Chief Business Officer Program

• Leading by Design: Explore the traits of effective leaders, distinguish between leadership roles, and enhance presence.

• Making Wise Decisions: Develop strategies to improve decision making, mitigate bias, and avoid common decision-making traps.

• Principled Influence: Apply ethical leadership principles, persuasive communication, and fairness to influence teams and organizations.

• Creating High-Impact Teams: Learn to foster high-performing teams by leveraging group decision making and leadership strategies.

• Inclusive Leadership: Build inclusive teams, recognize personal biases, and develop actionable strategies for diversity and equity in leadership.

• Managerial Negotiations: Develop negotiation strategies, leverage persuasion techniques, and navigate conflicts to achieve optimal outcomes.

• Understanding Product Management: Learn the key roles involved in developing and launching a product, and grasp the essential components of creating a lasting product vision.

• Market Opportunities: Learn how to assess market opportunities and leverage market research and competitor benchmarking to identify key metrics for evaluating product-market fit.

• Digital Product Development: Understand the resources needed for developing digital products and how software development kits and application programming interfaces play a crucial role in them. 

• Go-to-Market and Product Strategy Integration: Formulate product improvements to reduce user effort, and identify key strengths and weaknesses of a minimum viable product.

• Constructing a Product Road Map: Explore the product life cycle and learn how to build a product road map by prioritizing and finalizing key improvements.

• Product Communication Strategies: Explore the nuances of managing stakeholders while keeping a strong customer connection.

• The Fundamentals of Accounting: Understand the basic language of business and how business decisions translate to financial statements.

• Corporate Finance: Learn how projects are financed and the sensitive parameters that decide if a project is profitable or not. 

• The Finance of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As): Examine how to quantify synergies and dissynergies and structure deals for successful M&As.

• Operations and Supply Chain: Learn the importance and method to optimize operations, manage risks, and build a competitive supply chain. 

• Process Improvement and Growth: Use effective operations as a source of competitive advantage for growth.

• Building an Entrepreneurial Sales Force: Develop an effective sales force to bring new products and expand a new market through people-driven, partner-driven, or product-driven sales processes. 

• Marketing for Executives: Build a connection with your customer and offerings that can deliver on that connection effectively. 

• Organizational Governance and Risk Management: Learn the basics of working with corporate boards, the role of the executives within it, and how organizational governance structures determine what the firm does and does not do. 

This senior management program is intended to help senior executives address the evolving challenges of the global business landscape. Participants come from diverse backgrounds and different countries with a minimum of 10 years of work experience.

The program features one in-class immersion module, two live online modules, and two multi-week online modules.

Structured around four key pillars — strategic thinking, future-oriented leadership, product management methodologies, and business management acumen — the Chief Business Officer Program from Columbia Executive Education requires participants to combine theory with practice by working on a group project. This project allows them to apply their learnings to business development and strategic challenges in real-world settings.

Applicants to the Chief Business Officer Program must submit an online application that includes essays based on their professional journey. The application fees vary by rounds, and applying earlier helps your chances of being accepted into the program.

Emeritus collects all program payments, provides learner enrollment and program support, and manages learning platform services. 

Program fees for Emeritus programs with Columbia Business School Executive Education may not be paid for with Title IV financial aid funds. Participants may be able to pay the program fee with funds from the GI Bill, the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Act of 2008, or similar types of military education funding benefits. Participants must contact the Columbia University’s Office of Military and Veterans Affairs to determine benefit eligibility. 

The Chief Business Officer Program provides business acumen by giving you the skills every executive needs to manage and grow their business. Our program is targeted at executives who focus on owning the profit and loss responsibilities of a business and want to build on the business advantages to grow it and succeed. 

By understanding the Columbia Business School approach to thinking about competitive advantage, assessing the core determinants of this advantage, how to develop and build strategic thinking, and how to take advantage of a changing business landscape, executives will be able to develop a plan to grow their firm toward the future and the skills to apply to any follow-on problems.

We develop leaders who can skillfully drive the organization forward in their own authentic way. Through this program, you will learn to strengthen your executive presence, strategic decision making, and organizational leadership, equipping yourself to drive profitability and growth.

Unlike other asynchronous executive education programs, this program combines high-impact leadership training, business acumen development, and corporate strategy coaching. It is designed specifically for senior executives who are driving business growth strategies.

Yes, we designed our program for ambitious executives with limited time. This drove our decision to offer a flexible learning format that combines executive education online with immersive in-person sessions.

The Chief Business Officer Program follows a hybrid format, combining online learning with immersive in-person sessions in New York City. This approach blends Columbia Business School's academic excellence with real-time exposure to the business environment, providing a flexible yet engaging experience. The curriculum is designed to develop skills in business strategy, financial sustainability, innovation, and identifying new business opportunities.

The program brings together experienced and accomplished global participants from diverse sectors, cultures, and perspectives. During in-person sessions in New York City, participants engage in thoughtful discussions, exchange insights, and build a robust network with fellow executives. This gives participants a chance to become an invaluable part of a vibrant community during the program. Participants will also join a global community of senior executives and gain access to exclusive networking events, peer discussions, and alumni connections.

The group project is a practical hands-on component in which participants apply program learnings to a real-world business challenge.

Many organizations support executive education programs. We can provide guidance on making a business case for employer sponsorship.

For the program refund and deferral policy, please click the link here. 

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