Successfully Implement Strategy Within Your Organization
Strategy Execution will equip you with the tools, skills, and frameworks to allocate resources, measure performance, manage risk, and execute strategy. You’ll explore common challenges that prevent or derail implementation and learn how to design systems and structures that meet your organization’s strategic objectives.
Strategy Execution
Business Analytics
Successfully Implement Strategy Within Your Organization
Strategy Execution will equip you with the tools, skills, and frameworks to allocate resources, measure performance, manage risk, and execute strategy. You’ll explore common challenges that prevent or derail implementation and learn how to design systems and structures that meet your organization’s strategic objectives.
What You'll Learn
- Apply frameworks, tools, and goal-setting and tracking exercises to your own strategic initiatives
- Evaluate and elevate your team’s management of the core tensions of strategy execution, including how to balance growth, profit, and control
- Design measurement systems for every dimension of business performance
- Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution
- Empower employees through proprietary frameworks like the Job Design Optimization Tool, which helps design high-performance jobs that enhance a team’s ability to execute critical responsibilities
- Foster successful strategy execution by establishing an environment that communicates which opportunities and behaviors are encouraged and which are out of bounds
About the Professor
Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, and has taught courses on strategy execution, management control systems, and accounting for more than 30 years. His book, Levers of Control, which describes how effective top managers balance innovation and control, won the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award. For three consecutive years, he’s also been named one of the top four best-selling business case authors in the world by The Case Centre. His other books include Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution and Levers of Organization Design: How Managers Use Accountability Systems for Greater Performance and Commitment.
Who Will Benefit
Mid-Level Managers
and Professionals
Gain the frameworks and tools to improve strategy execution within your team, department, or organization.
Aspiring Managers
Prepare for a managerial role and position yourself for advancement by learning how to effectively implement strategy.
Entrepreneurs and
Consultants
Design new structures and systems to manage the core tensions of strategy execution and meet business goals.
Program Structure
Strategy Execution consists of approximately 40 hours of material delivered over a six-week period. You can complete the coursework on your own time while meeting regular deadlines.
February 2021
Course Start Date: 24th February 2021
Length: 6 Weeks
Regular price $1,750
Application Deadline: 15th February 2021
Syllabus
Strategy Execution features adaptations of award-winning, best-selling Harvard Business School case studies, as well as opportunities to engage with peers in team discussions. Participants will explore common challenges that prevent or derail execution and learn how to design systems and structures that meet their organization’s strategic objectives.
You'll also benefit from the insights of industry leaders and expert faculty at Harvard Business School, including Susanna Gallani, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, and Eugene Soltes, Professor of Business Administration. Their research findings and perspectives will complement Professor Simons’ teachings on incentive design and risk management, respectively.
Leaders interviewed:
- Meghna Modi, Managing Director at Go Mobile
- Denise Montgomery, Mary Kay Independent Sales Director
- Tom Polen, CEO and President of Becton Dickinson
- David Rodriguez, EVP and Global Chief Human Resources Officer at Marriott
- Kasper Rorsted, CEO of adidas
- Tom Siebel, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of C3.ai
- Bruce Welty, CEO of Quiet Logistics
Learning requirements: In order to earn a Certificate of Completion, participants must thoughtfully complete all six modules and exercises therein (including a capstone activity which integrates and applies the concepts covered in the course) by stated deadlines.
Syllabus
Strategy Execution features adaptations of award-winning, best-selling Harvard Business School case studies, as well as opportunities to engage with peers in team discussions. Participants will explore common challenges that prevent or derail execution and learn how to design systems and structures that meet their organization’s strategic objectives.
You'll also benefit from the insights of industry leaders and expert faculty at Harvard Business School, including Susanna Gallani, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, and Eugene Soltes, Professor of Business Administration. Their research findings and perspectives will complement Professor Simons’ teachings on incentive design and risk management, respectively.
Leaders interviewed:
- Meghna Modi, Managing Director at Go Mobile
- Denise Montgomery, Mary Kay Independent Sales Director
- Tom Polen, CEO and President of Becton Dickinson
- David Rodriguez, EVP and Global Chief Human Resources Officer at Marriott
- Kasper Rorsted, CEO of adidas
- Tom Siebel, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of C3.ai
- Bruce Welty, CEO of Quiet Logistics
Learning requirements: In order to earn a Certificate of Completion, participants must thoughtfully complete all six modules and exercises therein (including a capstone activity which integrates and applies the concepts covered in the course) by stated deadlines.
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| Module 1: Managing the Tensions of Strategy Execution |
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| Module 2: Aligning Job Design to Strategy |
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| Module 3: Empowering Employees to Execute Strategy |
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| Module 4: Measuring and Monitoring Performance |
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| Module 5: Identifying and Managing Risks |
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| Module 6: Balancing Innovation and Control |
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The HBS Online Advantage
- World-class faculty
- Edge-of-your-seat online learning
- Global peer collaboration and networking
- Real-world, case-based learning
Harvard Business School Online offers a unique and highly engaging way to learn vital business concepts. Solve issues facing your organization by immersing yourself in the systems, structures, and insights other organizations across industries have leveraged to tackle strategy execution. You’ll learn from leaders at Quiet Logistics, Marriott, adidas, C3.ai, Go Mobile, Becton Dickinson, Henkel, and Citibank.
Stories from Our Learners
“Professor Sahlman’s careful observation of the best and brightest entrepreneurs over the last 30 years has given him a perspective and insightfulness that few others can rival. He keeps his students eager to dissect and analyze the situation and range of solutions.”
Janet Krauss,
CEO at Peach
“The People, Opportunity, Context, and Deal framework is now in the back of my mind. Also, I have learned how to quickly assess and network with other companies and panelists at the hundreds of meetup events I’ve attended.”
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Enroll today in Harvard Business School Online’s Business Analytics course.
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