Executive Education

Description
Managers of today's organizations face a baffling barrage of communication and information technologies that threaten the very core of their businesses. They also face brutal global competition. To stay out in front, they must take big risks and make big bets--and manage them strategically.

Corporate Strategy presents the latest methodologies for developing and implementing strategies that work. Drawing from relevant conceptual frameworks and real-life examples, participants in the program learn to integrate corporate strategy and culture with organizational structure, develop corporate, business, and functional strategies, and manage the interface of strategy and technology.

In lectures and small workshops, participants explore the specific tasks and concepts key to ensuring the success of corporate, business, and functional strategies:

• competitive strategy for a global environment
• world-class best practices for implementing strategic planning
• identification of organizational culture and how that relates to strategy
• the role of modern finance in strategic decision making
• the international transferability of competitive advantages
• recognizing technology as a major variable
• relating organizational learning to competitive advantage
• coping with the complexities, uncertainties, and changes that are reconfiguring the business world today.

Corporate Strategy gives business leaders the rare opportunity to share experiences with peers from other organizations and industries -- forming a network of lifelong colleagues in the process.

The Participants
Corporate Strategy is for managers who are now or expect to be involved with developing corporate, business, or functional strategies at their organizations. A typical class draws participants from across the United States and most of the continents creating a microcosm of the world. Enrollment is limited to facilitate discussions and ensure small workshops.

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Arnoldo Hax explains the power of the Delta Model, a key component of this influential program. (Please note that this presentation is intended for web viewing only. Downloading and/or printing files is not permitted without written permission from the copyright holder or site administrator.) View video >>

Faculty

Faculty Leader: Arnoldo C. Hax, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management, enjoys an international reputation for his research, publishing, and consulting in the fields of strategic planning, management control, operations management, and operations research. He has participated in executive education programs around the world and consults regularly to multinational organizations. His most recent book, The Delta Project, provides a new organizing framework to develop strategy and manage in the new economy.

Donald R. Lessard, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management, conducts research on international corporate strategy and finance with an emphasis on risk management and knowledge management in multinational firms.

Stewart C. Myers, Gordon Y Billard Professor of Finance, conducts research on the theory and practice of corporate finance. His book, Principles of Corporate Finance, written with R.A. Brealey, has been the bible of graduate-level courses in corporate finance since it was first published in 1981; it's now in its sixth edition.

Roberto Rigobon, Associate Professor of Economics, studies international economics, monetary economics, and development economics. In international economics, Rigobon focuses on the causes of balance-of-payments crises, financial crises, and the propagation of them across countries.

John Van Maanen, Erwin H. Schell Professor of Organization Studies, researches occupations characterized by dispute, frustration, anger, and ambiguity. His recent studies examine the social history of ethnographic understanding of work organizations and the various ways particular occupation identities take shape and change work settings.