Oxford Strategic Management Executive Programme
Start dates:
Duration:
- 6 months (including orientation and two week-long breaks)
Time commitment:
- Part time
Location:
- Online
Cost:
- £6,250
About the programme
To succeed in today's increasingly dynamic world, business executives need a holistic and strategic set of capabilities that will empower them to drive their careers, and organisation, forward in the face of complexity.
Gain the knowledge and tools to enhance your management capabilities and become a more effective leader on the Oxford Strategic Management Executive Programme.
As you progress through the programme, you’ll learn how to better manage teams, make more informed financial decisions and achieve organisation-wide strategic objectives.
Programmes in this series
This learning journey leverages content from three leading online Oxford programmes to provide you with core leadership, strategy and finance skills to drive a competitive advantage for your company.
- Executive Leadership: over eight weeks, hone your leadership style, align your purpose with your organisation's strategic focus and become a driving force for transformative change.
- Executive Finance: create a personal toolkit to transform corporate finance practices in today's fast-paced world, essential for making strategic decisions and delivering value at an executive level, including corporate governance and environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.
- Executive Strategy: the final programme examines the evolution of strategy and emphasises the importance of thinking strategically. You will improve your performance in a competitive and digital business landscape by applying the Oxford approach to strategy and your unique business context.
About the programme
Benefits
- The ability to successfully navigate change and uncertainty using an integrated approach to management.
- The leadership knowledge to think critically about the current business landscape and drive effective decision-making.
- The skills to bring greater value to your teams and organisation as you lead them forward to achieve strategic goals.
- Exclusive insights gained from the research and experience of leading faculty from the University of Oxford and over 60 guest experts.
Curriculum
The three short programmes are broken down into manageable, weekly modules designed to accelerate your learning process through diverse activities.
Over the duration of this series, you’ll work through the following modules.
Applications to join the programme will be accepted until the end of the orientation module.
Programme 1: Executive Leadership
Orientation module
Welcome to your online campus.
Module 1
Effective leadership: leading for high performance
Reflect on the relationship between effective leadership and performance in organisations.
Module 2
The job of the leader: envisioning and engaging
Learn about vision and engagement as two core activities of leaders.
Module 3
The job of the leader: choosing and connecting
Learn about decision-making and connection as two core activities of leaders.
Module 4
Leading with power and influence
Explore the significance of power and influence within leadership.
Module 5
Leading teams for effective performance
Explore the functions and dynamics of high-performance leadership.
Module 6
Strategies and models for leading change
Consider the role of the leader in driving change.
Module 7
Mastering complexity and plurality
Explore strategies to manage the complexity inherent in leadership.
Module 8
Reflect on your purpose as a leader
Establish alignment between your personal purpose and the purpose of your organisation.
Programme 2: Executive Finance
Programme break
Orientation to online campus and executive finance.
Module 1
Valuation
Time value of money, net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR).
Module 2
Financial decision-making
Measuring risk, return and the cost of capital.
Module 3
Corporate finance: raising capital effectively
Module 4
Exit strategies
Initial public offerings (IPOs) and mergers and acquisitions (M&As).
Module 5
Corporate governance
Module 6
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors
Programme 3: Executive Strategy
Programme break
Orientation to online campus and executive strategy.
Module 1
Unlocking strategy: the Oxford view
Module 2
Working with futures
Addressing changing environments.
Module 3
Making strategy purposeful
Managing plurality.
Module 4
Engaging players
Developing strategy statements that count.
Module 5
Building partnership
Collaborating and competing.
Module 6
Broadening strategy processes
Designing new strategy processes.
Module 7
Strategy into practice
Assembling your playbook.
About the certificate
Upon successful completion of the final programme, you’ll receive an executive certificate to validate your skills as a strategic leader.
Assessment is continuous and based on practical assignments completed online. You’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the programme handbook. The handbook is shared as soon as you begin the programme.
Contact
- If you have any questions, please contact us.
- OnlineExecEd@sbs.ox.ac.uk