Today's global business environment offers many exciting prospects for talented executives and ambitious organizations. To take full advantage of emerging opportunities in China and beyond, businesses need exceptional leaders—forward-thinking executives who are skilled at strategy and ready to tackle challenges in the Chinese market, such as copycat competitors, labor costs, and other factors that can slow growth.
Taught in a series of modules offered in Boston and Shanghai, this China senior executive leadership program helps you become a stronger leader who can deliver value in a global context, drive new levels of innovation, and build accountable, high-performance organizations.
Today's global business environment offers many exciting prospects for talented executives and ambitious organizations. To take full advantage of emerging opportunities in China and beyond, businesses need exceptional leaders—forward-thinking executives who are skilled at strategy and ready to tackle challenges in the Chinese market, such as copycat competitors, labor costs, and other factors that can slow growth.
Taught in a series of modules offered in Boston and Shanghai, this China senior executive leadership program helps you become a stronger leader who can deliver value in a global context, drive new levels of innovation, and build accountable, high-performance organizations.
Upon completing the Senior Executive Leadership Program—China, 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.
Upon completing the Senior Executive Leadership Program—China, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Throughout the program, you will work on an individual project that addresses a strategic challenge facing your organization. In the process, you will:
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:
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.
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.
Throughout the program, you will work on an individual project that addresses a strategic challenge facing your organization. In the process, you will:
The Senior Executive Leadership Program—China is 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.
Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration
Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management
John Shad Professor of Business Ethics
Professor of Business Administration
Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration
Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance
Visiting Professor of Business Administration
Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration
Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration
James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration
Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration
Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration
F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration
Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration
Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration
Baker Foundation Professor, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration
William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
The Senior Executive Leadership Program—China is 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.
Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration
Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management
John Shad Professor of Business Ethics
Professor of Business Administration
Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration
Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance
Visiting Professor of Business Administration
Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration
Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration
James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration
Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration
Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration
F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration
Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration
Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration
Baker Foundation Professor, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus
Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration
William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration