Successful new partnerships for Centre for Corporate Connections
Strathclyde Business School is launching a bespoke MBA programme - MBA 25 - in partnership with William Grant & Sons, with the first cohort starting in September.
SBS won the contract, after an initial submission from ten universities, to provide a programme of executive education for staff identified by the premium Scottish spirits company.
The family-owned distiller has invested a significant sum into the customised MBA programme which has been designed for a consortium of luxury brand companies headed up by William Grant & Sons. Bespoke modules particularly suited for their employees and partners from entrepreneurial, luxury brand or owner operated business have been created and will be on offer alongside core Strathclyde subjects such as strategic analysis and evaluation.
The first cohort will include, among others, participants from Alliance Trust alongside William Grant staff, with the first module being delivered at the Glenfiddich Distillery in Dufftown in September. Each module is delivered in three-day intensive seminars.
The MBA 25 is managed by the Programme Board which includes Peter Gordon, William Grant's chairman, Rosemary McGinness, Global HR Director and Board Member, Colin Duthie, Programme Director, and, from Strathclyde Business School, Susan Hart, Dean, George Burt, MBA Programme Director and Sandy Wilson, Head, Executive Education.
Professor Susan Hart, Dean, Strathclyde Business School, said, "As Scotland's leading business school, we are delighted to be developing the new MBA25 programme in partnership with William Grant & Sons. As a company, William Grant has a set of values - be pioneering, be better, be accountable, be enthusiastic and be supportive. We share these values, and together we seek to release potential and create future global leaders across a consortium of like-minded Scottish organisations."
The MBA 25 is run from the Centre for Corporate Connections within Strathclyde Business School. The Centre team has also enjoyed further success designing a bespoke Project Management Programme for Senergy, an international energy services business. The Senergy Academy is focussed on upskilling their team and enabling the organisation to evolve in to a 'project-based' company. The programme has been developed in close collaboration with Iain Morrison, vice-president at Senergy, and Vivien MacKinlay, a learning and development consultant, and both Sandy Wilson and Dr Steve Paton from the Centre for Corporate Connections.
This recent growth in high profile Executive Education contracts has led to the strengthening of the Centre for Corporate Connections team with the addition of Susan Andrews as a new Corporate Programme Manager and Laura Wardrop as administrative assistant.
