Identify business opportunities, create a project plan, assess financial viability, and persuasively present a plan to profitably expand into new markets.
Core Course
Authentic Leadership #4: Moral Perspective
Values are the driving force behind authentic leadership. Your own background and behavior influence your vision and principles. Explore the relationship between values and leadership, with a special focus on the global business environment. Gain a deeper understanding of your fundamental values, what to do when those values conflict, and how to harness your moral perspective for powerful forms of organizational leadership.
Key topics & skills
Global Business Norms
Value Conflicts
Giving Voice to Values
Leading the Organization
Core Course
Business Strategy
The long-term success of a company depends on a clearly articulated corporate strategy. Strategy is dynamic: it’s full of uncertainty, ambiguity, geo-political influences, and new opportunities and threats presented by technological advancements. You’ll combine timeless economic principles such as industry forces, relative cost position, and value chains with futures thinking to identify business opportunities and address evolving vulnerabilities.
Key topics & skills
The Changing Nature of Strategy and the Evolution of Markets & Buyers
Industry Analysis & Competitive Advantage
Strategic Moves, Resources, Capabilities & Agility
Analyzing the Value Chain & Creating Shared Value
Strategic Innovation & Cross-Border Expansion Strategy
Core Course
Data Visualization & Storytelling
Data tells a powerful story. You’ll need to quickly and decisively extract the key insights hidden in data to inform decision-making. Data visualization techniques and tools enable us to summarize data details and patterns into graphically-expressed representations, leading to actionable conclusions. Presentation is key. Get to know the design concepts involved in visualizing data for decision-makers.
Key topics & skills
Telling a Compelling Story with Data
Aligning with Your Audience
Design Principles & Visualization Techniques for Data Analysis & Decision-Making
Catering to Diverse Learning Styles
Creating Actionable Inisghts
Core Course
Financial Management & Decision Making
All managers contribute to, and are responsible for, certain financial functions within a company—profit planning, breakeven analysis, operating budgets, capital budgets, and variance analysis. This course prepares you to understand and contribute to financial processes and decisions while understanding key performance and valuation metrics.
Key topics & skills
Introduction to Capital Budgeting, Financial Markets & Stocks
Risk, Return & Bond Valuation
Projections & Sustainable Growth Rate
Capital Budgeting & Corporate Valuation
Performance Management Systems, KPIs & Integrated Reporting
Business Challenge
Business Challenge #4
Put all your newly acquired knowledge and skills directly into practice at the end of each block through a practical and relevant business challenge. Teams will draw on the content and themes of previous courses in each block to complete challenges involving simulations, executive pitch presentations, innovation hackathons, real company challenges, designing new business models, etc.
Key topics & skills
Cross Functional Strategic Decision Making, Planning & Coordination
Analyzing Real & Simulated Business Cases
Team Leadership & Dynamics
Courses and challenges subject to change
I’m inspired by my classmates every day. Everything is a learning experience and opportunity for growth. I’ll carry that mindset with me into the future.
Dwayne Logan
American
2020
Everyone brings their unique attitude, culture, and language to the table. As so many class assignments involve teamwork, you’re exposed to a plethora of nationalities, which strengthens the project and group as a unit. There’s more space for creativity, innovation, learning, and success.
Atalia Horenshtien
Israeli
2020
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