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Success Is a Moving Target

Each year, more than 9,000 executives from more than 85 countries make Wharton their
choice for executive education. Whartons best-in-class, integrated learning experiences are
designed to advance leaders at every level. Through a diverse assortment of programs, our
world-renowned faculty:

REACH YOUR GOALS WITH WHARTON:

Open-Enrollment Program Calendar
For Individuals:
Browse these pages to select the programs that best meet your
professional needs or aspirations. Complete four Wharton programs and
receive a Wharton Certificate of Professional Development (CPD).

B
 rings a global perspective to the classroom, unlocking the value and opportunity that
comes from studying issues across business, cultural and geographic boundaries.
S hares knowledge rooted in evidenced-based research, analytical rigor and extensive
industry experience
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 reates impact by immersing executives in relevant business knowledge that is
immediately applicable to their organizations
We offer an extensive portfolio of Leadership Programs that provide varying levels of
learning for the evolving leader. To sharpen and shape specific skills, our Business Acumen
portfolio offers a deep assortment of programs in Finance, Strategy, and Marketing.

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For Organizations:
Consider group enrollment. When four or more participants enroll in
the same program, your organization can choose between two valuable
benefits: faculty consulting or a tuition discount.
Competency Mapping
If you are a chief learning officer
or human resource executive
considering learning solutions
for your organization, our team
of experts will work with you.
Wharton will create a
competency map to match
individual executives with
programs that best suit their
skills and competencies,
while bringing them to the
level needed to achieve your
companys strategic business
goals.

Leaders Amplify
Their Competitive Edge
with Wharton.
Wharton Executive Education offers current leaders two immersive,
experiential programs to challenge their thinking, gain knowledge that
drives innovation, and both influence and effect change.

ADVANCED MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (AMP)

EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (EDP)

for Dimensional Leadership

for the Pivot Point in Your Career

Whartons flagship transformative five-week program is for senior executives who are at
the echelon of their careers. This highly experiential, stimulating, and intellectually rigorous
program is designed for senior executives who are within three reporting relationships of
the CEO of the organization. For those distinguished executives who successfully complete
Whartons AMP, a new world of opportunity awaits.

For executives who are rapidly rising through their organizations ranks, this program provides
the key business acumen required to confidently make better business decisions and execute
strategy in alignment with financial goals.
This two-week program offers an intense immersion and provides the ideal preparation for
those executives on the cusp of taking on greater responsibilities within their organization.

A n illuminating perspective on global competition, critical thinking, and

leadership in a supportive learning environment

Move from mastery of one focused area to success in a broader role

Customized executive coaching to continually advance leadership performance

Strengthen ability to lead high-performing teams to drive organizational progress

A dmittance to Whartons alumni network of 93,000 graduates located in more than

150 countries, and supported by 79 international clubs and annual forums

Challenge yourself and put your skills to the test in an intense strategy simulation

Upcoming 2015 Program Dates

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JUN.

JUL.

AUG.

SEP.

OCT.

NOV.

DEC.

NEW! Boards that Lead: Corporate Governance that Builds Value

Develop your ability to build, effectively lead, and successfully sustain high-performance teams. Explore team
dynamics in the classroom, using the latest research and casework, and in highly experiential exercises.

Jun.
1519

Executive Negotiation Workshop: Bargaining for Advantage

Discover how you can formulate a global strategy for your organization and learn how to execute it.
Expand your organizations visionary capacity to inspire greater possibilities for your collective future.

Nov.
26

Jun.
24

Leading and Managing People

Leading Organizational Change

Jun.
14

Nov.
913

Make the transition from new manager to leader in your organization. Gain insights into your
decision-making processes and develop an authentic leadership style that is true to your personality.

This weeklong program breaks new ground in leadership development for women. Participants will gain
business knowledge that will enhance their professional influence and improve their leadership skills.

Apr.
1114

Oct.
1922

The Leadership Edge: Strategies for the New Leader

NEW! Womens Executive Leadership: Business Strategies for Success

Mar.
1418
Nov. 30
Dec. 3

Examine the complex interpersonal and strategic issues involved in successfully spearheading change.
Gain frameworks, models, and perspectives on leading change and apply them to your unique challenges.

Ensure your competence as a leader and examine the timeliness of your strategic vision. Learn from the
decision-making processes of great leaders and discuss challenges with a network of global peers.

May
26

Oct.
2630

Engage the principles of human behavior to better influence and lead others. Learn how to avoid your
blind spots, examine how your actions affect others, and gain the resources to lead more effectively.

The Leadership Journey: Reinvigorate Your Leadership

MAY

Mar.
1418

Oct.
1216

Develop the strategic perspective required of global leaders, learn to manage uncertainty and execute
your vision, and establish a firm personal foundation that can withstand the pressures of leadership.

This program provides tools to help you advance your cause in the organization, identify and remove
barriers to persuading others, and learn the Art of Woowinning others over.

APR.

Dec.
13

High-Potential Leaders: Accelerating Your Impact

Strategic Persuasion Workshop: The Art and Science of Selling Ideas

MAR.

Oct.
59
Jul.
2024

Identify and understand your own negotiation style and that of others to negotiate more effectively. Learn
transformative techniques and practical frameworks to improve your internal and external negotiations.

Global Strategic Leadership

FEB.
Feb.
1516

Based on the book Boards That Lead, this program provides the latest thinking from some of the worlds
most knowledgeable boardroom veterans on how directors can make a leadership difference.

Creating and Leading High-Performing Teams

JAN.

Sep.
2025

May
913
Apr.
1722

Oct.
59

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Business Acumen: Finance

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JUN.

JUL.

AUG.

SEP.

Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager

Oct.
59

Learn how to use financial data to make business decisions and to evaluate your firms performance.
Examine core concepts of finance and accounting in a straightforward, easy-to-grasp manner.

Integrating Finance and Strategy for Value Creation

Investment Strategies and Portfolio Management

The CFO: Becoming a Strategic Partner

This program helps you refine your leadership style, communicate your financial knowledge to other leaders,
and make a greater contribution to strategy development and value creation in your organization.

DEC.

JAN.

FEB.

MAR.

APR.

Jan.
2529

MAY
May
26

Feb. 29
Mar. 4
Oct.
2630

Develop investment portfolios that generate the highest return for your level of investment risk. This program
provides a solid foundation for building optimal portfolios and effective tools for making better investments.

Our interdisciplinary faculty and industry speakers help you select, assess, and evaluate potential opportunities.
Examine acquisition strategy, valuation techniques, tax issues, due diligence, and post-acquisition integration.

NOV.

Sep.
2125

Demystify the process of creating shareholder value, gain techniques to evaluate the financial impact
and value of strategic decisions, and explore issues such as capital structures, diversification, and risk.

Mergers and Acquisitions

OCT.

Jun.
712

May
1620
Jan.
1722

Oct.
2630

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Apr.
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Business Acumen: Strategy
Advancing Business Acumen
Drawing on key faculty and content from Whartons top-ranked MBA program, this program introduces you to the
fundamentals every successful manager needs in business.

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JUL.

AUG.

SEP.

OCT.

Jun.
712

Innovation for Growth: Strategies for Creating Value

Design a flexible innovation process that lets your company quickly adapt to, and profit from, changes in
customers, competitors, or markets.

Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution

Strategic Alliances: Creating Growth Opportunities

Strategic Management of Knowledge Assets

Explore the best practices and behaviors that lead to good decision-making habits. Gain a deeper understanding
of the role personal judgment and emotions play in the decision-making process.

FEB.

MAR.

APR.

Jun.
1519

Sep.
1418

MAY

Nov.
813

May
1520

Nov.
25

May
1619
Apr.
1115
Apr.
1114

Oct.
1921

Identify and manage the many kinds of knowledge your firm can use to innovate or to approach new and existing markets.

The Strategic Decision-Making Mindset

JAN.

Nov.
912

Build mastery in formulating, negotiating, managing, and evaluating alliances. Adopt practical tools for
establishing a global strategic position, and overcome many of the obstacles inherent in new market expansion.

Learn to accurately assess the competition, design a compelling strategy, leverage your firms capabilities to full
advantage, and obtain necessary resources through alliances, acquisitions, and internal corporate ventures.

DEC.

Sep. 28
Oct. 2

Gain the framework to develop and execute strategic plans. Learn to integrate strategy and implementation
while you examine integration issues, strategic change, and impact on corporate culture.

Strategic Thinking and Management for Competitive Advantage

NOV.

May
2325
Nov. 30
Dec. 4

Mar.
1418

Sep.
1416

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Apr.
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Business Acumen: Marketing

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JUL.

AUG.

SEP.

OCT.

NOV.

Bringing Customer Lifetime Value to Life: Practical Methods & Applications

DEC.

JAN.

FEB.

MAR.

APR.

MAY

Feb.
1819

This workshop brings sophisticated practitioners up to speed on the essential techniques that underlie
customer-based forecasting.

Competitive Marketing Strategy

4 days

Learn new tools to analyze your competitors and anticipate their actions and reactions to your strategic moves.
This program helps you to design both preemptive and reactive marketing strategies for competitive advantage.

(TBD)

Pricing Strategies: Measuring, Capturing, and Retaining Value

Gain new approaches for achieving maximum value and increasing your firms bottom line. Learn about the
specific challenges facing various industries, including pricing new products, short lifecycle products, and
bundling products and services.

Jul.
2023

Strategic Marketing Essentials

Nov.
1520

Learn how leading marketers segment and target customers, analyze consumer decisions, develop unique brands,
utilize distribution channels, and make effective marketing communication decisions.
|ONLINE! Strategic Value of Customer Relationships
Discover how to identify your most valuable customers, apply marketing performance metrics, and rethink product
development processes in order to deepen your companys relationship with its best customers.

Wharton Marketing Metrics: Linking Marketing to Financial Consequences

Demonstrate your marketing programs ROI and strategically invest marketing dollars. Benefit from the latest
research and tools to better assess and communicate the impact of marketing initiatives on your bottom line.

Apr.
38

Sep. 28
Nov. 22

8 weeks

ONLINE ONLY

ONLINE ONLY

(TBD)

Oct.
59

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Globally-Offered Programs

JUN.

Accelerated Development Program

The following three to four day program options are offered in Mumbai, Delhi, or Dubai:

Participants who complete three to four programs and are eligible to receive professional coaching and leadership
assessments. Visit our website for program dates and application information: www.WhartonADPIndia.com

Customer Driven Marketing Executing Growth Strategies

Leading People in Organizations Strategic Thinking and Leadership

NEW! Business Strategy & Operational Execution: Bridging the Divide

JUL.

Jul.
1317

Develop a new outlook and ability to successfully capitalize on strategy execution and operational excellence in
this new program offered in conjunction with Spanish business school IESE. (Two nonconsecutive program weeks)

New York

AUG.

SEP.

OCT.

JAN.

FEB.

MAR.

Nov.
16

Dec.
1418

Manage your global strategy in a rapidly changing business environment, while building the confidence and skills
that will help you lead change initiatives. Wharton offers this program in Tokyo, Japan in partnership with Nissan and
Waseda Business School.

Tokyo

Jun.
2226

Oct.
1923

Feb. 29
Mar. 4

Singapore

Fontainebleau

NEW! Strategic Management of Luxury Businesses

Week 1

Wharton has partnered with Italian business school SDA Bocconi to explore the marketing prowess behind some of
the worlds most iconic luxury brands. This executive program, which provides a 360-degree approach to creating,
branding, marketing, and selling luxury goods and services, has applications for every industry.
(Two nonconsecutive program weeks will take place April 2016 in Italy and June 2016 in Philadelphia & New York.)

This program combines experiential learning with onsite visits to best-practice companies in a series
of Master Classes designed to enlighten individuals responsible for organizational transformation.

MAY

Mar.
1318

Shanghai

NEW! Global Resilient Leadership

Wharton Fellows: Master Classes & Networking for Senior Executives

APR.

San
Francisco

Lead your company toward profitable growth as you strengthen your knowledge of new markets, reflect on the most
pressing issues facing your company, and broaden your skills as a senior leader. (Led by CEIBS, Wharton, & IESE, this
unique international program takes place over three nonconsecutive weeks, concluding in Barcelona, June 1217, 2016.)

Make your sales force a sustainable competitive advantage for your firm. Gain a comprehensive approach to motivating
and compensating the sales force and tools to manage increasing market complexities. (Offered with INSEAD.)

DEC.

Oct.
49

Global CEO Program: A Transformational Journey

Leading the Effective Sales Force

NOV.

(TBD)
Milan &
Florence

Sep. 29
Oct. 2

Mar.
710
Singapore

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14
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Industry Associations

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JUN.

JUL.

AUG.

Jun.
2125

Jul.

Aug.
2428

SEP.

OCT.

NOV.

DEC.

JAN.

FEB.

MAR.

APR.

MAY

Wharton provides a variety of executive programs specific to particular industries, including the
financial services, insurance, human resources, health care, and pharmaceuticals industries.
Visit our website for detailed descriptions of our industry-specific programs.

Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) Certification

The CIMA certification is the only credential designed specifically for the financial professional who wants to
attain a level of competency as an advanced investment consultant. In partnership with IMCA, Wharton offers
an intensive educational component to prepare participants for the Certification Examination.

1317
San
Francisco

Oct.
1216

Dec.
15

FINRA/Wharton Certified Regulatory and Compliance Professional (CRCP)

Created by Wharton and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), this intensive program provides compliance,
legal, and regulatory professionals with a thorough understanding of the foundation, theory, and practical application
of securities laws and regulation. (Two nonconsecutive program weeks.)

Jul.
1317

IPI/Wharton Private Wealth Management

Nov.
913

Aug.
26

Experience the rigorous Wharton wealth management curriculum in a confidential setting with other families like
yours. More than 500 investors from 35 countries have attended this five-day program offered in conjunction
with the Institute for Private Investors (IPI) since 1999.

May
813

San
Francisco

NEW! IPI/Wharton Private Wealth Management Professional Track

This program, developed in partnership with the Institute for Private Investors (IPI), is for financial advisors and
family office professionals. The curriculum focuses on the assets classes most high-net-worth investors are
interested in such as hedge funds, real estate, and private equity, and provides unique insights into the financial
services market that caters to wealthy clientele.

RMA/Wharton Advanced Risk Management Program

This program provides executives in banking and related fields with analytical frameworks, strategies, and resources
for measuring, managing, and monitoring risk. (Two nonconsecutive program weeks.)

Oct.
1821

May 31 Jul.
Jun. 6 1218

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May
1521