Porto Business School

Advanced Strategy for Top Executives

Porto Business School

Management and Strategy

About Programme

64%

of CEOs no longer consider their organization viable over the next 10 years without reinvention.

6x

more time spent on short-term decisions than on long-term decisions.

68%

of senior leaders anticipate a multipolar or fragmented world order.

US$4.9 trillion

in global M&A in 2025, with deals driven by growth and capability acquisition.

16%

of CEOs identify innovation as central to their strategy.

Define more clearly who your organization is, what sets it apart, and the strategic ambition it is equipped to sustain.

Connect external forces, internal capabilities, and organizational constraints in an integrated strategic assessment.

Decide where to compete, how to grow, and which options to leave behind, with greater clarity about the trade-offs.

Evaluate innovation, international expansion, and mergers and acquisitions as strategic options aligned with a shared direction.

Communicate strategic choices clearly and convincingly, ready for scrutiny from boards, investors, and stakeholders.

Programme Content

Where we are and what we stand for

Read the external context as a strategic landscape, clarify identity, capabilities, and internal readiness, and test choices under pressure.

Topics

Strategic Context: Geopolitics, Disruption and Systemic Risk
Capabilities, Readiness and Strategic Identity
Systemic Risk as Strategic Context
Boardroom Challenge 1: Decision Under Fire
Where we are going and why

Turn diagnosis into explicit choices about growth, portfolio management, innovation, and resource allocation.

Topics

Strategic Choices: Where to Play and How to Win
Corporate Strategy, M&A and Resource Allocation
Innovation as Strategic Asset
Boardroom Challenge 2: The Bet That Defines the Decade

Programme Objective

The boardroom is the classroom

An in-person experience focused on debate among senior peers, decision-making under pressure, and strategic thinking, without lengthy cases, a capstone, or theory disconnected from practice.

Decisions under pressure

Two boardroom challenges put you at the center of decision-making, with incomplete information, conflicting stakeholder demands, and choices you must defend in real time.

Strategic context at the leadership level

The global environment becomes a strategic landscape to explore, where geopolitics, institutional power, systemic risk, and growth intersect with decisions at the highest level.

Immersions beyond the traditional classroom

The Biodiversity Gallery and INESC TEC bring dimensions rarely addressed in the boardroom into strategic discussions: systemic risk, science, applied research, and innovation as an asset for growth.

Faculty and guests with an executive perspective

Academic and executive leadership with experience in strategy, leadership, and decision-making, complemented by guests who broaden your perspective on geopolitics, systemic risk, and innovation.

Programme Audience

Executives and executive board members

For those directly responsible for strategic direction, growth, portfolio management, and decisions that shape the organization.

Leaders progressing toward C-level roles

For directors and business unit leaders who need to operate at a strategic level, beyond their functional responsibilities.

Owners and managing partners

For leaders of family-owned or founder-led businesses navigating growth, international expansion, professionalization, or generational transition.

Senior cross-functional executives

For executives in strategy, general management, sales, operations, or finance who help shape the organization’s direction.

Programme Benefits

This program takes you beyond the classroom. It puts you at the center of decision-making.

Advanced Strategy for Top Executives is designed for leaders who need to translate strategic identity into clear, defensible choices that can withstand scrutiny from boards, investors, and stakeholders.

The experience combines an opening session with a global perspective, two immersions beyond the traditional classroom, and boardroom challenges where strategy is debated, tested, and defended in conditions that reflect decision-making at the highest level.

Clarify strategic identity

Define more clearly who your organization is, what sets it apart, and the strategic ambition it is equipped to sustain.

Assess context and internal readiness

Connect external forces, internal capabilities, and organizational constraints in an integrated strategic assessment.

Make disciplined choices

Decide where to compete, how to grow, and which options to leave behind, with greater clarity about the trade-offs.

Integrate growth, innovation, and corporate strategy

Evaluate innovation, international expansion, and mergers and acquisitions as strategic options aligned with a shared direction.

Build board-ready narratives

Communicate strategic choices clearly and convincingly, ready for scrutiny from boards, investors, and stakeholders.

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Prashansa Uttam

Programme Advisor

+91 9403890085contact@echomind.oneMon – Fri, 9am – 5pm IST

Porto Business School

Executive Education Office

Daniela Pinto
+351 932 611 332
dspinto@pbs.up.pt
https://www.pbs.up.pt/en/
Matosinhos, Portugal

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