More workers are paying their own way.(Focus Executive Education)

Crain's Chicago Business,  April, 2007  by Beau, Christina Le

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Byline: Christina Le Beau When Bernadette Trucco interviewed for a job with Illinois Tool Works Inc. in 2004, she made it clear that she wanted to enroll in an executive MBA program and that she wanted the company to pay for it. "I worked for 11/2 years to prove myself in my job prior to taking the GMAT and applying to business schools,'' says Ms.

Trucco, 37, director of internal audit at Glenview-based Illinois Tool Works (ITW). Then, as it had promised, the company paid up, spending $108,000 to send her to Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. She ...

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