Designed by expert finance faculty at Columbia Business School Executive Education, the Options Strategy (Online) program gives investors and finance professionals a deep understanding of options, including how to incorporate financial instruments into an overall investment strategy.
Today, the scope of impact investing has broadened to encompass global change and generate competitive returns. Billionaire capitalists such as Paul Tudor Jones and trillion-dollar financial giants such as J.P. Morgan are active participants, building a range of impact products and propelling the impact investing market to over $715 billion, according to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).
This program provides the knowledge, tools, and competency to make informed pricing decisions, create value through price optimization, and deal intelligently with the behavioral psychology of pricing.
This program will help senior leaders develop the knowledge and skills to seamlessly transition to the Chief Financial Officer role, helping them drive financial frameworks that embrace global business strategies while preparing them to manage investors, analysts, and the board to optimize business efficiency.
Gain a deeper understanding of corporate finance, financial statement analysis, and valuation methodology to understand the financial consequences of business decisions on your organization.
At a time when leadership requires less emphasis on giving orders and more on building consensus, learn highly effective persuasion skills to master business-critical situations like one-on-one negotiations and driving change in your organization’s culture.
In this comprehensive nine-month program, you will learn how to identify and evaluate what makes a good investment, develop valuation frameworks, structure term sheets, manage portfolios, and learn soft skills such as pitching deals, storytelling with data, and networking.
In a volatile economy, being able to determine an asset’s value, understand an organization's financing sources, calculate profitability, and estimate risks is more critical than ever. These are the metrics that help determine a win or a loss.
Learn a proven offensive and defensive framework and gain an understanding of the strategy, execution, legal components, and risks involved in M&A.
Over a three-month journey, develop essential managerial tools that help you rise to and succeed at the next level: cross-functional knowledge, integrative thinking, and a sharpened leadership toolkit.
Learn the fundamentals of coding in Python with a focus on practical business applications. You’ll build the capacity to organize and interpret data in a way that extends far beyond Excel’s capabilities, fostering a renewed confidence in your decision-making abilities and accelerating your ability to have a real impact on your organization.
This two-month online program teaches the Ben Graham or Warren Buffett approach to allocating capital that is used by some of the most successful investors in the world today.
The cornerstone of profitable businesses are founded upon agile, engaged and highly motivated sales teams that are able to deliver results, quickly and efficiently. With continuous disruptions in the current business landscape, the ability to navigate change and stay at the forefront of digital transformation is crucial for any organization to succeed.
Due diligence can create transparency and insights when evaluating potential investments. The process helps investors drive profitability and minimize risk, and startups can use it to improve their potential for securing funding. Despite these benefits, many do not build due diligence into their dealmaking strategy. According to PwC, 8 out of 10 companies fail the M&A process due to a lack of pre-transition due diligence.
This program helps you evaluate, understand, and work toward addressing the needs of your customers and use qualitative and quantitative research tools to test customer experience strategies and create a holistic approach to giving customers a great experience with a brand.
The marketing paradigm has transformed with the rise of digital technologies. Companies today face a constant proliferation of social media channels, the growing power of connected customers, and an explosion of new digital tools. To succeed, marketers must be able to plan, implement, and measure the impact of digital strategies that are suited to today's customers and integrated with their traditional marketing and business goals.
In today’s world, almost every business is a digital business. In every industry, processes are being transformed by the proliferation of digital technologies and the rise of disruptive threats. To compete, businesses need to adapt and thrive. Organizations need leaders who can think strategically and harness the digital change to create new value for customers and opportunities for business.
This five-week online program builds your financial competence and your business confidence. Even if your day-to-day responsibilities never directly concern equity or earnings, this program will help you understand and communicate how financial principles relate to your piece of the business.
The Product Management Methodologies (Online) program is designed to improve product management leadership among mid- to high-level professionals. This immersive learning experience will deepen your understanding of the application of strategy throughout the product life cycle.
This program is suitable for mid and upper level executives who seek to understand the concepts behind blockchains and cryptocurrencies and real-world applications.
What started as a corporate social responsibility initiative by the United Nations 20 years ago has swelled into the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) movement. Many financial institutions and organizations have launched sustainability initiatives related to its governance, but there are critical questions to ask as we evaluate ESG investments
This program covers finance and sustainability as integrated subjects, beginning with an introduction to financial and investment principles and ending with financial analysis, financing, and valuation.
The Foundations of Venture Capital (Online) program is packed with insights from VC investors, giving you an inside look at how this market actually works—and what you need to succeed.
Get an introduction to the fundamentals of active investing as well as an incisive overview of capital markets and modern risk management.
Do you want to launch your own venture? In this online program, dive into the creation, development, and launch readiness of your business idea. Learn from world-renowned faculty in a program based on one of the School’s most popular MBA classes.
The program provides professionals operating in B2B markets and those wanting to develop a B2B product line with a strategic yet practical framework to sustain a competitive advantage by understanding how to deploy the right marketing, pricing, sales force, and decision-making toolkit for each stage of your go-to-market strategy.
Technology-driven organizations hold the potential for robust growth and substantial returns. However, economic, business, and industry factors can all impact their valuation, so investing in digital requires a nuanced understanding of how these businesses operate including the inherent opportunities and risks they present.
Empowering executives to maximize the impact of their teams, this program examines how to develop team solidarity, “followership,” and broad support for change throughout your organization and how to harness the power of teams through better decision making and leadership.
Through the four-week Leadership Essentials (Online) program that is based on the popular in-person program, participants hone their fundamental leadership skills and emerge with fresh insights into making better business decisions, influencing the team and the organization, and becoming agents of organizational change.
A multimodal educational experience, the Chief Marketing Officer Program is a must for seasoned marketing professionals who want to extend their reach and influence.
As leaders assume greater responsibility, their jobs become increasingly focused on directing their organization to be more effective in a changing and complex world. Designed for senior executives, the Advanced Management Program transforms participants into more holistic, empathetic, and adaptable leaders. Learn from and apply the techniques of strategic leaders to create positive change in your organization.
The program aims to help current and future board members and senior executives deepen their understanding of their roles and responsibilities while aligning to strategic organizational goals.
Understanding macroeconomic trends and developments is a key skill in every executive's tool kit. In this new program series, you'll gain access to Columbia Business School thought leadership on the latest short-term developments and long-term trends in the global economy, keeping you informed at all times — so you are equipped to make sound business and financial decisions, better see around corners, and lead your organization into the future.
Nurturing the ability to make strategic decisions that account for various macroeconomic forces is the focus of the Macroeconomics for Executives (Online) program. Join us for this ten-week, online program to discover how to steer your organization toward a more prosperous future.
Mastering Customer Insights (Online) program is uniquely designed for marketers & business leaders that guides learners in the applications of consumer psychology and behavioral economics to yield strategic customer insights.
VC Decision Making (Online): Developing an Investment Thesis a six-week online program from Columbia Business School Executive Education, is designed to give experienced VC professionals an edge in this competitive and volatile field.
The Corporate Governance Program equips current and aspiring board members and directors with the knowledge required to excel as stewards of shareholders that promote long-term and sustainable value creation. Drawing on thought leadership from world-renowned experts at Columbia Business School and leading practicing directors, this unique program integrates academic research with a deep understanding of the emerging issues that boardrooms grapple with.
Learn how to find opportunities, launch new ventures, and lead necessary organizational changes to revitalize and transform an organization in times of uncertainty.
Current and aspiring startup investors get equipped to evaluate and monitor potential early-stage investing opportunities and receive the knowledge they need to lower risk and increase returns.
Conducted in partnership with Columbia University’s School of the Arts, this program teaches participants how to create an immersive user experience across the complex narrative ecosystem that audiences expect in today’s highly interconnected, rapid digital environment.
This program is designed to help finance and investment professionals attain a comprehensive understanding of leveraged buyouts and the process of completing them, from both a private equity and venture capital perspective.
Acquire tools used by top-tier consulting firms to become more effective at analyzing and resolving strategic problems for your organization and clients.
Sharpen your acumen of real estate principles, learn how to mitigate risk in real estate investing, and strengthen your strategic decision-making capabilities in the field.
This business analytics online program gives key insights into data analytics so you can identify, evaluate, and capture opportunities, make better predictions, and create value.
Fast-track your understanding of the critical issues of today so that you have an effective way to engage your organization with potential challenges or issues now and in the future.
Master key finance and accounting concepts, including your ability to understand profitability, cash flow, solvency, and growth, and learn how to identify red flags in financial statements for better management and decision-making capabilities.
Lead digital transformation in your own organization with practical frameworks to develop innovative new strategies, products, and business models to thrive in the digital age.
Designed to help elevate the impact of women leaders, this program teaches participants to better navigate the business landscape, leverage their talents, and step into roles of greater influence.
Midlevel executives prepare for the next-level of leadership by gaining skills in strategy formulation, decision-making, negotiating, and more.
Acquire a toolkit to evaluate the impact of data and digitization in healthcare, streamline adoption to facilitate widespread adoption, and integrate these technologies and tools into your standard workflow.