DATE: November 15, 2005

Business Week has ranked the UW Business School's Executive MBA Program fifth best in the nation in the teaching of strategy. The subject ranking, derived from surveys of EMBA classes of 2005 across the country, appears in the magazine's biennial special report on executive education, which hit the newsstands October 24.

"All of our EMBA faculty share in this recognition, because we incorporate strategic thinking into every course," says Louise Kapustka, Executive MBA Program director. "But no one has made a greater impact on our teaching of strategy than Charles Hill (the Hughes M. Blake Endowed Professor in Business Administration), a noted expert in the field who recently re-created our core General Management & Strategy course."

Since its inception 20 years ago, the Executive MBA Program has educated more than 1,200 mid- and senior-level managers and executives from leading companies in the Pacific Northwest and throughout the United States – Boeing, Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard and Starbucks, to name just a few of the 750 sponsoring firms.

The 21-month program allows executives to continue working full-time while earning their MBA among the Business School's finest faculty and an elite group of peers with depth and diversity of professional experiences.

In April, U.S. News & World Report ranked the UW Business School's Executive MBA Program 22nd in the nation.