Columbia Management Essentials (Online)

Requirements: This program is designed for professionals who have recently taken on or aspire to move into a management role to help them develop leadership and decision-making capabilities.

Columbia Management Essentials (Online)

Columbia Management Essentials (Online) is a three-month online program that teaches the core pillars of management — leading teams, creating a customer-centric organization, and developing financial acumen.

The program enables participants to accelerate their impact through an intensive learning journey that will equip them to manage people, products, and projects more effectively. The key components of this MBA-inspired curriculum are:

Enhancing leadership effectiveness
Effective decision making
Influencing others
Customer-centric marketing
Developing financial intuition
Launching new products
Leading and managing teams
Building social capital

With a focus on immediate application, participants work on a capstone case study, individual and team assignments, cases, self assessments — including Columbia Business School’s proprietary 360 Assessment Tool — and group discussions, applying their learnings immediately to their unique contexts.

Participants will also be part of a powerful learning community comprising a diverse group of fellow participants from a broad range of industries, functions, experiences, and geographies.

Please contact our partners at Emeritus at columbia@emeritus.org, +1 315-982-5094 or +1 315-277-2746 for a personal conversation to learn more.

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“To get ahead in today's business world and solve integrated, multi-faceted problems, leaders need to possess foundational business tools. At the end of this program, participants will be able to make decisions on business challenges that cut across different functions and geographies.”

Gita Johar

Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business at Columbia Business School

Columbia Management Essentials (Online)

You will emerge from Columbia Management Essentials (Online) with enhanced cross-functional skills and a sharpened leadership toolkit that will help you accelerate the impact on your organization.

At the end of the program, you will be able to:

Identify your strengths and weaknesses as a leader with the 360 Assessment Tool
Understand how different leadership styles affect performance
Make decisions in a more systematic way to optimize results
Influence others in a fair and ethical manner
Develop a customer-centric mindset and find the right product for the right market
Understand key financial concepts such as time value of money, net present value, and capital budgets for a stronger financial intuition
Build a healthy social network to support your professional goals

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Upon completion of this program, you will earn two credits towards a Certificate in Business Excellence with select alumni and tuition benefits.

Duration: 12 Weeks
Time Commitment: 4–6 hours/week

This immersive program takes an integrated approach to learning, combining live and recorded lectures, small group assignments, case studies, role plays, and Columbia Business School's 360 Assessment Tool.

The Learning Journey

The Learning Journey

The program is comprised of the following modules:

Orientation and Welcome

Launch of 360 Degree Assessment Tool
Live Webinar “Program Outline & Learning Journey” with Professor Gita Johar
Optional: Accounting Basics, Financial Statements, and Key Ratios

“The leadership module was excellent. My favorite part was the 360 Assessment. I now know how I rank amongst my peers in this class and areas I need to improve on.”

Kwansah Ndemo

Pharmacist at Career Staff Rx, from Dallas

“The best part for me were the lessons in how to use information effectively and the focus on teamwork and perspectives. I have applied some of the teachings at the workplace and have seen improvements in many aspects.”

Omar Fajardo

VP of Affiliate Relations at The Mix Group, from Miami

“The leadership and social networking modules both completely changed my way to network and interact as a leader.”

Ghazi Chebil

Head of Cluster Northwest Africa at SIG Combibloc Obeikan, from Tunisia

This program is designed for professionals who have recently taken on or aspire to move into a management role to help them develop leadership and decision-making capabilities. This includes existing managers and technical leaders who have been promoted to a role with management responsibility, executives who build and lead multi-functional teams, and entrepreneurs who need to expand their core business knowledge. Middle- and upper-level managers seeking a well-rounded, MBA-inspired management curriculum will also benefit from exposure to the latest marketing, finance, and leadership strategies taught by Columbia Business School faculty.

Gita Johar

Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business in Marketing

Oded Netzer, Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, is an expert in data-driven decision-making. He mainly researches business challenges and develops quantitative methods to guide decision-making under uncertainty.

Oded Netzer

Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business, Columbia Business School

Adam Galinsky

Adam Galinsky

Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics, Columbia Business School

Daniel Wolfenzon, Nomura Professor of International Finance, is a faculty member of the advanced business valuation training program at Columbia Business School Executive Education.

Daniel Wolfenzon

Nomura Professor of International Finance

The late Kathy Phillips

The late Kathy Phillips

Reuben Mark Professor of Organizational Character

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