Executive Education

What You Can Expect

In Strategic Finance for Smaller Businesses, you will explore the range of special financial challenges facing today's small-to-midsize business. Sharing your questions, insights, and learning with a group of talented peers, you will gain the perspective, knowledge, skills, and confidence to take control of your organization's financial strategy.

This HBS Executive Education Program will enhance your capacity to:

• Understand the flow and control of company finances
• Interpret financial data—and use that data to make sound business decisions
• Manage relationships with customers, creditors, silent partners, and other investors
• Calculate the ROI of various business activities
• Assess the impact of financial decisions on both short- and long-term profitability
• Balance profit, growth, and control
• Raise necessary capital while minimizing risk
• Leverage the company's financial position for maximum gain

How Will My Organization Benefit?

Executive Education programs at Harvard Business School are a significant investment for both you and your organization. Going far beyond the basic transmission of skills and theories, each leadership development program provides applicable lessons in the classroom that can be implemented successfully within your organization. You will acquire a fresh perspective on global business from our groundbreaking curriculum, world-renowned faculty, and an accomplished group of elite peers from around the world.

"My time spent at the program was beneficial to both me and my company. It definitely made me a much stronger manager and a better leader, and has given me more confidence and credibility among my peers with regard to financial issues. Given the new skills I have already been able to put to use, I believe the return on my company's investment in my HBS experience will be significant."
Kellie Haines [Chief Operating Officer], Axios Incorporated, U.S.