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 We are keenly aware that investing in executive development during a time of dramatic budget cuts, furloughs, and hiring and pay freezes might seem paradoxical. Yet the only real solution to doing more with less is to develop new ways of thinking and adopt new tools for leading.

Brookings Executive Education’s (BEE) new paradigm for executive success—Leading Thinking™—provides the mind-set and frameworks to lead organizations in this challenging environment.

The Brookings Executive Education 2013-2014 course catalog is now available. BEE is managed by Olin Business School in partnership with the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.

New Courses at Brookings Executive Education:

Leading Through Influence
In this new, interactive course, learn how to influence people both within and outside the chain of command. Develop key skills of informal leadership: navigating politics, understanding power, and exercising influence.

Insider’s Budgetary Process
This in-depth course on the federal budget process examines the methods that go into formulating both the president’s budget and the congressional budget and, ultimately, authorization and appropriations.

Flexibility and Decisiveness
In this new class, you will learn how to adapt and work effectively within dynamic change, to see possibilities that lead to breakthrough concepts, and to employ models of decision making appropriate to the situation at hand.

Regional Challenges, Threats and Opportunities: South and Central America
Latin America presents opportunities for government and businesses alike. It is a region with countries that are creating new identities and establishing strategic alliances with partners around the globe. In this new seminar, you will learn about the economic and political changes that represent threats and opportunities for the region’s northern neighbor.

View all BEE 2013/14 courses at-a-glance

My name is Alexander Faught.  I am a first year MBA, and this is my first Olin blog post.  I would like to use this opportunity to write about my Mini-A session (Olin’s quarter system equivalent).

MBA and SMP students on the Omaha, Nebraska trip to meet with Warren Buffett.

The six-week period was action packed both inside and outside of the classroom.  Some of the highlights included:

– Participating in case discussions analyzing the accounting, economic, and financial principles behind various events involving Berkshire Hathaway, Brown-Forman, GE, Gillette, Marriott, and Nintendo (among others);

-Creating models and running simulations on airline reservations and pricing, option values, mortgage decisions, and optimal plant production;

-Attending a guest corporate finance lecture given by two Monsanto M&A experts, focusing on the practical application of valuation theory (specifically regarding industry discounted cash flow techniques);

-Visiting Berkshire Hathaway’s headquarters, touring some of its portfolio business, and meeting Warren Buffett on an Olin-sponsored trip to Omaha, NE (yes, I shook the Oracle’s hand!);

-Entering my first case competition, and valuing a private business through the ACG Cup; and

-Interviewing with several firms and finding the right match for this upcoming summer (interning in an investment research capacity).

Although it is hard to imagine a better session, I am sure the next six weeks will render many more noteworthy experiences…

Finance photo by Tax Credits on Flickr