IMD business school for management and leadership courses

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Your learning journey

Your learning journey

Experience the program

Foundations for Business Leadership, takes you on an an intensive learning journey, enabling you to make the leap from functional expert to general manager in just three weeks.

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Learning journey
Set strategies and manage the numbers
  • You focus on building the foundational skills needed to develop and evaluate business strategy and back them up with numbers. From reading financial statements to making smart investment decisions under uncertainty.
  • You put everything into practice through hands-on simulations that mirror your real pressures of business leadership.
Lead with an enterprise mindset: see your business end-to-end
  • You shift from strategy and numbers to see the whole business in action. From marketing and supply chains to AI-powered operations and digital strategy.
  • You examine how every part of an organization creates and captures value and build negotiation skills and organizational insight to turn your strategy into real-world execution.
Integrate stakeholders and lead in ecosystems
  • You explore how tomorrow’s leading companies operate within broader ecosystems, engaging not just with customers and competitors but with non-market stakeholders.
  • Guest speakers and industry experts bring the latest hot topics and pressing issues to life.
  • You sharpen your ability to communicate persuasively and translate strategy into measurable outcomes, culminating in a full business case you build, present, and defend.
Integrative practice while you learn
Two-day business simulation

Two weeks through the program, you take part in a two-day business simulation which integrates your learning and gives you greater insight into your business performance.

During this dynamic, integrative exercise, you bring together all the new general management skills you have learned on Foundations for Business Leadership and put them into practice by simulating the running and growing of a company. You improve your decision-making skills and overall performance as you see how your decisions impact company results over two years.

Two-day integration and assessment

For the last two days of the program, you prepare an integrative team exercise to bring all the threads of the program together. You present your learning to a panel of judges of  alumni and receive your final evaluation.

Drive measurable value for your organization

Each participant commits to a performance agreement defining a concrete business goal to pursue during the program and beyond. Agreed with your line manager, it is a tangible driver of measurable business impact.

Executive Certificate – Program for Executive Development (PED)

Foundations for Business Leadership is the first stage of IMD’s Program for Executive Development (PED). To complete PED, your second step is to take IMD’s Transition to Business Leadership program. Successful completion of both programs and exams leads to the Program for Executive Development (PED) Executive Certificate.

Comparing Foundations for Business Leadership with Global Management Foundations

As you transition from functional expertise to general management responsibility, IMD offers you different development options. Foundations for Business Leadership and Global Management Foundations programs represent two approaches to talent progression, each supporting your move toward broader leadership impact. You can compare both programs here.

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