The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
Promotion and Events Specialist
Develop your management skills and cross-functional impact
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November 16, 2023
6 weeks, online
4–6 hours per week
Our participants tell us that taking this program together with their colleagues helps to share common language and accelerate impact.
We hope you find the same. Special pricing is available for groups.
The benefit of learning together with your friend is that you keep each other accountable and have meaningful discussions about what you're learning.
Courtlyn
Promotion and Events SpecialistThe era of siloed departments and divisions has been replaced by a new age of communication and collaboration that’s essential for businesses to maintain a competitive edge. It is vital for managers to understand how other functions operate — and how to work cross-functionally with them. The Business Acumen for Executives program will engage you in six key areas of business to develop your strategic management expertise. As a participant, this program will enable you to influence and interact more effectively across your organization and make better cross-functional decisions that drive growth.
of IT and business executives have a talent gap that is preventing business transformation.
of IT and business executives rank business acumen as their top skill gap, and no other skill gap comes close.
of businesses responding to a recent study said managers and executives lacking business acumen had a high impact on their business.
Your management playbook serves as a personal guide to your continuous development as a leader. Throughout the program, you’ll use your playbook to complete activities within each module and reflect on your learning. At the end of the program, your playbook can act as a reference on the primary functions of a business and how they intersect by learning how to:
What makes some organizations more successful than others, and how do organizations create competitive advantage? Explore the common elements that drive successful business and competitive strategies.
Get an introduction to finance and accounting for managers — from learning to evaluate financial statements to understanding how organizations make investment decisions — and the link between strategic decision making and finance.
Recognize the importance of building a strategy and aligning management around it to attract, develop, and retain top talent, with a constant eye on maintaining diversity in your organization.
Gain a deeper understanding of customers and the consumer decision-making processes, as well as how the consumer experience and customer journey are managed.
Discover what is possible with big data, analytics, machine learning, and AI, and learn how descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics approaches can inform business decisions and automate processes in organizations.
Understand yourself as a leader, identify your unique leadership style, and develop personal leadership skills essential to growth, such as negotiation and influence, effective communication, team building, creating and leveraging networks, and building executive presence.
What makes some organizations more successful than others, and how do organizations create competitive advantage? Explore the common elements that drive successful business and competitive strategies.
Gain a deeper understanding of customers and the consumer decision-making processes, as well as how the consumer experience and customer journey are managed.
Get an introduction to finance and accounting for managers — from learning to evaluate financial statements to understanding how organizations make investment decisions — and the link between strategic decision making and finance.
Discover what is possible with big data, analytics, machine learning, and AI, and learn how descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics approaches can inform business decisions and automate processes in organizations.
Recognize the importance of building a strategy and aligning management around it to attract, develop, and retain top talent, with a constant eye on maintaining diversity in your organization.
Understand yourself as a leader, identify your unique leadership style, and develop personal leadership skills essential to growth, such as negotiation and influence, effective communication, team building, creating and leveraging networks, and building executive presence.
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Live Session with Faculty
Claudine Gartenberg
Richard Lambert
Michael Roberts
Matthew Bidwell
Raghu Iyengar
Andrew Carton
Claudine Gartenberg
Assistant Professor of Management
Claudine Gartenberg is an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on corporate purpose and pay inequality and the implications of both for business strategy and competitiveness. Her work has been published in top academic journals, including Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal.
She is an associate editor at Management Science and serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal and Strategy Science. Professor Gartenberg received a BA with honors in physics from Harvard College and a DBA and MBA from Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar and received the Wyss Award for best doctoral research. She joins Wharton from the faculty of NYU Stern School. Prior to joining academia, she was an account manager at a business consulting organization, working with clientssuch as PG&E, Chevron, Hallmark Cards, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.
Richard Lambert
Miller-Sherrerd Professor; Professor of Accounting
Professor Lambert’s research examines topics in financial and managerial accounting. In particular, he explores how information is related to the cost of capital in organizations and how they use information for performance evaluation. His articles have appeared in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, and Strategic Management Journal.
He teaches an elective course in financial reporting in both the MBA and WEMBA programs, the core financial accounting class in the WEMBA program, and seminars in the doctoral program. He also teaches in various executive education programs. He is the recipient of several teaching awards. He previously taught at the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He received a PhD from Stanford University in 1982, an MS in statistics from Stanford in 1980, and a BEE in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1977.
Michael Roberts
William H. Lawrence Professor; Professor of Finance
Michael R. Roberts is the William H. Lawrence Professor and a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an affiliate of the Institute for Law and Economics and the Wharton Financial Institutions Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He also founded and heads the Wharton Financial Analytics initiative.
Professor Roberts’ research spans corporate finance, banking, and investments. His recent work has examined equity pricing anomalies, collateralized loan obligation (CLO) performance, and machine learning in investment banking. His research has received several awards, including two Brattle Prizes for Distinguished Paper published in the Journal of Finance; a Jensen Prize for best paper on Corporate Finance and Organizations published in the Journal of Financial Economics; and Best Paper awards from the Financial Management Association, Southwestern Finance Association, Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research, and Jacobs-Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research. He has served on numerous journal editorial boards, including the Journal of Finance, of which he was a co-editor.
Matthew Bidwell
Xingmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor; Professor of Management
Professor Bidwell’s research examines new patterns in careers and employment, focusing on causes and effects of more short-term, market-oriented employment relationships. He is particularly interested in the different kinds of career paths that people take in the modern labor market. His work has been published in a variety of academic journals and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.
He has also been recognized with a Scholarly Achievement Award from the Academy of Management Human Resources Division, the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Association, and the Scholarly Contribution Award from Administrative Science Quarterly. He has also won the Wharton Teaching Excellence Award several times. He has served as a senior editor at Organization Science and is currently a faculty co-director of the Wharton People Analytics Initiative and faculty director of the Wharton CHRO Program. He holds a PhD from the MIT Sloan School, an SM in political science from MIT, and an MChem from Oxford.
Raghu Iyengar
Miers-Busch, W’1885 Professor, Professor of Marketing, Faculty Director, Wharton Customer Analytics
Methodologically, he has developed novel consumer-demand models that capture the effect of multi-part pricing tariffs in a theoretically meaningful way. In the area of social networks, he has investigated how and why such influence may be at work. Across several studies, he has identified the underlying mechanisms, such as awareness, social learning, or social normative pressure, that may be at work in different contexts. His current research focuses on how subscription programs change future customer behavior. His research has been published or is forthcoming in Journal of Marketing Research and Marketing Science. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, and the International Journal of Research in Marketing. His teaching interests are in the area of marketing analytics. He earned his PhD from Columbia University and his undergraduate degree from IIT Kanpur, India
Andrew Carton
Associate Professor of Management
Professor Andrew Carton studies how leaders manage conflict and empower their employees by establishing a common purpose. He pays special attention to psycholinguistics—the properties of language that people find especially meaningful, impactful, and memorable. He has taught courses on leadership, negotiations, ethics, and managing change. He loves math and emphasizes insights that are backed by clear evidence. His research is focused on organizational leadership and, in particular, why leaders sometimes take actions that backfire (for example, attempting to resolve conflict but then inadvertently escalating it), as well as how leaders can avoid these unintended consequences.
Upon successful completion of the program, you will earn a digital certificate of completion from the Wharton School.
Download BrochureNote: After successful completion of the online program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of the Wharton School.
This online certificate program does not grant academic credit or a degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
After reviewing the information on the program landing page, we recommend you submit the short form above to gain access to the program brochure, which includes more in-depth information. If you still have questions on whether this program is a good fit for you, please email learner.success@emeritus.org, and a dedicated program advisor will follow-up with you very shortly.
Some programs do have prerequisites, particularly the more technical ones. This information will be noted on the program landing page, as well as in the program brochure. If you are uncertain about program prerequisites and your capabilities, please email us at the ID mentioned above.
Note that, unless otherwise stated on the program web page, all programs are taught in English and proficiency in English is required.
More than 50 percent of our participants are from outside the United States. Class profiles vary from one cohort to the next, but, generally, our online certificates draw a highly diverse audience in terms of professional experience, industry, and geography — leading to a very rich peer learning and networking experience.
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Each program includes an estimated learner effort per week. This is referenced at the top of the program landing page under the Duration section, as well as in the program brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page.
We have designed this program to fit into your current working life as efficiently as possible. Time will be spent among a variety of activities including:
The program is designed to be highly interactive while also allowing time for self-reflection and to demonstrate an understanding of the core topics through various active learning exercises. Please email us if you need further clarification on program activities.
More than 300,000 learners across 200 countries have chosen to advance their skills with Emeritus and its educational learning partners. In fact, 90 percent of the respondents of a recent survey across all our programs said that their learning outcomes were met or exceeded.
All the contents of the course would be made available to students at the commencement of the course. However, to ensure the program delivers the desired learning outcomes the students may appoint Emeritus to manage the delivery of the program in a cohort-based manner the cost of which is already included in the overall course fee of the course.
A dedicated program support team is available 24/5 (Monday to Friday) to answer questions about the learning platform, technical issues, or anything else that may affect your learning experience.
Peer learning adds substantially to the overall learning experience and is an important part of the program. You can connect and communicate with other participants through our learning platform.
Each program includes an estimated learner effort per week, so you can gauge what will be required before you enroll. This is referenced at the top of the program landing page under the Duration section, as well as in the program brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page. All programs are designed to fit into your working life.
This program is scored as a pass or no-pass; participants must complete the required activities to pass and obtain the certificate of completion. Some programs include a final project submission or other assignments to obtain passing status. This information will be noted in the program brochure. Please email us if you need further clarification on any specific program requirements.
Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a smart digital certificate. The smart digital certificate can be shared with friends, family, schools, or potential employers. You can use it on your cover letter, resume, and/or display it on your LinkedIn profile.
The digital certificate will be sent approximately two weeks after the program, once grading is complete.
No, only verified digital certificates will be issued upon successful completion. This allows you to share your credentials on social platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
No, there is no alumni status granted for this program. In some cases, there are credits that count toward a higher level of certification. This information will be clearly noted in the program brochure.
You will have access to the online learning platform and all the videos and program materials for 12 months following the program start date. Access to the learning platform is restricted to registered participants per the terms of agreement.
Participants will need the latest version of their preferred browser to access the learning platform. In addition, Microsoft Office and a PDF viewer are required to access documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF files, and transcripts.
Yes, the learning platform is accessed via the internet, and video content is not available for download. However, you can download files of video transcripts, assignment templates, readings, etc. For maximum flexibility, you can access program content from a desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile device.
Video lectures must be streamed via the internet, and any livestream webinars and office hours will require an internet connection. However, these sessions are always recorded, so you may view them later.
Yes, you can register up until seven days past the published start date of the program without missing any of the core program material or learnings.
The program fee is noted at the top of this program web page and usually referenced in the program brochure as well.
Yes, you can do the bank remittance in the program currency via wire transfer or debit card. Please contact your program advisor, or email us for details.
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Yes, the flexible payment option allows a participant to pay the program fee in installments. This option is made available on the payment page and should be selected before submitting the payment.
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You may request a full refund within seven days of your payment or 14 days after the published start date of the program, whichever comes later. If your enrollment had previously been deferred, you will not be entitled to a refund. Partial (or pro-rated) refunds are not offered. All withdrawal and refund requests should be sent to admissions@emeritus.org.
After the published start date of the program, you have until the midpoint of the program to request to defer to a future cohort of the same program. A deferral request must be submitted along with a specified reason and explanation. Cohort changes may be made only once per enrollment and are subject to availability of other cohorts scheduled at our discretion. This will not be applicable for deferrals within the refund period, and the limit of one deferral per enrollment remains. All deferral requests should be sent to admissions@emeritus.org.
Flexible payment options available.