Stanford Graduate School of Business

• Along Knight Way, in Stanford California, the Stanford Graduate School of Business is near Frost Amphitheater, Iris and B Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts and Oval Park. Rated as among the top business schools in the U.S., by Business Insider, the school has training for management leadership in the Executive Education, Global and Public Management programs. Leadership Strategy, Crisis Management, the Effective Use of Power are all areas of concentration under the MBA, PhD and Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs, as well.
  
  

Harvard Business School

• Near Soldiers Field Park, in Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard Business School, HBS, is among the top-rated colleges in the United States, according to a report by U.S. News and World Report. With coursework in areas such as Management, Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Operations Management, HBS also features classes such as, Strategy, National and Global, the Entrepreneurial Manager and Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Many of the other HBS's classes prime students for future management leadership positions, as well.
  
  

Columbia University Business School

• Situated between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue in New York City, Columbia University's Business School is close to the Apollo Theater and the Manhattan School of Music. Originally founded in 1916, Columbia Business School has training programs that incorporate management leadership into the curricula -- the Management Division's MBA program alone has core coursework in Leadership Development, Managerial Negotiations, Top Processes and Strategy Formulation, for example. The school's Executive MBA, EMBA, program also has courses in areas such as strategic management, management decision making and executive leadership, too.
  
  

Kellogg School of Management

• Located along Sheridan Road in Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management has undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs in coursework that includes training for management leadership. Managerial Analytics and Analytical Decision Modeling, Strategies for Leading and Managing Organizations and Managerial Economics and Strategy are examples of coursework at the bachelor's, master's and PhD levels. Kellogg also offers students the opportunity to earn certificates in many various areas of management and leadership study.