Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

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

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

Dive into the nature of market strategy and examine how companies build competitive advantage by focusing on specific markets and delivering what customers truly value.

• 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

Examine 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

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.

Each living group works with a professional coach to optimize group dynamics and maximize the value of the group learning experience.