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    Strategic Agility—Virtual
    Accepting Applications
    Dates: 12–23 SEP 2022
    Location: Virtual
    Fee: $10,000

    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. Download brochure for detailed schedule.

    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

    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

    Key Benefits
    Even with a great team, strategic agility doesn't just happen. It requires different thinking, disciplined systems and processes, and capable leaders who know how to put the right pieces in place. This virtual program will help you confront your challenges in new ways, sharpen your own strategic mindset, and build an organization that can innovate rapidly, adapt to unforeseen challenges, and exploit fleeting opportunities.

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    Develop the mindset of a strategically agile thinker and leaderDevelop the mindset of a strategically agile thinker and leader
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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • 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

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    Even with a great team, strategic agility doesn't just happen. It requires different thinking, disciplined systems and processes, and capable leaders who know how to put the right pieces in place. This virtual program will help you confront your challenges in new ways, sharpen your own strategic mindset, and build an organization that can innovate rapidly, adapt to unforeseen challenges, and exploit fleeting opportunities.
    Details

    Develop 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 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 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.

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    • 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

    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

    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

    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.
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    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, e-books, and online case materials. You will be invoiced upon admission to the program. Invoices are due within 30 days of receipt, or upon receipt if the program start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests 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.

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    Admissions Criteria and Process Dropdown down

    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, e-books, and online case materials. You will be invoiced upon admission to the program. Invoices are due within 30 days of receipt, or upon receipt if the program start date is less than 30 days from the invoice date. If you need to cancel or defer your participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellation or deferral requests 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 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

    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

    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
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    • Analyzing and assessing elements of strategic agility
    • Leveraging crises to drive innovation
    • Employing different types of agility in different moments
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    • 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
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    • 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

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    What 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 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 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

    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.

    Faculty Cochairs
    Francesca Gino
    Francesca Gino
    Francesca Gino

    Francesca Gino

    Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration

    HBS Unit:
    Negotiation, Organizations & Markets

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    Gary P. Pisano
    Gary P. Pisano
    Gary P. Pisano

    Gary P. Pisano

    Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration

    HBS Unit:
    Technology and Operations Management

    Read Full Bio

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    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
    Francesca Gino
    Francesca Gino
    Francesca Gino

    Francesca Gino

    Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration

    HBS Unit:
    Negotiation, Organizations & Markets

    Read Full Bio

    Gary P. Pisano
    Gary P. Pisano
    Gary P. Pisano

    Gary P. Pisano

    Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration

    HBS Unit:
    Technology and Operations Management

    Read Full Bio

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