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Your learning journey

Designed to ensure you apply the ideas and concepts you learn directly to your own work.

Your learning journey

Designed to ensure you apply the ideas and concepts you learn directly to your own work.

Kick-off

liVe virtual, one 1-hour session

  • Meet your Program Director, Karl Schmedders, and your fellow participants.
  • Discuss the learning journey and what you can expect to gain from the program.
  • Dive into your preparatory work to maximize your on-campus learning experience.
Dive in

on campus, 5 days

Learn to tackle essential finance challenges and elevate strategic decision-making across key topics, including:

  • Finance and value creation
  • Inflation and its effects on asset prices
  • Non-market macro forces
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Sustainable finance
  • CFO as a mentor
  • AI in finance
  • The token economy
  • Derivatives
  • Private markets
  • Investment
  • Venture capital
  • The evolving role of the CFO
  • Must-win battles

 

Learn from real and relevant case-studies, open sessions to discuss your issues, group exercises, videos and simulations. You will also benefit from the rich experiences of your classmates, representing a broad range of nationalities and industries.

Note: the content of the sessions might vary depending on the cohort.

Program schedule

Strategic Finance 2, 2025

Module

Date

Duration

Location

Kick off

22 September

1-hour session

LiVe virtual

Dive in

20-24 October 2025, 8:30-18:00 (CEST)

5 days

On campus

 - IMD Business School
One step closer to joining IMD alumni network

Successful completion of this program takes you one step closer to joining IMD’s powerful alumni network.

130k+ alumni

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250+ events per year

Communities

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