Columbia Management Essentials (Online)
Over a three-month journey, develop essential managerial tools that help you rise to and succeed at the next level: cross-functional knowledge, integrative thinking, and a sharpened leadership toolkit.
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Columbia Management Essentials (Online) is a three-month online program that teaches the core pillars of management — leading teams, creating a customer-centric organization, and developing financial acumen.
The program enables participants to accelerate their impact through an intensive learning journey that will equip them to manage people, products, and projects more effectively. The key components of this MBA-inspired curriculum are:
- Enhancing leadership effectiveness
- Effective decision making
- Influencing others
- Customer-centric marketing
- Developing financial intuition
- Launching new products
- Leading and managing teams
- Building social capital
With a focus on immediate application, participants work on a capstone case study, individual and team assignments, cases, self assessments — including Columbia Business School’s proprietary 360 Assessment Tool — and group discussions, applying their learnings immediately to their unique contexts.
Participants will also be part of a powerful learning community comprising a diverse group of fellow participants from a broad range of industries, functions, experiences, and geographies.
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You will emerge from Columbia Management Essentials (Online) with enhanced cross-functional skills and a sharpened leadership toolkit that will help you accelerate the impact on your organization.
At the end of the program, you will be able to:
- Identify your strengths and weaknesses as a leader with the 360 Assessment Tool
- Understand how different leadership styles affect performance
- Make decisions in a more systematic way to optimize results
- Influence others in a fair and ethical manner
- Develop a customer-centric mindset and find the right product for the right market
- Understand key financial concepts such as time value of money, net present value, and capital budgets for a stronger financial intuition
- Build a healthy social network to support your professional goals
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Upon completion of this program, you will earn two credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn more.
Duration: 12 Weeks
Time Commitment: 4–6 hours/week
This immersive program takes an integrated approach to learning, combining live and recorded lectures, small group assignments, case studies, role plays, and Columbia Business School's 360 Assessment Tool.
The Learning Journey
The program is comprised of the following modules:
Orientation and Welcome
- Launch of 360 Degree Assessment Tool
- Live Webinar “Program Outline & Learning Journey” with Professor Gita Johar
- Optional: Accounting Basics, Financial Statements, and Key Ratios
Leadership and Decision Making
- The Heart of Leadership
- Making Wise Decisions
Influencing Others
- Influencing Ethically and Fairly
- Live Webinar “Leadership” with Professor Adam Galinsky
Being Customer-Centric
- What Is a Customer Worth
- What Customers Value
- Delivering Value: Segmenting, Targeting, Positioning
- Live Webinar “Customer Analytics” with Professor Oded Netzer
Developing Financial Intuition
- Fundamental Concepts in Finance
- Capital Budgeting
Launching New Products
- New Product Development Process
- Process Ideation Templates
Leading & Managing Teams
- Teams: Factors for Success and Failure
- Six Strategies for High-Performance Teams
- 360 Degree Assessment Tool Debrief
Building Social Networks
- Analyzing Your Social Network
- Building Your Social Network to Support Your Professional Success
Capstone Case and Conclusion
- Capstone Case
- Live webinar “Case Debrief and Program Summary” with Professor Gita Johar
For a complete program schedule, download the agenda.
This program is designed for professionals who have recently taken on or aspire to move into a management role to help them develop leadership and decision-making capabilities. This includes existing managers and technical leaders who have been promoted to a role with management responsibility, executives who build and lead multi-functional teams, and entrepreneurs who need to expand their core business knowledge. Middle- and upper-level managers seeking a well-rounded, MBA-inspired management curriculum will also benefit from exposure to the latest marketing, finance, and leadership strategies taught by Columbia Business School faculty.