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Summary
When you can speak the language of finance, you have the power to build stronger strategies, expand your influence, and make better business decisions. Finance for Senior Executives delivers a foundation in corporate finance that is essential for leaders across every functional area. Exploring the flow of financial resources, capital markets, and systems for financial management and control, this executive finance program positions you to drive new levels of profitability for your organization.
This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More
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Summary
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When you can speak the language of finance, you have the power to build stronger strategies, expand your influence, and make better business decisions. Finance for Senior Executives delivers a foundation in corporate finance that is essential for leaders across every functional area. Exploring the flow of financial resources, capital markets, and systems for financial management and control, this executive finance program positions you to drive new levels of profitability for your organization.
This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More
Key Benefits
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Apply strategic financial insightApply strategic financial insight
- Make informed strategic decisions regarding capital structure
- Utilize capital markets for the most profitable outcomes
- Balance profit, growth, and control in dynamic environments
- Implement restructuring strategies
- Understand the implications of financial reports
Establish optimal systems for management and controlEstablish optimal systems for management and control
- Develop successful and realistic performance plans, incentives, and financial controls at corporate and divisional levels
- Recognize and address biases within financial systems and structures
- Identify the best performance metrics
- Forecast and monitor outcomes with greater confidence
Improve collaboration with senior-level peersImprove collaboration with senior-level peers
- Become a more effective leader through greater financial acumen
- Communicate effectively about finance with executives from all functional areas
- Engage in more productive discussions with financial specialists in your organization and ask the right questions
- Address the concerns of colleagues who are not financial specialists and present information in ways that support their decision-making
Expand your personal and professional networkExpand your personal and professional network
- Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
- Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions
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By examining corporate finance from both internal and external perspectives, this executive finance program provides a solid grounding in the fundamentals of finance. You will build the skills and confidence to immediately apply financial analysis techniques, set realistic performance goals and compensation incentives, and play a bigger role in helping your company optimize its financial resources and strengthen its bottom line.
Details
Apply strategic financial insight
- Make informed strategic decisions regarding capital structure
- Utilize capital markets for the most profitable outcomes
- Balance profit, growth, and control in dynamic environments
- Implement restructuring strategies
- Understand the implications of financial reports
Establish optimal systems for management and control
- Develop successful and realistic performance plans, incentives, and financial controls at corporate and divisional levels
- Recognize and address biases within financial systems and structures
- Identify the best performance metrics
- Forecast and monitor outcomes with greater confidence
Improve collaboration with senior-level peers
- Become a more effective leader through greater financial acumen
- Communicate effectively about finance with executives from all functional areas
- Engage in more productive discussions with financial specialists in your organization and ask the right questions
- Address the concerns of colleagues who are not financial specialists and present information in ways that support their decision-making
Expand your personal and professional network
- Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
- Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions
Who Should Attend
- Executives from a variety of functional areas, including operations, marketing, information technology, human resources, research and development, legal affairs, and financial administration
- Financial executives seeking to update their core skills in a broad strategic context
Dive Deeper into the Experience
Inside the ClassroomInside the Classroom
See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.
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We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?
Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.
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What Every Executive Should Know About Finance
In an increasingly complex business environment, senior executives need basic knowledge of finance.
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Who Should Attend
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- Executives from a variety of functional areas, including operations, marketing, information technology, human resources, research and development, legal affairs, and financial administration
- Financial executives seeking to update their core skills in a broad strategic context
Dive Deeper into the Experience
Play videoPlay videoInside the ClassroomInside the Classroom
See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.
Watch the VideoWatch the Video
Play videoPlay videoWe Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?
Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.
Watch the VideoWatch the Video
What Every Executive Should Know About Finance
In an increasingly complex business environment, senior executives need basic knowledge of finance.
Read More
Blended Learning and Living at HBS
When you participate in a blended Executive Education program at Harvard Business School, you get the best of both worlds—a powerful learning experience that combines highly immersive in-person modules on the HBS campus with highly interactive virtual modules. The blended format provides opportunities to apply new skills and frameworks in your organization during the program.
Both case-based formats are led by HBS faculty, who share their latest research and engage you in a dynamic exchange of ideas with a global community of peers. Each module is carefully designed to maximize the impact, enable immediate application, and accelerate leadership growth.
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Blended Learning and Living at HBS
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When you participate in a blended Executive Education program at Harvard Business School, you get the best of both worlds—a powerful learning experience that combines highly immersive in-person modules on the HBS campus with highly interactive virtual modules. The blended format provides opportunities to apply new skills and frameworks in your organization during the program.
Both case-based formats are led by HBS faculty, who share their latest research and engage you in a dynamic exchange of ideas with a global community of peers. Each module is carefully designed to maximize the impact, enable immediate application, and accelerate leadership growth.
Admissions Criteria and Process
We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.
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We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.
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Program content, dates, schedule, fees, technology platforms, and faculty are subject to change. In accordance with Harvard University policy, Harvard Business School does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities.
C. Fritz Foley Faculty Cochair Read More Apply Download Brochure Program Finder Need Help? Contact Us: Program Advising team Email: executive_education@hbs.edu C. Fritz Foley Faculty Cochair Read More Download Brochure Apply Program Finder Need Help? Contact Us: Program Advising team Email: executive_education@hbs.edu "FSE helps nonfinancial senior executives become big-picture thinkers."
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