Innovation Programs
Successful companies continuously innovate to meet changing customer needs—not only offering new products and services, but also initiating disruptive change in their markets. Providing insight into how today's most innovative firms and leaders realize their visions, these programs will improve your ability to identify new opportunities, roll out breakthrough offerings, and position your company for long-term competitive advantage.
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
Learn how to plan for tomorrow while mastering today's complex business conditions in this program for leaders in small-to-midsize companies. You will examine fresh approaches to strategy, financing, and organizational planning in the context of the current economy, internalizing best practices that prepare you to achieve your goals. Providing new insights and tools, this two-week program readies you to build your company's future.
PROGRAM FACULTY: Lynda M. Applegate (faculty chair)
Building Ventures in Established Companies
Emphasizing new ways of creating value, this program helps leaders in established firms build new business lines. Companies taking steps today to differentiate through new ventures can position themselves for strong future performance. Exploring the best practices of successful entrepreneurs and new ways of innovating within larger firms, you gain the skills to balance the competing demands of managing today's business while nurturing innovation.
PROGRAM FACULTY: Lynda M. Applegate (faculty chair), Bhaskar Chakravorti, Clayton M. Christensen, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Michael L. Tushman
Intellectual Property and Business Strategy
This program examines intellectual property from a strategic perspective, in order to help executives maximize the value of intangible assets. You will analyze diverse approaches to commercialization and asset protection—including international patent, copyright, and trademark laws—while proven frameworks prepare you to leverage innovations for competitive advantage and align corporate resources around your intellectual property strategy.
PROGRAM FACULTY: William W. Fisher, III, Andrei Hagiu, Josh Lerner (faculty chair), Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Robert C. Pozen
Leadership and Strategy in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
Spotlighting the diverse challenges facing today's pharmaceutical and biotech firms, this program enhances your capacity to lead. As you examine the complex political landscape affecting intellectual property and issues such as the pricing and distribution of pharmaceuticals, you learn how to evaluate new business models, create global strategies, and position your company for competitive advantage in a rapidly changing industry.
PROGRAM FACULTY: Arthur A. Daemmrich, Srikant M. Datar, Raymond V. Gilmartin, John T. Gourville, Robert S. Huckman, Gary P. Pisano (faculty chair), Vicki L. Sato, Michael L. Tushman
Leading Product Innovation
Focused on product and service development, this program helps leaders seize opportunity, manage risk, and drive competitive advantage. In addition to learning how to balance strategy and effective execution in product development, you will expand your ability to innovate in a competitive marketplace, take advantage of disruptive technologies and economic conditions, and position your company for continuous growth.
PROGRAM FACULTY: Clayton M. Christensen, Karim R. Lakhani, Daniel C. Snow, Stefan H. Thomke (faculty chair)
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Programs, dates, fees, and faculty are subject to change.
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