Executive Education

• Senior executives who are one or two levels below the CEO
• Possess 20 to 25 years of work experience
• From organizations with annual revenues of at least $250 million
• Identified as key members of the company's top leadership team

• Executives with recently acquired or expanded general management responsibilities
• Possess 15 to 20 years of work experience
• From organizations with annual revenues of at least $100 million
• Individuals who seek a broader perspective or who will soon become business-unit, division, or regional leaders

• Managers or functional specialists
• Possess approximately 10 years of work experience
• From organizations with annual revenues of at least $75 million
• Identified as outstanding prospects for senior management

• 8 intensive weeks on campus

• 5 modules in total, consisting of 3 off-campus modules and 2 on-campus modules (each 3-4 weeks in duration)

• 4 modules in total, consisting of 2 off-campus modules and 2 on-campus modules (each 2 weeks in duration)

• Leading strategically and ethically across all business areas
• Creating a competitive business position
• Fostering innovation and building a cohesive enterprise
• Communicating the company's strategic vision
• Allocating resources throughout the enterprise
• Managing the business portfolio
• Developing a personal leadership plan

• Examining critical areas of evaluation and decision making
• Positioning the business for growth and profitability
• Acquiring support for business-building resources
• Forging effective cross-functional teams
• Leading through periods of growth and turbulence
• Implementing value-creating strategies that deliver results

• Building core functional skills
• Understanding how business functions interrelate
• Developing an integrated approach to business
• Formulating and implementing business strategies
• Making effective decisions
• Gaining a broad perspective of results-oriented management
• Developing an individual leadership philosophy

• Prepare senior executives to lead the enterprise amid a global environment of increasing complexity and accelerating change
• Improve the company's business model and increase its profitability by introducing new tools, strategies, and frameworks
• Develop a robust succession plan to ensure stability and continuity at the top levels of the organization

• Implement effective strategies to increase profitability and long-term value
• Increase retention of hard-to-fill senior positions, both functional and cross-functional, by preparing participants to take on new responsibilities
• Reduce cost of organizational transitions and turnover to allow for a more vigorous success-planning process

• Accelerate readiness for leadership positions
• Ensure greater retention of high-potential leaders
• Drive results throughout the organization

• Aquire in-depth knowledge for formulating and implementing winning strategies in the global marketplace
• Gain a better understanding of your strengths and weaknesses to improve personal leadership performance
• Attain a higher level of confidence to respond proactively and make key decisions
• Better decision making
• Improve your ability to create and garner support for the company vision

• Improve your ability to provide informed insights and more effective analysis of key business issues
• Enhance your capacity to generate strategic alternatives and implement change
• Gain an action-oriented focus on leading people and creating value
• Acquire a transformed perspective that improves judgment and results in better decision making

• Enhance your capacity to lead cross-functional and corporate initiatives
• Acquire an in-depth understanding of core business functions and build foundational skills to integrate these functions across the organization
• Refined your ability to set priorities, delegate tasks, manage time and resources, and help drive team productivity

• Upon program completion, participants will become HBS alumni

• Upon program completion, participants will become HBS alumni

• PLD participants earn HBS alumni status by completing an additional 10 days (two credit weeks) of HBS Executive Education open-enrollment or custom programs. Participants have five years from the completion of either PLD or the qualifying program to fulfill these requirements. Qualifying programs include those completed within two years prior to the PLD start date.

Each participant must be nominated and supported by a company sponsor—an executive who is involved in the participant's development and who is committed to remaining engaged with the participant throughout the learning process. This indicates that the participant is considered to be an outstanding prospect for company leadership within the organization. Eligible candidates are full-time employees of their sponsoring organizations who agree to return to full-time managerial roles within their companies upon completion of the program.