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Strategic IQ: Creating Smarter Corporations
SchoolHarvard University, Harvard Business School
All dates October 25-30, 2020
LocationHBS Campus, Boston, US
CategoryStrategy
Successful companies maintain their competitive edge by constantly innovating and adapting their strategies. They rely on executives with high "strategic IQ" to diagnose the health of the firm, set priorities for improvement, and drive and sustain superior performance. Designed to help companies boost their strategic intelligence, this business strategy program prepares you to lead a smarter, more nimble, and more profitable organization that can adapt to new realities and thrive in a highly competitive landscape.
Senior executives who significantly influence their firm's strategic direction, organizational design, or human-capital development
Particularly appropriate for: Chief executive officers, chief operating officers, chief financial officers, chief strategy officers, group or sector vice presidents, human resource directors, and other senior executives
When it comes to sustaining a winning strategy, flexibility is key. Focused on diagnosis and action, this business strategy course will help you avoid the fate of companies that rigidly adhere to inflexible strategies and structures. You will emerge with a diagnostic framework for identifying and overcoming organizational inertia, with the analytical skills to anticipate and adjust to strategic change, and with the leadership vision to secure a competitive edge in an ever-evolving business climate.
Course information from Harvard University, Harvard Business School
John R. Wells
Professor of Management Practice
John Wells is a Professor of Management Practice in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School where he teaches the first year core course in strategy and his own second year elective course on strategic innovation and change. He also teaches in several executive education programs.
William "Willis" M. Emmons III
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Director, C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning
WILLIAM (WILLIS) EMMONS is Senior Lecturer and Director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School, a position he has held since 2004. As Director of the Christensen Center, Emmons oversees programs to promote and support teaching excellence and innovation within Harvard Business School and to provide leadership and expertise about case method teaching and participant-centered learning for instructors at other institutions in the United States and abroad.
Rembrand M. Koning
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Rembrand Koning is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy unit. His research examines when firms and entrepreneurs fail to make use of advice, new skills, and market opportunities and how these failures magnify existing inequalities. By exploring the sociology underlying these failures, his work highlights how managers and policymakers can overcome these failures to increase productivity, innovation, and social opportunity.
He has used field experiments to show that while founder-to-founder advice has a long-term impact on a startup's performance, some founders fail to make use of this potentially valuable feedback. Currently, he is researching how a lack of gender and racial diversity in organizations inhibits innovation and biases firms against competing in promising new markets. With support from the Kauffman Foundation and in collaboration with the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, he is exploring why some firms don't adopt the new tools and skills that drive employment growth and opportunity in the knowledge economy.
His work has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and the American Sociological Review and has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Forbes. Professor Koning earned his Ph.D. in business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received a Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship. He graduated from the University of Chicago with bachelor's degrees in mathematics and statistics.
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