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FUNCTIONAL TOPICS: |
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Accounting
The accounting sessions aim to demystify financial statements and reporting
enough to enable you to ask the right questions about the numbers. You
will examine the interrelationship of financial statements and how
individual transactions impact these statements. You will also explore the
key conceptual underpinnings of corporate financial reports and their
impact on financial statements. Finally, you will identify, apply, and link
strategies for evaluating earnings and cash flows to value creation. In the
end, you will have a clearer understanding of corporate disclosures and
non-disclosures and the circumstances in which companies take advantage
of allowable income-increasing strategies. |
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Finance
This component will familiarize you with both the frame of reference used
by financial officers and the problems encountered in finance. The three
principal areas that will be covered are cash-flow analysis, capital budgeting
allocation decisions, and capital structure analysis. Other topics include
models for evaluating investment alternatives and the ranking of
investment projects.
Marketing
Our world-class marketing faculty will share insights into how marketing is
changing in the new millennium and how marketers must change with it.
This module addresses the marketing-related challenges faced by mid- to
senior-level executives and is designed to provide the concepts and tools
needed to deliver improved operating results. This module assumes
familiarity with basic marketing principles.
Operations
This section focuses on the strategic role of operations to enable
improvement and financial success. It provides a systemic view of an
organization as a collection of business flows that suggests appropriate
performance metrics and facilitates the identification of potential
improvement targets. The emphasis is on linking operational and financial
flows in the setting of daily management, as well as strategic capacity
investment and operational hedging considerations.
Information technology
As technology is an enabler of business value creation, every manager
needs to understand how technology strategy influences and is influenced
by organizational strategy, structure, and processes. In this course, you will
learn how to leverage technology to improve business performance, to
drive revenue growth, and to serve customers more effectively. |
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LEADERSHIP AND MANAGERIAL TOPICS: |
| Strategy and strategic implementation |
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The fundamentals of strategy
This course teaches you how to create value and profit in a competitive
environment by thinking strategically about the strengths and
vulnerabilities of your operating units and companies. You will address the
nature of the markets in which your companies operate and the
competition and rivalry within these markets. You will then cover how to
find your core competencies and how to maximize these resources in order
to grow the top line.
Strategy and structure
Strategy is ineffective if an organization's structure is not aligned properly.
This course focuses on how organizations can use structure to effectively
execute a sound strategy.
Leading strategic change
This module focuses on the key processes necessary to initiate and sustain
change in organizations. It also provides specific pointers to the skills
required for aspiring change leaders in organizations. |
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Leadership and interpersonal skills
Team building
Group simulations are used in this unit to increase your understanding of
human behavior within organizations. You will have the opportunity to
develop your problem-solving skills to better manage individuals and
groups. Topics to be covered include team building, the new leadership
challenge, and continuous learning in an organization.
Managerial negotiations
Professionals in all fields constantly deal with conflict and disputes. This unit
introduces some of the new ideas and techniques for managing
negotiations that are emerging from the field of dispute resolution. While
the negotiating approach that is presented is used in all situations, the unit
emphasizes negotiating within organizations and negotiating group decisions.
Building social capital
Networking involves much more than meeting people and handing out
business cards. It's about understanding the dynamics of how people
interact within and between organizations to influence others and create
opportunities. This course will explain how individuals within organizations
have varying degrees of social capital and how they can use this information
to be more effective.
Decision making
Decision making is at the core of a leader’s role. This highly interactive
module challenges participants to deal with decision making under risk. The
most common decision making pitfalls are exposed and leaders are
encouraged to identify these biases in others and to design groups to be
more vigilant decision makers.
Power and politics
Effective management and leadership in organizations require that
managers be comfortable while developing and utilizing their organizational
power. This unit introduces state-of-the-art theory and applications on the
political capital model for building, leveraging, and deploying power in
and between organizations. Case analysis and video will be used to develop
strategies and skills for managing with political capital.
Leadership
What makes great leaders? Learn what scholars are saying about what it
takes to be an effective leader in today's global economy. Get feedback
from your peers on your leadership potential. |
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