Executive Program in Management

The Executive Program in Management offers a multimodal learning experience that imparts the essentials of high-level leadership in today’s dynamic business environment, including leading change, strategic intuition, and business analytics. Designed and led by Ivy League faculty, the comprehensive curriculum combines live online, online, and in-person sessions and exposes participants to a host of engaging online guest lectures with leading industry executives. The flexible format allows for peer-to-peer learning and experiential sessions that integrate real-world case studies and a group project.

Strengthen the mindset and skills needed to inspire people, elevate performance, and drive organizational outcomes through strategic thinking, effective negotiation, strong networks, and AI‑enhanced decision making.

Welcome and Introduction

Entrepreneurial Principles: Picking Winners: Learn how to identify, evaluate, and back high-potential opportunities

Global Economic Environment: Understand macroeconomic forces shaping global business strategy

Motivation: Understand what drives performance and how to inspire sustained commitment

Operations Strategy & Service Productivity: Explore operating models that drive efficiency, scale, and customer value

Networking: Learn how to build strategic relationships that expand influence and opportunity

Creating Winning Strategies: Craft competitive strategies that deliver sustained advantage

Negotiations: Develop the judgment and tools to craft agreements that advance long-term business goals

Understanding AI: Grasp AI fundamentals and their implications for business leadership

Social Styles: Adapt your leadership approach to different personality and communication styles

Strategic Intuition: Combine insight, experience, and analysis to make breakthrough strategic choices

Success in the digital age requires a breakthrough approach. Through a holistic examination of strategy, this module equips you with fresh perspectives on and deep insights into implementing change, encouraging growth, and creating a long-term advantage.

Leading by Design: Drive change with clarity and confidence to navigate barriers, motivate people, and execute transformation effectively

Making Wise Decisions: Improve judgment and decision making under uncertainty

Principled Influence: Leading Through Fairness and Ethics: Lead with integrity to build trust and long-term credibility

Creating High-Impact and Innovative Teams: Build teams that execute effectively and innovate consistently

Inclusive Leadership: Lead diverse teams to unlock performance and engagement

Strategic Execution: From Vision to Implementation to Impact: Translate strategy into measurable organizational results

Strategic Negotiations: Negotiate complex, multiparty agreements aligned with long-term goals

Leaders today must be equipped to drive meaningful change, think bigger, and make decisions with strong quantitative intuition. This program helps you develop the ability to anticipate shifts before they happen so you can lead with clarity, confidence, and a future‑focused mindset.

Leading Change: Anticipate emerging risks and opportunities before competitors

Think Bigger: Expand strategic ambition beyond incremental growth

Quantitative Intuition: Use data confidently without losing strategic perspective

Seeing Around Corners: Anticipate emerging risks and opportunities before competitors

Today’s leaders need strategies that work for the digital world. By diving into leadership fundamentals for the next generation of organizations, including the domains of digital transformation, digital customer behaviors, and innovation through experimentation, this module will prepare you to navigate any business scenario.

The Five Domains of Digital Transformation: Understand the five critical shifts redefining value creation in the digital economy

Artificial Intelligence: Understand how AI advances are reshaping decision‑making, driving innovation, and creating new opportunities for business growth

Domain 1: Customers: Reimagine how digital technologies transform customer behavior, expectations, and value creation

Platform Business Models: Understand how platforms create network effects and scale advantage

Domain 2: Competition: Rethink competitive dynamics in digitally disrupted markets

Domain 3: Data: Leverage data as a strategic asset for insight and growth

Domain 4: Innovation: Drive continuous innovation in fast-moving environments

Domain 5: Value: Create and capture value in evolving digital ecosystems

Disruptive Business Models: Recognize and respond to models that redefine industries

A wide range of forces are responsible for shaping today’s global business environment and, consequently, how organizations deliver their services. By gaining a deeper understanding of entrepreneurial principles and leveraging AI in business, you will develop the capabilities needed to help your organization thrive in an integrated ecosystem.

Effective Strategy Implementation: Learn how to align structure, incentives, culture, and leadership behaviors to ensure strategy translates into measurable enterprise impact

Persuasion and Influence: Refine your executive presence and communication approach to mobilize stakeholders, shape decisions, and gain buy-in at the highest levels

Operational Excellence and Bottom of the Pyramid Models: Explore how to drive efficiency, cost discipline, and scalable impact while serving emerging and underserved markets profitably

Execution in Action: Apply integrated frameworks in live discussions and case work, stress-testing your ability to move from strategy to decisive action

The AI Business Landscape: Examine how AI is reshaping competitive dynamics, industry structures, and sources of strategic advantage

Applying Social Styles: Practice adapting your leadership and communication style in real time to improve alignment, collaboration, and results

Entrepreneurial Principles: Managing Growth: Address the leadership, capital, and operational challenges that emerge as ventures scale

Leveraging AI in the Enterprise: Identify high-impact AI use cases and build a road map for responsible, enterprise-wide implementation

Personal Case Presentations: Present a strategic initiative before faculty and peers, demonstrating executive-level clarity, rigor, and influence

Values Leadership: Lead with a disciplined focus on long-term value creation for customers, shareholders, and broader stakeholders

Note: Session topics are subject to change.