Overview
What you will study
The Business Management Course - From Management to Leadership course offered by Harvard University will teach you a range of essential skills needed to advance your career, including leading transitions, improving your financial acumen, understanding market dynamics, developing operational command of your business, and designing and executing business strategy. Participants will engage in an MBA-inspired curriculum focused on skills that drive business success.
Through highly interactive lectures, case discussions, exercises, and workshops, you will return to work as an empowered leader equipped to manage across the organization.
By participating in this business management course, you will:
- Navigate leadership transitions and refine your leadership brand
- Improve your ability to influence across the organization and shape culture
- Advance your financial acumen to drive profits and deliver value
- Cultivate a customer-centric mindset: create value for and from your customers
- Learn to build and sustain operational excellence
- Gain insight into strategy and how to build a competitive advantage
- Apply concepts learned in a team workshop and receive peer feedback
- Collaborate with peer business leaders and enjoy multiple networking opportunities
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Leading Transitions
- Business, organizational, and personal challenges
- Strategic challenges and defining your business model
- Personal style, brand, and influence
- Organizational leadership
- Advancing Your Financial Acumen
- Value Measures – financial metrics
- Value Levers – revenue and margin models
- Value Traps and how to avoid them
- Understanding Market Dynamics
- Creating Value for Customers – customer behavior and value propositions
- Customer-Centricity
- Creating Value from Customers – segmentation and lifetime value
- Marketing Strategy and Brand Equity
- Developing Operational Command of the Business
- Understanding costs
- Process analysis and quality management
- Capacity sizing
- Supply chain – tradeoffs and vendors
- Designing & Executing on Strategy
- Competitive Advantage
- Strategic Action
- Strategic Integration Team Workshop
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Disciplines
Project Management Leadership View 130 other Short Courses in Project Management in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:
- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- This business management course is designed for managers across industries and functional areas who are making or recently made a transition to a higher level of business leadership or management.
- Working professionals who are starting a business, human resource professionals, consultants, and business administrators may find this program particularly useful.
Tuition Fee
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International
6150 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6150 USD for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
6150 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6150 USD for the full programme during 5 days.
Living costs for Cambridge
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.