“Our goal is to promote education and professional development by providing highly specialized management programs at a fair value, accessible to all,” said Panos Linardos, co-founder and Executive Director of NYIM. “All our programs aim to retool and equip the active workforce with the skills required to be successfully positioned in the knowledge-based economy and help them make a tangible impact to their careers, their business and the society overall.”
Academically, NYIM’s goal is to offer superior real-world education in terms of relevance and value. To ensure relevance, NYIM’s programs are designed by a team of content experts with a mix of Ivy League academic and high-quality professional backgrounds in cooperation with the related industry and communities of practice. To ensure value, NYIM aims to create only high-quality programs that can be delivered more efficiently through an online learning platform.
“It is imperative that we embrace technologies to create an executive education ecosystem that is accessible to all,” Mr. Linardos. “The surplus of value we can unlock is more than sufficient to reward our efforts while delighting our students and the community.”
The NYIM team is currently working on further strengthening the organization and its course portfolio and preparing for a launch in Fall 2010. “It’s an exciting time to work with educators and subject matter experts to develop executive education programs that address some of the pressing challenges that professionals face today and help them expand their capacity to prosper in the global competitive economic environment.”
The Institute believes that there is a significant underserved population of prospective students who want and need a range of high-impact, results-oriented programs at the quality standard of the premier academic institutions and strategy consulting firms. However, students today are unwilling to or unhappy about paying non-flexible, highly priced, traditional education programs. NYIM aims to bring quality and tuition fees back in line for these students, by presenting its programs through primarily online channels, which allows for greater geographic reach than physical institutions at a much lower cost. “We’re planning to offer a selected mix of courses and certificate programs that combine cutting-edge theory with tested tools and practices used in the worlds’ leading organization,” continued Panos Linardos.
Initially, NYIM plans to offer twenty four executive education programs and four Certificates, each designed to appeal to and meet the educational objectives of middle-level executives and career professionals. The diversity of its program portfolio will allow NYIM to target relevant portions of the adult student population and provide offerings in several high demand areas of study, including Corporate Finance, Management and Leadership Development, Corporate Strategy, Human Resources, and Marketing and Sales.
The Institute has attracted the interest of a virtual team of academics and subject enthusiasts who are collaborating on the design and development of its programs. They all bring unique foresight, knowledge and deep functional expertise to help NYIM better build its students skills and deliver real world, advanced business education with impact. “I am inspired by the breadth and depth of the academic response to our call for bringing executive education online and I am eager to witness our students’ journeys of development and impact,.” Panos says. “It’s a great feeling.’’
