Executive Program in Management
Overview
The Executive Program in Management is a career-changing experience designed to broaden your business perspective, deepen your management expertise, and strengthen your leadership skills. The program enables you to lead with greater confidence, strengthen teams to drive meaningful change, and position your organization for long-term competitive advantage.
Through a combination of in-person and online sessions, you will engage with a curriculum that blends Columbia Business School Executive Education’s academic excellence with real-time exposure to the global business environment of New York City. You will expand your strategic thinking, challenge existing assumptions, and develop the capabilities required to take on more complex and senior leadership roles.
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Who Is It For?
The Executive Program in Management will help talented leaders prepare to take on larger and more critical roles. The program is ideal for you if you are:
- A senior executive from a large or medium-sized organization preparing to take on a larger, more critical role
- A general management leader seeking a deeper understanding of management, leadership, and strategy
- A functional leader, including marketing, sales, finance, consulting, technology management, operations, or HR, aiming to advance into larger leadership roles
Eligibility criteria for the program include:
- A minimum of 10 years of work experience
- International exposure (preferred)
- Fluency in written and spoken English
What You Will Learn
The Executive Program in Management will enable you to:
- Cultivate strategic leadership skills for visionary leadership with a global perspective, including coaching and mentorship for high-performing teams
- Enhance decision-making capabilities by leveraging data analytics, strategic thinking, and ethical considerations for effective, timely decisions
- Deepen your understanding of global business dynamics, including cross-cultural management and international markets
- Grasp the intricacies of leading digital transformation initiatives by examining emerging technologies and their strategic implications
- Develop and adapt business models to respond to market changes and emerging opportunities
- Manage and lead innovation initiatives, from idea generation to implementation, to ensure sustainable organizational innovation
Program Structure
The Executive Program in Management offers a multimodal learning experience that equips participants with the essentials of high-level leadership in today’s dynamic business environment, including change leadership, strategic intuition, and business analytics. Designed and led by Ivy League faculty, the comprehensive curriculum combines live online, online, and in-person sessions and exposes participants to a host of engaging online guest lectures with leading industry executives. The flexible format allows for peer-to-peer learning and experiential sessions that integrate real-world case studies and a group project.
Module 1: Leadership and Management
Strengthen the mindset and skills needed to inspire people, elevate performance, and drive organizational outcomes through strategic thinking, effective negotiation, strong networks, and AI-enhanced decision making.
Session topics include:
- Entrepreneurial Principles: Picking Winners: Learn how to identify, evaluate, and back high-potential opportunities
- Global Economic Environment: Understand macroeconomic forces shaping global business strategy
- Motivation: Understand what drives performance and how to inspire sustained commitment
- Operations Strategy & Service Productivity: Explore operating models that drive efficiency, scale, and customer value
- Networking: Learn how to build strategic relationships that expand influence and opportunity
- Creating Winning Strategies: Craft competitive strategies that deliver sustained advantage
- Negotiations: Develop the judgment and tools to craft agreements that advance long-term business goals
- Understanding AI: Grasp AI fundamentals and their implications for business leadership
- Social Styles: Adapt your leadership approach to different personality and communication styles
- Strategic Intuition: Combine insight, experience, and analysis to make breakthrough strategic choices
Module 3: Strategy and Innovation
Leaders today must be equipped to drive meaningful change, think bigger, and make decisions with strong quantitative intuition. This program helps you anticipate shifts before they happen so you can lead with clarity, confidence, and a future-focused mindset.
Session topics include:
- Leading Change: Anticipate emerging risks and opportunities before competitors
- Think Bigger: Expand strategic ambition beyond incremental growth
- Quantitative Intuition: Use data confidently without losing strategic perspective
- Seeing Around Corners: Anticipate emerging risks and opportunities before competitors
*Note: Session topics are subject to change
Faculty
Murray Low
Academic Director in Executive Education
Adjunct Professor Management Division
Modupe Akinola
Associate Professor of Management, Columbia Business School
Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics
Moran Cerf
Academic Director In Executive Education
Director, Center for Advanced Technology and Human Performance
Adjunct Professor of Business Columbia University
Adam Galinsky
Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics, Columbia Business School
Brett House
Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business
Economics Division
Jerry Kim
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business Management Division
Rita McGrath
Academic Director in Executive Education
Author, Seeing Around Corners and The End of Competitive Advantage
Oded Netzer
Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
Your digitally verified certificate will be issued in your legal name and emailed to you, at no additional cost, upon completion of the program, including all modules of the program (online, in person, or live online, inter-module). All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of Columbia Business School Executive Education.
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