Advanced Management Program Brochure
Advanced Management Program Brochure
Management
Program
Prepare for the Highest
Level of Leadership
Drive organizational change, performance, and growth.
Align business activities, systems, and global teams to
gain a strategic edge. Negotiate complex deals that deliver
superior outcomes. Balance innovation and profitability
while managing risk. Capture opportunities to create
value as global markets shift. Turn digital disruption into
competitive advantage. Inspire and empower colleagues.
Expand your impact as a leader.
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OVERVIEW
At Harvard Business School (HBS), you will collaborate with an exceptional group of executives
who span industries and countries—and engage with our world-renowned faculty who partner
25 Industries Represented
with 10 global research centers and seven regional offices to write new case studies each year
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that are focused on the most pressing issues facing businesses around the world.
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OVERVIEW
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OVERVIEW
A Comprehensive Framework
of Modern Leadership
AMP is a highly structured yet deeply personal learning experience during which you will engage
with and learn from world-renowned HBS faculty, a diverse group of senior executives from
around the world, and a professional HBS Executive Coach. Together, you will take a deep dive
into the complex responsibilities and operational challenges of global leadership.
Designed to spark self-reflection, innovation, and collaboration, this program features global
case studies, personal assessments and feedback, professional one-on-one coaching, guest
speakers, and development of a personal case addressing a leadership challenge or strategic
opportunity for your organization.
Key Topics
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THE CURRICULUM
TOPIC 1:
Lead Strategic
Innovation
and Change
Effectively lead innovation and
transformation efforts that will
impact your organization now
and into the future.
• Understand the role innovation plays as
organizations evolve and leadership’s role
in shaping transformation and change.
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THE CURRICULUM
TOPIC 2:
Understand
the Behavioral
Economics That
Lead to Better
Decisions
Improve your decision-making skills,
lead others to better decisions, and
become a more effective negotiator.
• Understand the behavioral factors that affect
Exceptional Group of Global Peers decision-making, ethics, and negotiations.
AMP provides the time and support you need to build trusting • Create an organizational architecture that
relationships with a group of peers outside your organization leads to better decision-making for yourself,
who not only can understand your challenges, but also can provide employees, and key stakeholders.
objective feedback. Each day, you will gain new insights by:
• Engage in a series of real-world simulations,
• Collaborating with executives who span industries, countries, with feedback on your own behavior, to test
and cultures your analytic ability and tactical skills and to
experiment with new ideas.
• Considering diverse perspectives during case discussions
and assignments • Learn a negotiation framework that will
help you analyze, prepare for, and execute
• Contributing to small group exercises and projects as part negotiations more systematically and effectively.
of a team
• Gain techniques for mitigating your weaknesses
• Giving and receiving confidential feedback in a safe environment and leveraging your strengths.
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THE CURRICULUM
TOPIC 3:
Master
Marketing in a
Digital World
Gain a comprehensive understanding
of long-standing marketing principles
and how they relate to our digital world.
• L
earn how digital transformation and AI are
disrupting the consumer landscape and how
to capitalize on that disruption.
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THE CURRICULUM
TOPIC 4:
Become a
More Authentic
Leader
Uncover, analyze, and strengthen the
unique personal characteristics that
will enable you to lead with greater
authenticity, integrity, and purpose.
• Increase self-awareness through introspection
and feedback from peers and coaches.
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THE CURRICULUM
TOPIC 5:
Navigate
Corporate
Responsibility,
Accountability,
and Ethics
Successfully manage the challenges
and trade-offs of meeting the complex
demands of investors, customers,
employees, and society.
• Responsibly handle situations that involve
competing responsibilities, serious legal
issues, factual uncertainties, aggressive or
hostile stakeholders, and intense time pressure.
• Clearly define the specific economic, legal, Global Approach to Business Management
and ethical responsibilities you and your
company have to investors, customers, Our programs provide insights into global business practices
employees, and society. gained from our 10 global research centers and seven regional
offices around the world, where the top minds in business,
• Examine how organizations are addressing government, and higher education collaborate on
climate change and other environmental groundbreaking research.
issues in their operations and supply chains.
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THE CURRICULUM
TOPIC 6:
Drive Financial
Performance
Maximize financial performance while
creating value and managing risk.
• Gain a conceptual framework and techniques
for understanding and analyzing financial issues.
Renowned Faculty
AMP is developed and taught by a multidisciplinary team of
HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators,
groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors.
Engaged with companies across the globe, they draw on real-
world experience to address the complex challenges facing
today’s business leaders.
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THE CURRICULUM
TOPIC 7:
Capitalize on
Digital
Transformation
and AI
Overcome the challenges and seize
the opportunities created by digital
transformation.
• Understand how digital transformation and
artificial intelligence (AI) impact operating
and business models.
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THE CURRICULUM
TOPIC 8:
Leverage
Strategic
Choice and
Differentiation
Become an effective leader-strategist.
Set the direction of your business and
craft its overarching strategy.
• Dissect your firm’s external environment to
understand how outside factors combine to
shape the overarching competitive environment.
Beyond the daily interactions with professors and peers, a critical • Take strategic actions to position your firm for
part of the HBS experience is the ability to step back from your future success in an environment experiencing
day-to-day routine and reflect on where you’ve been and where profound transformation.
you want to take your career. This introspection is an important
part of the growth process and one of the reasons HBS Executive
Education has been called a life-changing experience.
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THE CURRICULUM
TOPIC 9:
Use
Management
Systems to Drive
Performance
and Governance
Create a high-performance organization
using management systems and processes
that foster a culture of accountability and
establish effective governance.
• Develop a comprehensive framework for driving
organizational performance.
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THE CURRICULUM
TOPIC 10:
Lead in
a Global
Economy
Determine how each country’s economic
performance and geopolitical context will
impact your global business strategy.
• Understand the trends driving globalization.
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CALENDAR In virtual modules, participants will meet with their discussion groups on average one to two
hours per day. Participants will be contacted by the program team to select which time slot
This sample schedule is representative of past full-time, live online modules in the blended
CLASS GUIDE continuous format. Topics, times, and events are subject to change. All times listed are
Mandatory Attendance Flexible Group Work Optional Sessions Eastern Time (ET).
10:45 AM–12:15 PM 10:45 AM–12:15 PM 10:45 AM–12:15 PM 10:45 AM–12:15 PM 10:45 AM–12:15 PM 10:45 AM–12:15 PM
Creating a Behavioral Managing Rebuilding Responsibilities Organizational
Winning Culture Insights Risks Strategy to Investors Problem Solving
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CALENDAR
A Typical Week on Campus This sample schedule is representative of past on-campus modules.
Topics, times, and events are subject to change.
CLASS GUIDE
Mandatory Attendance Optional Sessions
3:00–3:30 PM
Break
3:30–5:00 PM 3:30–4:30 PM 3:30–5:00 PM 3:30–5:00 PM 3:30–5:30 PM
Negotiation Optional: Personal HBS Industry Guest Speaker Optional: Finance Tutorial
Alumni Q&A Executive Coaching
5:00–6:30 PM 5:30–7:30 PM
6:00–7:30 PM Reception Reception and
Rotation Dinner Living Lobster Clambake
Groups 6:30–7:30 PM 6:30–7:30 PM 6:30–7:30 PM
Dinner Dinner Dinner
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ALUMNI STATUS AND LIFELONG LEARNING
Welcome to One of When you complete AMP, you will become a member of the HBS
the World’s Most Powerful alumni network and gain exclusive access to an array of resources
and tools that facilitate lifelong learning, growth, and success.
Business Networks
THE HBS ALUMNI NETWORK HBS PUBLISHING ALUMNI PLUS PROGRAM
Tap into a vast global community of more than 85,000 MBA and Executive Receive a 20% discount on regularly priced items, including HBS Press books,
Education alumni in 160 countries. Harvard Business Review article reprints, and cases (subscriptions not included).
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HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
A Learning Experience
Unlike Any Other
Every year, executives from around the world turn to HBS Executive Education to
propel their careers, ignite their passions, and reach their most ambitious goals.
Here, you will be fully immersed in a unique In the evening, you’ll continue the conversation
living-and-learning experience with other top with your fellow participants in our unique
executives from leading companies around on-campus living groups, over meals, during
the world. off-campus outings, and in other social settings.
Led by our world-renowned faculty, our global Beyond the daily interactions with professors
curriculum is designed to give you the and peers, another critical part of the HBS
knowledge and skills you need to overcome experience is the ability to step back from your
real-world business challenges and lead with day-to-day routine and reflect on where you’ve
greater purpose by questioning assumptions, been and where you want to take your career.
disrupting usual ways of doing business, and
introducing unexpected ways of thinking. It’s a unique and holistic approach to “The professors, industry experts,
professional and personal development peers, resources, content, and
During the day, you’ll take part in dynamic that many of our alumni and participants
lectures, case discussions, and exercises. have called a life-changing experience. facilities are all unparalleled.”
Rajesh Unni
Founder and CEO, Synergy Marine
Group, Singapore
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HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
“As strategists, leaders bear responsibility for the most fundamental question: Why is this
business relevant? Without a compelling answer, everything else a leader does is at risk.”
AMP Faculty Cynthia A. Montgomery
Faculty Chair, AMP, Strategy Unit
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HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION Rohit Deshpandé Krishna G. Palepu
Marketing Unit Accounting and Management and General Management Units
“If you want answers, ask Professor Google. “AMP enables me to engage senior leaders from
AMP Faculty
At AMP you learn what are the right questions all over the world on how to drive performance
to ask. Of your team and of yourself.” excellence in their organizations.”
“Technology is constantly evolving and to “Senior executives need more than ever to
lead in the digital era you have to perform acquire frameworks to critically analyze geopolitical
and transform at the same time.” and geoeconomic events and factor them in
assessing the risks and opportunities that these
Brian J. Hall
bring to their business.”
Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit
motivate, and incentivize with excellence.” “AMP offers the opportunity for leaders to
better themselves through an ongoing process
W. Carl Kester
of acquiring knowledge and insights, extracting
Finance Unit
lessons from experiences, sharing what they
“AMP removes the mystery surrounding finance know, and self-reflection.”
and equips you with the capabilities needed
to strategically deploy financial resources and Michael Toffel
create enterprise value.” Technology and Operations Management Unit
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