AeA Announces Strategic Partnership with Stanford University's Graduate School of Business

Business Wire, Jan 7, 2003

Business Editors and Education Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2002

AeA, the nation's largest high-tech industry association, announced today that it is joining forces with Stanford University's Graduate School of Business to expand its offering of high-tech executive education programs.

For the past 28 years, AeA and Stanford's Management Science and Engineering Department, a branch of the School of Engineering, have partnered on a two-week education program for technology company executives through the AeA/Stanford Executive Institute. The addition of Stanford Business School to the strategic partnership between AeA and the Stanford School of Engineering will result in a new catalog of educational events and services to be offered throughout the calendar year. AeA/Stanford Executive Institute alumni are also expected to be involved with the new programs.

"We are genuinely excited about our new relationship with Stanford's schools of business and engineering," said William T. Archey, president and CEO of AeA. "Stanford's Graduate School of Business and its School of Engineering are intellectual and academic power houses that fit well with AeA's mission of providing quality, cutting-edge information to high-tech leaders."

The hands-on, accelerated curriculum of the Executive Institute is designed to give senior-level management industry-specific management and leadership skills immediately applicable in their high-tech companies. Over 3000 individuals have completed the AeA/Stanford Executive Institute program since its foundation in 1975.

AeA and Stanford will offer the 29th annual AeA/Stanford Executive Institute from August 10-22, 2003, on Stanford's campus in Stanford, California. For more information, visit http://www.aeanet.org/stanford or contact Angela Pellegrino at (408) 987-4276 or angela_pellegrino@aeanet.org

Advancing the business of technology, AeA is the nation's largest high-tech trade association. AeA represents more than 3,000 companies with 1.8 million employees. AeA's 3000 members span the high-technology spectrum, from software, semiconductors, medical devices and computers to Internet technology, advanced electronics and telecommunications systems and services. With 17 regional U.S. councils and offices in Brussels and Beijing, AeA offers a unique global policy grassroots capability and a wide portfolio of valuable business services and products for the high-tech industry. AeA has been the accepted voice of the U.S. technology community since 1943. For more information, please visit www.aeanet.org.