The New Schools

School Achieving Breakthrough Service For executives in the service, retail, and manufacturing industries, this course looks at how to create a service-oriented organization; preference is given to groups from the same firm $10,500 Nov. 9–14 (800) HBS-5577 (617-495-6555) www.exed@hbs.edu Howard University Continuing Education Simultaneous Interpretation Certificate Program Trains multilingual executives to serve as corporate and government interpreters: participants must be at least bilingual Feb. 26–May 26 on Tuesdays and Thursdays $4,400 (301) 608-4112 www.con-ed.howard.edu Rice University, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management Rice-Ernst & Young Certificate of Management in Energy Courses specific to the energy industry from petroleum to renewable energy and a menu of electives tackling cross-cultural negotiation for global executives $11,595 Jan. 23–May 8 (713) 348-4323 www.jonesgsm.rice.edu Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management The Soul of Leadership For senior-level executives, this three-day course provides a framework for understanding the leader as the soul of an organization May 21–23 Oct. 1–3 $3,500 (847)467-7000 www. kellogg. northwestern.edu/ execed Stanford University, Graduate School of Business Executive Program for Women Leaders Program confronts the issues of team effectiveness, social networks, and influence, among others May 12–16 $8,700 (650) 723-3341www.gsb. stanford.edu.exed