| Offering a broad overview of core business topics, the Executive Development Program integrates leadership and strategy skills throughout the curriculum. Teaching focuses on tools and knowledge that you can use to become a more effective manager, analyst and decision-maker. Our curriculum provides a broad overview of the fundamental concepts and current issues of general management and gives you an integrated view of business enterprise.
COMPETITIVE STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP
Competitive Strategy: Understand the nature of the competitive process and the source of firm level competitive advantage.
Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness: Learn the critical role of leadership in creating and sustaining effective organizations. Learn how to articulate a vision and motivate your team to implement it successfully.
THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT
Macroeconomics: Grasp how economic policies and conditions affect every aspect of business here and overseas, especially the impact of monetary, fiscal, and regulatory policies on companies’ decision-making and performance.
Applied Microeconomics: Develop an appreciation of the role of economic theory as a framework and a guide to solving the business challenges that face you on a daily basis.
FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING FOR MANAGERS
Financial and Managerial Accounting: Learn to successfully interpret and utilize accounting data for planning and financial reporting; net present value (NPV), and internal rate of return (IRR).
Managerial Finance: Enhance your understanding of finance principles and practices, including cash flow analysis, capital budgeting, relationships between risk and return.
BUSINESS ETHICS
Business Ethics: Explore frameworks for analyzing and addressing ethical issues in organizations. Increase ability to provide ethical leadership within and for the organization.
OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Operations Management: Explore the operating priorities that drive process design decisions. Learn to develop accurate measurement systems in order to make intelligent operating decisions.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CULTURES
International Business Cultures: Learn the meaning of culture and explore the theories of cultural differences. This information is useful for today's global managers who work with diverse individuals and companies throughout the world on a daily basis.
MARKETING AND BRAND MANAGEMENT
Marketing Strategy: Understand how the basic concepts of market segmentation and positioning are essential to the strategic planning process. Learn industry and competitor analysis techniques and make better resource allocation decisions.
Brand Management Strategy: Learn how to create and maintain a market-oriented organization to lessen price pressure on products and grow a stable base of loyal customers. Identify key factors in successful brands that apply to your enterprise.
INNOVATION
Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Explore the role entrepreneurship plays in creating opportunities for growth and corporate renewal. Discuss entrepreneurial activities in large, established corporations.
CORPORATE STRATEGY
Corporate Strategy: Explore the identification, evaluation, and formulation of a corporate strategy-as well as sources of its success and failure.
LEADERSHIP
Leadership: Understand transformational leadership; Develop your ability to shape the future through effective leadership practices and developing an integrated leadership philosophy.
Find out more about the Business School faculty members and their teaching methods.
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