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Get in-depth business knowledge and focus on developing or building specific capabilities to translate strategic direction into actionable results. Find the right program to help you become a more complete executive in your area of interest at IMD business school - ranked 1st in open programs for the last 7 years. Get in-depth business knowledge and focus on developing or building specific capabilities to translate strategic direction into actionable results. Find the right program to help you become a more complete executive in your area of interest at IMD business school - ranked 1st in open programs for the last 7 years.

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Assure the continuity of your family business

Leading the Family Business

(LFB)

Helps family businesses to better understand and manage their own challenges by sharing experiences and benchmarking success with other family firms.

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Govern and transfer your wealth

Leading the Family Office

(LFO)

Helps families of wealth set up and sustainably maintain their own Single Family Office.

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Stay competitive and united across generations

Navigating your Family Enterprise into the Future

(NFE)

Program for enterprising families run as part of IMD's OWP program, a transformational experience providing cutting-edge insights on the hottest management topics.

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Leverage analogical thinking to approach unfamiliar problems

Complex Problem Solving

(CPS)

Go beyond traditional strategy frameworks and equip yourself with a 3-step process to engage stakeholders throughout and drive clarity into your complex problems.

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Develop an effective strategy for your unit or organization

Strategic Thinking

(ST)

Develop your strategic thinking. Formulate ambitious, but realistic business & organizational strategies with diagnostics, creative alternatives and smart choice.

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Lead your strategic initiative to successful implementation

Strategy Execution

(SE)

Overcome the key challenges inherent to strategic change, and learn practical frameworks to successfully implement your strategic projects and initiatives.

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Build the right partnerships for your business

Strategic Partnerships

(SP)

Develop a clear roadmap on how to either establish a strategic partnership, or manage a strategic partnership for success.

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Create long-term growth by reinventing your business

Business Growth Strategies

(BGS)

Adopt a new and more radical strategic approach so your products or services don’t become obsolete, or you get blindsided by new competition.

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A value-based approach

Marketing Management

(MM)

Take a value-based approach to marketing management and develop the skills that will make you a more relevant and influential marketer for your business today.

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How board directors make a real difference

High Performance Boards

(HPB)

Exposes board members to the latest research on top performing boards and shares best practice from different global governance regimes.

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Get the right digital vocabulary and toolkit

Digital Transformation for Boards

(DTB)

Develop your understanding of the new digital landscape so you can evaluate digital opportunities and threats for your organization with confidence.

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Team Dynamics for Boards explores relationships of power and control in the boardroom

Team Dynamics for Boards

(TDB)

Discover how you can influence these relationships to drive a culture of high performance.

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Get the right finance vocabulary and toolkit

Finance for Boards

(FFB)

Finance for Boards gives you the essential finance knowledge and tools you need to make tough board decisions in areas such as mergers & acquisitions and risk...

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The role of the board in strategy governance

Board and Strategy for Boards

(BSB)

Board and Strategy for Boards enables board members to play a meaningful, advisory role in the governance of their firm’s strategy within the context of an increasingly...

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Risk governance and prevention in a chaotic world

Board and Risk for Boards

(BRB)

Board and Risk for Boards enables board members to benchmark board best practices on risks and update to the latest risk thinking.

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Build a lasting foundation for your board

Setting up the Board

(SB)

Setting up the Board is a program about the creation of a true board whether there was no board at all or only a minimum board before.

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Achieving high performance throughout the value chain

Driving Strategic Innovation

(DSI)

Changes the way business leaders think about innovation and technology strategy, and provides a comprehensive roadmap for achieving breakthrough performance across the...

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Grow your business through innovation

Disruptive Innovation

(DI)

Apply strategic thinking to ensure innovations are implemented to maximum effect.

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Leverage entrepreneurial thinking & acting to ensure long-term competitiveness

Lean Intrapreneurship

(LI)

Designed to build and develop intrapreneurs within organizations, fostering the ability, and agility, to seize untapped business opportunities.

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Creating value through financial excellence

Strategic Finance

(SF)

Refreshes and refines the skills of senior financial and business executives through a broadened understanding of the latest financial concepts and tools

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Develop confidence in analysis and managerial finance

Business Finance

(BF)

Refine your intuition for solving key financial problems, analyze alternatives in decision making and formulate value-maximizing strategies.

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Leveraging complexity to build win-win partnerships

Negotiating for Value Creation

(NVC)

Helps executives master the negotiation frameworks and processes required to manage successful value-driven win-win partnerships.

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Executing strategy through world-class learning and development

Organizational Learning in Action

(OLA)

Empowers corporate learning professionals to develop and implement successful learning strategies across their organizations and drive business growth as a result

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Embed sustainability into the core of your business

Winning Sustainability Strategies

(WSS)

Embed sustainability into the core of your business and create your own sustainability plan for lasting change.

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