Market-leading organizations must constantly innovate, adjust to new business conditions, and seize opportunities before competitors do. Focused on leading organizational change, this program explores how to create a nimble organization that balances innovation with performance—and experimentation with financial stability. You will return to your company prepared to build change strategies that inspire organizational change and drive corporate success.
This program was developed through a unique collaboration with the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is also offered at that institution.
This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More
Market-leading organizations must constantly innovate, adjust to new business conditions, and seize opportunities before competitors do. Focused on leading organizational change, this program explores how to create a nimble organization that balances innovation with performance—and experimentation with financial stability. You will return to your company prepared to build change strategies that inspire organizational change and drive corporate success.
This program was developed through a unique collaboration with the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is also offered at that institution.
This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More
Key Benefits
Delving into the challenges of leading and managing change, this program prepares you to drive organizational evolution and innovation as the business environment rapidly evolves. You will gain new insight into the strategies used by top global companies to eliminate roadblocks to change—and improve your ability to become an effective agent of corporate change and organizational renewal.
Delving into the challenges of leading and managing change, this program prepares you to drive organizational evolution and innovation as the business environment rapidly evolves. You will gain new insight into the strategies used by top global companies to eliminate roadblocks to change—and improve your ability to become an effective agent of corporate change and organizational renewal.
Details
Drive the changes your organization needs to thrive
Anticipate, evaluate, and proactively respond to external shifts
Analyze disruptive technologies as both threats and opportunities
Build and lead more effective change strategies
Nurture innovation and agility across your organization
Diagnose organizational problems that hinder innovation
Embed new ways of doing things within your corporate culture
Build a shared vision of success around change initiatives
Promote organizational flexibility from the top down
Recognize how leadership styles and senior team characteristics affect change
Make better decisions about change initiatives—even with insufficient information
Develop internal communication networks essential to driving initiatives forward
Help your leadership team develop the skills of "change champions"
Expand your personal and professional network
Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for senior executives at companies of all sizes and stages—from current market leaders to fast-growing midsize competitors to dynamic emerging companies.
HBS gives admission preference to senior management teams composed of four to eight individuals. Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact on your organization.
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Inside the Classroom
See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.
This program is designed for senior executives at companies of all sizes and stages—from current market leaders to fast-growing midsize competitors to dynamic emerging companies.
HBS gives admission preference to senior management teams composed of four to eight individuals. Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact on your organization.
Dive Deeper into the Experience
Inside the Classroom
See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.
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.
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.
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.
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. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals 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.
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. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals 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
In a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, case studies, group discussions, and project-oriented working groups, you will tackle the challenges of leading organizational change from the diverse perspectives of innovation, organizational structure and culture, leadership, and risk management. Studying the implementation of proven models, you will discover practical approaches that balance short-term success with long-term innovation.
Working each day in small groups, you will focus on a project related to a specific challenge you face in your organization. Exchanging insights with peers and a faculty facilitator, you will explore common problems, diagnose performance gaps, strengthen your judgment, and develop an action plan for driving successful change
In a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, case studies, group discussions, and project-oriented working groups, you will tackle the challenges of leading organizational change from the diverse perspectives of innovation, organizational structure and culture, leadership, and risk management. Studying the implementation of proven models, you will discover practical approaches that balance short-term success with long-term innovation.
Working each day in small groups, you will focus on a project related to a specific challenge you face in your organization. Exchanging insights with peers and a faculty facilitator, you will explore common problems, diagnose performance gaps, strengthen your judgment, and develop an action plan for driving successful change
Avoiding organizational inertia and falling victim to past successes
Discovering how performance is affected by industry standards, dominant designs, technological substitution, and disruptive technologies
Gaining insight into how technology cycles drive organizational evolution and innovation
Building an organizational architecture to encourage managerial problem-solving
Understanding the relationship among strategy, culture, and execution
Identifying your current cultural challenges and areas for change
Creating a culture that values both stability and exploration
Configuring an organization to support your strategies, objectives, and vision
Developing the right human resource capabilities
Crafting the right leadership style
Shaping innovation, learning, and change by cultivating your leadership style and behavior
Knowing which levers can shape organizational capabilities and how to use them
Juggling contradictory pressures
Inspiring your senior team to effectively manage change
Enabling innovation through strategy and execution
Identifying the processes that create successful innovations
Working with managers to tailor strategies for a dynamic business world
Becoming an ambidextrous organization
Aligning structure and management approach to the challenge at hand
Managing for short-term efficiency by emphasizing stability and control
Spurring long-term innovation through risk-taking and experimentation
Winning through innovation: the senior team's role
Creating highly differentiated units within an integrated organization
Succeeding through a clearly articulated common vision, careful team composition, and the right system of rewards
Sourcing knowledge through open innovation
Managing technological change in firms and communities through distributed innovation systems
Capitalizing on the emergence of open source software and collective intelligence for innovative product development
Finding and incorporating knowledge from outside the organization
Designing service excellence
Refining your organization's approach to designing, managing, and improving service experiences
Leading service innovation from the multiple perspectives of customers, employees, and owners
Delivering on customer promises while creating value for broader stakeholders
The HBS Advantage
Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS 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.
Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS 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.
Program content, dates, fees, 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.
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