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Accelerated Management Program

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Course Overview

Enhance your ability to tackle complex business challenges by developing fundamental management skills.

Key Takeaways

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The ability to apply analytical problem-solving to complex business decisions
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The tools to develop a competitive strategy for your organization.
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The knowledge needed to calculate the time value of money and analyze financial statements, and to value a project or company.
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Unlimited access to edX’s Career Engagement Network, offering you exclusive resources and events to support your professional journey and drive your career forward.

Yale School of Management
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Effective management skills and knowledge are indispensable for leaders in today’s dynamic business environment. The Accelerated Management Program, offered by Yale School of Management Executive Education, provides you with the essential tools and skills to manage your business more efficiently by addressing this need. This program features an integrated curriculum designed by a prestigious business school to help you overcome challenges and understand the inter-connected elements of modern business. With an eight-week online format, you’ll participate in a raw case study from Yale SOM’s unique directory of case studies, enabling you to explore fundamental business management topics such as decision-making using quantitative models, developing competitive strategies, and leveraging social networks. Additionally, the Yale accelerated management program covers important topics such as the time value of money and the interpretation of financial statements. You will also learn to value a project or company, giving you the necessary skills to make strategic financial decisions.

Course Outline

ORIENTATION MODULE: Welcome to your Online Campus
Meet your Success Team and get to know your fellow classmates

Become familiar with your new virtual classroom

MODULE 1: Making Decisions Under Uncertainty
Learn about the limitations of human intuition and how this can be overcome.

• Recognize that, in the presence of randomness, human intuition can be misleading 

• Outline a normative approach to decision-making 

• Use a quantitative model to assist in decision-making 

• Articulate how incorporating risk attitudes into a utility function can lead to better choices

• Analyze how a decision problem can be structured using a decision tree

• Decide on a strategy that has the highest expected value and most desirable outcomes

MODULE 2: Crafting a Competitive Strategy
Learn about competitive advantages and the tools used to develop a competitive strategy.

• Identify the logic and assumptions underlying a business strategy 

• Demonstrate how theories of success can inform strategic business decisions 

• Review the roles of value creation and value capture in successful competitive strategies 

• Show how to evaluate competition 

• Complete an industry analysis that maps the competitive environment of a company 

• Show the influence of organization structure on a company’s competitiveness 

• Analyze the factors that influence competition around surplus value 

• Investigate value-based strategies for creating competitive advantage through an offering’s competence or positioning

MODULE 3: Leveraging Networks
Learn about social structures and how they can benefit an organization

• Discuss how the properties of networks can influence the effectiveness of social interactions 

• Identify which network style best describes your social interactions 

• Review the benefits and drawbacks of the interconnected and closed nature of the convener network style 

• Apply the traits of a broker to structure and maintain diverse networks that span multiple domains 

• Show the benefits of large networks associated with the expansionist style 

• Reflect on how different network styles relate to organizational structure 

• Compile an action plan illustrating the beneficial use of social structures and network

MODULE 4: Understanding the Time Value of Money
Learn about the time value of money and the underlying components.

• Identify the various components of the time value of money

 • Calculate the various components of the time value of money 

• Show how to measure and interpret risk 

• Investigate the risk premium as the compensation demanded for bearing one unit of risk 

• Calculate the present value of future cash flows 

• Use the discounted value of cash inflows and outflows to determine the value of an investment 

• Analyze the discounted cash flow value of a company

MODULE 5: Making Decisions Under Constraints
Explore and address the challenges associated with making decisions under constraints.

• Discuss why decision-making is challenging in the presence of constraints 

• Choose relevant factors to consider when making a decision 

• Analyze a business problem through a mathematical model 

• Decide on a solution to a business problem that factors in constraints

MODULE 6: Interpreting Financial Statements: Cash Versus Wealth
Learn how to interpret financial statements to differentiate between cash and wealth.

• Interpret the role of accruals in the financial statements

 • Explain the difference between cash and wealth 

• Discuss the two key financial statements 

• Show how to measure value creation 

• Analyze how competition influences an industry’s performance 

• Measure an industry’s performance and tie it back to competition

MODULE 7: Valuing Companies
Learn how to conduct a valuation.

• Review the calculation of the discounted cash flow and the market value of a company 

• Show the use of projections to generate future cash flows 

• Show the correlation between competition and the measures of value creation 

• Illustrate the influence of competition on the value of a company 

• Analyze the sensitivity analysis as part of a valuation 

• Estimate the value of a company

MODULE 8: Analyzing a Complex Business Decision
Explore different approaches to a business and understand how this can influence the outcome.

• Use the three valuation methods to inform a complex decision 

• Distinguish how different organizational functions point to different potential solutions to a business decision 

• Reflect on different perspectives on a business decision 

• Evaluate a business decision and its associated rationale

Who Should Attend?

This online management program is suitable for professionals at different stages of their careers, offering a range of benefits. It is especially valuable for managers who want to enhance their strategic and managerial skills in their current or future positions. In addition, senior managers, executives, business owners, and entrepreneurs can take advantage of the program to improve their analytical problem-solving skills with updated knowledge from highly reputable faculty. Even non-management professionals can participate in this online course, which is not-for-credit, to acquire essential business and leadership skills. Upon completion of the executive management programme, participants will receive a certificate of participation from Yale SOM Executive Education to recognize their newly developed skills. Overall, the program caters to a broad range of professionals and provides them with valuable knowledge and skills to excel in their respective fields.

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