Tepper School of Business
Compete on a Basis of ‘Uncommon’ Insight
Developing leaders and high performance managers must go beyond solid fundamentals and skills in core disciplines. The demand on leaders is not to simply embody and impart a bias for action, but to originate actions based on deep insight.
Challenge the Status Quo: A Premium on Thought Leadership
For most if not all managers, the current market means tackling unprecedented challenges. The call for fresh thinking and solutions is all the more pressing.
Downsize or Maximize your Investment in Executive Education?
In a downturn, companies may look to paring back investments in management development. Paradoxically, the return on investment in executive education is among the most productive investments that a company can make even in the best of times. Maintaining key investments in employee and management populations delivers higher performance from your workforce, acceleration of leadership ability and improved retention.
Tepper School of Business Executive Education invests in you. We commit our resources to create programs in tune with your business, leadership and organizational needs.
Insights for Maximizing Team Performance
An intensive three-day program that discusses two specific opportunities to enhance team performance: Leveraging Informal Networks examines proactive approaches for enhancing the effect that networks have on team formation and performance. Managing Conflict and Fostering Innovation discusses techniques for enhancing the dialogue of collaboration to manage conflict and enhance the value of team solutions.
Financial Management and Decision Making in Turbulent Capital Markets
Staged within the larger framework of value-based management, the program focused on how to balance the imperatives of value creation and profitable growth with the additional importance of managing cash and capital created by the turbulence in today’s capital markets. The program featured a series of interactive lecture/discussions, integration and comparative analysis of the client’s financial statements, a case study and a new simulation developed by the Center for Interactive Simulations at the Tepper School of Business. Senior managers and operating company presidents were challenged to manage a portfolio of businesses in which the challenges of managing for value creation in today’s difficult environment are highlighted:
- maintaining the profitability of mature business while redirecting capital to other opportunities.
- growing new businesses with an understanding that not all growth is good: offsetting the negative cash flows associated with growing businesses.
- justifying and balancing long term strategic investments with the demands of short term financial performance.
Leadership Acceleration Program
A comprehensive development program for senior managers. Comprised of a variety of business acumen and leadership topics supported by a custom simulation, the program continues to evolve and succeed as a key component of the client’s leadership initiative.
Strategic Thinking
A new custom program for a corporate partner explores advanced tools and thought constructs that enable Vice Presidents to successfully tackle intermediate and long term planning horizon opportunities and challenges.
Relationship Management Series
Developed specifically for a global IT services firm, resources from across the University’s colleges deliver a variety of skills and tools to participants whose challenges require advanced as well as subtle skills as they manage complex relationships and client engagements in multi-cultural environments.
Our executive education inquiry form can help you explore and plan a program to meet your organizational needs.
New Open Enrollment Program for 2010:
Carbon Emissions and Life Cycle Assessment
Sponsored by the Green Design Institute and the Tepper School of Business Executive Education Center, this program is designed for key management and sustainability initiative leaders who are exploring or are already invested in the value and larger implications of sustainability for their organizations. The Program is comprised of two days; based on your needs and interests you may elect to attend just the first or second day or both days to achieve a ‘deeper dive’ into this sustainability opportunity/challenge.
> Download the Carbon Emissions & Life Cycle Assessment brochure
> To learn more, contact Executive Education to speak with one of our Directors
