Learning collaborations’ with your executive education provider for mutual benefit

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a number of ways organizations can collaborate with their primary, university-based executive education provider (EEP) in order to co-create learning and enhance a company's strategy-development and strategy-execution capability. Design/methodology/approach – This paper synthesizes the multi-varied ways in which one leading, globally oriented business school has collaborated with a Fortune 200 company over the past eight years, involving over 1,200 of the company's managers. Findings – In total, 14 fruitful ways to leverage an existing corporate/EEP relationship in order to foster a company's strategy-development and strategy-execution capabilities at the business unit level are presented. Practical implications – The field-inspired ideas presented here are immediately, broadly, and beneficially applicable across the corporate landscape. Originality/value – Readers are provided with a number of specific, actionable ways to tap into the often-underutilized capabilities of an existing EEP affiliation with the intent of transforming that affiliation into an on-going collaboration that enhances various corporate personnel, strategy, and operational capabilities.