- 03 JAN–10 FEB 2024 — Module 1 (Virtual, Self-Paced)
- 11 FEB–01 MAR 2024 — Module 2 (HBS Campus)
- 02 MAR–20 APR 2024 — Module 3 (Virtual, Self-Paced)
- 21 APR–10 MAY 2024 — Module 4 (HBS Campus)
- 03 JAN–10 FEB 2024 — Module 1 (Virtual, Self-Paced)
- 11 FEB–01 MAR 2024 — Module 2 (HBS Campus)
- 02 MAR–20 APR 2024 — Module 3 (Virtual, Self-Paced)
- 21 APR–10 MAY 2024 — Module 4 (HBS Campus)
- 02–20 SEP 2024 — Module 1 (HBS Campus)
- 21 SEP–26 OCT 2024 — Module 2 (Virtual, Live Online and Self-Paced)
- 27 OCT–15 NOV 2024 — Module 3 (HBS Campus)
- 02–20 SEP 2024 — Module 1 (HBS Campus)
- 21 SEP–26 OCT 2024 — Module 2 (Virtual, Live Online and Self-Paced)
- 27 OCT–15 NOV 2024 — Module 3 (HBS Campus)
Summary
Market volatility, digital transformation, and innovation are changing the way companies compete in every industry—and increasing the demand for business leaders who are global changemakers. Whether you are looking to move up to the executive suite or are about to take on greater leadership responsibilities, the Advanced Management Program is designed to bring about a full-scale change that empowers executives to create and renew competitive advantage for their organizations.
One flagship program. Two unique formats.
Four Module Format – Four highly integrated modules are presented over 4 months, with two full-time in-person modules totaling six weeks on campus and two virtual, self-paced modules. Participants should set aside 10-15 hours per week to complete work during the first virtual, self-paced module and 6-8 hours per week during the second, virtual module (three hours of live online sessions and 3-5 hours of self-paced work).
Three Module Format – Three highly integrated modules are presented over 11 weeks, with two full-time in-person modules totaling six weeks on campus and one virtual module. During the virtual module, participants should set aside 10 hours per week to complete self-paced work and five hours for live online sessions, which include faculty-led sessions, discussion groups, and executive coaching. Details regarding the date and time of the live online sessions are still being determined and information will be released as soon as possible.
- Please note: Pre-program work for the three module format will begin about one month prior to the start of the program. Pre-work is self-paced and includes both case preparation and access to HBS Online coursework taught by V.G. Narayanan—HBS faculty and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. Participants should set aside 10-12 hours per week to complete pre-work before the start of Module 1.
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Summary
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Market volatility, digital transformation, and innovation are changing the way companies compete in every industry—and increasing the demand for business leaders who are global changemakers. Whether you are looking to move up to the executive suite or are about to take on greater leadership responsibilities, the Advanced Management Program is designed to bring about a full-scale change that empowers executives to create and renew competitive advantage for their organizations.
One flagship program. Two unique formats.
Four Module Format – Four highly integrated modules are presented over 4 months, with two full-time in-person modules totaling six weeks on campus and two virtual, self-paced modules. Participants should set aside 10-15 hours per week to complete work during the first virtual, self-paced module and 6-8 hours per week during the second, virtual module (three hours of live online sessions and 3-5 hours of self-paced work).
Three Module Format – Three highly integrated modules are presented over 11 weeks, with two full-time in-person modules totaling six weeks on campus and one virtual module. During the virtual module, participants should set aside 10 hours per week to complete self-paced work and five hours for live online sessions, which include faculty-led sessions, discussion groups, and executive coaching. Details regarding the date and time of the live online sessions are still being determined and information will be released as soon as possible.
- Please note: Pre-program work for the three module format will begin about one month prior to the start of the program. Pre-work is self-paced and includes both case preparation and access to HBS Online coursework taught by V.G. Narayanan—HBS faculty and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. Participants should set aside 10-12 hours per week to complete pre-work before the start of Module 1.
Key Benefits
Who Should Attend
AMP is designed for executives focused on enterprise-level decision-making and executing on a global strategy as they take on roles with the broadest impact on organizational direction and performance. Ideal candidates include:
- Officers or senior executives with responsibility for the success of the organization
- C-suite-level executives at midsize organizations that have significant growth opportunities
- Executives in roles that cover the scope of CEO, COO, CFO, executive vice president, division president, or managing director
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Who Should Attend
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AMP is designed for executives focused on enterprise-level decision-making and executing on a global strategy as they take on roles with the broadest impact on organizational direction and performance. Ideal candidates include:
- Officers or senior executives with responsibility for the success of the organization
- C-suite-level executives at midsize organizations that have significant growth opportunities
- Executives in roles that cover the scope of CEO, COO, CFO, executive vice president, division president, or managing director
Leaders in Virtual Learning
This program features sessions in the HBS Live Online Classroom.
Just as HBS pioneered the case study method, we also built the first live online classroom in 2014 and have been refining and optimizing our virtual program experience ever since. In a world that is now centered around virtual connection, our programs reflect the input and experience of tens of thousands of participants.
When you participate in a virtual HBS Executive Education program, you benefit from a powerful learning experience carefully designed with a virtual setting in mind. Through live synchronous program sessions you'll engage directly with our renowned faculty to learn from their latest research, gain actionable takeaways, and facilitate your growth. In addition, virtual discussion groups will connect you to a global group of peers and build your network.
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Leaders in Virtual Learning
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This program features sessions in the HBS Live Online Classroom.
Just as HBS pioneered the case study method, we also built the first live online classroom in 2014 and have been refining and optimizing our virtual program experience ever since. In a world that is now centered around virtual connection, our programs reflect the input and experience of tens of thousands of participants.
When you participate in a virtual HBS Executive Education program, you benefit from a powerful learning experience carefully designed with a virtual setting in mind. Through live synchronous program sessions you'll engage directly with our renowned faculty to learn from their latest research, gain actionable takeaways, and facilitate your growth. In addition, virtual discussion groups will connect you to a global group of peers and build your network.
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.
Alumni Status
Upon completing the Advanced Management Program, you will become a lifetime member of the HBS alumni community—gaining exclusive access to our vast global alumni network and an array of resources that facilitate lifelong learning, growth, and success. Learn more.
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Alumni Status
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Upon completing the Advanced Management Program, you will become a lifetime member of the HBS alumni community—gaining exclusive access to our vast global alumni network and an array of resources that facilitate lifelong learning, growth, and success. Learn more.
Admissions Criteria and Process
What You Will Learn
The Advanced Management Program is a highly structured yet deeply personalized learning experience. Collaborating with world-renowned HBS faculty, a diverse group of senior executives from around the world, and a professional HBS Executive Coach, you will take a deep-dive into the complex challenges of multinational management and global leadership.
Designed to spark self-reflection, innovation, and collaboration, this advanced leadership course features new global case studies, development of a personal case addressing a leadership challenge or strategic opportunity facing you and your company, and professional one-on-one coaching. You will build the executive skills and global perspective to sustain both corporate and competitive advantage.
Program Format
To provide senior executives with more options, AMP will be offered in two formats each year:
Four Module Format – Four highly integrated modules are presented over 4 months, with six weeks of study on campus—two on-campus modules and two virtual, self-paced modules. Participants should set aside 10-15 hours per week to complete work during the first virtual, self-paced module and 6-8 hours per week during the second, virtual module.
Three Module Format – Three highly integrated modules are presented over 11 weeks, with two full-time in-person modules totaling six weeks on campus and one virtual module. During the virtual module, participants should set aside 10 hours per week to complete self-paced work and five hours for live online sessions.
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What You Will Learn
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The Advanced Management Program is a highly structured yet deeply personalized learning experience. Collaborating with world-renowned HBS faculty, a diverse group of senior executives from around the world, and a professional HBS Executive Coach, you will take a deep-dive into the complex challenges of multinational management and global leadership.
Designed to spark self-reflection, innovation, and collaboration, this advanced leadership course features new global case studies, development of a personal case addressing a leadership challenge or strategic opportunity facing you and your company, and professional one-on-one coaching. You will build the executive skills and global perspective to sustain both corporate and competitive advantage.
Program Format
To provide senior executives with more options, AMP will be offered in two formats each year:
Four Module Format – Four highly integrated modules are presented over 4 months, with six weeks of study on campus—two on-campus modules and two virtual, self-paced modules. Participants should set aside 10-15 hours per week to complete work during the first virtual, self-paced module and 6-8 hours per week during the second, virtual module.
Three Module Format – Three highly integrated modules are presented over 11 weeks, with two full-time in-person modules totaling six weeks on campus and one virtual module. During the virtual module, participants should set aside 10 hours per week to complete self-paced work and five hours for live online sessions.
Key TopicsCollapse All
Lead strategic innovation and changeLead strategic innovation and change
- Understand the role innovation plays as organizations evolve and leadership's role in shaping transformation and change
- Drive the strategic alignment of organizational structures, systems, competencies, and culture for successful outcomes
- Overcome the unique challenges of open innovation and digital transformation
- Deliver short-term results while working toward longer-term innovation
- Explore how leadership renewal is linked to organizational renewal
Master marketing in a digital worldMaster marketing in a digital world
- Learn how digitization, mobile, AI, and social media forces are disrupting the consumer landscape, and how to capitalize on that disruption
- Leverage core marketing principles to create, communicate, and deliver customer and brand value at all stages of the product life cycle
- Continually fine-tune strategies to remain relevant and address shifting market conditions
- Use pricing strategies to effectively capture and maximize value
- Recognize changing customer needs and innovate new products and services to meet them
Navigate corporate responsibility, accountability, and ethicsNavigate corporate responsibility, accountability, and ethics
- Responsibly handle situations that involve competing responsibilities, serious legal issues, factual uncertainties, aggressive or hostile stakeholders, and intense time pressure
- Understand the different stakeholders and shareholder interests involved in many CEO and C-suite managerial decisions
- Clearly define the specific economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities you and your company have to investors, customers, employees, and society
- Use your understanding of responsibilities to resolve "gray area" problems in practical, effective ways
Capitalize on digital transformation and AICapitalize on digital transformation and AI
- Understand how digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI) impact operating and business models
- Maximize new opportunities for digital value creation and capture
- Address the common strategic, operational, and cognitive challenges of digital transformation and AI
- Establish a framework for understanding the digitally transformed world and developing strategies and tactics for shaping your business environment
- Understand the broader digital transformation implications impacting the labor force and society at large
Use management systems to drive performance and effective governanceUse management systems to drive performance and effective governance
- Develop a comprehensive framework for driving organizational performance
- Create a winning culture, drive sustained financial results, promote personal accountability, and manage risks
- Facilitate effective governance among top executives, boards of directors, and investors
- Understand the interplay between boards and capital markets
- Balance creating short-term accountability with fostering a long-term orientation
Understand the behavioral economics that lead to better decisionsUnderstand the behavioral economics that lead to better decisions
- Understand the behavioral factors that affect decision-making, ethics, and negotiations
- Create an organizational architecture that leads to better decision-making for yourself, employees, and key stakeholders
- Engage in a series of real-world simulations, with feedback on your own behavior, to test your analytic ability and tactical skills and to experiment with new ideas
- Learn a negotiation framework that will help you analyze, prepare for, and execute negotiations more systematically and effectively
- Gain techniques for mitigating your weaknesses and leveraging your strengths
Become a more authentic leaderBecome a more authentic leader
- Increase self-awareness through introspection and feedback from peers and coaches
- Gain clarity about your values, motivations, and leadership purpose
- Lead and live with greater mindfulness and intentionality
- Participate more fully in group discussions and learn how to "deeply listen" to peers
- Empower and inspire others by communicating authentically
Drive financial performanceDrive financial performance
- Gain a conceptual framework and techniques for understanding and analyzing financial issues
- Assess the financial health of your business through the three pillars of financial performance: profitability, liquidity, and financial structure
- Understand your critical role in company valuation
- Analyze opportunities for adding value to the organization
- Evaluate the risks of your decisions in an uncertain and turbulent environment
Leverage strategic choice and differentiationLeverage strategic choice and differentiation
- Dissect your firm's external environment to understand how external factors combine to shape the overarching competitive environment
- Evaluate the patterns that distinguish highly profitable industries
- Manage the relationship between the competitive strategy of a business unit and the corporate strategy of an enterprise
- Think holistically about your environment, your firm, and your own role as a leader
- Take strategic actions to position your firm for future success in an environment experiencing profound transformation
Lead in a global economyLead in a global economy
- Understand the trends driving globalization
- Accurately assess regional business environments and growth trajectories
- Analyze a country's economic performance, social and political context, institutional strengths and weaknesses, and government strategy
- Identify and anticipate policy barriers (and incentives) to doing business and the potential impact of a country's accounting, fiscal, investment, and innovation policies
- Make competitive decisions that consider and address country differences
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Living/learning group workLiving/learning group work
Both program formats provide the time and support you need to build trusting relationships with a group of peers outside your organization who not only can understand your challenges, but also can provide objective feedback. Each day, you will gain new insights by:
- Collaborating with executives who span industries, countries, and cultures
- Considering diverse perspectives during case discussions and assignments
- Contributing to small group exercises and projects as part of a team
- Giving and receiving confidential feedback in a safe environment
360-degree assessment360-degree assessment
You will assess your personal leadership strengths and weaknesses through a 360-degree leadership and personality assessment.
HBS Executive CoachingHBS Executive Coaching
Our distinctive coaching method is highly integrated into the program to accelerate both individual and team growth. You and your peers will meet with your professional HBS Executive Coach to help enhance your leadership journey and team effectiveness. Your coach will also help you assess your personal leadership strengths and gaps through one-on-one sessions—one focused on your 360-degree leadership and personality assessment at the start of the program and another focused on your reentry strategy following the program. All coaching sessions are strictly confidential, giving you the freedom to share your personal goals and professional challenges.
Personal casePersonal case
The personal case illustrates one of HBS Executive Education's fundamental goals: actionable learning. You will work on your personal case throughout the program, which will involve building a comprehensive strategy and implementation plan that will address a personal leadership challenge or strategic opportunity facing your organization. As you develop your personal case, the faculty, your living group, your HBS Executive Coach, and other AMP participants will deliver feedback that will help you fine-tune your action plan. In combination with your learnings from the program, the personal case will help create the foundation for making a significant impact on your organization and growth as a leader.
For more insight into the personal case, watch this video featuring AMP alumna Yulia Chekunaeva, who focused on her company's climate change strategy for her case.
Access to facultyAccess to faculty
Members of the Advanced Management Program faculty are often available to meet with you one-on-one and provide new perspectives on your business challenges.
Exclusive access to HBS resources Exclusive access to HBS resources
You will have exclusive access to unparalleled resources that you can use to extend your learning, investigate topics of personal and professional importance, and identify new learning objectives.
- Research Assistance – Take advantage of exclusive access to research specialists from the Baker Library/Bloomberg Center, the world's largest business archives. These experts will help you navigate the vast library collections and use your time effectively.
The HBS Advantage
The Advanced Management Program is developed and taught by a multidisciplinary team of 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.
Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration
George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration
James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration
Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration
Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration
MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration
Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice
Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management
Baker Foundation Professor, Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration
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The HBS Advantage
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The Advanced Management Program is developed and taught by a multidisciplinary team of 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 Chair
FacultyAlbert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:Negotiation, Organizations & MarketsGeorge Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:FinanceJames E. Robison Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:General ManagementDonald K. David Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:General ManagementRoss Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration
HBS Units:Accounting and ManagementGeneral ManagementMBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration
HBS Unit:Business, Government and the International EconomyBaker Foundation Professor of Management Practice
HBS Unit:General ManagementSenator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management
HBS Unit:Technology and Operations ManagementBaker Foundation Professor, Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:Organizational Behavior