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Columbia's Advanced Management Program
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Questions? Contact Us:
Yoon Lee
Director, Learning Solutions
+1 212-854-3390
yoon.lee@gsb.columbia.edu
Yoon Lee
Director, Learning Solutions
+1 212-854-3390
yoon.lee@gsb.columbia.edu
Eruditus Executive Education is a program recruitment partner for the Advanced Management Program.
Formats
This program is now available in three unique formats to meet your learning needs: consecutive, modular, and customized.
Learn more.
Dates for the modular format are:
Oct 4–16, 2020 and Oct 17–29, 2021
"During this program, executives develop into leaders who can create a vision, communicate it, and motivate others – and ultimately design organizations so that information and responsibility are allocated to those who can make a difference."
– The program's faculty director Paul Ingram
Join the Advanced Management Program that puts you at the very center of business. The program that allows you learn, reflect, and practice the abilities and ideas that will matter most to you and those you lead — all backed by Columbia Business School’s history, scale, and resources.
As our flagship comprehensive leadership program, the Advanced Management Program uses a mix of learning methods, weaving together insights from faculty and industry thought leaders with state-of-the-art experiential learning sessions, peer learning, personal assessments, and individual and group coaching.
Past participants from around the globe are calling the program “eye-opening,” “empowering,” and “transformational.”
Contact Us
For a personal consultation about the program, please contact Yoon Lee, director of Learning Solutions, at yoon.lee@gsb.columbia.edu or +1 212-854-3390.
IMPACT
Executives emerge from the Advanced Management Program stronger and more focused leaders, ready to better communicate their strategy and execute change for their organizations.
Participants hone their integrated leadership skills by sharpening their expertise across three key themes:
Personal Leadership
- Build a “personal board of directors” to support you in your career from the outstanding global executives who will be your peers in class
- Analyze your leadership strengths and weaknesses through Columbia’s proprietary 360-degree leadership feedback
- Hone your personal beliefs about leadership, guided by Columbia Business School executive coaches
- Leverage your personal values for authentic and sustainable leadership
- Develop long-term positive health practices through daily “Executive Well-Being” sessions
Interpersonal Leadership
- Master the latest ideas on how to align your whole organization in pursuit of shared goals
- Improve the performance of your teams with new tools for motivation and better decision making
- Achieve buy-in across the organization by applying mission-critical persuasion techniques
- Harness the power of diverse, inclusive, and aligned teams
- Become more effective at negotiations by understanding and focusing on your interests and recognizing opportunities to create mutual value
Strategic Leadership
- Successfully manage your organization’s business challenges and drive results
- Foster organizational culture by building shared beliefs and values
- Obtain new perspectives on real-life organizational challenges you are currently facing from world-renowned faculty and your global peer set
- Identify inflection points in your business before they occur so you can lead your organization for disruption
- Implement complex change in your organization
Alumni Benefits
Upon completion of the program, executives earn select Columbia Business School alumni benefits, joining a powerful community of 47,000 Columbia Business School alumni worldwide.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
Columbia's Advanced Management Program is comprised of two parts — the core and the deep dive.
First Half: Core
You begin your Advanced Management Program journey with the core of the program — two weeks of cutting-edge classroom learning at the state-of-the-art GE Management Development Institute just outside of New York City.
View the curriculum for the two-week core.
Second Half: Deep Dive
For the second half of the program, choose from one of two learning paths — with scheduling options that meet your needs.
- Learning Path 1: Two Weeks in NYC
- Come to the Columbia University campus in NYC to experience two more curated, integrated weeks of learning
- Take the two weeks immediately following the core of the program (Consecutive) or the following Fall (Modular)
- Includes experiential sessions at iconic NYC locations
- View the curriculum for the two-week deep dive
- Learning Path 2: Customized Learning Path
- Build a custom path of shorter programs designed to sharpen your expertise in focused areas (Customized)
- Choose from a wide range of programs in leadership, strategy, finance, and marketing
- Take the short programs within a year from the first half of the Advanced Management Program
- View sample tracks for this format
To learn more about the three program formats, please contact Yoon Lee, director of Learning Solutions, at yoon.lee@gsb.columbia.edu or +1 212-854-3390.
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
Executives who join Columbia's Advanced Management Program have:
- Interest in reaching an even greater level of impact and achievement through the exploration of new ideas, perspectives, experiences, networks, and realities
- Curiosity about themselves, a willingness to view their strongest convictions with humility, and the belief in continuous learning and progress to discover what else they can do for their organization and who else they can become in the future
- Substantial leadership responsibilities and professional success. Participants who can benefit from the content, contribute to their classmates' learning, and have the potential and desire for future leadership impact will be welcomed.
Hear more about your program cohort from the faculty and program directors:
Typical Participant Mix
Representative Companies and Organizations
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FACULTY
Paul Ingram, Faculty Director
Kravis Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
Paul Ingram's research examines the intersection between culture and social networks. Recent papers investigate questions such as the role of value similarity to foster business networks, determinants and outcomes of individuals’ fit in organizational cultures, and influences on ethical decision making.
He has held visiting professorships at Tel Aviv University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Toronto and, before coming to Columbia, he was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University.
He has consulted on issues of organizational design and strategy to leading companies in the finance, health care, insurance, energy, and consumer products industries.
Hear about the role of the faculty director in this video.
Faculty, Columbia Business School Executive Education
Adjunct Associate Professor, Executive Education
Bruce Craven is the program director of the Advanced Management Program, partnering with the faculty director and on-site and off-site Columbia teams, visiting faculty, and conference center staff to deliver a transformational educational opportunity for program participants.
He also teaches sessions on leadership, focusing on communication, defining purpose, flexible learning, effective messaging, and the power of writing as a tool to face future challenges. In addition to his teaching and leadership roles, he has responsibility for the pre- and post-program effort of the executive education team, including serving as an executive coach.
Over the years, he has taught and had a leadership role in a number of open-enrollment and custom programs in the Executive Education portfolio. He has also been a visiting professor at the WHU Business School in Germany in 2013-2014 and the faculty director in 2016 of the one-week leadership program of WHU at the Columbia Business School.
Hear about the role of the program director in this video.
Along with Professors Ingram and Craven, more than 50 Columbia Business School faculty members and industry experts contribute to and teach in the program. Faculty members who have taught in the program include:
Modupe Akinola
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics
Assistant Professor, Management Division
Senior Lecturer in Business, Management Division
Adam Galinsky
Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business; Chair of Management Division
Sheena S. Iyengar
S. T. Lee Professor of Business, Management Division;
Faculty Director, The Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center
Bernstein Faculty Leader, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Ethics Fellow
Rita McGrath
Faculty of Columbia Business School Executive Education;
World-Renowned Strategist
Oded Netzer
Associate Professor of Business, Marketing Division
Doron Nissim
Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting and Finance; Chair of Accounting Division
Willie Pietersen
Professor of The Practice of Management, Management Division
Richard Paul Richman Professor of Business, Economics Division
Tano Santos
David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance, Finance Division;
Co-Director, Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing
Assistant Professor, Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Professor of Professional Practice, Marketing Division
MUTB Professor of International Business, Economics Division
Along with the above listed faculty, additional Columbia Business School faculty may contribute to and teach in the program. Faculty lineup is subject to change.
FAQ
1. What is the admission criteria and process?
Each cohort of Columbia’s Advanced Management Program is selected through careful review of each candidate’s background, achievements, and learning goals. We not only aim to accept leaders with a wealth of knowledge and successes but also those who have a curiosity about themselves, are willing to view their strongest convictions with humility, and believe in continuous learning and progress to discover what else they can do for their organization and themselves.
To apply, you will submit an application form and share a bit of information about your background, goals, and business challenges. Then you will be asked to set up a call with a member on the program team.
2. What is the program schedule?
The class schedule is Monday through Friday from approximately 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., followed by daily Executive Well-Being classes and several social gatherings in the evening and optional sessions on weekends. Download a sample agenda.
3. What is included in the program fee?
The program fee for all three formats (4-week consecutive, modular, and build your own) includes tuition, program materials, accommodations, executive coaching sessions, and most meals.
4. What support do you provide before the program?
At the Advanced Management Program, your journey of intellectual, personal, and professional growth begins long before you arrive in New York. Before the program begins, you will receive a personal onboarding call from the program director, setting the foundation for your learning and helping you formulate your personal and organizational goals.
5. What support do you provide after the program?
Your Advanced Management Program experience spans well beyond the last day of the program. After the program ends, you will receive:
- 3-, 6-, and 12-Month Virtual Coaching Sessions
Three complimentary one-hour sessions with your Executive Coach support your success after your return to your organization. Learn more about executive coaching at the program in our program information downloads. - Post-Program Check-In
During this call, we will check on your efforts to put your learnings into action. - Your New Network
Stay connected with your program cohort, access various virtual learning opportunities, and leverage your new Columbia Business School alumni benefits — including invitations to worldwide alumni events, access to unique career content, an online networking platform, the alumni directory, and more.
6. Can you provide a referral from a past participant?
We'd be happy to put you in touch with a past participant for a personal recommendation to the program. In addition, we invite you to hear from past participants in these videos:
7. Can you provide a referral from an organization?
We'd be happy to put you in touch with a participating organization for a personal recommendation to the program. In addition, we invite you to read this powerful case study of New Zealand's Powerco company, who leveraged Columbia's Advanced Management Program to develop top leadership skills and new mindsets for a changing industry:
While Columbia Business School’s Advanced Management Program may be located 9,000 miles from Powerco’s New Plymouth, New Zealand headquarters, there are a number of reasons why the utility company decided to put it at the center of its leadership development and succession planning efforts. In this case study, learn how the program instilled new energy in Powerco's C-suite and catapulted their executives from a task-oriented, operational mindset to a strategic group with long-term aspirations in an industry challenged by major transformations.
8. I still have questions. How can I find help?
Please contact Yoon Lee, director of Learning Solutions, at +1 212-854-3390 or yoon.lee@gsb.columbia.edu if you have any open questions.