The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
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Master managerial skills with an MBA-inspired curriculum
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February 27, 2025
3 months online
6-8 hours per week
Participants report that enrolling in a program with colleagues fosters collaborative learning and amplifies their impact.
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The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
Promotion and Events SpecialistStrategic thinking, decision-making, and influence are among the most critical managerial skills for the future. However, a large skills gap exists, revealing that many managers are unprepared to take on future business challenges.
Columbia Management Essentials (Online) is designed to equip you with essential leadership and management concepts. Leveraging the school’s 360 Assessment Tool, the program will help you better understand your strengths and weaknesses and develop the strategies and cross-functional knowledge needed to become a more effective manager. The practical curriculum will prepare you to integrate crucial techniques for decision-making, ethical influencing, and customer-centric value delivery into your day-to-day work.
Of the managers agree that they lack skills to be exceptional at their jobs.
Frontline managers play the most crucial role in engaging an organization’s employees.
General and operations managers are projected to be one of the top growth occupations over the next decade.
The Columbia Management Essentials (Online) program will enable you to:
Gain an overview of the learning journey, program outline, and how to leverage the 360 assessment tool for your progress.
Master a structured approach to decision making and the six logical steps that can guide leaders to the right decision.
Explore the techniques for influencing people in a way that is both ethical and fair and learn how to maximize the perceptions of fairness when you are allocating scarce resources.
Discover the concepts of customer worth, customer lifetime value (CLV), economic value to customers (EVC), and delivering value through marketing strategies like segmenting, targeting, and positioning to appeal to the consumers.
Learn about the fundamental concepts in finance and the rules of capital budgeting—the time value of money, how to compute the future, and how to present value of cash flow.
Understand the new product development process and how to apply various ideation templates to new products that would be successful in the marketplace.
Learn how winning teams can integrate diverse ideas and identify personal ineffective aspects of your leadership style for change and develop strategies to enact change.
Learn the three principles of networking to understand your personal network through the lens of your career success.
This assignment challenges you to apply the concepts you've learned over the course of this program.
Gain an overview of the learning journey, program outline, and how to leverage the 360 assessment tool for your progress.
Understand the new product development process and how to apply various ideation templates to new products that would be successful in the marketplace.
Master a structured approach to decision making and the six logical steps that can guide leaders to the right decision.
Learn how winning teams can integrate diverse ideas and identify personal ineffective aspects of your leadership style for change and develop strategies to enact change.
Explore the techniques for influencing people in a way that is both ethical and fair and learn how to maximize the perceptions of fairness when you are allocating scarce resources.
Learn the three principles of networking to understand your personal network through the lens of your career success.
Discover the concepts of customer worth, customer lifetime value (CLV), economic value to customers (EVC), and delivering value through marketing strategies like segmenting, targeting, and positioning to appeal to the consumers.
This assignment challenges you to apply the concepts you've learned over the course of this program.
Learn about the fundamental concepts in finance and the rules of capital budgeting—the time value of money, how to compute the future, and how to present value of cash flow.
World-Renowned Faculty
Learn from accomplished faculty, and industry experts whose diverse backgrounds encompass a broad range of disciplines
Peer Interaction
Stimulating discussions with like-minded global peers expand your professional network and build a supportive community
Engaging Assignments and Activities
Hone business acumen and executive skills with try-it activities that help you redefine your potential
Case Studies
Through exploratory sessions, examine practical examples and find innovative solutions to strategic challenges
Past participants of the Columbia Management Essentials (Online) program come from diverse backgrounds, industries, and experiences.
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Note: Data from across previous cohorts
Gita Johar
Oded Netzer
Adam Galinsky
Daniel Wolfenzon
The Late Katherine Phillips
Gita Johar
Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business in Marketing
Gita Johar is an influential scholar in the field of consumer psychology who has published several articles on consumer responses to marketing efforts. Her expertise in persuasion makes her uniquely qualified to lead a program on marketing and innovation, generating creative ideas, and persuading consumers and colleagues to accept these ideas.
Johar has served as associate editor for journals such as the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Research, and the International Journal of Research in Marketing. She began a term as editor of the Journal of Consumer Research in July 2014. At Columbia, Johar teaches in EMBA and PhD programs and has authored cases on consumer adoption of new products and on marketing and advertising planning.
Johar is the Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and has been on the faculty since 1992. She received her PhD from NYU Stern School of Business and her MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Oded Netzer
Professor of Business, Marketing
Professor Netzer’s research at Columbia Business School centers on one of the major business challenges of the data-rich environment of the 21st century: developing quantitative methods that leverage data to gain a deeper understanding of customer behavior and guide decisions. He focuses primarily on building statistical and econometric models to measure consumer preferences and understand how customer choices time, and across contexts.
Adam Galinsky
Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics
Adam Galinsky received his PhD from Princeton University and his BA from Harvard University. Professor Galinsky has published 200 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology. His research and teaching focus on leadership, power, negotiations, decision-making, diversity, and ethics. In 2012, Professor Galinsky was selected as one of the World’s 50 Best B-School Professors by Poets and Quants. He twice won the Chair Core Course Teaching Award at Kellogg for teaching excellence on the topic of leadership.
Daniel Wolfenzon
Family Business Program, Chair of Finance Division, Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics
Daniel Wolfenzon received a Masters and a PhD in economics from Harvard University and holds a BS in economics and a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT. Professor Wolfenzon previously taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, and NYU. His research interests are in corporate finance and organizational economics. He has studied control sharing in small firms, the effects of investor protection on ownership concentration, and the structure of business groups around the world.
The Late Katherine Phillips
Reuben Mark Professor of Organizational Character
The late Katherine Phillips joined the faculty at Columbia Business School as the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics in fall of 2011. Before joining Columbia Business School, she was Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and Co-Director and Founder of Northwestern’s Center on the Science of Diversity. Her research addressed the main questions of what is the value of diversity and what are the barriers that prevent society, organizations and work teams from capturing the knowledge, perspectives, and unique backgrounds of every member.
Upon completion of the Columbia Management Essentials (Online) program, you will receive a certificate of participation from Columbia Business School Executive Education. This certificate also awards two credits towards the Certificate in Business Excellence, which grants select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn More
Download BrochureYour 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.
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Some programs do have prerequisites, particularly the more technical ones. This information will be noted on the program landing page, as well as in the program brochure. If you are uncertain about program prerequisites and your capabilities, please email us at the ID mentioned above.
Note that, unless otherwise stated on the program web page, all programs are taught in English and proficiency in English is required.
More than 50 percent of our participants are from outside the United States. Class profiles vary from one cohort to the next, but, generally, our online certificates draw a highly diverse audience in terms of professional experience, industry, and geography — leading to a very rich peer learning and networking experience.
Check back to this program web page or email us to inquire if future program dates or the timeline for future offerings have been confirmed yet.
Each program includes an estimated learner effort per week. This is referenced at the top of the program landing page under the Duration section, as well as in the program brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page.
We have designed this program to fit into your current working life as efficiently as possible. Time will be spent among a variety of activities including:
The program is designed to be highly interactive while also allowing time for self-reflection and to demonstrate an understanding of the core topics through various active learning exercises. Please email us if you need further clarification on program activities.
More than 300,000 learners across 200 countries have chosen to advance their skills with Emeritus and its educational learning partners. In fact, 90 percent of the respondents of a recent survey across all our programs said that their learning outcomes were met or exceeded.
All the contents of the course would be made available to students at the commencement of the course. However, to ensure the program delivers the desired learning outcomes the students may appoint Emeritus to manage the delivery of the program in a cohort-based manner the cost of which is already included in the overall course fee of the course.
A dedicated program support team is available 24/5 (Monday to Friday) to answer questions about the learning platform, technical issues, or anything else that may affect your learning experience.
Peer learning adds substantially to the overall learning experience and is an important part of the program. You can connect and communicate with other participants through our learning platform.
Each program includes an estimated learner effort per week, so you can gauge what will be required before you enroll. This is referenced at the top of the program landing page under the Duration section, as well as in the program brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page. All programs are designed to fit into your working life.
This program is scored as a pass or no-pass; participants must complete the required activities to pass and obtain the certificate of completion. Some programs include a final project submission or other assignments to obtain passing status. This information will be noted in the program brochure. Please email us if you need further clarification on any specific program requirements.
Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a smart digital certificate. The smart digital certificate can be shared with friends, family, schools, or potential employers. You can use it on your cover letter, resume, and/or display it on your LinkedIn profile.
The digital certificate will be sent approximately two weeks after the program, once grading is complete.
No, only verified digital certificates will be issued upon successful completion. This allows you to share your credentials on social platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
No, there is no alumni status granted for this program. In some cases, there are credits that count toward a higher level of certification. This information will be clearly noted in the program brochure.
You will have access to the online learning platform and all the videos and program materials for 12 months following the program start date. Access to the learning platform is restricted to registered participants per the terms of agreement.
Participants will need the latest version of their preferred browser to access the learning platform. In addition, Microsoft Office and a PDF viewer are required to access documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF files, and transcripts.
Yes, the learning platform is accessed via the internet, and video content is not available for download. However, you can download files of video transcripts, assignment templates, readings, etc. For maximum flexibility, you can access program content from a desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile device.
Video lectures must be streamed via the internet, and any livestream webinars and office hours will require an internet connection. However, these sessions are always recorded, so you may view them later.
Yes, you can register up until seven days past the published start date of the program without missing any of the core program material or learnings.
The program fee is noted at the top of this program web page and usually referenced in the program brochure as well.
Yes, you can do the bank remittance in the program currency via wire transfer or debit card. Please contact your program advisor, or email us for details.
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Yes, the flexible payment option allows a participant to pay the program fee in installments. This option is made available on the payment page and should be selected before submitting the payment.
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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.
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