Foundations for Business Leadership
Successfully navigate the complexity of general management
General management requires that you rapidly master an expanding skillset. You must continuously strengthen your foundations in key business functions and integrate your knowledge across functions. You need to develop agility, with an entrepreneur’s mindset to seize opportunities in disruptive environments.
Over 20 days, Foundations for Business Leadership immerses you in an intense, highly experiential setting, exposing you to the most current business challenges you will face as a general manager. Your cross-disciplinary journey will include IMD’s award-winning business cases, plus business simulations, integrative exercises, cutting-edge live cases, dynamic guest speakers, expert faculty, and coaching.
You will leave the program with a fully integrated view of business, a powerful toolkit for general management combined with the confidence to deliver lasting value for your organization.
It’s a profound transformational journey:
1) Global insights with a diverse cohort: engaging with 59 brilliant executives and business leaders from 27 countries has been a privilege. The diversity and depth of perspectives enriched every discussion, making the learning experience truly global.
2) Intense and comprehensive learning: 360-degree view of business leadership in a remarkably short timeframe: strategy, finance, marketing, digital transformation, supply chain, entrepreneurship, private equity, sustainability, AI, and operations.
3) Self-discovery and leadership growth: challenging my perspectives, pushing me to grow not just as a professional but as an individual, and a leader.
Length: 3 weeks (20 intensive days including weekends). Offered four times a year.
