Blockchain, machine learning, big data, artificial intelligence, and other innovations in fintech are revolutionizing the finance industry—and creating new challenges for both startups and incumbent firms that are competing for market share. To succeed in this environment, startups have to build, fund, and grow an innovative operation that can outperform larger companies, while incumbent firms have to rethink their offerings and digital capabilities to safeguard against disruption. You will explore best practices for managing these issues, consider the latest breakthroughs in fintech, and establish a game plan for your company—whether you're driving or defending against disruption.
Blockchain, machine learning, big data, artificial intelligence, and other innovations in fintech are revolutionizing the finance industry—and creating new challenges for both startups and incumbent firms that are competing for market share. To succeed in this environment, startups have to build, fund, and grow an innovative operation that can outperform larger companies, while incumbent firms have to rethink their offerings and digital capabilities to safeguard against disruption. You will explore best practices for managing these issues, consider the latest breakthroughs in fintech, and establish a game plan for your company—whether you're driving or defending against disruption.
Key Benefits
This fintech innovation program will enable you to navigate a shifting competitive landscape and make strategic decisions that will position your firm for growth—whether you work in the credit, insurance, asset management, or real estate market. You will develop a deeper understanding of the frictions that fintech aims to address; discover ways to overcome adoption barriers and quickly scale your business; and learn how to manage disruptive threats posed by agile, data-driven competitors. You will also gain a critical lens for distinguishing between innovations that offer sustainable value versus fleeting benefits.
This fintech innovation program will enable you to navigate a shifting competitive landscape and make strategic decisions that will position your firm for growth—whether you work in the credit, insurance, asset management, or real estate market. You will develop a deeper understanding of the frictions that fintech aims to address; discover ways to overcome adoption barriers and quickly scale your business; and learn how to manage disruptive threats posed by agile, data-driven competitors. You will also gain a critical lens for distinguishing between innovations that offer sustainable value versus fleeting benefits.
Details
Accelerate growth and prepare to scale
Formulate an action plan for growing or scaling your company
Secure the funding you need to support your expansion
Improve how you manage operations and mitigate risk
Lead a digital transformation
Direct your company's efforts to "go digital"
Weave new technologies into existing systems and processes
Address disruptive threats with a smart defensive strategy
Leverage emerging opportunities in the marketplace
Harness disruptive technologies to strengthen your market position
Recognize the implications of new technologies to transform industries outside of finance
Analyze the market need that fintech startups are trying to fill
Sharpen your competitive edge with a stronger business model
Identify opportunities and methods to innovate from within
Rethink your business strategy, value proposition, and digital capabilities
Integrate new technologies to elevate and modernize your offerings
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
Rising executives who have at least five years' relevant experience at a bank, asset management firm, financial services firm, credit card company, or similar type of financial institution
Entrepreneurs who have launched—or plan to launch—startups that aim to disrupt key areas of financial markets
Individuals who work in areas or industries that are relevant to capital markets and financial services, including: real estate (including property technology innovation and REITs), insurance, technology, computer and data scientists, and engineering
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Inside the Classroom
See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.
Rising executives who have at least five years' relevant experience at a bank, asset management firm, financial services firm, credit card company, or similar type of financial institution
Entrepreneurs who have launched—or plan to launch—startups that aim to disrupt key areas of financial markets
Individuals who work in areas or industries that are relevant to capital markets and financial services, including: real estate (including property technology innovation and REITs), insurance, technology, computer and data scientists, and engineering
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
Leveraging Fintech Innovation to Grow and Compete incorporates multiple learning methodologies, including case studies, interactive faculty presentations, guest speakers, and small-group discussions. Drawing on the experience of fintech leaders, investors from venture capital firms, and executives from traditional financial institutions, this program will present a series of real-world cases – including Goldman Sachs, Fluidity, and Zillow – that focus on topical issues at the intersection of financial services and technology. You will explore a broad range of topics that cater to both entrepreneurs from fintech startups and executives from incumbent firms.
Leveraging Fintech Innovation to Grow and Compete incorporates multiple learning methodologies, including case studies, interactive faculty presentations, guest speakers, and small-group discussions. Drawing on the experience of fintech leaders, investors from venture capital firms, and executives from traditional financial institutions, this program will present a series of real-world cases – including Goldman Sachs, Fluidity, and Zillow – that focus on topical issues at the intersection of financial services and technology. You will explore a broad range of topics that cater to both entrepreneurs from fintech startups and executives from incumbent firms.
Reviewing how technology is transforming lending markets, investment management, payment systems, and the real estate industry
Implementing strategies to create new opportunities and marketplaces
Identifying the tensions addressed by innovations such as property technology, blockchain, and robo-advisors
Unpacking the challenges that come with designing a new product to meet an emerging need
Competitive strategies
Designing growth strategies for startups that want to compete with incumbent firms
Discovering how incumbent firms can defend their market share by responding to emerging trends in the market
Targeting consumer channels or business-to-business channels to increase assets under management
Credit and lending
Comparing how new startups and established financial conglomerates approach consumer financing
Understanding credit market dynamics in the context of consumer finance and small-business lending
Payment systems
Analyzing the applications of blockchain in different segments and settings, such as financial institutions and API companies
Evaluating the challenges and opportunities posed by cryptofinance and cryptocurrencies
Investment management in fintech space
Analyzing how demographic shifts impact the demand for financial advice
Understanding key differences between pure models and hybrid models of automated asset management
Exploring the potential of fintech to disrupt traditional asset managers from tech and information-driven companies
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
Faculty Cochairs
Marco Di Maggio
Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
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 Cochairs
Marco Di Maggio
Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
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.
Harnessing Innovation in Fintech
Identify the opportunities that will keep you competitive.
