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    Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation

    Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation
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    • Dates: 04–09 DEC 2022
    • Format: In-Person
    • Location: HBS Campus
    • Fee: $15,750
    • The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
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    Linda A. Hill, faculty member,  General Management Program HBS Executive Education

    "Participants learn how to unleash the creative potential in their colleagues and create a more innovative organization."

    Linda A. Hill
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    Maurizio Travaglini
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    "Participants learn how to unleash the creative potential in their colleagues and create a more innovative organization."

    Linda A. Hill
    Faculty Chair
    Maurizio Travaglini
    Faculty
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    Leslie Goldman

    "This program has helped me inspire my team to think and act with fresh energy and vision."

    Leslie Goldman
    Vice President, Global Cause Partnerships, UNICEF USA, U.S.
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    "This program has helped me inspire my team to think and act with fresh energy and vision."

    Leslie Goldman
    Vice President, Global Cause Partnerships, UNICEF USA, U.S.
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    Summary

    Today's leaders are evolving their approaches to leadership and innovation in response to quantum shifts in how we work and live—shifts that have been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the midst of economic, societal, and technological disruptions, leaders must build and lead agile organizations able to collaborate, leverage digital assets, and innovate again and again.

    This lab-style leadership program immerses you in every stage of the innovation process. You'll roll up your sleeves and experience first-hand what it really takes to build the culture and capabilities required to encourage collaborative problem-solving, creative thinking, rapid iteration, and learning from success and failure. You will focus on addressing one of your organization's innovation challenges—and return to work ready to foster the innovations that will drive your organization's competitive advantage and growth.

    This corporate innovation program is offered in cooperation with the HBS Leadership Initiative.

    This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More

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    Summary

    Today's leaders are evolving their approaches to leadership and innovation in response to quantum shifts in how we work and live—shifts that have been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the midst of economic, societal, and technological disruptions, leaders must build and lead agile organizations able to collaborate, leverage digital assets, and innovate again and again.

    This lab-style leadership program immerses you in every stage of the innovation process. You'll roll up your sleeves and experience first-hand what it really takes to build the culture and capabilities required to encourage collaborative problem-solving, creative thinking, rapid iteration, and learning from success and failure. You will focus on addressing one of your organization's innovation challenges—and return to work ready to foster the innovations that will drive your organization's competitive advantage and growth.

    This corporate innovation program is offered in cooperation with the HBS Leadership Initiative.

    This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More

    Key Benefits
    Focusing on the nature of innovation and on your leadership practice, you will expand your personal effectiveness in building an organization able to execute innovative ideas at scale. As you explore the culture and capabilities needed to inspire organization-wide innovation, you will practice the behaviors and skills needed to drive innovation and change, deepening your understanding of what it takes to lead creative and collaborative teams that empower everyone to innovate.

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    • Improve your organization's ability to collaborate and innovate boldly and consistently
    • Innovate in the face of today's competitive pressures and prepare to take advantage of longer-term opportunities while meeting shorter-term objectives
    • Work effectively with peers and upper management to facilitate necessary change and realize the potential of pioneering ideas
    • Embrace your role as change agent
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    • Create a supportive environment that enables people to take risks, experiment, and learn from failures
    • Unleash the diverse talent in your organization to create "collective genius"
    • Manage your network of relationships with colleagues, employees, and other stakeholders to break down barriers to change
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    • Expand your leadership practice to encourage behaviors that drive creative thinking and a new level of collaborative learning across your team and organization
    • Create a culture that promotes both incremental and breakthrough change
    • Build agility and respond more effectively to shifting priorities
    • Execute innovative ideas at scale
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    • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries
    • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

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    Focusing on the nature of innovation and on your leadership practice, you will expand your personal effectiveness in building an organization able to execute innovative ideas at scale. As you explore the culture and capabilities needed to inspire organization-wide innovation, you will practice the behaviors and skills needed to drive innovation and change, deepening your understanding of what it takes to lead creative and collaborative teams that empower everyone to innovate.
    Details

    Help your organization achieve ambitious goals in complex and uncertain times

    • Improve your organization's ability to collaborate and innovate boldly and consistently
    • Innovate in the face of today's competitive pressures and prepare to take advantage of longer-term opportunities while meeting shorter-term objectives
    • Work effectively with peers and upper management to facilitate necessary change and realize the potential of pioneering ideas
    • Embrace your role as change agent

    Bring out the best in people

    • Create a supportive environment that enables people to take risks, experiment, and learn from failures
    • Unleash the diverse talent in your organization to create "collective genius"
    • Manage your network of relationships with colleagues, employees, and other stakeholders to break down barriers to change

    Step up to new challenges

    • Expand your leadership practice to encourage behaviors that drive creative thinking and a new level of collaborative learning across your team and organization
    • Create a culture that promotes both incremental and breakthrough change
    • Build agility and respond more effectively to shifting priorities
    • Execute innovative ideas at scale

    Expand your personal and professional network

    • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries
    • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

    Who Should Attend

    • General managers who lead companies, business units, divisions, or other large-scale organizations, as well as executives with cross-functional responsibilities
    • Change management executives
    • Leaders focused on innovation, R&D, or IT, including chief innovation officers, chief technology officers, chief information officers, and chief HR executives
    • Leaders from corporate strategy, finance, legal, human resources, marketing, manufacturing, customer service, and sales

    Individuals and teams are welcome to attend. Participation by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact on your organization.

    Program for Leadership Development participants earn 5 PLDA Points on completion of this program.

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    Discover more about business. And yourself.Discover more about business. And yourself.
    Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
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    Who Should Attend

    • General managers who lead companies, business units, divisions, or other large-scale organizations, as well as executives with cross-functional responsibilities
    • Change management executives
    • Leaders focused on innovation, R&D, or IT, including chief innovation officers, chief technology officers, chief information officers, and chief HR executives
    • Leaders from corporate strategy, finance, legal, human resources, marketing, manufacturing, customer service, and sales

    Individuals and teams are welcome to attend. Participation by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact on your organization.

    Program for Leadership Development participants earn 5 PLDA Points on completion of this program.

    Dive Deeper into the Experience
    Play video
    Play video
    We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?
    Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video
    Play video
    Play video
    Discover more about business. And yourself.Discover more about business. And yourself.
    Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video
    Play video
    Play video
    Inside the ClassroomInside the Classroom
    See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video

    Learning and Living at HBS

    When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.

    Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols

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    Learning and Living at HBS

    When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.

    Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols

    Admissions Criteria and Process

    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.
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    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. You will be invoiced upon admission to the program. Invoices are due within 30 days of receipt, or upon receipt if the program start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.

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    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.

    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. You will be invoiced upon admission to the program. Invoices are due within 30 days of receipt, or upon receipt if the program start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.

    What You Will Learn

    Immersing yourself in the process of exploration, experimentation, failure, and examination, you will discover new ways to surface and develop ideas, discuss them openly, evolve them, and set the stage for ongoing innovation. As you dig into the characteristics of innovative organizations, you will learn what it takes to lead the changes that transform promising ideas into reality.

    Balancing Collaboration and Personal Reflection

    While this innovation program emphasizes collaboration, you also will engage in guided self-reflection and a unique approach to peer-to-peer collaboration that is designed to boost your creativity and expand your innovation mindset.

    Your Innovation Challenge

    During the program, you will work with a team of peers, known as a "brain trust," to spark new thinking on innovation and help you evolve your ideas. You'll have the opportunity to focus on an innovation leadership challenge facing your organization, share your approach with your brain trust, and iterate your solutions with their help.

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    What You Will Learn

    Immersing yourself in the process of exploration, experimentation, failure, and examination, you will discover new ways to surface and develop ideas, discuss them openly, evolve them, and set the stage for ongoing innovation. As you dig into the characteristics of innovative organizations, you will learn what it takes to lead the changes that transform promising ideas into reality.

    Balancing Collaboration and Personal Reflection

    While this innovation program emphasizes collaboration, you also will engage in guided self-reflection and a unique approach to peer-to-peer collaboration that is designed to boost your creativity and expand your innovation mindset.

    Your Innovation Challenge

    During the program, you will work with a team of peers, known as a "brain trust," to spark new thinking on innovation and help you evolve your ideas. You'll have the opportunity to focus on an innovation leadership challenge facing your organization, share your approach with your brain trust, and iterate your solutions with their help.

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    Understanding the realities of innovationUnderstanding the realities of innovation
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    • Anaylzing the differences between execution, innovation, and change
    • Considering innovation broadly, not limited to products and services
    • Exploring how innovation can become a mandate for everyone in every function
    • Identifying common practices that can stifle collaboration and innovation
    • Understanding what contextual intelligence is and how to apply it to thrive in different environments
    Developing a leadership approach that fosters innovationDeveloping a leadership approach that fosters innovation
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    • Interpreting the responsibility for driving innovation
    • Framing the leader's role as social architect
    • Playing the role of change agent and advocating for change at different levels of your organization
    • Embracing the often-messy process of collaborative innovation
    • Balancing the inherent tensions and paradoxes of leading innovation
    • Fulfilling three key leadership imperatives—managing yourself, your team, and your network—in ways that facilitate innovation
    Instilling habits that can unleash creative potential throughout your organizationInstilling habits that can unleash creative potential throughout your organization
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    • Creating more opportunities for creative collaboration
    • Recognizing how diversity expands the range of possibilities and elicits more and better ideas
    • Fostering trust and a shared sense of purpose and values
    • Understanding and managing creative abrasion, creative agility, and creative resolution
    • Institutionalizing experimentation, risk-taking, and the tolerance for failure
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    • Organizing spaces that support collaborative problem solving
    • Introducing new, innovation-specific rules of engagement
    • Developing an effective marketplace of new ideas
    • Developing processes to support the generation of breakthrough innovations while simultaneously maintaining existing business operations
    • Identifying and overcoming obstacles to collaboration and innovation
    • Evolving decision-making processes to align with the nature of innovation
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    • Analyzing and managing the implications and trade-offs of promising new ideas
    • Leading the changes needed to experiment with an innovative solution
    • Dealing with the obstacles to change
    • Working with different constituencies in your organization to ensure successful implementation

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    Understanding the realities of innovation

    • Anaylzing the differences between execution, innovation, and change
    • Considering innovation broadly, not limited to products and services
    • Exploring how innovation can become a mandate for everyone in every function
    • Identifying common practices that can stifle collaboration and innovation
    • Understanding what contextual intelligence is and how to apply it to thrive in different environments

    Developing a leadership approach that fosters innovation

    • Interpreting the responsibility for driving innovation
    • Framing the leader's role as social architect
    • Playing the role of change agent and advocating for change at different levels of your organization
    • Embracing the often-messy process of collaborative innovation
    • Balancing the inherent tensions and paradoxes of leading innovation
    • Fulfilling three key leadership imperatives—managing yourself, your team, and your network—in ways that facilitate innovation

    Instilling habits that can unleash creative potential throughout your organization

    • Creating more opportunities for creative collaboration
    • Recognizing how diversity expands the range of possibilities and elicits more and better ideas
    • Fostering trust and a shared sense of purpose and values
    • Understanding and managing creative abrasion, creative agility, and creative resolution
    • Institutionalizing experimentation, risk-taking, and the tolerance for failure

    Creating structures that support innovation in your organization

    • Organizing spaces that support collaborative problem solving
    • Introducing new, innovation-specific rules of engagement
    • Developing an effective marketplace of new ideas
    • Developing processes to support the generation of breakthrough innovations while simultaneously maintaining existing business operations
    • Identifying and overcoming obstacles to collaboration and innovation
    • Evolving decision-making processes to align with the nature of innovation

    Transforming innovative ideas into reality

    • Analyzing and managing the implications and trade-offs of promising new ideas
    • Leading the changes needed to experiment with an innovative solution
    • Dealing with the obstacles to change
    • Working with different constituencies in your organization to ensure successful implementation

    The HBS Advantage

    Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by top faculty who are widely recognized as 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 Chair
    Linda A. Hill
    Linda A. Hill
    Linda A. Hill

    Linda A. Hill

    Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration

    HBS Unit:
    Organizational Behavior

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    Faculty
    Ann Le Cam
    Ann Le Cam
    Ann Le Cam

    Ann Le Cam

    Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School

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    Ryan L. Raffaelli
    Ryan L. Raffaelli
    Ryan L. Raffaelli

    Ryan L. Raffaelli

    Marvin Bower Associate Professor

    HBS Unit:
    Organizational Behavior

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    Maurizio Travaglini
    Maurizio Travaglini
    Maurizio Travaglini

    Maurizio Travaglini

    Ècole des Ponts Business School:

    Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Innovation

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    The HBS Advantage

    Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by top faculty who are widely recognized as 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 Chair
    Linda A. Hill
    Linda A. Hill
    Linda A. Hill

    Linda A. Hill

    Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration

    HBS Unit:
    Organizational Behavior

    Read Full Bio

    Faculty
    Ann Le Cam
    Ann Le Cam
    Ann Le Cam

    Ann Le Cam

    Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School

    Read Full Bio

    Ryan L. Raffaelli
    Ryan L. Raffaelli
    Ryan L. Raffaelli

    Ryan L. Raffaelli

    Marvin Bower Associate Professor

    HBS Unit:
    Organizational Behavior

    Read Full Bio

    Maurizio Travaglini
    Maurizio Travaglini
    Maurizio Travaglini

    Maurizio Travaglini

    Ècole des Ponts Business School:

    Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Innovation

    Read Full Bio

    Your Peers Expand Your Learning

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    Participating Companies Have Included:
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    Swiss Federal Railways
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    Middle East
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    Top Industries Represented
    Insights from a range of industries ignite your thinking.
    Insights from a range of industries ignite your thinking.
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    Nonprofit Services
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    Manufacturing
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    Manufacturing
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    13% 10-14 years10-14 years
    21% 15-19 years15-19 years
    29% 20-24 years20-24 years
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