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Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 9-10 session has been moved to online delivery. If you are interested in attending, please inquire with the Registration Team.

Innovation is a big buzzword that means different things to different people. Where do innovative and revolutionary business ideas come from? According to research by Hal Gregersen, co-author of The Innovator's DNA and executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, mastering five key skills forms the foundation for finding ideas that create value. This innovation program helps executives learn to achieve breakthrough insights through self-assessment, catalytic questioning, deep observation, diverse networking, and rapid experimentation.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,500 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 9-10 session has been moved to online delivery. If you are interested in attending, please inquire with the Registration Team.

This course offers unique, MIT-developed approaches to business operations strategy based on best-practice research conducted among the world’s leading companies. The program helps participants plan the most efficient use of material resources and manage complicated global networks. It also offers analytical, strategic insights into vertical integration, outsourcing, product strategy, supplier management, process technologies, capacity and risk management, and global networks.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 14-15 session has been moved to online delivery. If you are interested in attending, please inquire with the Registration Team.

For non-technical business leaders and corporate strategists, IT can be a source of much frustration. In many companies, the relationship between IT departments and business leaders is like a troubled marriage—miscommunication is rife, leaving executives struggling to improve the situation. This course is intended to help organizations develop a language shared by managers from various backgrounds and areas of expertise, so they can work together efficiently and productively, propelling the company toward future success.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Explore how new and existing business strategies can be improved through the rebalancing of three key relationships: Minds and Machines, Products and Platforms, and the Core and the Crowd.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Learn to optimize business processes through Dynamic Work Design, a set of principles and methods for achieving sustainable improvement efforts of any scale, in any industry, and in any function.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Inquiry-Driven Leadership focuses on a question-based approach to challenges, enabling you to become both a creative problem-finder and solver by gaining the tools to ask better questions.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Minimizing cybercrime damage and disruption is not just the responsibility of the IT department; it’s every employee's job. There are managerial, strategic, and financial considerations in becoming cybersecure. This new online program helps you create a playbook with actionable next steps towards creating a more cyber-aware culture.

This program is delivered in collaboration with Emeritus. Please register on the Emeritus website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
In today’s dynamic and ever-changing economic climate, innovation is less of a choice and more of a business imperative. Similar to entrepreneurship, innovation requires a context of engagement and interconnection between people, stakeholders, and ecosystems in order to flourish — in other words, an innovation ecosystem. This executive program explores MIT’s research on the science of innovation ecosystems, offering you the tools and frameworks necessary to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in your organization.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the May 2020 session has been rescheduled for November 8-13, 2020.

Recent research indicates that most families that achieve financial success—typically through a family company—lose their success within three generations. Why do some family enterprises derail while others prosper? This new program for multigenerational families will help you understand and implement the important driving factors of long-term, enduring, family enterprise success. The course also examines where family enterprises are going and what will drive their success in the future economy.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $40,000 for a team of four, $7,500 for each additional participant (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 5

Description: NEW
This eight-week online program offers you the opportunity to explore macroeconomics from a business perspective, guided by renowned economist Professor Roberto Rigobon.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the May session is currently in the process of being rescheduled for later this year.

Learn to harness the leadership skills, political resources, and cultural understandings needed to guide successful organizational change. This program utilizes a unique analytical framework to address the change process from three perspectives: strategic, political, and cultural. Each of these lenses provides critical insights and tools that can help you avoid the pitfalls associated with managing change.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $9,500 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 5

Description: NEW
This program is designed for managers and executives who want to learn how to transform their organizations and make them more data-driven. While the technology used to analyze data is advancing, it’s still up to leaders to organize the way data is used and leveraged in an organization. This course aims to teach professionals how to lead this change, from planning to execution.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is the science of programming computers to improve their performance by learning from data. Dramatic progress has been made in the last decade, driving machine learning into the spotlight of conversations surrounding disruptive technology. This six-week online program from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) aims to demystify machine learning for the business professional – offering you a firm, foundational understanding of the advantages, limitations, and scope of machine learning from a management perspective.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,200

Program Days: 2

Description: This online program draws on the work of leading MIT faculty and cryptoeconomics expert, Professor Christian Catalini, to examine blockchain technology from an economic perspective. You’ll be offered a foundational overview of how blockchain technology works, in order to demystify the technology and to understand its possibilities and limitations. Over the course of six weeks, you’ll be guided to understand blockchain technology beyond the fundamentals, and to appreciate its application and promise in the context of your own organization.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,500

Program Days: 2

Description: This online program from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) challenges common misconceptions surrounding AI and will equip and encourage you to embrace AI as part of a transformative toolkit.

With a focus on the organizational and managerial implications of these technologies, rather than on their technical aspects, you’ll leave this course armed with the knowledge and confidence you need to pioneer its successful integration in business.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,200

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
The goal of business analytics is to determine which datasets are useful and how they can be leveraged to solve problems and increase efficiency, productivity, and revenue. In this non-technical online program, you will learn a practical framework that will enable you to use data to improve decision-making.

This program is delivered in collaboration with Emeritus. Please register on the Emeritus website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This online short course provides a step-by-step guide to the 4-CAPS+ Leadership Framework, developed by Faculty Director Deborah Ancona and her colleagues at MIT. The framework provides key insights into the skills required for effective leadership.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: A robust and successful digital transformation requires a mindset shift at a leadership level to change organizational practices. Learn to transform your company through business design and strategy inspired by technology.

Developed by Faculty Director Jeanne Ross and her colleagues at MIT, this online course takes a deep dive into the five foundational dimensions of digital transformation. These key dimensions help organizations leverage the capabilities provided by technology.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: The Advanced Management Program (AMP) is a month-long senior executive program designed for a diverse group of experienced leaders seeking transformative learning among global peers. AMP participants will engage in custom learning components led by MIT’s world-renowned faculty, including interactive classroom sessions, management simulations, case studies, 1:1 leadership coaching, and individualized feedback assessments. Participants will also explore the many companies, labs and centers that make MIT and surrounding Kendall Square the epicenter of innovation worldwide.

Application deadlines:
1st round: November 22, 2019
2nd round: January 31, 2020
Final round: April 10, 2020

Qualified candidates are admitted on a rolling, space-available basis, and space is limited. Early application is encouraged and will increase your chances of being accepted. Applicants in later rounds have a higher likelihood of being deferred or waitlisted.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $65,000 (including accommodations)

Program Days: 25

Description: Explore the opportunities for your business with IoT, from demystifying and defining IoT to creating a roadmap for its real-world application. The program aims to help people envision and lead IoT-based transformations, not just understand the technical elements. The goal is to demystify IoT jargon so that managers can start to achieve the strategic advantage IoT makes possible.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem just by changing the question? This new, highly interactive program helps executives cultivate deeply inquisitive leadership practices that can lead to breakthrough results. Bring a real challenge to workshop in the program and leave with research-based insights and methods for transforming yourself, your teams and your organization into being more curious, fearless, and ultimately, innovative.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This intensive program details a unique and powerful approach to integrating business and technology strategy and to developing profitable ventures and technologies. Participants are introduced to a set of tools to identify high-leverage projects, match product strategy to market dynamics, capture market value, and change organizational capabilities to reflect evolving markets and technological dynamics.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This online course uses research and practice-based methods to improve your communication skills in a variety of contexts. Specifically, it’s built around the RELATE framework, developed at the MIT Sloan School of Management to support a scalable communication strategy. This dynamic approach will guide you in connecting and communicating with different audiences to achieve effective business practices.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
In Mastering Negotiation and Influence, you will learn negotiation strategies to understand, plan, and achieve your objectives in a variety of contexts. What separates this program from others is that you will engage in live negotiations and receive feedback in real time. Beyond learning the frameworks and skills associated with negotiating, you will practice putting these new skills into action.

This program is delivered in collaboration with Emeritus. Please register on the Emeritus website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,000

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This online program will equip you with the skills and understanding to accurately and effectively price new or existing products or services, with a focus on providing economic value to the customer.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This program provides you with an overview of the best approaches and practices in digital marketing measurements and analysis, and offers an understanding of how these tools can be integrated to inform strategic direction.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 2-3 session has been moved to online delivery. If you are interested in attending, please inquire with the Registration Team.

Why has implementing enterprise-wide transformation proven to be troubling? When challenges persist, it is often because there are embedded tensions or paradoxes that surface and seem unresolvable. This research-driven and practitioner-led program is designed to help senior executives avert failure, create cultures of agility and resiliency, and develop a customized blueprint for large-scale transformation in their organization.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the March 31-April 1 session has been cancelled.
Please consider the June or October sessions, or our online course, Mastering Negotiation and Influence.

From fundamental principles to specific real-world examples, this program offers a holistic view of negotiation as building relationships that are rooted in mutual trust and respect and that result in success at the bargaining table. Through interactive exercises and extensive feedback, participants learn to prioritize multiple issues to reach the most beneficial resolution and to optimize both the economic and subjective value of negotiations.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This program explores a set of proven, practical, and innovative strategies for maximizing the contribution of an organization’s technical resources. It provides key insights on how to retain technical staff, integrate technical professionals into the organization, build more successful project teams, and keep teams high-performing over time.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Participants in this organizational strategy program will learn what it takes to build game-changing companies that make their teams and areas of responsibility world-class talent factories. They will also discuss the importance of building an innovative company culture and learn from the successes and challenges of various companies that have been on similar journeys of transformation.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This program enables participants to reduce the complexity involved in large projects by restructuring development and management procedures in ways that produces small-team results. MIT’s innovative solution, based on the design structure matrix (DSM), is devised to streamline complex projects by developing detailed models to understand the intricate interactions and iterative nature of design.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Explore how new and existing business strategies can be improved through the rebalancing of three key relationships: Minds and Machines, Products and Platforms, and the Core and the Crowd.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Learn to optimize business processes through Dynamic Work Design, a set of principles and methods for achieving sustainable improvement efforts of any scale, in any industry, and in any function.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the March 30-April 1 session has been cancelled.

There is considerable buzz around disruptive, revolutionary innovation—we’re constantly told we need to do more of it, in every part of our business. But what do you do when you have an existing product in an existing market that is being challenged? How do you revive those products and restart growth? This new program is designed to help you innovate around your existing products to make them more compelling, useful, and valuable.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 7-8 session has been cancelled.
Please consider the June or October sessions, or our online course, Cybersecurity for Managers.

Cyber risk and cybersecurity are a source of frustration for executives and government officials who spend inordinate time and worry trying to protect their data from sophisticated phishing schemes, ransomware, state-sponsored hacking. However, cybersecurity issues are not purely a technology problem—they are multi-headed hydras that need to be addressed with a multi-disciplinary approach. This timely cybersecurity course provides general managers with a holistic approach to keeping your company secure.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: In the race to implement new manufacturing technologies and systems, such as the Industrial Internet of Things, it is often forgotten that factories and operations already have systems in place—and the inner workings of these systems tend to actively resist any change forced upon them. This new program is designed to help manufacturing executives and frontline leaders implement technological change at their companies while developing a company culture that puts people first.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Successful companies create compelling, disruptive products and services by cultivating a culture of design thinking—and by putting people at the center of their process. These firms innovate continuously by connecting with customer needs and emotions and demonstrating effective design leadership. Learn how enable this design culture at your organization to achieve buy-in for your vision and create solutions that consumers love.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This course provides an intensive, hands-on introduction to system dynamics, a unique framework for understanding and managing complex businesses and organizations. Participants are introduced to a variety of tools, including mapping techniques, simulation models, and MIT’s “management flight simulators” to help them understand the sources of persistent problems and how business decisions may result in complicated cause-and-effect loops.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $9,500 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 5

Description: What makes some organizations capable of generating and sustaining high-velocity, unparalleled, relentless improvement and innovation? This program will introduce the fundamental principles by which such acceleration occurs, give examples of those principles in practice, and give participants an opportunity to test how those principles can be applied and translated to their own work.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: In this course, participants learn to analyze the performance of projects, and even entire departments, from a financial perspective; gain a deeper understanding of how resources are allocated throughout an organization; and understand how to leverage cost analysis to position a particular project or department for success.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Design thinking is a powerful process of problem solving that begins with understanding unmet customer needs. From that insight emerges a process for innovation that encompasses concept development, applied creativity, prototyping, and experimentation. When design thinking approaches are applied to business, the success rate for innovation improves substantially.

This program is delivered in collaboration with Emeritus. Please register on the Emeritus website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $3,300

Program Days: 3

Description: This program is designed to help senior executives of service businesses—especially those responsible for HR, operations, and customer experience—create and implement an integrated set of strategies that delights customers and keeps them loyal; engages a workforce and helps them find meaning and dignity in their work; and drives high performance and revenue.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This program is designed to provide senior technical managers with the financial concepts, strategies, and tools needed to deal more effectively with corporate financial management. Course curriculum focuses on basic financial principles for project evaluation, funding, and resource allocation, helping leaders to work more effectively with financial decision makers and apply the principles of finance to short-term and long-range goals.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This program introduces participants to MIT's unique, powerful, and integrative system dynamics approach to assess problems that will not go away and to produce the results they want. Through exercises and simulation models participants experience the long-term side effects and impacts of decisions and understand the ways in which performance is tied to structures and policies.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 16-17 session has been cancelled.
Please consider the June or November session, or our online course, Business Process Design for Strategic Management.

This program helps executives understand how continuous improvement strategies, sustained over a long period of time, affect core business metrics and business development strategy and contribute to the success of the organization. This course equips managers with a fundamental understanding of how visual management—as well as their own approach to management—can be improved to create competitive advantage.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 7-8 session has been cancelled.

This course presents innovative strategies and best practices for improving supply chain performance. It introduces a unique MIT framework, using the concept of technology clockspeed, for strategically managing and optimizing supply chains. Participants gain a deeper understanding of supply chain integration, technology sourcing, make-buy decisions, strategic partnering and outsourcing, and IT and decision-support systems.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Minimizing cybercrime damage and disruption is not just the responsibility of the IT department; it’s every employee's job. There are managerial, strategic, and financial considerations in becoming cybersecure. This new online program helps you create a playbook with actionable next steps towards creating a more cyber-aware culture.

This program is delivered in collaboration with Emeritus. Please register on the Emeritus website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: This online program from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) challenges common misconceptions surrounding AI and will equip and encourage you to embrace AI as part of a transformative toolkit.

With a focus on the organizational and managerial implications of these technologies, rather than on their technical aspects, you’ll leave this course armed with the knowledge and confidence you need to pioneer its successful integration in business.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,200

Program Days: 2

Description: This course introduces participants to the concept of “commonality" or product platforms—the sharing of components, processes, technologies, interfaces and/or infrastructure across a product family. Successful product platform management software allows companies to develop better products more easily, improve product family planning and lifecycle management, and increase corporate profitability.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This course is designed to increase the personal productivity of professionals through a series of case studies, practical exercises, and background readings. Maximizing Your Personal Productivity is based on Extreme Productivity, a best-selling book by Bob Pozen, Faculty Director of the program and former President of Fidelity Investments and Executive Chairman of MFS Investment Management. The program encourages self-evaluation through polls and surveys about your work habits and provides ample opportunities for learning through doing.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 9-10 session has been moved to online delivery. If you are interested in attending, please inquire with the Registration Team.

This course offers unique, MIT-developed approaches to business operations strategy based on best-practice research conducted among the world’s leading companies. The program helps participants plan the most efficient use of material resources and manage complicated global networks. It also offers analytical, strategic insights into vertical integration, outsourcing, product strategy, supplier management, process technologies, capacity and risk management, and global networks.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is the science of programming computers to improve their performance by learning from data. Dramatic progress has been made in the last decade, driving machine learning into the spotlight of conversations surrounding disruptive technology. This six-week online program from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) aims to demystify machine learning for the business professional – offering you a firm, foundational understanding of the advantages, limitations, and scope of machine learning from a management perspective.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,200

Program Days: 2

Description: This online program draws on the work of leading MIT faculty and cryptoeconomics expert, Professor Christian Catalini, to examine blockchain technology from an economic perspective. You’ll be offered a foundational overview of how blockchain technology works, in order to demystify the technology and to understand its possibilities and limitations. Over the course of six weeks, you’ll be guided to understand blockchain technology beyond the fundamentals, and to appreciate its application and promise in the context of your own organization.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,500

Program Days: 2

Description: A recent survey of more than 400 global CEOs revealed that the ability to execute strategy was their number one challenge, ahead of innovation, geopolitical instability, and top-line growth. Executives are right to be concerned. At least two-thirds of large organizations struggle to implement their strategies. This course is designed to help global executives close the gap between strategic intent and results by introducing a systematic framework and hands-on tools to drive execution in their own organizations.

Please note, the application deadline for this course is May 29, 2020.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Grounded in extensive cognitive research on how we learn and observe, Communication and Persuasion in the Digital Age is designed to help executives and managers become successful communicators in person and in virtual contexts: from group discussions to presentations to social media.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This program is a transformative learning experience designed to fit the time and language constraints of experienced executives from a wide variety of industries and countries. A new frontier in executive education, it extends MIT content to the non-English speaking world through a multilingual experience. Program topics include: general management, leadership, strategy, innovation, negotiation, analytics management, finance, and productivity.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $15,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 8

Description: NEW
In today’s dynamic and ever-changing economic climate, innovation is less of a choice and more of a business imperative. Similar to entrepreneurship, innovation requires a context of engagement and interconnection between people, stakeholders, and ecosystems in order to flourish — in other words, an innovation ecosystem. This executive program explores MIT’s research on the science of innovation ecosystems, offering you the tools and frameworks necessary to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in your organization.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Organizations, schools, and government departments of today and tomorrow require an effective digital learning strategy to keep speed with innovation and upskill their workforces. Regardless of your industry, your employees expect smart, connected experiences that fit the way they live and work in a digital world. In this new, hands-on program, we’ll give you the capability and confidence to harness current technologies such as machine learning, augmented reality, and robotics in your education strategy. You’ll also look at digital learning and transformation technologies through a strategic lens that will help you create and deliver new value.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. Yet as executives ascend closer to the top slots, the paths to the C-suite narrows. Those who are successful are often highly strategic in how they navigate their careers. This new program will help you better understand and communicate the value you will bring to the C-suite and provide you with a practical framework for charting your own course to the top.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This course outlines the steps that need to be taken to implement and manage a culture of innovation. Structured around a framework developed at MIT for leading and organizing breakthrough innovation, the program helps participants better understand how to develop sources of information on current and new technologies and consumer needs.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: As organizations move away from a “command and control” model to a more “cultivate and coordinate” model, executives can no longer rely on old ways of thinking about leadership strategies. This course introduces participants to a powerful framework developed at MIT to help leaders at every level drive innovation, maximize team performance, and succeed in today’s complex world of fast-paced, dramatic change.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,500 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Inquiry-Driven Leadership focuses on a question-based approach to challenges, enabling you to become both a creative problem-finder and solver by gaining the tools to ask better questions.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This eight-week online program offers you the opportunity to explore macroeconomics from a business perspective, guided by renowned economist Professor Roberto Rigobon.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
People analytics is a data-driven approach to improving people-related decisions for the purpose of advancing both individual and organizational success. This new program explores a number of strategies used to attract and retain top talent and illustrates how these strategies are being designed and used at cutting-edge companies.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Digitization is revolutionizing marketing strategy. From tablets and big data to new customer monitoring tools and the global emergence of social networking, recent technology has revolutionized the modes of communication through which businesses and brands engage with consumers. This course is designed to help executives understand the new rules of marketing in the digital age, covering a range of topics that include search marketing, social network marketing and analytics, predictive modeling, mobile advertising and commerce, CRM strategy, and digital advertising.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This program presents tools and frameworks to help executives understand and predict the medium- to long-run performance of economies in order to mitigate risk, develop growth plans, and make investment decisions, both locally and abroad. Participants will leave the program better able to make business decisions that take global markets and macroeconomics into account and how to interpret economic change in the context of their organization.

Please note that the July 2020 session will be conducted in a blended format, with the first day of the program taking place online asynchronously (at your own pace) between June 15 application deadline and the onsite program days. Participants will be expected to complete roughly 8 hours of content, including some assignments, in the month before arriving to campus. The remaining two days will take place on campus.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $5,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 3

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 9-10 session has been moved to online delivery. If you are interested in attending, please inquire with the Registration Team.

Innovation is a big buzzword that means different things to different people. Where do innovative and revolutionary business ideas come from? According to research by Hal Gregersen, co-author of The Innovator's DNA and executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, mastering five key skills forms the foundation for finding ideas that create value. This innovation program helps executives learn to achieve breakthrough insights through self-assessment, catalytic questioning, deep observation, diverse networking, and rapid experimentation.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,500 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Over the past two decades, some of the most profitable and successful firms are those that have adopted a digital platform model—a strategy whereby the company allows two or more disparate groups to interact over a platform to co-create value; for example, website developers and users on Akamai, recruiters and employees on LinkedIn, and drivers and customers on Uber. In this two-day program, participants eager to develop or launch a digital platform approach will learn why and how their business strategies may need to be revised to be successful.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: A robust and successful digital transformation requires a mindset shift at a leadership level to change organizational practices. Learn to transform your company through business design and strategy inspired by technology.

Developed by Faculty Director Jeanne Ross and her colleagues at MIT, this online course takes a deep dive into the five foundational dimensions of digital transformation. These key dimensions help organizations leverage the capabilities provided by technology.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 7-8 session has been cancelled.
Please consider the June or October sessions, or our online course, Corporate Innovation.

Based on MIT's research into the science of innovation ecosystems, this course equips executives with the high-level frameworks and tools necessary to understand innovation and entrepreneurship in the ecosystems around them, shift to a more effective ecosystem-based open innovation approach, and design programs to engage effectively with external stakeholders.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 16-17 session has been cancelled.

You’ve created an innovative new product or service that could revolutionize your industry, but do you know how to successfully bring it to market? Are you prepared to assess market opportunities? Will customers readily understand the value of your innovation? This program is designed to provide executives who already have deep technical or functional experience with a thorough review of key marketing concepts as they relate to new innovations and new products. This course also covers new digital techniques and the evolution of marketing as a data-driven science.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Explore the opportunities for your business with IoT, from demystifying and defining IoT to creating a roadmap for its real-world application. The program aims to help people envision and lead IoT-based transformations, not just understand the technical elements. The goal is to demystify IoT jargon so that managers can start to achieve the strategic advantage IoT makes possible.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Explore how new and existing business strategies can be improved through the rebalancing of three key relationships: Minds and Machines, Products and Platforms, and the Core and the Crowd.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This program provides you with an overview of the best approaches and practices in digital marketing measurements and analysis, and offers an understanding of how these tools can be integrated to inform strategic direction.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Learn to optimize business processes through Dynamic Work Design, a set of principles and methods for achieving sustainable improvement efforts of any scale, in any industry, and in any function.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This online short course provides a step-by-step guide to the 4-CAPS+ Leadership Framework, developed by Faculty Director Deborah Ancona and her colleagues at MIT. The framework provides key insights into the skills required for effective leadership.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This online program will equip you with the skills and understanding to accurately and effectively price new or existing products or services, with a focus on providing economic value to the customer.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This program is designed for managers and executives who want to learn how to transform their organizations and make them more data-driven. While the technology used to analyze data is advancing, it’s still up to leaders to organize the way data is used and leveraged in an organization. This course aims to teach professionals how to lead this change, from planning to execution.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: This online program from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) challenges common misconceptions surrounding AI and will equip and encourage you to embrace AI as part of a transformative toolkit.

With a focus on the organizational and managerial implications of these technologies, rather than on their technical aspects, you’ll leave this course armed with the knowledge and confidence you need to pioneer its successful integration in business.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,200

Program Days: 2

Description: This online course uses research and practice-based methods to improve your communication skills in a variety of contexts. Specifically, it’s built around the RELATE framework, developed at the MIT Sloan School of Management to support a scalable communication strategy. This dynamic approach will guide you in connecting and communicating with different audiences to achieve effective business practices.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: This online program draws on the work of leading MIT faculty and cryptoeconomics expert, Professor Christian Catalini, to examine blockchain technology from an economic perspective. You’ll be offered a foundational overview of how blockchain technology works, in order to demystify the technology and to understand its possibilities and limitations. Over the course of six weeks, you’ll be guided to understand blockchain technology beyond the fundamentals, and to appreciate its application and promise in the context of your own organization.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,500

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is the science of programming computers to improve their performance by learning from data. Dramatic progress has been made in the last decade, driving machine learning into the spotlight of conversations surrounding disruptive technology. This six-week online program from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) aims to demystify machine learning for the business professional – offering you a firm, foundational understanding of the advantages, limitations, and scope of machine learning from a management perspective.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,200

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
The gap between the skillsets needed yesterday and those needed tomorrow is being widened by the ways in which algorithms, data, and transformative technologies are reshaping work and how we do it. In this new online program, you’ll learn how to harness the momentum and key principles of algorithms and transformative technologies to help bridge some of these gaps in your organization and to more successfully manage and lead your teams in the digital economy.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Inquiry-Driven Leadership focuses on a question-based approach to challenges, enabling you to become both a creative problem-finder and solver by gaining the tools to ask better questions.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: A robust and successful digital transformation requires a mindset shift at a leadership level to change organizational practices. Learn to transform your company through business design and strategy inspired by technology.

Developed by Faculty Director Jeanne Ross and her colleagues at MIT, this online course takes a deep dive into the five foundational dimensions of digital transformation. These key dimensions help organizations leverage the capabilities provided by technology.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: This online program from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) challenges common misconceptions surrounding AI and will equip and encourage you to embrace AI as part of a transformative toolkit.

With a focus on the organizational and managerial implications of these technologies, rather than on their technical aspects, you’ll leave this course armed with the knowledge and confidence you need to pioneer its successful integration in business.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,200

Program Days: 2

Description: This joint program with IMD helps business leaders successfully manage innovation from concept to commercialization. Drawing on a dynamic and integrative value chain framework created at MIT, participants learn how to build organizational relationships that facilitate knowledge transfer, both within the firm and across the value chain.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $11,900 USD (excluding accommodations) | February 2020 CHF11,500 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 5

Description: Explore the opportunities for your business with IoT, from demystifying and defining IoT to creating a roadmap for its real-world application. The program aims to help people envision and lead IoT-based transformations, not just understand the technical elements. The goal is to demystify IoT jargon so that managers can start to achieve the strategic advantage IoT makes possible.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: Much is required of today’s leaders. They must be able reimagine organizational strategies, design new company cultures, arrive at breakthrough solutions, and align teams around inspiring visions for the future. Led by Hal Gregersen, an authority on creating fearless innovation cultures in companies, and Sam Abell, a photographer known for his prolific photographs in National Geographic, this unique three-day program immerses participants in a world of dynamic new possibilities for leadership growth and transformation.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $5,500 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 3

Description: NEW
Explore how new and existing business strategies can be improved through the rebalancing of three key relationships: Minds and Machines, Products and Platforms, and the Core and the Crowd.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This program provides you with an overview of the best approaches and practices in digital marketing measurements and analysis, and offers an understanding of how these tools can be integrated to inform strategic direction.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Learn to optimize business processes through Dynamic Work Design, a set of principles and methods for achieving sustainable improvement efforts of any scale, in any industry, and in any function.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. Yet as executives ascend closer to the top slots, the paths to the C-suite narrows. Those who are successful are often highly strategic in how they navigate their careers. This new program will help you better understand and communicate the value you will bring to the C-suite and provide you with a practical framework for charting your own course to the top.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 9-10 session has been moved to online delivery. If you are interested in attending, please inquire with the Registration Team.

Innovation is a big buzzword that means different things to different people. Where do innovative and revolutionary business ideas come from? According to research by Hal Gregersen, co-author of The Innovator's DNA and executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, mastering five key skills forms the foundation for finding ideas that create value. This innovation program helps executives learn to achieve breakthrough insights through self-assessment, catalytic questioning, deep observation, diverse networking, and rapid experimentation.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,500 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the March 31-April 1 session has been cancelled.
Please consider the June or October sessions, or our online course, Mastering Negotiation and Influence.

From fundamental principles to specific real-world examples, this program offers a holistic view of negotiation as building relationships that are rooted in mutual trust and respect and that result in success at the bargaining table. Through interactive exercises and extensive feedback, participants learn to prioritize multiple issues to reach the most beneficial resolution and to optimize both the economic and subjective value of negotiations.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This online program draws on the work of leading MIT faculty and cryptoeconomics expert, Professor Christian Catalini, to examine blockchain technology from an economic perspective. You’ll be offered a foundational overview of how blockchain technology works, in order to demystify the technology and to understand its possibilities and limitations. Over the course of six weeks, you’ll be guided to understand blockchain technology beyond the fundamentals, and to appreciate its application and promise in the context of your own organization.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,500

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This eight-week online program offers you the opportunity to explore macroeconomics from a business perspective, guided by renowned economist Professor Roberto Rigobon.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Organizations, schools, and government departments of today and tomorrow require an effective digital learning strategy to keep speed with innovation and upskill their workforces. Regardless of your industry, your employees expect smart, connected experiences that fit the way they live and work in a digital world. In this new, hands-on program, we’ll give you the capability and confidence to harness current technologies such as machine learning, augmented reality, and robotics in your education strategy. You’ll also look at digital learning and transformation technologies through a strategic lens that will help you create and deliver new value.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 7-8 session has been cancelled.
Please consider the June or October sessions, or our online course, Corporate Innovation.

Based on MIT's research into the science of innovation ecosystems, this course equips executives with the high-level frameworks and tools necessary to understand innovation and entrepreneurship in the ecosystems around them, shift to a more effective ecosystem-based open innovation approach, and design programs to engage effectively with external stakeholders.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This program introduces participants to MIT's unique, powerful, and integrative system dynamics approach to assess problems that will not go away and to produce the results they want. Through exercises and simulation models participants experience the long-term side effects and impacts of decisions and understand the ways in which performance is tied to structures and policies.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem just by changing the question? This new, highly interactive program helps executives cultivate deeply inquisitive leadership practices that can lead to breakthrough results. Bring a real challenge to workshop in the program and leave with research-based insights and methods for transforming yourself, your teams and your organization into being more curious, fearless, and ultimately, innovative.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Grounded in extensive cognitive research on how we learn and observe, Communication and Persuasion in the Digital Age is designed to help executives and managers become successful communicators in person and in virtual contexts: from group discussions to presentations to social media.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 14-15 session has been cancelled.
Please consider the October session, or one or our related online courses:
Digital Business Strategy
Organizational Design for Digital Transformation

The rules for business success are changing. Powerful technologies are redefining jobs; ubiquitous data, unlimited connectivity, and massive automation are fundamentally changing what’s possible. This program will explore, through case studies, self-assessments, frameworks and discussions, how to deliver digitally inspired customer value propositions. Based primarily on research conducted at MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), this program includes examples of high-performing companies such as BBVA, DBS, and Schneider Electric.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This program is designed for managers and executives who want to learn how to transform their organizations and make them more data-driven. While the technology used to analyze data is advancing, it’s still up to leaders to organize the way data is used and leveraged in an organization. This course aims to teach professionals how to lead this change, from planning to execution.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 2-3 session has been moved to online delivery. If you are interested in attending, please inquire with the Registration Team.

Why has implementing enterprise-wide transformation proven to be troubling? When challenges persist, it is often because there are embedded tensions or paradoxes that surface and seem unresolvable. This research-driven and practitioner-led program is designed to help senior executives avert failure, create cultures of agility and resiliency, and develop a customized blueprint for large-scale transformation in their organization.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the March 31-April 1 session has been moved to online delivery. If you are interested in attending, please inquire with the Registration Team.

This program will provide hands-on application of concepts and techniques deriving from brain research and psychology that can improve your individual leadership performance, as well as that of your team and organization.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This course is designed to increase the personal productivity of professionals through a series of case studies, practical exercises, and background readings. Maximizing Your Personal Productivity is based on Extreme Productivity, a best-selling book by Bob Pozen, Faculty Director of the program and former President of Fidelity Investments and Executive Chairman of MFS Investment Management. The program encourages self-evaluation through polls and surveys about your work habits and provides ample opportunities for learning through doing.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This innovative three-day program applies a unique MIT Sloan framework to the topic of environmental and socio-economic sustainability and uses an engaging mix of interactive lectures, simulation games and action learning. Participants leave with practical and impactful strategies for building consensus and making change, and are empowered to take action on sustainability from the personal through enterprise level.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $5,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 3

Description: This highly experiential course explores neuroscience concepts and techniques to help leaders motivate and inspire their peers and employees in ways that catalyze innovation and increase business success. 

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This program explores a set of proven, practical, and innovative strategies for maximizing the contribution of an organization’s technical resources. It provides key insights on how to retain technical staff, integrate technical professionals into the organization, build more successful project teams, and keep teams high-performing over time.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This online program from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) challenges common misconceptions surrounding AI and will equip and encourage you to embrace AI as part of a transformative toolkit.

With a focus on the organizational and managerial implications of these technologies, rather than on their technical aspects, you’ll leave this course armed with the knowledge and confidence you need to pioneer its successful integration in business.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,200

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 2-3 session has been cancelled.
Please consider the October session, or our online course, Management Analytics.

Are you looking to take your analytics strategy to the next level? This new program provides executives the opportunity to step back and engage in the guided strategic thinking necessary to develop, refine, and implement an analytics program for their organization. It taps into the best practices from the sports industry’s analytics revolution as a case study.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Successful companies create compelling, disruptive products and services by cultivating a culture of design thinking—and by putting people at the center of their process. These firms innovate continuously by connecting with customer needs and emotions and demonstrating effective design leadership. Learn how enable this design culture at your organization to achieve buy-in for your vision and create solutions that consumers love.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: What makes some organizations capable of generating and sustaining high-velocity, unparalleled, relentless improvement and innovation? This program will introduce the fundamental principles by which such acceleration occurs, give examples of those principles in practice, and give participants an opportunity to test how those principles can be applied and translated to their own work.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the March 30-April 1 session has been cancelled.

There is considerable buzz around disruptive, revolutionary innovation—we’re constantly told we need to do more of it, in every part of our business. But what do you do when you have an existing product in an existing market that is being challenged? How do you revive those products and restart growth? This new program is designed to help you innovate around your existing products to make them more compelling, useful, and valuable.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 7-8 session has been cancelled.
Please consider the June or October sessions, or our online course, Cybersecurity for Managers.

Cyber risk and cybersecurity are a source of frustration for executives and government officials who spend inordinate time and worry trying to protect their data from sophisticated phishing schemes, ransomware, state-sponsored hacking. However, cybersecurity issues are not purely a technology problem—they are multi-headed hydras that need to be addressed with a multi-disciplinary approach. This timely cybersecurity course provides general managers with a holistic approach to keeping your company secure.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: In this course, participants learn to analyze the performance of projects, and even entire departments, from a financial perspective; gain a deeper understanding of how resources are allocated throughout an organization; and understand how to leverage cost analysis to position a particular project or department for success.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This online short course provides a step-by-step guide to the 4-CAPS+ Leadership Framework, developed by Faculty Director Deborah Ancona and her colleagues at MIT. The framework provides key insights into the skills required for effective leadership.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This online program will equip you with the skills and understanding to accurately and effectively price new or existing products or services, with a focus on providing economic value to the customer.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is the science of programming computers to improve their performance by learning from data. Dramatic progress has been made in the last decade, driving machine learning into the spotlight of conversations surrounding disruptive technology. This six-week online program from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) aims to demystify machine learning for the business professional – offering you a firm, foundational understanding of the advantages, limitations, and scope of machine learning from a management perspective.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,200

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
In today’s dynamic and ever-changing economic climate, innovation is less of a choice and more of a business imperative. Similar to entrepreneurship, innovation requires a context of engagement and interconnection between people, stakeholders, and ecosystems in order to flourish — in other words, an innovation ecosystem. This executive program explores MIT’s research on the science of innovation ecosystems, offering you the tools and frameworks necessary to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in your organization.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 14-15 session has been moved to online delivery. If you are interested in attending, please inquire with the Registration Team.

For non-technical business leaders and corporate strategists, IT can be a source of much frustration. In many companies, the relationship between IT departments and business leaders is like a troubled marriage—miscommunication is rife, leaving executives struggling to improve the situation. This course is intended to help organizations develop a language shared by managers from various backgrounds and areas of expertise, so they can work together efficiently and productively, propelling the company toward future success.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Participants in this organizational strategy program will learn what it takes to build game-changing companies that make their teams and areas of responsibility world-class talent factories. They will also discuss the importance of building an innovative company culture and learn from the successes and challenges of various companies that have been on similar journeys of transformation.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This program is designed to provide senior technical managers with the financial concepts, strategies, and tools needed to deal more effectively with corporate financial management. Course curriculum focuses on basic financial principles for project evaluation, funding, and resource allocation, helping leaders to work more effectively with financial decision makers and apply the principles of finance to short-term and long-range goals.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This program presents tools and frameworks to help executives understand and predict the medium- to long-run performance of economies in order to mitigate risk, develop growth plans, and make investment decisions, both locally and abroad. Participants will leave the program better able to make business decisions that take global markets and macroeconomics into account and how to interpret economic change in the context of their organization.

Please note that the July 2020 session will be conducted in a blended format, with the first day of the program taking place online asynchronously (at your own pace) between June 15 application deadline and the onsite program days. Participants will be expected to complete roughly 8 hours of content, including some assignments, in the month before arriving to campus. The remaining two days will take place on campus.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $5,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 3

Description: NEW
People analytics is a data-driven approach to improving people-related decisions for the purpose of advancing both individual and organizational success. This new program explores a number of strategies used to attract and retain top talent and illustrates how these strategies are being designed and used at cutting-edge companies.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 16-17 session has been cancelled.
Please consider the June or November session, or our online course, Business Process Design for Strategic Management.

This program helps executives understand how continuous improvement strategies, sustained over a long period of time, affect core business metrics and business development strategy and contribute to the success of the organization. This course equips managers with a fundamental understanding of how visual management—as well as their own approach to management—can be improved to create competitive advantage.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This program enables participants to reduce the complexity involved in large projects by restructuring development and management procedures in ways that produces small-team results. MIT’s innovative solution, based on the design structure matrix (DSM), is devised to streamline complex projects by developing detailed models to understand the intricate interactions and iterative nature of design.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: As organizations move away from a “command and control” model to a more “cultivate and coordinate” model, executives can no longer rely on old ways of thinking about leadership strategies. This course introduces participants to a powerful framework developed at MIT to help leaders at every level drive innovation, maximize team performance, and succeed in today’s complex world of fast-paced, dramatic change.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $4,500 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 16-17 session has been cancelled.

You’ve created an innovative new product or service that could revolutionize your industry, but do you know how to successfully bring it to market? Are you prepared to assess market opportunities? Will customers readily understand the value of your innovation? This program is designed to provide executives who already have deep technical or functional experience with a thorough review of key marketing concepts as they relate to new innovations and new products. This course also covers new digital techniques and the evolution of marketing as a data-driven science.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the May 2020 session has been rescheduled for November 8-13, 2020.

Recent research indicates that most families that achieve financial success—typically through a family company—lose their success within three generations. Why do some family enterprises derail while others prosper? This new program for multigenerational families will help you understand and implement the important driving factors of long-term, enduring, family enterprise success. The course also examines where family enterprises are going and what will drive their success in the future economy.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $40,000 for a team of four, $7,500 for each additional participant (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 5

Description: The Founder to Family program helps founders, or first generation families-in-business, build a bridge to the next generation. Founders and their family members learn to position their companies and families for ongoing success amid a fast-changing business landscape and increasing family complexity. Structure the planning of your transition to the second generation—no matter how distant or close that transition may be. Keep your family business on a path that builds upon the founder’s groundwork and grows value for another generation or more. Accelerate crucial conversations among the founder and his/her family members to resolve issues and set plans for sustaining family and business success.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $36,000 for a team of four, $7,000 for each additional participant (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 5

Description: This five-day program blends the perspectives of marketing, design, and engineering into a systematic approach to delivering innovation, and presents methods that can be put into immediate practice. The goal of this program is to help participants become systematic about innovation in order to create value for their businesses and their customers in the globally connected market.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $9,300 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 5

Description: In the race to implement new manufacturing technologies and systems, such as the Industrial Internet of Things, it is often forgotten that factories and operations already have systems in place—and the inner workings of these systems tend to actively resist any change forced upon them. This new program is designed to help manufacturing executives and frontline leaders implement technological change at their companies while developing a company culture that puts people first.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Over the past two decades, some of the most profitable and successful firms are those that have adopted a digital platform model—a strategy whereby the company allows two or more disparate groups to interact over a platform to co-create value; for example, website developers and users on Akamai, recruiters and employees on LinkedIn, and drivers and customers on Uber. In this two-day program, participants eager to develop or launch a digital platform approach will learn why and how their business strategies may need to be revised to be successful.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 7-8 session has been cancelled.

This course presents innovative strategies and best practices for improving supply chain performance. It introduces a unique MIT framework, using the concept of technology clockspeed, for strategically managing and optimizing supply chains. Participants gain a deeper understanding of supply chain integration, technology sourcing, make-buy decisions, strategic partnering and outsourcing, and IT and decision-support systems.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This course introduces participants to the concept of “commonality" or product platforms—the sharing of components, processes, technologies, interfaces and/or infrastructure across a product family. Successful product platform management software allows companies to develop better products more easily, improve product family planning and lifecycle management, and increase corporate profitability.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: Due to the COVID-19 situation, the April 9-10 session has been moved to online delivery. If you are interested in attending, please inquire with the Registration Team.

This course offers unique, MIT-developed approaches to business operations strategy based on best-practice research conducted among the world’s leading companies. The program helps participants plan the most efficient use of material resources and manage complicated global networks. It also offers analytical, strategic insights into vertical integration, outsourcing, product strategy, supplier management, process technologies, capacity and risk management, and global networks.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,900 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This intensive program details a unique and powerful approach to integrating business and technology strategy and to developing profitable ventures and technologies. Participants are introduced to a set of tools to identify high-leverage projects, match product strategy to market dynamics, capture market value, and change organizational capabilities to reflect evolving markets and technological dynamics.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $4,100 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 2

Description: This online course uses research and practice-based methods to improve your communication skills in a variety of contexts. Specifically, it’s built around the RELATE framework, developed at the MIT Sloan School of Management to support a scalable communication strategy. This dynamic approach will guide you in connecting and communicating with different audiences to achieve effective business practices.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: A robust and successful digital transformation requires a mindset shift at a leadership level to change organizational practices. Learn to transform your company through business design and strategy inspired by technology.

Developed by Faculty Director Jeanne Ross and her colleagues at MIT, this online course takes a deep dive into the five foundational dimensions of digital transformation. These key dimensions help organizations leverage the capabilities provided by technology.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: This online program draws on the work of leading MIT faculty and cryptoeconomics expert, Professor Christian Catalini, to examine blockchain technology from an economic perspective. You’ll be offered a foundational overview of how blockchain technology works, in order to demystify the technology and to understand its possibilities and limitations. Over the course of six weeks, you’ll be guided to understand blockchain technology beyond the fundamentals, and to appreciate its application and promise in the context of your own organization.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $3,500

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Inquiry-Driven Leadership focuses on a question-based approach to challenges, enabling you to become both a creative problem-finder and solver by gaining the tools to ask better questions.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Explore how new and existing business strategies can be improved through the rebalancing of three key relationships: Minds and Machines, Products and Platforms, and the Core and the Crowd.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
This program provides you with an overview of the best approaches and practices in digital marketing measurements and analysis, and offers an understanding of how these tools can be integrated to inform strategic direction.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Strategy and Innovation

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: This online program from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) challenges common misconceptions surrounding AI and will equip and encourage you to embrace AI as part of a transformative toolkit.

With a focus on the organizational and managerial implications of these technologies, rather than on their technical aspects, you’ll leave this course armed with the knowledge and confidence you need to pioneer its successful integration in business.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $3,200

Program Days: 2

Description: NEW
Learn to optimize business processes through Dynamic Work Design, a set of principles and methods for achieving sustainable improvement efforts of any scale, in any industry, and in any function.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Technology, Operations & Value Chain Management

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: Explore the opportunities for your business with IoT, from demystifying and defining IoT to creating a roadmap for its real-world application. The program aims to help people envision and lead IoT-based transformations, not just understand the technical elements. The goal is to demystify IoT jargon so that managers can start to achieve the strategic advantage IoT makes possible.

This program is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Please register on the GetSmarter website.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $2,800

Program Days: 2

Description: Drawing from the vast culture of innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT, this unique course introduces participants to MIT’s entrepreneurial education programs, technology transfer system, and global entrepreneurial network. It covers the entire venture creation process, from generating ideas to building viable global businesses, with a special emphasis on the nurturing roles of corporations, universities, governments, and foundations.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $12,400 (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 5

Description: The Founder to Family program helps founders, or first generation families-in-business, build a bridge to the next generation. Founders and their family members learn to position their companies and families for ongoing success amid a fast-changing business landscape and increasing family complexity. Structure the planning of your transition to the second generation—no matter how distant or close that transition may be. Keep your family business on a path that builds upon the founder’s groundwork and grows value for another generation or more. Accelerate crucial conversations among the founder and his/her family members to resolve issues and set plans for sustaining family and business success.

Certificate:  Management and Leadership

Tuition: $36,000 for a team of four, $7,000 for each additional participant (excluding accommodations)

Program Days: 5