Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

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Drive transformation at scale and ensure your company thrives at a time of AI acceleration, market disruption, and unprecedented change.

The program fee covers tuition, program materials, accommodations, and most meals.

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Organizations and leaders face unprecedented change driven by AI, new technologies, and shifting competitive dynamics. Leaders must not only respond to these forces but shape them as well.

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal equips you to lead organization-wide change and transformation. With a focus on integrating AI and other emerging technologies, you will go beyond frameworks—working hands-on with faculty and a dedicated executive coach to diagnose and prioritize the critical challenges facing your team, test solutions, and refine your approach in real time.

Key Program Features

Key Topics

  • Drive organizational transformation through an expanded personal leadership toolkit

  • Provide the guidance and inspiration critical to effective strategic execution across the organization

  • Build an ambidextrous organization that can adapt quickly to changing dynamics and strategies

  • Identify and overcome barriers to change by aligning culture, capabilities, processes, and structure

  • Understand how to translate company purpose into new strategies in the context of the current and emerging market environment

  • Leverage AI in designing change initiatives as well as shaping new organizational processes

  • Foster a culture that encourages greater risk-taking, and a willingness to break from outdated practices that AI threatens to displace

Program Format

  • 6
    days on the HBS campus
  • 12–15
    hours of pre-program work

Case materials and a detailed schedule will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.

Who Should Attend

  • Senior executives at companies of all sizes and stages

  • Leaders responsible for implementing AI, guiding major technological change, or managing strategic inflection points

Individuals and teams are welcome to attend. Sending five to ten individuals from your organization fosters teamwork and amplifies program impact.

HBS also offers a self-paced, online version of this program for individuals with less work experience or teams over 20.

Global Perspective

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8%
Africa
18%
Asia Pacific
29%
Europe
5%
Latin America
8%
Middle East
32%
North America

Top Industries Represented

  • 17%

    Financial

  • 9%

    Manufacturing

  • 9%

    Nonprofit Services

  • 7%

    Health Care

  • 7%

    High Technology

  • 7%

    Raw Materials / Energy

  • 5%

    Chem/Pharma/Bio

  • 5%

    Education

  • 5%

    Real Estate / Construction

  • 3%

    Consumer Products

Experience

Years Worked

  • 4%

    Less than 10 years

  • 9%

    10-14 years

  • 19%

    15-19 years

  • 28%

    20-24 years

  • 18%

    25-29 years

  • 13%

    30-34 years

  • 7%

    35-39 years

  • 2%

    40 or more

Companies That Have Participated

  • Ameriabank
  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • Fiji National Provident Fund
  • Heritage Bank
  • Hewlett Packard
  • Kernel
  • National Bank of Kuwait
  • Red Bull
  • Sampath Bank Plc
  • Swisscom
  • UNIQA Insurance Group

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.

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The HBS Experience

This in-person program takes place on our storied campus where you'll live and learn at the heart of Boston's vibrant business, academic, and technology hubs.

At HBS, every detail is carefully calibrated to drive your success. Living arrangements and classrooms that spark connection. Unrivaled academic resources. And rejuvenating fitness, dining, and cultural amenities.

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

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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.

Learn more about the admissions process and requirements.

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.