Executive Program in Management
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Program Overview: Executive Program in Management
The Executive Program in Management is a career-changing experience designed to broaden your business perspective, deepen your management expertise, and strengthen your leadership skills. The program enables you to lead with greater confidence, strengthen teams to drive meaningful change, and position your organization for long-term competitive advantage.
Through a combination of in-person and online sessions, you will engage with a curriculum that blends Columbia Business School Executive Education’s academic excellence with real-time exposure to the global business environment of New York City. You will expand your strategic thinking, challenge existing assumptions, and develop the capabilities required to take on more complex and senior leadership roles.
What You Will learn in the Executive Program in Management
The Executive Program in Management will enable you to:
Cultivate strategic leadership skills for visionary leadership with a global perspective, including coaching and mentorship for high-performing teams
Enhance decision-making capabilities by leveraging data analytics, strategic thinking, and ethical considerations for effective, timely decisions
Deepen your understanding of global business dynamics, including cross-cultural management and international markets
Grasp the intricacies of leading digital transformation initiatives by examining emerging technologies and their strategic implications
Develop and adapt business models to respond to market changes and emerging opportunities
Manage and lead innovation initiatives, from idea generation to implementation, to ensure sustainable organizational innovation
AI in Management: Strategy, Innovation, and Impact
Examine how rapidly advancing AI technologies are reshaping industries, redefining productivity, and enabling solutions once considered impossible, from creative generation to complex problem-solving.
Develop a clear understanding of AI fundamentals, key terminology, and system capabilities. Learn what different forms of AI do well, where their limits lie, and how they are likely to evolve.
Explore how AI can enhance human creativity by supporting better thinking, deeper connections, and bolder ideas. Learn practical approaches to innovation informed by cognitive science and emerging AI tools.
Understand how value is created and captured in the AI economy. Analyze competitive dynamics, regulation, and global forces shaping AI adoption, investment, and long-term business impact.
Participant Learning Journey
Comprehensive Curriculum
The Executive Program in Management offers a multimodal learning experience that imparts the essentials of high-level leadership in today’s dynamic business environment, including leading change, strategic intuition, and business analytics. Designed and led by Ivy League faculty, the comprehensive curriculum combines live online, online, and in-person sessions and exposes participants to a host of engaging online guest lectures with leading industry executives. The flexible format allows for peer-to-peer learning and experiential sessions that integrate real-world case studies and a group project.
Strengthen the mindset and skills needed to inspire people, elevate performance, and drive organizational outcomes through strategic thinking, effective negotiation, strong networks, and AI‑enhanced decision making.
Welcome and Introduction
Entrepreneurial Principles: Picking Winners: Learn how to identify, evaluate, and back high-potential opportunities
Global Economic Environment: Understand macroeconomic forces shaping global business strategy
Motivation: Understand what drives performance and how to inspire sustained commitment
Operations Strategy & Service Productivity: Explore operating models that drive efficiency, scale, and customer value
Networking: Learn how to build strategic relationships that expand influence and opportunity
Creating Winning Strategies: Craft competitive strategies that deliver sustained advantage
Negotiations: Develop the judgment and tools to craft agreements that advance long-term business goals
Understanding AI: Grasp AI fundamentals and their implications for business leadership
Social Styles: Adapt your leadership approach to different personality and communication styles
Strategic Intuition: Combine insight, experience, and analysis to make breakthrough strategic choices
Success in the digital age requires a breakthrough approach. Through a holistic examination of strategy, this module equips you with fresh perspectives on and deep insights into implementing change, encouraging growth, and creating a long-term advantage.
Leading by Design: Drive change with clarity and confidence to navigate barriers, motivate people, and execute transformation effectively
Making Wise Decisions: Improve judgment and decision making under uncertainty
Principled Influence: Leading Through Fairness and Ethics: Lead with integrity to build trust and long-term credibility
Creating High-Impact and Innovative Teams: Build teams that execute effectively and innovate consistently
Inclusive Leadership: Lead diverse teams to unlock performance and engagement
Strategic Execution: From Vision to Implementation to Impact: Translate strategy into measurable organizational results
Strategic Negotiations: Negotiate complex, multiparty agreements aligned with long-term goals
Leaders today must be equipped to drive meaningful change, think bigger, and make decisions with strong quantitative intuition. This program helps you develop the ability to anticipate shifts before they happen so you can lead with clarity, confidence, and a future‑focused mindset.
Leading Change: Anticipate emerging risks and opportunities before competitors
Think Bigger: Expand strategic ambition beyond incremental growth
Quantitative Intuition: Use data confidently without losing strategic perspective
Seeing Around Corners: Anticipate emerging risks and opportunities before competitors
Today’s leaders need strategies that work for the digital world. By diving into leadership fundamentals for the next generation of organizations, including the domains of digital transformation, digital customer behaviors, and innovation through experimentation, this module will prepare you to navigate any business scenario.
The Five Domains of Digital Transformation: Understand the five critical shifts redefining value creation in the digital economy
Artificial Intelligence: Understand how AI advances are reshaping decision‑making, driving innovation, and creating new opportunities for business growth
Domain 1: Customers: Reimagine how digital technologies transform customer behavior, expectations, and value creation
Platform Business Models: Understand how platforms create network effects and scale advantage
Domain 2: Competition: Rethink competitive dynamics in digitally disrupted markets
Domain 3: Data: Leverage data as a strategic asset for insight and growth
Domain 4: Innovation: Drive continuous innovation in fast-moving environments
Domain 5: Value: Create and capture value in evolving digital ecosystems
Disruptive Business Models: Recognize and respond to models that redefine industries
A wide range of forces are responsible for shaping today’s global business environment and, consequently, how organizations deliver their services. By gaining a deeper understanding of entrepreneurial principles and leveraging AI in business, you will develop the capabilities needed to help your organization thrive in an integrated ecosystem.
Effective Strategy Implementation: Learn how to align structure, incentives, culture, and leadership behaviors to ensure strategy translates into measurable enterprise impact
Persuasion and Influence: Refine your executive presence and communication approach to mobilize stakeholders, shape decisions, and gain buy-in at the highest levels
Operational Excellence and Bottom of the Pyramid Models: Explore how to drive efficiency, cost discipline, and scalable impact while serving emerging and underserved markets profitably
Execution in Action: Apply integrated frameworks in live discussions and case work, stress-testing your ability to move from strategy to decisive action
The AI Business Landscape: Examine how AI is reshaping competitive dynamics, industry structures, and sources of strategic advantage
Applying Social Styles: Practice adapting your leadership and communication style in real time to improve alignment, collaboration, and results
Entrepreneurial Principles: Managing Growth: Address the leadership, capital, and operational challenges that emerge as ventures scale
Leveraging AI in the Enterprise: Identify high-impact AI use cases and build a road map for responsible, enterprise-wide implementation
Personal Case Presentations: Present a strategic initiative before faculty and peers, demonstrating executive-level clarity, rigor, and influence
Values Leadership: Lead with a disciplined focus on long-term value creation for customers, shareholders, and broader stakeholders
Note: Session topics are subject to change.
Capstone Project
The capstone project is a key aspect of the program learning experience. As part of a small group, participants will apply their learnings from the online, live online, and on-campus sessions to solve a business problem.
The problem can be a real-world problem that a group member is facing in their organization or a new business idea that a group member is developing. This project will give you the opportunity to effectively tackle real-world organizational challenges using the tools, frameworks, and lessons learned in the program.
Meet the Faculty
Academic Director in Executive Education
Contributing Faculty
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business Management Division
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Adjunct Professor of Business Management
Adjunct Professor of Business Marketing Division
Senior Lecturer in Business Management
Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics Management Division
Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business Economics Division
Kravis Professor of Business Management
Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business Management Division
Faculty of Columbia Business School Executive Education
Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business Marketing Division
Professor of the Practice of Management
Faculty of Columbia Business School Executive Education
Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business
S. T. Lee Professor of Business; Chair of Management Division Management Division
Professor and Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Columbia University
Note: Faculty are subject to change.
Certificate in Business Excellence
Upon completion of the Executive Program in Management, participants are awarded the Certificate in Business Excellence from Columbia Business School Executive Education. The certificate is a recognition of their achievement and the investment they and their organization have made in their education and development.
As a Certificate in Business Excellence holder, you will receive a 25 percent tuition benefit for full-price Executive Education in-person programs lasting three and four days and all full-price online programs. Exclusions apply **
Certificate holders will also be awarded select Columbia Business School Alumni benefits.
Your digitally verified certificate will be issued in your legal name and emailed to you, at no additional cost, upon completion of the program, including all modules of the program (online, in person, or live online, inter-module). All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of Columbia Business School Executive Education.
CIBE Holder Benefits
Join Columbia Business School’s worldwide network of more than 47,000 alumni and receive select benefits, including:
Access to Columbia Business School Alumni Career Services resources
Invitations to alumni events and programs around the world
Global networking opportunities
An additional tuition benefit on eligible future programs
Lifetime Columbia Business School forwarding email address
Columbia Business School Alumni Career Services
On-Campus Immersion and Networking
Immerse yourself in the dynamic Columbia experience during the on-campus residency of the Executive Program in Management. Over several intensive days, you will engage with Columbia Business School Executive Education faculty and industry leaders, exploring core leadership themes that shape effective management, strategic execution, and organizational performance.
Each day combines faculty-led sessions with interactive discussions designed to translate insight into action. You will examine critical business challenges through the lens of leadership, strategy, and execution, gaining practical tools to drive impact within your organization.
Beyond the classroom, you will connect with a diverse network of global executives, exchange perspectives across industries, and strengthen relationships that extend well beyond the program. This immersive experience broadens your leadership perspective, sharpens decision-making capabilities, and equips you to return with clear priorities and actionable strategies for sustained success.
Program Calendar
This six-month program journey features one in-class immersion module, two live online modules, and two multi-week online modules.
Date | Location | |
|---|---|---|
Welcome Session | May 4, 2026 | Live Online |
Module 1 | Part 1: May 11–15, 2026 Part 2: June 1–5, 2026 | Live Online | 5 days | 3 Hours/Day |
Module 2: Leadership | June 15–August 7, 2026 | Online | 7 weeks |
Module 3 | August 17–20, 2026 | Live Online | 4 days | 3 Hours/Day |
Module 4: Digital Strategies for Business | August 31–October 30, 2026 | Online | 8 weeks |
Module 5 | November 2–6, 2026 | New York City | 5 days In Person |
Who Is the Executive Program in Management For?
The Executive Program in Management will help talented leaders prepare to take on larger and more critical roles. The program is ideal for you if you are:
A senior executive from a large or medium-sized organization preparing to take on a larger, more critical role
A general management leader seeking a deeper understanding of management, leadership, and strategy
A functional leader, including marketing, sales, finance, consulting, technology management, operations, or HR, aiming to advance into larger leadership roles
Eligibility criteria for the program include:
A minimum of 10 years of work experience
International exposure (preferred)
Fluency in written and spoken English
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FAQs
The Executive Program in Management from Columbia Business School Executive Education is an immersive six-month multimodal Ivy League learning journey that is aimed at helping leaders scale new heights in their careers. Participants receive select Columbia Business School alumni benefits upon completion of the program.
The Executive Program in Management from Columbia Business School Executive Education is aimed at leadership development and imparting general management skills to address the needs of senior executives. Participants come from diverse backgrounds and different countries with a minimum of 10 years of work experience.
The Executive Program in Management from Columbia Business School Executive Education features one in-class immersion module, two live online modules, and two multi-week online modules.
The Executive Program in Management from Columbia Business School Executive Education is structured around four key pillars — leadership and management, strategic leadership, strategy and innovation, and digital strategies for business. Participants combine theory with practice by working on a group project to apply their learnings to real-world business challenges guided by a coach who is a Columbia Business School faculty member.
Applicants to the Executive Program in Management 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.
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.
This program is ideal for professionals looking to take on more complex and senior leadership roles. The Executive Program in Management is perfect for those who want to strengthen their teams, drive meaningful change, and expand their strategic thinking capabilities.
The Executive Program in Management combines both in-person and online sessions, providing flexibility while maintaining the high-quality learning experience. This blended format allows you to engage with Columbia Business School's academic excellence alongside real-time exposure to New York City's global business environment.
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Through the Executive Program in Management, you will expand your strategic thinking, challenge existing assumptions, and develop the capabilities required for senior leadership positions. The program helps you lead with greater confidence and strengthens your ability to drive meaningful organizational change.
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Email: epm_columbia@emeritus.org
Phone: +1 567 587 1669 (U.S.) / +44 1156 471398 (U.K.) / +971 80 0035703759 (U.A.E.) / +52 55966 08595 (LATAM)
We encourage early application due to limited cohort capacity.
Flexible payment options available.
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