The program fee covers tuition, e-books, and online case materials.
This program includes live online classes, self-paced work, discussion groups, and virtual networking.
Summary
Facing rapid change—and even unprecedented upheaval—large and small businesses alike must race against time to innovate and adjust their strategies, business models, organizational systems, and cultures. While some organizations struggle with rapid transformation, many are able to evolve quickly because leaders have built strategic agility into the organization's DNA. In this live online program, you'll learn how to become a more strategically agile leader who can help your organization compete and succeed in uncertain times.
This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More
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Summary
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Facing rapid change—and even unprecedented upheaval—large and small businesses alike must race against time to innovate and adjust their strategies, business models, organizational systems, and cultures. While some organizations struggle with rapid transformation, many are able to evolve quickly because leaders have built strategic agility into the organization's DNA. In this live online program, you'll learn how to become a more strategically agile leader who can help your organization compete and succeed in uncertain times.
This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More
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Develop the mindset of a strategically agile thinker and leaderDevelop the mindset of a strategically agile thinker and leader
- Approach rapidly changing situations with confidence
- Formulate a rapid response to change
- Develop innovative solutions to complex, high-stakes problems
Build strategic agility as a competitive advantage for your organizationBuild strategic agility as a competitive advantage for your organization
- Design the strategy, systems, and culture needed to make your enterprise more agile
- Foster innovation under pressure
- Lead effective organizational transformation
Expand your personal and professional networkExpand your personal and professional network
- Extend your network by connecting 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
- Executives with at least 10 years of experience who have significant strategic, operational, or administrative responsibilities, including business unit leaders and executives from any functional area
- Leaders from organizations of any size or sector of the economy, including manufacturing, technology, life sciences, services, nonprofits, and government agencies
Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact on your organization.
Program for Leadership Development participants earn 5 PLDA Points on completion of this program.
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.
Admissions Criteria and Process
What You Will Learn
Through faculty presentations, selected readings, case discussions, small group work, self-assessments, guest speakers, multimedia sessions, and more, you will absorb practical lessons key to building strategic agility. As you explore best practices and the experiences of other successful leaders, you'll learn how to think through challenging situations, formulate strategies for rapid response, and maintain strategic agility over time.
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What You Will Learn
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Through faculty presentations, selected readings, case discussions, small group work, self-assessments, guest speakers, multimedia sessions, and more, you will absorb practical lessons key to building strategic agility. As you explore best practices and the experiences of other successful leaders, you'll learn how to think through challenging situations, formulate strategies for rapid response, and maintain strategic agility over time.
Program Format
The program takes place over two weeks, with live, synchronous classes Monday through Friday (11:00 AM to 3:00 PM ET, including breaks), as well as self-paced sessions. Class sessions will take place via the Zoom platform. You will also have ample opportunity for interaction with faculty and peers inside and outside the class sessions.
Collaborative learning is an integral part of the experience. To maximize the benefit for everyone, you are expected to attend every session, complete all assignments, and contribute effectively in the class and in small groups. We advise setting aside a total of 5-10 hours per week for program work in addition to the synchronous class sessions.
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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Program Format
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The program takes place over two weeks, with live, synchronous classes Monday through Friday (11:00 AM to 3:00 PM ET, including breaks), as well as self-paced sessions. Class sessions will take place via the Zoom platform. You will also have ample opportunity for interaction with faculty and peers inside and outside the class sessions.
Collaborative learning is an integral part of the experience. To maximize the benefit for everyone, you are expected to attend every session, complete all assignments, and contribute effectively in the class and in small groups. We advise setting aside a total of 5-10 hours per week for program work in addition to the synchronous class sessions.
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 strategic agility looks likeWhat strategic agility looks like
- Analyzing and assessing elements of strategic agility
- Leveraging crises to drive innovation
- Employing different types of agility in different moments
Strategically agile leadersStrategically agile leaders
- Thinking through ambiguous situations where the facts are murky and circumstances are changing rapidly
- Avoiding cognitive traps that often blind us to opportunities for change and prevent us from seeing the full range of options
- Developing the disciplined thought processes needed to make important decisions under pressure
- Formulating strategies and business models under conditions of extreme uncertainty
Systems and cultures that enable strategic agilitySystems and cultures that enable strategic agility
- Understanding how strategy, systems, and culture work together to enable strategic agility
- Fostering dynamic capabilities to enable rapid response and adaptation
- Creating an organizational capacity for hyper-accelerated innovation
- Transforming organizational systems and cultures to enable rapid transformation
Special Program Features
Participants will receive two e-books by HBS faculty. You will use insights from the books to inform your own development as a strategically agile leader.
- Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life, by HBS faculty member Francesca Gino.
- Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation, by HBS faculty member Gary P. Pisano.
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Special Program Features
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Participants will receive two e-books by HBS faculty. You will use insights from the books to inform your own development as a strategically agile leader.
- Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life, by HBS faculty member Francesca Gino.
- Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation, by HBS faculty member Gary P. Pisano.
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.
Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration
Harry E. Figgie, Jr. 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 Cochairs
Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:Negotiation, Organizations & MarketsHarry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:Technology and Operations Management