Corporate Partnerships

Kelley Direct & Your Company:  Developing your most Important Assets

"If you leave us our money, our buildings, and our brands, but take away our people, the Company will fail. But if you take away our money, our buildings, and our brands, but leave us our people, we can rebuild the whole thing in a decade."  - Richard R. Deupree, CEO Procter & Gamble, 1930-1948

The greatest asset a corporation has is its people.  Attracting, developing, and retaining top talent is an ongoing challenge that every company faces every day.  Kelley Direct, from the prestigious Indiana University Kelley School of Business, is designed to provide companies with a strategic advantage in the highly competitive market for top talent.

Kelley Direct provides its corporate clients three key benefits:

1. Development of global managerial talent through a unique educational delivery mode that replicates the way business is done today.

Kelley Direct’s unique delivery mode allows your employees to work through the team-based program regardless of where they are located globally.  Similar to the corporate world, KD students are based all over the world and must work together to solve business problems.  Students are assigned to global teams and must use technology to effectively communicate and conquer team assignments.

2. Retention incentive for current highly-talented employees.

In addition to the program’s two-year requirement, corporate clients may require a commitment to remain with the company for three or more years after completing the program.  Even without the post-graduation commitment, employee retention is strong.  One client reported a significant increase in both retention and the number of promotions of students in the program compared to those not furthering their education.

3. Unique benefit to offer to prospective highly-talented employees.

Being able to offer employees the opportunity to earn an MBA from one of the top business schools in the country is an attractive recruiting tool.  It allows companies to differentiate themselves from competition in attracting top talent.  Unlike other benefits, a Kelley education is a unique investment that creates value for both the employee and the employer.

Kelley Direct has programs in place with several corporate clients, including Cummins International, General Motors, Ingersoll-Rand, John Deere, and United Technologies.  Ingersoll-Rand has the following to say:

“One of the key criteria we considered when selecting Kelley Direct was the capability of their distance learning system, couple with a faculty that understands how to replicate an effective classroom experience in an online environment.  The flexibility of both the program and the faculty has allowed us to customize online programs as well as in-residence courses, truly delivering an MBA program that has immediate relevance to each student’s current business challenges.”