The Executive Program in Management is a career-changing experience designed to broaden your business perspective, deepen your management expertise, and strengthen your leadership skills. The program enables you to lead with greater confidence, strengthen teams to drive meaningful change, and position your organization for long-term competitive advantage.
Through a combination of in-person and online sessions, you will engage with a curriculum that blends Columbia Business School Executive Education’s academic excellence with real-time exposure to the global business environment of New York City. You will expand your strategic thinking, challenge existing assumptions, and develop the capabilities required to take on more complex and senior leadership roles.
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Programme Content
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Module 1: Leadership and Management 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.Session topics include:
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Entrepreneurial Principles: Picking Winners: Learn how to identify, evaluate, and back high-potential opportunities
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Global Economic Environment: Understand macroeconomic forces shaping global business strategy
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Motivation: Understand what drives performance and how to inspire sustained commitment
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Operations Strategy & Service Productivity: Explore operating models that drive efficiency, scale, and customer value
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Networking: Learn how to build strategic relationships that expand influence and opportunity
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Creating Winning Strategies: Craft competitive strategies that deliver sustained advantage
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Negotiations: Develop the judgment and tools to craft agreements that advance long-term business goals
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Understanding AI: Grasp AI fundamentals and their implications for business leadership
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Social Styles: Adapt your leadership approach to different personality and communication styles
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Strategic Intuition: Combine insight, experience, and analysis to make breakthrough strategic choices
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Module 3: Strategy and InnovationLeaders today must be equipped to drive meaningful change, think bigger, and make decisions with strong quantitative intuition. This program helps you anticipate shifts before they happen so you can lead with clarity, confidence, and a future-focused mindset.Session topics include:
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Leading Change: Anticipate emerging risks and opportunities before competitors
Quantitative Intuition: Use data confidently without losing strategic perspective
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Seeing Around Corners: Anticipate emerging risks and opportunities before competitors
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Module 2: Strategic LeadershipSuccess 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.
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Session topics include:
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Leading by Design: Drive change with clarity and confidence to navigate barriers, motivate people, and execute transformation effectively
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Making Wise Decisions: Improve judgment and decision making under uncertainty
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Principled Influence: Leading Through Fairness and Ethics: Lead with integrity to build trust and long-term credibility
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Creating High-Impact and Innovative Teams: Build teams that execute effectively and innovate consistently
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Inclusive Leadership: Lead diverse teams to unlock performance and engagement
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Strategic Execution: From Vision to Implementation to Impact: Translate strategy into measurable organizational results
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Strategic Negotiations: Negotiate complex, multiparty agreements aligned with long-term goals
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Module 4: Digital Strategies and AI for Business TransformationToday’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.
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Session topics include:
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Artificial Intelligence: Understand how AI advances are reshaping decision-making, driving innovation, and creating new opportunities for business growth
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Platform Business Models: Understand how platforms create network effects and scale advantage
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Disruptive Business Models: Recognize and respond to models that redefine industries
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The Five Domains of Digital Transformation: Understand the five critical shifts redefining value creation in the digital economy
Domain 1: Customers: Reimagine how digital technologies transform customer behavior, expectations, and value creation
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
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Domain 1: Customers: Reimagine how digital technologies transform customer behavior, expectations, and value creation
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Domain 2: Competition: Rethink competitive dynamics in digitally disrupted markets
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Domain 3: Data: Leverage data as a strategic asset for insight and growth
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Domain 4: Innovation: Drive continuous innovation in fast-moving environments
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Domain 5: Value: Create and capture value in evolving digital ecosystems
On-Campus Immersion
Immerse yourself in the dynamic Columbia experience during the on-campus residency of the Executive Program in Management. Over several intensive days, you will engage with Columbia Business School Executive Education faculty and industry leaders to explore core leadership themes that shape effective management, strategic execution, and organizational performance.
On-Campus Immersion
Each day combines faculty-led sessions with interactive discussions designed to translate insight into action. You will examine critical business challenges through the lens of leadership, strategy, and execution, gaining practical tools to drive impact within your organization.
On-Campus Immersion
Beyond the classroom, you will connect with a diverse network of global executives, exchange perspectives across industries, and strengthen relationships that extend well beyond the program. This immersive experience broadens your leadership perspective, sharpens decision-making capabilities, and equips you to return with clear priorities and actionable strategies for sustained success.
On-Campus Immersion
Session topics include:
On-Campus Immersion
Effective Strategy Implementation: Learn how to align structure, incentives, culture, and leadership behaviors to ensure strategy translates into measurable enterprise impact
On-Campus Immersion
Persuasion and Influence: Refine your executive presence and communication approach to mobilize stakeholders, shape decisions, and gain buy-in at the highest levels
On-Campus Immersion
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
On-Campus Immersion
Execution in Action: Apply integrated frameworks in live discussions and case work, stress-testing your ability to move from strategy to decisive action
On-Campus Immersion
The AI Business Landscape: Examine how AI is reshaping competitive dynamics, industry structures, and sources of strategic advantage
On-Campus Immersion
Applying Social Styles: Practice adapting your leadership and communication style in real time to improve alignment, collaboration, and results
On-Campus Immersion
Entrepreneurial Principles: Managing Growth: Address the leadership, capital, and operational challenges that emerge as ventures scale
On-Campus Immersion
Leveraging AI in the Enterprise: Identify high-impact AI use cases and build a road map for responsible, enterprise-wide implementation
On-Campus Immersion
Personal Case Presentations: Present a strategic initiative before faculty and peers, demonstrating executive-level clarity, rigor, and influence
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Values Leadership: Lead with a disciplined focus on long-term value creation for customers, shareholders, and broader stakeholders
Capstone Project
The capstone project is a key aspect of the program learning experience. As part of a small group, participants will apply their learnings from the online, live online, and on-campus sessions to solve a business problem.
Capstone Project
The problem can be a real-world challenge a group member is facing in their organization, or a new business idea they are developing. This project will give you the opportunity to effectively tackle real-world organizational challenges using the tools, frameworks, and lessons learned in the program.
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