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International Executive Leadership Program

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A global outlook is essential if organizations expect to leverage new market opportunities and attract new customers; find and access new capital sources; and achieve genuine, sustainable growth. This new breed of leaders must possess a unique blend of knowledge, experience, competencies, and personal attributes-global business acumen, leadership characteristics, a world view, and personal and business leadership-that enable them to transcend cultural and geographic boundaries. Globally trained general managers can better address cultural priorities, values, and beliefs than those whose skills are country specific.

The managers who possess these traits will be the leaders who can operate and succeed anywhere on a worldwide stage. Significant investments need to be made to develop these leadership skills and traits.

The Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business' International Executive Leadership Program (IELP) provides students with a global outlook on markets, consumers, and operations, along with opportunities to build cultural competence in regions where their organizations currently operate or plan to conduct business.

IELP courses offer a solid foundation for understanding the dynamics of the worldwide marketplace and help build global business acumen with a technology perspective. Program graduates return to their organizations with a deeper awareness of critical business issues and practices and increased competitiveness to meet business challenges.

Designed for working professionals with busy schedules, IELP coursework combines a global perspective with practical business knowledge to create greater understanding of key business issues and practices.

Who Should Attend the IELP?

  • Professionals employed by multinational organizations and organizations with plans to expand their reach into new regional or global markets. The combination of practical business knowledge and cross-cultural perspective are invaluable for enhancing strategy, innovation and communication skills.
  • MBA program graduates who received their degrees five or more years ago. IELP coursework updates and enhances their skill sets and offers a fresh, relevant perspective grounded in both practical experience and the latest research into global economic, social and business issues and practices.
  • Alumni of the Katz School's Center for Executive Education's MBA Essentials program, who can supplement their knowledge with additional coursework that adds to their international business acumen.

Coursework Outline

Learning Community Workshop

  • Networking exercise to speed up the "getting acquainted" process
  • Effective interactive problem solving

Cross Cultural Communication/Effectiveness

  • Communication process and styles
  • Executive presence and influence
  • Clear, concise message design
  • Presentation skills
  • Cultural consequences

Competing in a Multipolar World

  • Competing with multinational corporations from emerging markets
  • New patterns of capital flow
  • The new innovation landscape
  • Implications of the resource crunch
  • Global production networks and supply chains
  • Catering to new consumer groups

Global Human Resources

  • Human capital maximization for organization's success
  • Employee engagement
  • Equity and compensation
  • Incentives, benefits and opportunities structured to promote retention and organization goals

Effective Global Leadership

  • Management practices of global leaders
  • Frequently conspicuous differences to be recognized and handled
  • Differences including: unfamiliar competitors, dealing with distance and time zones, acquiring knowledge faster, evolving meaningful alliances, calibrating ones ethical compass

Managing the Global Supply Chain

  • Methodologies for global distribution system network design
  • Inventory management in multi-facility networks
  • Revenue management in the supply chain
  • Inter-functional and inter-organizational channel coordination/integration
  • Strategic global outsourcing
  • Speed, efficiency and accuracy of response

Innovation Management

  • Dynamics of organizational innovation, organizational learning and organizational change
  • Imitation vs. Innovation

Innovation to Value Creation

  • Technological innovation for value
  • In-house development and acquisitions involving post-merger integration issues
  • Organizational design, performance management and management control issues

Global Finance and the Efficiency of Capital Markets

  • Financial innovation
  • Stock market behavior
  • Investment decisions: cost of capital and discount rates
  • Financial and investment decisions such as mergers and acquisitions, spin offs, issuance of new common stock, cash flow, short and long term debt, implications of working capital and investments
  • Exchange rate management

Strategic Visioning for a Global Future

  • Organizations and environments
  • Customer and client value creation
  • Strategic planning
  • Organizational survival and success in a changing world
  • Decision-making, industry and competitive analysis on a global scale

Strategic Innovation Simulation