Basic Information

Executive Education Center Name:	MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Education
Website:	http://mitsloan.mit.edu/execed/
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Strategy and Innovation
Building, Leading, and Sustaining the Innovative Organization
Corporate Strategy
Developing and Managing a Successful Technology and Product Strategy
Driving Strategic Innovation: Achieving High Performance Throughout the Value Chain
Implementing Radical Innovation: The Corporate Venturing Imperative
Innovation, Strategy, and Leadership for Japanese Managers
Reinventing Your Business Strategy
Technology, Operations, and Value Chain Management
Developing a Leading Edge Operations Strategy
IT for the Non-IT Executive
Managing Complex Product Development Projects
Product Design, Development, and Management
Strategic Cost Analysis for Program and Project Management
Supply Chain Strategy and Management
Management and Leadership
Business Dynamics: MIT’s Approach to Diagnosing and Solving Complex Business Problems
Entrepreneurship Development Program
Fundamentals of Finance for the Technical Executive
International Management Program
Leadership Accountability and the Law
Leading Change in Complex Organizations
Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations
Strategic Marketing for the Technical Executive
Transforming Your Leadership Strategy
Understanding and Solving Complex Business Problems

“In our experience, companies use custom executive education programs to enhance the capabilities of their organization. Designed to address the specific challenges and opportunities of today’s complex organizations, custom programs can be tailored to develop top leaders in an organization’s context. Driving strategic change, creating social networks, enhancing leadership potential, and strengthening customer relationships are four broad imperatives that often compel custom executive programs.

Launch new strategic initiatives

Custom executive programs provide the platforms through which CEOs and senior executives can communicate new strategic initiatives or changes in strategic direction. The customized program can be specifically designed to signal and convey the new skill sets and approaches required to achieve these objectives. Examples of new directions may be moving from being a regional player to a global player in an industry or capturing greater value as power moves from one part of the industry value chain to another. In cases like these, custom executive programs are high leverage interventions capable of driving the organization to achieve a more competitive positioning within the industry.

Build networks across boundaries

Custom programs bring together senior managers from across multiple functions and geographic segments around shared organizational learning. The opportunity to work together creates a valuable network within the firm that enhances senior managers’ abilities to work effectively and rapidly throughout the organization. Custom programs can reinforce or begin to shift the corporate culture, create shared vocabulary, put new perspectives and approaches to work, and build trust among leaders who will produce results.

Develop leadership capabilities

Custom programs enhance the capability of key leaders within a company to increase the capital productivity of the firm and deliver outstanding business performance. Custom programs are usually focused on providing direction, building alignment, and enhancing communication between senior executives and key asset populations within the firm who have the most influence on the company’s performance.

Enrich customer relationships

Custom programs can also help deepen relationships between an organization and its key clients. In this case, the executive program is developed with a sponsoring organization not for its employees but for its customers. By providing clients access to cutting-edge research and new approaches to management issues, firms can have a real, positive impact on their customers’ businesses. In turn, this builds trust and strengthens the bond between an organization and its best customers.”

• Offers specific executive certificates in leadership, management and technology operations
• Located near historic downtown Boston
• Sloan is influenced by the strong focus on engineering and technical analysis from MIT in its business education delivery