Finance for Senior Executives

Build your foundation in corporate finance. Help your company optimize financial resources and strengthen its bottom line.
- Dates
Sep 11 – 27, 2025
- Status
Accepting Applications
- Format
Blended
- Location
Virtual and HBS Campus
- Fee
$14,500
- Application Due
Sep 1, 2025
- Learning Track
The program fee covers tuition, program materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Speaking the language of corporate finance gives you the power to build stronger strategies, expand your influence, and make better business decisions.
Finance for Senior Executives gives leaders across every function a stronger grasp of corporate finance. You will build the skills and confidence to immediately apply financial analysis techniques, set realistic performance goals and compensation strategies, and drive new levels of profitability.
Key Program Features
Key Topics
Explore the interplay of financial resources, capital markets, and systems for financial management and control
Apply financial insight to make informed and strategic decisions about capital structure
Set executive performance goals and monitor compensation policies
Identify benchmarks and analysis techniques for your bottom line—including capital budgeting, cash flow, valuation, and risk analysis
Effectively manage the balance between profitability and growth
Confidently forecast and monitor the financial outcomes of strategic decisions
Become a more effective and collaborative leader through greater financial acumen
Program Format
- 2modules
- 12–15hours of self-paced learning
- 2half-days of live online learning
- 4days on the HBS campus
This program begins with a live online module that helps participants develop a shared foundational understanding of finance before arriving on campus.
Participants will receive a detailed schedule and case materials approximately two weeks before the program starts.
Module Details
Module 1 | Sep 11 – 18, 2025 | Part-Time | Virtual, Live Online and Self-Paced |
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Module 2 | Sep 24 – 27, 2025 | Full-Time | HBS Campus |
During Module 1, participants will attend live online sessions on Thursday, September 11 and Thursday, September 18 from 10:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. ET.
Who Should Attend
Executives from a variety of functional areas, including operations, marketing, information technology, human resources, research and development, legal affairs, and financial administration
Financial executives seeking to update their core skills in a broad strategic context
Global Perspective

Top Industries Represented
- 14%
Raw Materials / Energy
- 9%
Chem/Pharma/Bio
- 9%
Real Estate / Construction
- 8%
Financial
- 8%
Professional Services
- 7%
High Technology
- 7%
Manufacturing
- 6%
Consumer Products
- 6%
Health Care
- 4%
Transportation
Experience
Years Worked
- 2%
Less than 10 years
- 16%
10-14 years
- 23%
15-19 years
- 26%
20-24 years
- 20%
25-29 years
- 9%
30-34 years
- 3%
35-39 years
- 1%
40 or more
Companies That Have Participated
- Akamai
- BAE Systems
- BASF
- BHP Billiton Limited
- Christus Health
- The Coca-Cola Company
- Delta Air Lines
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Grupo Televisa, S.A.B.
- L.L. Bean
- Nucor
- USAA
Teaching Team
All our executive education programs are developed and taught by a team of widely recognized HBS faculty. Many are skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.
Faculty Cochairs
C. Fritz Foley
André R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for External Relations
W. Carl Kester
Baker Foundation Professor George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
The HBS Experience
This is a blended program that alternates in-person and virtual elements. Immersive modules take place on our storied campus where you'll live and learn at the heart of Boston's vibrant business, academic, and technology hubs. Virtual modules provide the opportunity to learn from anywhere in the world to provide flexibility for busy leaders.
At HBS, every detail is carefully calibrated to drive your success. Thoughtfully designed virtual learning experiences. Living arrangements and classrooms that spark connection. Unrivaled academic resources. And rejuvenating fitness, dining, and cultural amenities.

The dedicated Executive Education area of campus features multiple classroom buildings and three residence halls around a quad

Our well-appointed residence halls feature private bedrooms, living group lounges, and courtyards to fuel vibrant discussions
Admissions
We admit applicants on a rolling, space-available basis, so you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible.
The selective admissions process is based on professional achievement, organizational responsibility, and the admissions criteria for each program as described in Who Should Attend. There are no formal educational requirements for HBS Executive Education programs.
Program content, dates, schedule, fees, technology platforms, and faculty are subject to change. In accordance with Harvard University policy, Harvard Business School does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities.