Building Businesses in Turbulent Times Leading Privately Held Companies

New Program

Whether you are the owner or an executive of a privately held or family business, you face unprecedented and mounting pressure. Navigating a faltering economy, your customers, employees, partners, and investors are concerned about the future. In response, you must craft innovative strategies that secure your business, build a path for growth, strengthen your organization, and negotiate financing in tough times. This new, comprehensive program delivers a powerful array of tools, along with a timely perspective on how to turn today's economic challenge into tomorrow's success.

What You Can Expect
For two weeks, you will step back from your day-to-day responsibilities and focus on growing your leadership capacity, while learning how other companies are achieving success in an uncertain economy. You will return to your company with the proven frameworks for assessing opportunities and tackling challenges with confidence.

Your Course of Study
This program is tailored to the unique challenges facing leaders of private companies. Through case studies, classroom exercises, and discussions of the latest research, you will explore external business conditions, organizational structure and function, and the role of leadership in growing your company.

Who Is Right for the Program
This leadership development program is designed primarily for general managers of small and midsize companies. It also is appropriate for alumni of the School's Owner/President Management (OPM) program who want to update their skills and address the challenges of the current downturn. Participants include chief executive officers, chief operating officers, presidents, or vice presidents with responsibility for company strategy, organizational restructuring, and financing resources.

Dates and Fees
April 11–23, 2010
Fee:$22,000

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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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