Business Management: From Management to Leadership

What You'll Learn 

Business Management: From Management to Leadership is designed to boost your business acumen and help you to reach your full potential as a manager and leader within your organization.  

Mastering the fundamentals of business management is critical to success in any industry, but in today’s global economy, these skills are more important than ever.  As organizations face disruption, intensified competition and profit challenges, leaders need core business management skills to tackle these problems that cut across traditional boundaries.  

This business management certificate program will teach you a range of essential skills needed to advance your career, including leading transitions, improving your financial acumen, understanding market dynamics, developing operational command of your business, and designing and executing business strategy.  Participants will engage in an MBA-inspired curriculum focused on skills that drive business success. 

Through highly interactive lectures, case discussions, exercises, and workshops, you will return to work as an empowered leader equipped to manage across the organization.

Program Benefits 

By participating in this business management course, you will:

• Navigate leadership transitions and refine your leadership brand 
• Improve your ability to influence across the organization and shape culture 
• Advance your financial acumen to drive profits and deliver value 
• Cultivate a customer-centric mindset: create value for and from your customers 
• Learn to build and sustain operational excellence 
• Gain insight into strategy and how to build a competitive advantage
• Apply concepts learned in a team workshop and receive peer feedback
• Collaborate with peer business leaders and enjoy multiple networking opportunities
• Earn a Certificate of Completion from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Who Should Enroll 

This business management course is designed for managers across industries and functional areas who are making or recently made a transition to a higher level of business leadership or management. Working professionals who are currently — or are planning to — start a business, human resources professionals, consultants, and business administrators may find this program particularly useful.
New or aspiring managers with less than 7 years of experience looking for a comprehensive leadership program would be well served by our Essential Management Skills for Emerging Leaders program.