Even in challenging times, India continues to offer growth opportunities for local firms and multinational companies. To maintain a strategic advantage in this highly competitive region, business leaders must have the financial tools to translate their corporate mission into performance targets, align their organization in pursuit of those goals, and accurately measure and monitor their progress. This program presents an integrated framework for creating corporate value, improving enterprise performance, and expanding market share across Asia and the globe.
As part of Harvard's mission to build a truly global university, HBS has been cultivating stronger and deeper connections with India's business environment for more than a decade. Our engagement in this region, initiated with case studies focused on companies operating in India, has gradually expanded to include development initiatives for faculty in India, specialized education programs, analysis of local business challenges through the India Research Center, and a new state-of-the-art classroom at the Taj Lands End in Mumbai. Now, more than ever, HBS is committed to fostering a worldwide exchange of knowledge that will drive economic growth for years to come—in India and around the world.
This program examines the strategies and governance systems that successful companies are using to manage cost and improve performance. With the focus on delivering corporate value, this program explores how to manage operational and strategic risks and implement performance evaluation systems that drive results. You will emerge with a blueprint for achieving breakthrough performance and sustaining competitive advantage in a complex economic climate.
Improving Corporate Performance and Profitability—India explores the diverse strategies that winning companies use to create value and manage risk. You will learn how to use balanced scorecards to implement and inform your firm's strategy, drive customer profitability using activity-based costing, understand the key factors required to grow via acquisitions, improve your governance systems, and communicate corporate performance to your investors.
Developed for senior financial executives in large established companies who are responsible for designing and implementing systems to improve enterprise performance, this leadership training program is appropriate for chief financial officers, Chartered Accountants in the industry, vice presidents of finance, strategic planning officers, controllers, and others with planning, control, and accounting responsibilities.
Programs, dates, fees, and faculty are subject to change.
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