Business Schools are experiencing increased competitive pressures, and one way to differentiate and compete distinctively is through the adoption of innovative uses of information technology. However, the integration of information technology to business education is by no means trivial. This research seeks to provide some guidance about the effect of these new information technologies in the field of high-level executive education, providing a conceptual framework of the main key factors that have to be taken into account for the efficient and effective design of an executive education course. Keywords e-learning, information and communication technology, executive education, learning, business schools, online teaching, residential learning, ethnography.