Senior Executive Leadership Program—China
"I learned to reset my mindset and treat each creative work as part of a holistic business strategy."
Harvard Center Shanghai
Email: vji@hbs.edu
Telephone: +86.21.3852.3888
"I learned to reset my mindset and treat each creative work as part of a holistic business strategy."
Harvard Center Shanghai
Email: vji@hbs.edu
Telephone: +86.21.3852.3888
What You Will Learn
The innovative and comprehensive curriculum of the Senior Executive Leadership Program—China focuses on the challenges of greatest concern to corporate leaders today—across China and the globe. Requiring just seven weeks away from the office over the course of seven months, the unique format maximizes learning and the development of a global perspective, while minimizing consecutive days away from home and work.
Multiple intensive learning modules—in Boston and in Shanghai—include faculty presentations, case discussions, guest speakers, professional coaching, skill-building exercises, and field-based learning. You will examine the practices of successful business leaders around the world and assess your own leadership approach. Between modules, you will work on an individual strategy project and sharpen your leadership skills. As you try out new approaches in your workplace, you will reflect on your experience, receive feedback from your boss and colleagues, and bring new insights back to the classroom.
Participants should expect to spend approximately 25 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending Module 1 of the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.
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What You Will Learn
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The innovative and comprehensive curriculum of the Senior Executive Leadership Program—China focuses on the challenges of greatest concern to corporate leaders today—across China and the globe. Requiring just seven weeks away from the office over the course of seven months, the unique format maximizes learning and the development of a global perspective, while minimizing consecutive days away from home and work.
Multiple intensive learning modules—in Boston and in Shanghai—include faculty presentations, case discussions, guest speakers, professional coaching, skill-building exercises, and field-based learning. You will examine the practices of successful business leaders around the world and assess your own leadership approach. Between modules, you will work on an individual strategy project and sharpen your leadership skills. As you try out new approaches in your workplace, you will reflect on your experience, receive feedback from your boss and colleagues, and bring new insights back to the classroom.
Participants should expect to spend approximately 25 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending Module 1 of the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.
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Positioning your company for successPositioning your company for success
Expand your ability to consider your company as a whole in the context of the local, regional, and global business environments. Diving quickly into the case method of learning, you will gain new insights into leading organizational change.
- Assessing the competition and boosting your firm's competitive edge
- Creating differentiation through innovative products and brands
- Transitioning from labor-cost advantage to premium products
- Succeeding in a slower-growth environment by streamlining your organization and optimizing your supply chain
- Recognizing and selecting the best opportunities in both developed and emerging markets
- Evaluating your leadership style with guidance from faculty, peers, and your professional coach
Creating a high-performance culture in your organizationCreating a high-performance culture in your organization
You will explore proven ways to create an innovation-driven, high-performance culture. This experience will help you lead and manage your teams effectively to ensure alignment between business goals and company direction.
- Mastering the essentials of finance for senior executives, including global investing, capital markets, and risk management
- Creating corporate value by strengthening financial management
- Managing the tensions among profit, growth, and control
- Translating mission and strategy into a comprehensive set of performance targets and measures
- Choosing organizational structures and management systems that promote high-performance cultures
- Understanding the roles of the board of directors, capital market institutions, investors, and independent auditors
- Creating and leading an innovative organization and taking advantage of disruptive technologies and open innovation
Creating customer value and strategic advantageCreating customer value and strategic advantage
You will explore the nature of market strategy and examine how companies build competitive advantage by focusing on specific markets and delivering what customers truly value. You also will work on a Value Mapping strategy project while continuing to work with your professional coach.
- Rethinking brand strategy in light of changing markets and consumer behavior
- Recognizing the new opportunities and challenges created by digital technology
- Determining whether to operate locally, regionally, or globally—and how large your organization must be to thrive
- Executing successful mergers and acquisitions and building effective partnerships
- Formulating strategic objectives and implementing strategies to create competitive advantage and stakeholder value
- Fostering a culture of customer centricity to optimize the customer experience
- Identifying actionable market segments, implementing segment-specific strategies, and assessing customer lifetime value
- Developing and leveraging advantage through service excellence and operational capabilities
Becoming a transformational leaderBecoming a transformational leader
You will explore how to improve your personal performance as a leader and how to manage yourself, your team, and your larger organization. Focusing on a key executive skill—negotiation—you will engage in hands-on exercises that improve your ability to drive optimal outcomes. As you pull program themes together, you will emerge better prepared to build an agile company that can sustain success.
- Launching and managing products, product portfolios, and brands
- Investing in talent and leading and managing teams
- Examining how digital technologies and big data affect business models in all industries, enabling new value creation and value capture approaches
- Closing deals and resolving disputes in a manner that creates value for all parties
- Managing situations in which much of the real action takes place away from the negotiating table
- Understanding and driving the changes that align your organization to achieve its strategic goals
- Shaping innovation, learning, and change by cultivating your leadership style and behavior
- Building ambidextrous organizations that can both innovate and execute strategy
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Living/learning group workLiving/learning group work
A multi-module program creates the opportunity to build close, trusting relationships with a small, diverse group of peer executives who can understand your challenges—but are not part of your organization. Throughout the program, you will work with a small group of peers who will stimulate your learning as you:
- Absorb global insights by working with executives from different countries, cultures, and professional backgrounds
- Share diverse perspectives as you discuss cases and assignments
- Complete small-group exercises and projects as a team
- Give and receive feedback and advice—personal and professional—in a safe environment
While on the HBS campus in Boston, you will share living quarters with your learning group, forging relationships that serve as a valuable source of peer feedback, support, and advice.
Professional coachingProfessional coaching
Each living group works with a professional coach to optimize group dynamics and maximize the value of the group learning experience. In addition, your coach will work with you one-on-one to help you develop a personal leadership style that works for you.
Value mapping strategy projectValue mapping strategy project
Throughout the program, you will work on an individual project that addresses a strategic challenge facing your organization. In the process, you will:
- Utilize a powerful framework for analyzing the value of your offering or business line, considering value from the customer's perspective
- Compare your own offering with those of competitors
- Refine your competitive strategy and develop a short presentation based on feedback from faculty, peers, and your professional coach
- Share your Value Mapping strategy with your organization and team, and develop an action plan for driving the changes that will improve value and sustain success
