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Driving Corporate Performance
Aligning Scorecards and Structure for Strategy Execution
Dates: 11–16 JUL 2021
Location: HBS Campus
Fee: $13,250
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Program Announcement
The in-person Driving Corporate Performance: Aligning Scorecards and Structure for
Strategy Execution session originally scheduled for 12–17 JUL 2020 has been
cancelled as a precautionary measure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please consider
applying to the related offering, <a href="/driving-corporate-performance-virtual/">Driving
Corporate Performance—Virtual</a>, running 13–17 JUL 2020. If you have
any questions, please contact <a href="mailto:executive_education@hbs.edu">executive_education@hbs.edu</a>.
Summary
Today's leading companies are finding powerful ways to ensure that their structures,
systems, and processes are aligned for optimal execution of their strategy. In Driving
Corporate Performance, you will learn how to compete more successfully by implementing
powerful performance measurement and management control systems. With a deeper understanding
of strategy communication, accountability, and organizational design, you will emerge
fully prepared to drive performance and growth in any economy.
Today's leading companies are finding powerful ways to ensure that their structures,
systems, and processes are aligned for optimal execution of their strategy. In Driving
Corporate Performance, you will learn how to compete more successfully by implementing
powerful performance measurement and management control systems. With a deeper understanding
of strategy communication, accountability, and organizational design, you will emerge
fully prepared to drive performance and growth in any economy.
Key Benefits
Through an in-depth look at the links connecting strategy, organizational structures
and systems, and performance measurement, this corporate performance management program
improves your ability to actively manage organizational performance and create value.
You will return to your organization with the strategic tools to optimize measurement
and control systems across all business functions—and to design, motivate, and lead
a successful, scalable organization.
Through an in-depth look at the links connecting strategy, organizational structures
and systems, and performance measurement, this corporate performance management program
improves your ability to actively manage organizational performance and create value.
You will return to your organization with the strategic tools to optimize measurement
and control systems across all business functions—and to design, motivate, and lead
a successful, scalable organization.
Details
Drive strategy down to operations
Translate your company's mission and business strategy into performance targets and
measures
Implement more effective performance measurement and management control systems
Build a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) strategy map
Balance financial and nonfinancial measures
Design and lead a competitive, high-performing organization
Measure accountability and improve organizational design
Align front-line employees with your company's strategic objectives
Enhance competitiveness by better allocating resources to customers
Build a strong and enduring culture of helping others to succeed
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
General managers and senior financial executives who are responsible for designing
and implementing systems to measure, monitor, and improve enterprise performance
Particularly appropriate for: Executives with planning, control, and accounting responsibilities, including business
unit heads, chief operating officers, chief financial officers, strategic planning
officers, and controllers
Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the
program's impact. For example, attendance by general managers or chief operating officers
along with senior financial executives enables the organization to better align performance
management systems with company strategy and to implement systems more quickly throughout
the organization.
General managers and senior financial executives who are responsible for designing
and implementing systems to measure, monitor, and improve enterprise performance
Particularly appropriate for: Executives with planning, control, and accounting responsibilities, including business
unit heads, chief operating officers, chief financial officers, strategic planning
officers, and controllers
Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the
program's impact. For example, attendance by general managers or chief operating officers
along with senior financial executives enables the organization to better align performance
management systems with company strategy and to implement systems more quickly throughout
the organization.
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.
Program content, dates, schedule, fees, technology platforms, 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.
What You Will Learn
Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, global case
studies, group discussions, and special sessions, you will explore how leading companies
leverage performance measurement and management control systems to evaluate productivity,
drive performance, create value, and generate growth.
This corporate performance management program also presents the opportunity to apply
your learning through interactive exercises. For example, you will develop a customized
strategy map for your organization, identify initiatives for your Balanced Scorecard,
and use the Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) to measure accountability and resource
allocation.
Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, global case
studies, group discussions, and special sessions, you will explore how leading companies
leverage performance measurement and management control systems to evaluate productivity,
drive performance, create value, and generate growth.
This corporate performance management program also presents the opportunity to apply
your learning through interactive exercises. For example, you will develop a customized
strategy map for your organization, identify initiatives for your Balanced Scorecard,
and use the Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) to measure accountability and resource
allocation.
Defining and measuring your differentiated value proposition for targeted customer
segments
Understanding the principles behind a strategy-focused organization
Designing a measurable cause-and-effect framework for articulating value-creating
strategies
Creating a blueprint to align people, processes, and information technology for superior
performance
Accountability systems for effective business management
Managing the tensions among profit, growth, and control
Using an action-oriented road map to develop crucial control system tools
Integrating new performance measurement and control techniques to master competitive
challenges
Alignment of intangible assets with strategy
Linking your organization's intangible assets to sustain competitive advantage
Measuring these assets and their contributions to successful strategy execution
Aligning internal capabilities, processes, and actions with strategy to maximize customer
satisfaction
Customer relationship management for profitability
Improving management control of outsourced and customer alliances
Distinguishing profitable from unprofitable customer relationships
Transforming relationships for greater profitability
Translating a source of customer value into a sustainable revenue stream
Organizational design
Allocating resources to meet the needs of demanding customers
Developing accountability systems that encourage entrepreneurship
Cultivating creative tension to promote innovation and best practices
Fostering a corporate culture that emphasizes collective success
In addition to the core curriculum, you will have the opportunity to attend special
sessions of particular interest to you. These electives may include topics such as
how to use big data analytics to make better informed decisions and time-driven activity-based
costing (TDABC) to manage product and customer profitability.
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
Robert S. Kaplan
Senior Fellow, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus
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
Robert S. Kaplan
Senior Fellow, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus
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