Leading Professional Service Firms
Professors DeLong and Fubini examine the issues facing today's firms.
Professors DeLong and Fubini examine the issues facing today's firms.
Summary
As entry barriers rapidly disappear, competition is accelerating and reshaping the business landscape for professional service firms. Navigating this continual change successfully requires extraordinary leadership abilities. This professional service firm management program provides the frameworks you need to develop and retain talent, deliver outstanding client service, and build a flexible corporate culture that can exploit disruptive innovation and market trends.
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Summary
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As entry barriers rapidly disappear, competition is accelerating and reshaping the business landscape for professional service firms. Navigating this continual change successfully requires extraordinary leadership abilities. This professional service firm management program provides the frameworks you need to develop and retain talent, deliver outstanding client service, and build a flexible corporate culture that can exploit disruptive innovation and market trends.
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Design and implement effective strategies that drive growth and profitDesign and implement effective strategies that drive growth and profit
- Differentiate your firm in the context of new competitors and market trends
- Sharpen core competencies to deliver maximum value to your clients
- Maintain strategic and operational alignment and focus through business ebbs and flows
Attract, develop, and retain talented professionalsAttract, develop, and retain talented professionals
- Foster both organizational success and individual achievement
- Create an intimate, flexible culture that is inclusive, supportive, and collegial
- Help professionals manage rising expectations, remain productive, and grow throughout their careers
- Develop leaders at all levels of your organization
Become a more effective, impactful leaderBecome a more effective, impactful leader
- Implement meaningful governance, decision-making, performance approaches, and metrics
- Optimize the use of your time and energy, achieve work-life balance, and help your colleagues to do the same
- Communicate your vision and strategy effectively and inspire others to realize their potential
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 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
- Leaders who define and execute strategy for firms and organizations that provide services and who serve in roles such as chief executive officer, general manager, principal, partner, or head of an office, business unit, or practice
- Participants may be responsible for accounting, architecture and engineering, marketing and advertising, venture capital, investment banking, software development, technical systems integration or law firm management, or may represent a hospital or university
- May also be suitable for: Past participants who attended the program before 2017, when the curriculum was substantially revised and expanded
Program for Leadership Development participants earn 5 PLDA Points on completion of this program.
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Who Should Attend
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- Leaders who define and execute strategy for firms and organizations that provide services and who serve in roles such as chief executive officer, general manager, principal, partner, or head of an office, business unit, or practice
- Participants may be responsible for accounting, architecture and engineering, marketing and advertising, venture capital, investment banking, software development, technical systems integration or law firm management, or may represent a hospital or university
- May also be suitable for: Past participants who attended the program before 2017, when the curriculum was substantially revised and expanded
Program for Leadership Development participants earn 5 PLDA Points on completion of this program.
Dive Deeper into the ExperienceSee how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
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
Professors DeLong and Fubini examine the issues facing today's firms.