Investment in the Future
Why AMP?
Unparalleled Resources – The Harvard University community offers a wealth of educational resources. Participants will interact daily with world-renowned HBS faculty members—intellectual thought leaders who pioneered the business concepts practiced by top executives worldwide. With access to Baker Library—the world's largest business archives—participants are immersed in an unrivaled learning experience.
Highly Relevant Curriculum – The faculty continually updates the AMP curriculum, using the newest cases and the latest teaching materials to address the most recent trends and innovations. This year's program content reflects the current economic climate and includes special sessions on the global financial crisis. For participants, the learning experience is both profound and practical. Equipped with actionable frameworks and tools, they return to their companies truly transformed—extraordinary leaders for extraordinary times.
Global Peer Network – Over the course of eight weeks, a highly accomplished group of executives comes together to exchange valuable insights and share a once-in-a-lifetime learning experience. To promote diversity and reinforce the extraordinary sense of community, participants are assigned living groups that remain intact throughout the program. As a result, AMP graduates become part of an elite network that provides ongoing support and insight throughout their careers.
Intensive Learning Environment – For more than 60 years, this carefully crafted program has been refined to promote intensive learning on multiple levels. The result is a profound educational experience that fosters professional, intellectual, and personal development. From classroom sessions and case discussions to personal coaching and peer-to-peer learning, many processes are combined to create an optimal learning environment.
Legacy of Effectiveness – With more than 20,000 graduates to date, AMP has become one of the top programs for organizations seeking to prepare their executives to step into the most senior leadership positions. As evidence of its effectiveness, one in every ten Fortune 500 senior executives are AMP alumni. Understanding the power of this program, many companies send one or more promising senior leaders to AMP each year—helping to create teams of leaders who speak the same language, embrace the same values, and promote the same culture.
Why Eight Weeks?
Proven Learning Format – Achieving the management expertise and personal development required for senior leadership demands an uninterrupted commitment: the time to abandon preconditioned points of view, explore new alternatives, and adopt new attitudes and behaviors. Away from the daily demands and distractions of the office and home, AMP participants are afforded the rarest of commodities: time to tailor specific and effective strategies for execution within their own organizations.
"My mission was to go deep into those subjects where I haven’t had professional or educational training. Now I have a better feel for how those areas are impacting the entire company as well as the area in which I’m working. So I feel much better prepared to be a part of the senior leadership team—and to make change happen."
Rich Crawford [Chief Technology and Operations Officer], Owens-Illinois, Inc., U.S.