Thought Leadership: Financial Management Programs

Today's Financial World and Challenges
An Executive Education Video

The economic environment has changed dramatically over the past several years. Far from the rising tide that enabled widespread prosperity through the middle of the last decade, the current economy has yet to emerge from the recent global financial crisis. According to Bob Kaplan, Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, the lingering effects of this crisis present today’s organizations with two daunting challenges. Find out how sluggish growth and elevated debt are standing in the way of economic recovery.

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Leadership in Financial Organizations

Dates and Fees

  • July 8–12, 2012 (HBS Campus)

  • $8,500

Investigate the critical leadership issues that confront high-level executives of financial institutions in today's challenging economy. This program, designed for managing directors and high-level leaders, explores risk management, ethical obligations, regulatory controls, and other demands placed on today's companies. You will learn to lead franchises, teams, and entire organizations more effectively.

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Driving Corporate Performance

Dates and Fees

  • July 15–20, 2012 (HBS Campus)

  • $11,000

Senior financial executives learn to design effective control systems for their firms in this program emphasizing strategic alignment. As you explore the relationship between a company's strategy, economics, and control systems, you gain the ability to design, implement, and manage systems that align the entire organization in pursuit of company goals—thereby advancing your company's strategy and improving its financial position.

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Finance for Senior Executives

Dates and Fees

  • July 15–21, 2012 (HBS Campus)

  • $11,750

Senior executives acquire a broader, deeper understanding of corporate finance in this program designed for the non-specialist. This offering provides insight into corporate finance as practiced by today's best-run companies. You will increase your contributions to your company by mastering frameworks for establishing the best financial systems and learning how to read capital markets, evaluate market strategies, and maintain financial equilibrium.

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Private Equity and Venture Capital

Dates and Fees

  • October 28–November 1, 2012 (HBS Campus)

  • $10,000

Build a successful investment strategy and improve your effectiveness at all stages of a deal, even in today's turbulent market. In this program, you examine critical aspects of investing, such as negotiation strategy and portfolio management, while exploring industry models—from venture capital to growth equity to buyouts. You emerge with practical approaches to industry infrastructure, portfolio strategies, and decision making.

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Corporate Restructuring, Mergers, and Acquisitions

Dates and Fees

  • November 4–7, 2012 (HBS Campus)

  • $8,250

A tumultuous market can be a rare opportunity to create value. This program helps executives take advantage of corporate restructuring options. As you examine the complexities of different strategic options and the ways each approach creates value, you will acquire a portfolio of proven financial management strategies that can be implemented to sustain and enhance your firm's position—even in times of instability.

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Risk Management for Corporate Leaders

Dates and Fees

  • December 2–7, 2012 (HBS Campus)

  • $11,250

By exploring the three levels of risk hierarchy, you will learn how to help your company turn risk into opportunity. You will develop a scorecard that incorporates risk into strategy execution, and build processes that anticipate, prioritize, and mitigate unknown threats across the enterprise.

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Driving Corporate Performance – China

Dates and Fees

  • January 2013 (Harvard Center Shanghai)

  • $8,500

Discover how to create strategic alignment by exploring the vital connections between company strategy, economics, and control systems. A collaboration between HBS and Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, this program helps executives design, implement, and manage systems that focus an organization on business goals and in turn, improve performance and enhance corporate value.

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Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Evaluation

Dates and Fees

  • March 24–27, 2013 (HBS Campus)

  • $8,250

Develop the skills to analyze company financial data accurately and strategically in this program focused on improving executive decision making. Whether your concern is your own company, competitors, or potential acquisitions, you will master tools and techniques that give you a comprehensive view of any business, so you can monitor and forecast performance, measure profitability, assess competitiveness, and analyze restructuring opportunities.

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