What You Can Expect
Focusing on the unique challenges that today's financial situation
present, The Corporate Leader is designed to provide you with an
in-depth understanding of your role as a driver of corporate
performance—from supporting individual business units and building
strong teams to crafting effective compensation and incentive programs
to facilitating effective corporate-division relationships. You will
leave the program with valuable tools and proven concepts that ensure
that your actions contribute directly to corporate and business unit
success.
As an executive working at the corporate level, you are presented
with a wide range of competing priorities as you strive to help your
multidivisional or multinational company achieve its potential.
Recognizing that many of the issues addressed at the corporate level are
fundamentally different from those facing business unit leaders, the
Harvard Business School Executive Education program The Corporate Leader
provides a thorough grounding in the role of corporate executive.
By completing this program, you will be better able to:
- Cultivate a leadership approach that meets the needs of a
multibusiness company
- Manage the competing demands on leaders of a multibusiness
company—from capital markets, product markets, and diverse
constituencies within the company
- Think critically about all potential sources of value and
strategic advantage—including innovation within existing businesses, as
well as acquisitions, strategic partnerships, restructuring, or
spin-offs
- Develop maximally productive relationships with colleagues in the
corporate office, with business unit leaders, and—by disseminating
corporate vision—with every employee who contributes to your company's
success
- Understand how corporations go astray, and how corporate leaders
can prevent common problems
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.
"Every now and then, it is good to be confronted with—and immersed
in—one's role within the company. Otherwise, one tends to become
completely absorbed by the daily pressures. The program gave me the
opportunity to step back and examine not only my corporate role, but
also my company's role within the community and the business
environment."
Matthias Seidl [Chief Operating Officer of Brand Volkswagen],
Volkswagen of America, Inc., U.S.