
the curriculum of its Full-time MBA program. Most classes combine
lectures on theory, discussion of case studies, as well as student
group projects.
Global
partnerships
Kellogg has built a network of partner schools around the world
to increase collaboration across regions, create a global dialogue
on important management topics, and provide an integrated global
network for executive education. Partner schools include:
Alumni
Kellogg has over 50,000 alumni.
See also
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