Leading in the Digital Era
- Dates: 07–12 APR 2024
- Format: In-Person Learning takes place on the HBS campus or a designated location.
- Location: HBS Campus
- Fee: $14,500
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Application Due: 03 APR 2024
"Digital technology keeps evolving, so leaders and organizations need to evolve with it."
Summary
New digital technologies, data analytics, and new applications of artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly changing the expectations of customers, employees, and other stakeholders. Though many of today's executives are neither technology experts nor digital natives, the ability to leverage technology has become critical to the success in keeping a company competitive and driving growth. How can you get your organization to embrace technologies and data that hold extraordinary potential for delivering a differentiated customer experience? How can you build the culture and capabilities required for people to leverage those technologies?
Blending explorations of technology, organizational transformation, and leadership, this program will help you master the mindset, capabilities, and practices required to drive your organization toward digital maturity. As you examine strategies that can transform your organization, deliver more value, and build competitive advantage, you will benefit from cutting-edge research into the culture of companies and leaders undergoing digital transformation.
This program is offered in cooperation with the HBS Leadership Initiative.
This program is eligible for the Digital Transformation Certificate. Learn More
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Summary
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New digital technologies, data analytics, and new applications of artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly changing the expectations of customers, employees, and other stakeholders. Though many of today's executives are neither technology experts nor digital natives, the ability to leverage technology has become critical to the success in keeping a company competitive and driving growth. How can you get your organization to embrace technologies and data that hold extraordinary potential for delivering a differentiated customer experience? How can you build the culture and capabilities required for people to leverage those technologies?
Blending explorations of technology, organizational transformation, and leadership, this program will help you master the mindset, capabilities, and practices required to drive your organization toward digital maturity. As you examine strategies that can transform your organization, deliver more value, and build competitive advantage, you will benefit from cutting-edge research into the culture of companies and leaders undergoing digital transformation.
This program is offered in cooperation with the HBS Leadership Initiative.
This program is eligible for the Digital Transformation Certificate. Learn More
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Evolve new ways of leading and working that are more productive in the digital eraEvolve new ways of leading and working that are more productive in the digital era
- Adapt your leadership approach, behaviors, and capabilities to enable your organization to become digitally mature
- Lead and build a culture of collaboration, empowerment, and inclusion that bridges across generations, geographies, and functions
- Foster a shared sense of purpose throughout the organization
- Support your team and colleagues in leading change
- Continue your leadership growth as the business environment changes
Drive and accelerate digital transformation in your organizationDrive and accelerate digital transformation in your organization
- Address fundamental tensions that can inhibit both personal and organizational transformation
- Evolve your organization's culture and capabilities for the digital era
- Accelerate the adoption of digital tools and data to respond to a changing market
- Build and leverage ecosystems to accelerate innovation and resilience
Expand your personal and professional networkExpand your personal and professional network
- Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries around the globe
- Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions
Evolve new ways of leading and working that are more productive in the digital era
- Adapt your leadership approach, behaviors, and capabilities to enable your organization to become digitally mature
- Lead and build a culture of collaboration, empowerment, and inclusion that bridges across generations, geographies, and functions
- Foster a shared sense of purpose throughout the organization
- Support your team and colleagues in leading change
- Continue your leadership growth as the business environment changes
Drive and accelerate digital transformation in your organization
- Address fundamental tensions that can inhibit both personal and organizational transformation
- Evolve your organization's culture and capabilities for the digital era
- Accelerate the adoption of digital tools and data to respond to a changing market
- Build and leverage ecosystems to accelerate innovation and resilience
Expand your personal and professional network
- Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries around 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
- Senior executives and executive team members with significant leadership responsibilities, including but not limited to division heads, functional heads, or executives with P&L responsibility
- Executives in medium to large organizations in any country or industry, including organizations with digitally driven business models as well as those with more traditional business models
- Particularly appropriate for: Executives responsible for implementing the company's strategy or digital transformation, as well as those considering or currently running innovation labs, incubators and corporate accelerators
- Not appropriate for: Consultants or executives in professional service firms, unless they are currently leading a digital transformation for a client organization in which they are embedded
Individuals and teams are welcome to attend. Participation by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact on your organization.
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Who Should Attend
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- Senior executives and executive team members with significant leadership responsibilities, including but not limited to division heads, functional heads, or executives with P&L responsibility
- Executives in medium to large organizations in any country or industry, including organizations with digitally driven business models as well as those with more traditional business models
- Particularly appropriate for: Executives responsible for implementing the company's strategy or digital transformation, as well as those considering or currently running innovation labs, incubators and corporate accelerators
- Not appropriate for: Consultants or executives in professional service firms, unless they are currently leading a digital transformation for a client organization in which they are embedded
Individuals and teams are welcome to attend. Participation by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact on your organization.
Dive Deeper into the Experience
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.
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Learning and Living at HBS
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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
Answering Your Questions
Application Submission
Application Review
Fee, Payment, and Cancellations
Answering Your Questions
Application Submission
Application Review
Fee, Payment, and Cancellations
What You Will Learn
Through a rich learning experience that includes case studies, interactive faculty presentations, self-assessment tools, small group work, simulations, and immersive learning experiences, you will discover and practice new leadership approaches that will foster success in the digital era.
In addition to classroom case discussions, the program includes ample opportunity for formal and informal interaction with faculty and guest speakers, including an executive panel discussion on artificial intelligence (AI).
A Foundation for Your Personal Leadership Journey
The program takes you on a personal leadership journey by blending opportunities for introspection, interaction with peers and faculty, and the faculty's illuminating research into the experiences of leaders who have executed digital transformations. In a set of three sessions focused on helping you take change of your leadership journey, you will identify your key digital leadership challenges, reflect on how you can best strengthen your leadership skills in the digital era by evolving your mindset, behavior, and/or style, and receive input from peers.
Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.
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What You Will Learn
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Through a rich learning experience that includes case studies, interactive faculty presentations, self-assessment tools, small group work, simulations, and immersive learning experiences, you will discover and practice new leadership approaches that will foster success in the digital era.
In addition to classroom case discussions, the program includes ample opportunity for formal and informal interaction with faculty and guest speakers, including an executive panel discussion on artificial intelligence (AI).
The program takes you on a personal leadership journey by blending opportunities for introspection, interaction with peers and faculty, and the faculty's illuminating research into the experiences of leaders who have executed digital transformations. In a set of three sessions focused on helping you take change of your leadership journey, you will identify your key digital leadership challenges, reflect on how you can best strengthen your leadership skills in the digital era by evolving your mindset, behavior, and/or style, and receive input from peers.
Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.
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A Foundation for Your Personal Leadership Journey
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Through a rich learning experience that includes case studies, interactive faculty presentations, self-assessment tools, small group work, simulations, and immersive learning experiences, you will discover and practice new leadership approaches that will foster success in the digital era.
In addition to classroom case discussions, the program includes ample opportunity for formal and informal interaction with faculty and guest speakers, including an executive panel discussion on artificial intelligence (AI).
The program takes you on a personal leadership journey by blending opportunities for introspection, interaction with peers and faculty, and the faculty's illuminating research into the experiences of leaders who have executed digital transformations. In a set of three sessions focused on helping you take change of your leadership journey, you will identify your key digital leadership challenges, reflect on how you can best strengthen your leadership skills in the digital era by evolving your mindset, behavior, and/or style, and receive input from peers.
Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.
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Leadership imperatives in the digital eraLeadership imperatives in the digital era
- Recognizing which aspects of leadership are changing today and why
- Understanding how digital technologies have altered the expectations of employees, customers, investors, and society in general
- Exploring opportunities and challenges—internal and external—posed by new developments in artificial intelligence, including generative AI
- Analyzing why the stakes are rising for leaders
- Adapting to the speed of decision-making and the degree of uncertainty in today's business world
- Building partnerships and catalyzing innovation-focused ecosystems
Succeeding on the path to digital maturitySucceeding on the path to digital maturity
- Fostering a sense of purpose throughout the organization
- Creating a data culture and an organization that can make responsible data-informed decisions
- Embedding responsible and ethical judgment into business decisions
- Ensuring ethical uses of AI
- Earning stakeholder trust
- Enabling an outside-in perspective and developing contextual intelligence
Leading a digitally agile organizationLeading a digitally agile organization
- Supporting a "challenger" mindset and the willingness to disrupt
- Fostering continuous experimentation and learning in your organization
- Nurturing a culture of experimentation with customer needs at the center
- Encouraging and instilling a culture of curiosity and creativity
- Accessing new capabilities through innovation labs and corporate accelerators
- Helping employees develop new capabilities needed as the company matures
Collaboration at scale and distributed leadershipCollaboration at scale and distributed leadership
- Distributing data-informed decision-making and enabling agile co-creation throughout the organization
- Leading for co-creation vs. "followership"
- Bringing together people with diverse skills and experiences to solve problems
- Collaborating across remote and hybrid teams to strengthen culture and foster accountability
- Empowering employees to solve problems and feel greater ownership
Leading for success in the digital eraLeading for success in the digital era
- Identifying and overcoming assumptions—in yourself and others—that may interfere with adopting new mindsets and behaviors
- Becoming a digital change agent—and empowering other change agents in your organization to innovate
- Understanding what it takes to align digital natives and digital immigrants in the digital transformation journey
- Leveraging the insights and experiences of digital natives to inform vision and change
Leadership imperatives in the digital era
- Recognizing which aspects of leadership are changing today and why
- Understanding how digital technologies have altered the expectations of employees, customers, investors, and society in general
- Exploring opportunities and challenges—internal and external—posed by new developments in artificial intelligence, including generative AI
- Analyzing why the stakes are rising for leaders
- Adapting to the speed of decision-making and the degree of uncertainty in today's business world
- Building partnerships and catalyzing innovation-focused ecosystems
Succeeding on the path to digital maturity
- Fostering a sense of purpose throughout the organization
- Creating a data culture and an organization that can make responsible data-informed decisions
- Embedding responsible and ethical judgment into business decisions
- Ensuring ethical uses of AI
- Earning stakeholder trust
- Enabling an outside-in perspective and developing contextual intelligence
Leading a digitally agile organization
- Supporting a "challenger" mindset and the willingness to disrupt
- Fostering continuous experimentation and learning in your organization
- Nurturing a culture of experimentation with customer needs at the center
- Encouraging and instilling a culture of curiosity and creativity
- Accessing new capabilities through innovation labs and corporate accelerators
- Helping employees develop new capabilities needed as the company matures
Collaboration at scale and distributed leadership
- Distributing data-informed decision-making and enabling agile co-creation throughout the organization
- Leading for co-creation vs. "followership"
- Bringing together people with diverse skills and experiences to solve problems
- Collaborating across remote and hybrid teams to strengthen culture and foster accountability
- Empowering employees to solve problems and feel greater ownership
Leading for success in the digital era
- Identifying and overcoming assumptions—in yourself and others—that may interfere with adopting new mindsets and behaviors
- Becoming a digital change agent—and empowering other change agents in your organization to innovate
- Understanding what it takes to align digital natives and digital immigrants in the digital transformation journey
- Leveraging the insights and experiences of digital natives to inform vision and change
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.
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration
Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration
Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration
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The HBS Advantage
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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.
Faculty ChairWallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:Organizational BehaviorFacultyJakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:MarketingMBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
HBS Unit:Entrepreneurial ManagementMBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration
HBS Unit:Entrepreneurial ManagementPaul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration
HBS Units:Organizational BehaviorEntrepreneurial Management
Your Peers Expand Your Learning
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Your Peers Expand Your Learning
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