This program is in the Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership track

March 7–April 25, 2016

Application deadline: October 15, 2015

Cambridge,Massachusetts, U.S.

$10,000(excluding accommodations)

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Greater Boston Executive Program

Program DetailsThe Greater Boston Executive Program (GBEP) prepares high-potential professionals for executive leadership. By incorporating new research concepts and management practices, this intensive, eight-week program helps executives to enhance their people management skills, leadership capabilities, and ability to direct and carry out necessary organizational changes. Participants will learn how to apply findings from the behavioral sciences to build stronger organizations and graduate better equipped to lead change, organize for innovation, and manage an increasingly technical workforce. The program’s frameworks and modules are complemented by the small class size, close student-faculty interaction, and the diversity of topics and participant backgrounds.

The course will be held on eight consecutive Mondays (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) beginning March 7, 2016. Participants who complete the program will receive both a GBEP certificate of completion and an MIT Sloan Executive Education Certificate in Management and Leadership.

Course curriculum is divided into three main topic areas:

LeadershipThe leadership-focused sessions will introduce participants to MIT’s Four Capabilities Leadership Framework, a powerful tool for understanding and integrating four critical components of leadership – sensemaking, relating, visioning, and inventing. This segment of the course will develop the participants’ ability to practice these capabilities through cases, experiential exercises, role-plays, videos, and self-assessments.

Organization ChangeOrganizations are changing rapidly in an increasingly uncertain world; dealing with these changes requires new skills and attitudes on the part of managers. This segment is concerned with the strategic, political, and cultural

aspects of leading individuals and groups within and among organizations. Understanding how organizations and groups behave and change is necessary if managers are to act effectively in their current and future positions. Participants will engage in case discussions, small group problem solving exercises, and a computer simulation designed to provide insight and skill when leading organizational change.

Strategic Human Resource ManagementWhile employees have always been central to the functioning of organizations, today they have taken on an even more critical role in the building of a firm’s competitive advantage. The effective employment of human resources in order to improve company performance is the essence of human resource management. This segment of the course approaches personnel and HRM problems and challenges from the general manager’s standpoint, combining up-to-date research findings with case materials and views HR theory and practice in light of current and emerging trends in the workplace.

Takeaways By the end of the eight weeks, participants will have an understanding of:

• Leadership as a skill and practice-based process• Forces that are transforming traditional management goals and practices• Strategic political, and cultural challenges faced by all organizations• Current models and trends in human resource management• Strategic HR practices such as selection, training and development, performance appraisal, and reward systems and the application of these concepts to real world situations• Skills to identify, evaluate, and resolve a variety of issues related to the critical task of managing people

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Greater Boston Executive Program

ParticipantsThe Greater Boston Executive Program is an intense general management program for high-potential, middle-level managers from a variety of backgrounds who seek to understand their changing business environment. The program is particularly appropriate for functional specialists who wish to have a broader perspective on critical management issues affecting the firm; executives of small- and mid-size firms; and executives who cannot take time-off from work to attend a full-time program. The program is limited to 35 participants. Applicants must have schedules that allow for punctual and complete attendance over the eight-week period and possess the following characteristics:

• Five or more years of relevant organizational experience, including managerial experience• A current position in middle management or higher, carrying significant managerial responsibilities• Intellectual curiosity—willingness and ability to learn and unlearn, and an eagerness to stimulate and accelerate his or her own growth and development• Work in a Greater Boston-based organization or possess strong business connections to organizations in the Boston area

Faculty• John Van Maanen, Faculty Director• Emilio Castilla• Wanda Orlikowski

History In 1957, companies in Greater Boston expressed a need for a management development program to meet their unique requirements. These firms recognized that continuing education in management principles was essential for developing managers who could assume additional responsibilities in their organizations. Many of the companies were participating in established advanced management training programs. However, they were also interested in a supplementary, broad-based program that would not take people away from work for long periods, but would expose them to current thinking in management philosophy.

With the advice of Howard W. Johnson of MIT, who was then at the School of Industrial Management, the sponsoring Greater Boston companies set up the first session of the Greater Boston Executive Program in Business Management in the spring of 1958. From the beginning, participating companies have contributed to the success of the program by their selection of managers, vice presidents, assistant treasurers, controllers, and senior research personnel to attend the program.

The program combines the benefits of seminar discussions among representatives from Greater Boston companies in a formal advanced management course, and provides a stimulus for continued study.

After a one-year hiatus in 2015, the Greater Boston Executive Program has now been updated and relaunched as part of the MIT Sloan Executive Education portfolio.

Contact InformationMIT Sloan Executive Education P: +1-617-253-7166 • E: sloanexeced@mit.edu

http://executive.mit.edu/gbep