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Picker Center for Executive Education
Degrees, certificates, and customized courses
The Columbia SIPA Picker Center for Executive Education offers degrees, certificates and customized courses for mid-career professionals and public servants from around the world.
Founded in 1999 by Dr. William B. Eimicke, a leading expert in public sector management, the Picker Center trains future leaders in the quantitative and qualitative skills needed to succeed. Its Executive Masters in Public Affairs (EMPA) offers a full MPA SIPA degree, in a format that allows working professionals to study while continuing in their jobs.
Its certificate and customized courses have been offered to senior managers from over 80 countries, and include courses with distinguished Columbia faculty both on location in NYC and at partner institutions around the world. Customized courses are available on issues that range from financial management in emerging markets, to leadership and strategic planning, to using “big data” in city management and sustainability studies. Many courses use exclusive SIPA audiovisual case studies, created as part of the Picker Center Case Collection, which provides students with an in-depth look into cases of public sector innovation from around the globe.
Academic Offerings
The Executive MPA (EMPA) positions mid-career professionals to advance their careers in public, nonprofit, and private sectors without sacrificing work and life commitments.
The Columbia SIPA Picker Center provides customized graduate-level training to build knowledge and leadership skills in executives at public agencies, corporations, and nonprofit organizations.
The Picker Center Case Collection offers executive education and other SIPA students access to an exclusive collection of audiovisual case studies on issues of public sector innovation from around the world.
Past Events
2024 International Conference on Health and Sustainable Development
The 2024 International Conference on “Health and Sustainable Development,” sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and organized by the Institute of National Planning (INP) of Egypt and the Picker Center for Executive Education at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was held from June 24 to June 25 in Cairo, Egypt.
Books, Publications, and Lectures
Books, Publications, and Lectures
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Book
If you want to win an election, improve the health of a city, or thrill your customers, you’re going to need precision systems – the highly engineered working arrangements of teams, processes and technologies that put data and AI to work creating the change that leaders want, exactly how they want it. Big tech firms like Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook have mastered their own precision systems, building trillion dollar businesses using data driven tools from mass-market nudges to industrial grade recommendation systems.In Precisely: Working with Precision Systems in a World of Data, Columbia SIPA professor Zachary Tumin and Madeliene Want, SIPA ’21 and Vice President of Data at Fanatics Betting and Gaming show how leaders in every domain are taking precision systems into the marketplace, the political race, the combat space – every contested and competed- for space on the globe, from Columbia’s New York Presbyterian Hospital to the New York Times, the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens to BNSF Railroad, the Biden-Harris campaign to the NYPD. In each domain precision systems reveal elusive patterns, perform repetitive tasks fast and with high accuracy, run a play, or tailor a message to a voter or shopper one at a time or by the millions. Precisely provides insights that will help leaders choose the system that’s right for them, decide which problem to tackle first, sell the importance of precision to stakeholders, power-up the people and teams, and accomplish change that delivers precisely what’s needed every time.
Published by Columbia University Press/Columbia Business Press Publishing, Precisely was a Bronze Medal Winner, 2024 Axiom Business Book Awards, Emerging Trends / AI.
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Book and Conference
This groundbreaking book, written by William B. Eimicke, Soulaymane Kachani, and Adam Stepan, explores the role of digital education in allowing universities to reach new audiences and address long-standing imbalances. Built on interviews with more than fifty leading practitioners from major universities and ed-tech firms, Leveling the Learning Curve is an indispensable guide to the inner workings of digital education.
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Social Value Investing presents a new way to approach some of society’s most complex and intractable challenges. In this new book, Howard W. Buffett and William B. Eimicke present a management framework for developing and measuring the success of partnerships between the public, private, and philanthropic sectors. Social Value Investing provides tools and insights to maximize collaborative efficiency and positive social impact, so that major public programs can deliver innovative, inclusive, and long-lasting solutions.
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Virtual Speaker Series
Food for Thought is a speaker series that welcomes a distinguished lineup of EMPA Faculty approaching the Covid-19 crisis and social justice reform.
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Picker Center for Executive Education
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School of International and Public Affairs
420 West 118th St., Room 400
New York, NY 10027
+1 212-854-2710