Strategic Management Courses

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Practical Improvement Science in Health Care: A Roadmap for Getting Results

Learn the skills and tools of improvement science to make positive changes in health, healthcare, and your daily life.

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Resilient Leadership

Develop the skills to lead with courage and conviction through challenging times with this free, 35-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson.

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Leading Digital Transformation in Health Care

This is a Harvard Medical School online executive education program designed to provide business leaders with the knowledge, tools and strategies to design and implement technology-enabled change initiatives in health care.

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Business Strategy: Evaluating and Executing the Strategic Plan

Explore the concepts and tools of strategic business management. Learn more about the organizational strategy within which managers make decisions and how it relates to competitive advantage.

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Remote Work Revolution for Everyone

In Remote Work Revolution for Everyone, you will learn to excel in the virtual-work landscape. You will learn how to build trust, increase productivity, use digital tools intelligently, and remain fully aligned with your remote team.

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Advanced Business Strategy: Gaining a Competitive Edge

Learn a new framework for developing a business strategy that maximizes your competitive advantage and disrupts the competition.

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Strategy Execution

This course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online will equip you with the tools, skills, and frameworks to allocate resources, measure performance, and manage risk so you can successfully implement strategy within your organization.

Health Care Strategy

Health Care Strategy

Combine the best business strategies with the fundamentals of the health care sector.

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Behavioral Decision Making

Gain the critical knowledge and tools you need to make smarter decisions for your organization—and yourself.

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Business Strategy

Start thinking like the top strategists with this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

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Disruptive Strategy

Strengthen your capacity to make innovation a reality, and unlock your potential to create executive-level strategies, organize for innovation, and discover customer jobs to be done in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

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Organizational Leadership

Elevate your leadership skills to take your organization to the next level in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

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Innovation and Strategy

Strengthen your organization’s capacity to drive innovation and achieve greater results.

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Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual

Systematically measure and manage performance in ways that enhance your nonprofit organization's ability to deliver on its mission.

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Agile Leadership: Transforming Mindsets and Capabilities in Your Organization

Learn how you can harness the agile revolution to lead more flexible, innovative, and successful teams.

Strategic Management Graduate Certificate

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Online and On Campus Options

Help contribute to the big picture at your organization using key business and management principles.

Remain competitive in today's global marketplace by building a solid understanding of the foundations of strategic management.

What You'll Learn

  • Align the basic direction and goals of an organization; analyze an environment’s social, political, technological, economic, and global factors; evaluate industry and market structure; and assess organizational strengths and weaknesses.
  • Understand the essentials of business management in a global economy, such as corporate responsibility and ethics; organizational efficiency; and decision-making frameworks for competing strategic priorities.
  • Leverage knowledge in corporate sustainability strategy, human resource management, strategic resource allocation, crisis management, and marketing management.

Our Community at a Glance

It may seem daunting to tackle schoolwork while maintaining a job, but you won’t be alone. You’ll bring challenges you face at work or in your community into the classroom to consult with faculty and peers on new, innovative solutions. Test a fresh concept or framework in the workplace and see immediate results.

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Certificate Courses

The professional graduate certificate in Strategic Management requires five courses:

  • Economics, Accounting, or Finance course (choose one course from select group)
  • Marketing course (choose one course from select group)
  • Organizational Behavior course (choose one course from select group)
  • Elective (choose one course from select group)
  • Strategy course (choose one course from select group; this is your final certificate course)

Search for Courses

You can browse courses by term — fall, spring, or summer — in the DCE Course Search & Registration platform.

Earning Your Certificate

To meet the requirements for the certificate, you must:

  • Complete the  five certificate courses for graduate credit .
  • Earn at least a  B grade  in each course.
  • Complete the courses within three years .

Learn more about  pursuing a certificate  and the process of  requesting your certificate .

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Affordability is core to our mission. When compared to our continuing education peers, it’s a fraction of the cost.

This graduate certificate stacks to the following degrees:

  • Management Master’s Degree Program

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Business Strategy Programs at Harvard

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Contribute to Your Organization’s Success

Develop your ability to innovate, think strategically, and gain a competitive advantage for your organization through our intensive business strategy programs. Explore proven business theories and strategic tools through hands-on exercises, interactive lectures, and dynamic discussions.

Current Programs

Advanced business strategy training: gaining a competitive edge.

Learn a new framework for developing a business strategy that maximizes your competitive advantage and disrupts the competition.

Agile Leadership: Transforming Mindsets and Capabilities in Your Organization

Learn how you can harness the agile revolution to lead more flexible, innovative, and successful teams.

Artificial Intelligence in Business: Creating Value with Machine Learning

Leverage new technologies to build value for your organization.

Behavioral Decision Making

Gain the critical knowledge and tools you need to make smarter decisions for your organization — and yourself.

Beyond Strategic Planning: From Implementation to Sustainment

Successfully navigate the challenges inherent in making your organizational, departmental, and project-specific plans come to life.

Brand Revitalization: A Comprehensive Brand Strategy Course

Develop a brand strategy to harness your brand’s core purpose, help it stay fresh, and ensure customer loyalty.

Building Organizational Cultures: A Framework for Leaders

Critically assess how culture affects organizations and learn how to create an environment that promotes advancement of people.

Business Strategy: Evaluating and Executing the Strategic Plan

Explore the concepts and tools of strategic business management.

Creative Thinking: Innovative Solutions to Complex Challenges

Learn how to grow a culture of creativity to innovate competitive solutions.

Design Thinking: Creating Better Customer Experiences

Learn how the principles of design thinking can help fuel the success of your organization.

Foundations of Data-Driven Decision Making

Understand the characteristics and applications of data sets in order to communicate effectively with your teams and develop business strategies.

How to Build a Sustainable Organization: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies – 4 Week Course

Develop the tools and frameworks you need to incorporate sustainability practices into your business model.

Innovation and Strategy

Strengthen your organization’s capacity to drive innovation and achieve greater results.

Marketing Analytics Online Course: Strategies for Driving Business Results

Gain a deeper understanding of marketing analytics used in making strategic decisions across key functions.

Product Management Online Course: From Design to Launch

Learn the important business skills you need to be an effective product manager and build, launch, and grow successful products.

Real Estate Investments: Assets, Markets, and Current Trends, 2-day Session

Master the fundamentals and practicalities of real estate investing.

Starting and Building Your Consulting Business

Develop the critical skills you need to successfully launch and scale a thriving consulting business.

Strategic Project Management

Plan, manage, and execute projects that are essential to the success of your business.

Strategic Sales Management

Learn proven sales management strategies and techniques to lead yourself, your direct reports, and your organization.

Supply Chain Management: Frameworks for Resilient and Agile Supply Chains

Learn how to use supply chain analytics to reduce costs, manage inventory as consumer needs evolve, and make strategic decisions.

The Consultant’s Toolkit: Consulting Training

Refine your consulting abilities through proven techniques to improve organizational effectiveness.

Why Study Business Strategy at Harvard

Whether you’re looking to learn a new skill or hone an existing one we have programs that meet your business strategy needs. Our programs cover topics such as strategic planning, strategic decision making, and value creation using machine learning and offer you the opportunity to develop core business competencies.

When you take a professional development course with us, you’ll learn from industry experts alongside peers from around the world who bring a global perspective that can be invaluable in today’s interconnected business landscape. The instruction is dynamic, and interactive ensuring the application of concepts through activities, case studies and role-play. At the end of your program you will return to your office with new business strategies that can help you be more successful in your role and across your organization.

How Classes Work

We offer three different types of formats for programs: on campus, live online, and hybrid.

  • On-campus programs take place in our dedicated state-of-the-art classroom space on Harvard’s campus at One Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA.
  • Online programs are held via Zoom where you receive the same content online as on-campus, but from the convenience of your home or office.
  • Hybrid programs are available both live online and on campus. Online participants are fully integrated into the program with the ability to see, hear, contribute, and network alongside your in-person counterparts.

Who Should Enroll

Each business strategy course is designed to meet the needs of different industry leaders and professionals. Many of them are appropriate for a wide range of individuals, but some are specifically tailored to senior leaders, emerging leaders, or executives. More information about who should enroll in each program can be found on the program page.

What You Earn

After completing a program, you receive a Certificate of Participation from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education, further validating your expertise in the field. Taking the step to earn a certificate from a professional development program can signal to your employer that you are open to new experiences and enthusiastic about continuing to learn and grow.

Harvard Division of Continuing Education Professional & Executive Development Certificate of Leadership Excellence.

Some business strategy programs may count toward a Certificate of Leadership Excellence (CLE) in Strategy and Innovation.

When Courses Are Offered

Many of our programs are offered multiple times a year in several formats. Miss the deadline to register? We bring popular programs back year after year — sign up to get notified when new dates are available .

The cost of a professional development program depends on the format you take it in and the length of the course. For more information about pricing, please visit your desired program page.

A 10% discount is available to participants taking more than one program, and discounts are also available for groups of two or more. To take advantage of our discounts, please email [email protected] for further instructions.

Business Strategy FAQs

What is business strategy.

Business strategy refers to a set of decisions and actions that outline how a company will achieve its long-term goals and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. It involves identifying objectives, assessing resources, and formulating plans to achieve competitive advantage.

What are the benefits of taking a business strategy course at Harvard?

When you participate in a business strategy course at Harvard Professional Development, you are learning from instructors who are leading industry experts. Through a combination of theory, practice, and real-world examples, these courses will have you returning to the office equipped to move your own business strategy forward.

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB)

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Business Strategy

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Develop the global perspective, quantitative background, and creative problem-solving skills to take your strategy from formulation to execution.

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Return on investment with an average $17,000 salary increase

Acquired new skills that were immediately applicable

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CLIMB enables new and experienced leaders to ignite their careers with a combination of vital and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning experience with a diverse global network.

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Disruptive Strategy

Strengthen your capacity to make innovation a reality; unlock your potential to create winning strategies.

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Start thinking like the top strategists.

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Strategy Execution

Gain the tools, skills, and frameworks to successfully implement strategy within your organization.

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Sustainable Business Strategy

Develop the tools and techniques to become a purpose-driven business leader.

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Global Business

Gain the knowledge you need to thrive in today's interconnected, global economy.

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Economics for Managers

See the world through the lens of economics and gain the knowledge and skills to craft successful business strategy.

What You Earn

Certificate of Completion

Certificate of Completion

Take any individual course to earn a Certificate of Completion and boost your resume.

Certificate of Specialization

Certificate of Specialization

Complete any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization and signify your deep expertise in Strategy.

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business

Complete the year-long CLIMB program , including seven courses and a capstone project, to earn a Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business.

What Learners are Saying

I've been able to understand the macroeconomic policies that are being implemented by my country and the implications they have on our lives, equipping me to make better decisions.

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Disruptive Strategy has given me confidence and clarity in my decisions, and I can already see the material impact of applying this model and mindset to our business and culture.

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The course has completely changed me today. I feel like a new person, with a new thought process, driven by purpose, committed to doing the right thing.

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Professional Certificate in Strategic Management

Offering high-quality products and services at competitive prices is no longer a sufficient business strategy. Increased competition and an evolving digital landscape demand more from organizations and their leaders.

Enhance your leadership capabilities and learn how to develop sustainable, successful business strategies with the Professional Certificate in Strategic Management from Wharton. Offering practical lecture knowledge and hands-on application of concepts, this program teaches you how to decrease costs, increase operational efficiencies, and improve customer experiences.

Created by world-renowned professors at the Wharton School, the Professional Certificate in Strategic Management walks you through how technology has changed the way businesses interact with customers and why this necessitates connected strategies. This program of business strategy courses is designed for managers and leaders of all industries who want to better identify, amplify, and sustain the competitive advantage of their businesses.

Why Study Strategic Management?

  • 61% of senior executives admit that their companies have a hard time bridging the gap between strategic planning and implementation. 1
  • Only 40% of employees strongly feel their managers comprehend the goals and strategy of their company. 2
  • Only 41% of employees feel their companies have the competent personnel necessary to execute strategic initiatives. 3

1 https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/learning/thought-leadership/why-good-strategies-fail-report.pdf 2 http://georgejamesltd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/What-Employees-Really-Think-about-Todays-Workplace.pdf 3 https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/learning/thought-leadership/why-good-strategies-fail-report.pdf

Program Details

Start Dates: Enroll Immediately

Duration: 6 weeks per course

Commitment: 2-4 hours per week

Program Format: 100% Online

Program Tuition: $537.30 $199 (per individual course)

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Professional certificate in strategic management course descriptions, business strategy from wharton: competitive advantage, course description.

Price: $199 Duration: 6 weeks Hours: 3-4/week

What sets your organization apart from others? How can you maximize and sustain its impact over time? Understanding and maintaining your competitive advantage is no small task.

Business Strategy from Wharton: Competitive Advantage will give you the tools and frameworks necessary to execute a well-designed strategy. You’ll understand the drivers and barriers of competitive advantage so you can sustain your distinct advantage. You’ll also learn how to assess the impact of your competitors’ strategies.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to enhance your strategy to maximize your competitive advantage and drive revenue growth.

Course Modules

  • Analyze Your Firm’s Internal Fit
  • Analyze Your Firm’s External Fit
  • Maintaining Your Firm’s Dynamic Fit
  • Creating New Strategies and Initiatives

Participants Will Learn How To:

  • Evaluate your firm’s strategic environment
  • Distinguish between organizational effectiveness and strategic positioning
  • Identify barriers to organizational change and strategy implementation
  • Map central and supporting firm activities, understanding how they interact with each other
  • Engage in sustainable strategic management and planning

INTRODUCTION TO CONNECTED STRATEGY

Price: $199 Duration: 6 weeks Hours: 2-4/week

Technology has fundamentally changed the way businesses operate and how leaders engage in the strategic management of their firms. Understanding the customer journey has become essential to creating and executing connected strategies.

Connected Strategy examines how technology has evolved and changed the ways businesses interact with their customers. Professors Christian Terwiesch and Nicolaj Siggelkow will walk you through the connected customer experience and how connected delivery models are used in various industries. You’ll learn about connected strategy examples and analyze existing frameworks that can inform connected relationship design.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to identify, assess and implement connected strategies for your organization.

  • Connected Strategy and Value Proposition
  • Connected Customer Experience and Customization
  • Connected Producers and Connected Strategy Matrix
  • Revenue Model, Technology Infrastructure, and Disruptive Innovation
  • Analyze innovation frameworks and value propositions
  • Identify connected relationships and their potential for your firm
  • Examine customer experiences as they relate to the greater customer journey
  • Create customization strategies by leveraging positive customer feedback loops
  • Develop connection architecture and connected customer relationship strategies for your business

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CAPSTONE

You understand connected relationships, but how can you apply this knowledge to excel the strategic management of your firm?

Connected Strategy Capstone Project provides you with the necessary tools to ideate, plan and execute a connected strategy for your business. Tailored worksheets and lecture videos from Professors Siggelkow and Terwiesch will guide you through each step of connected strategy creation. The final capstone project will be a combination of your worksheets and analysis of the strategy you created.

Throughout the capstone project, you’ll be able to reflect on your organization and develop actionable strategies.

  • Connected Customer Experience
  • Connected Customer Experience Strategy
  • Connected Delivery Model Strategy
  • Apply the concepts learned in the Connected Strategy course
  • Approach connected strategy planning and creation
  • Move beyond traditional customer interactions to create a new business model
  • Create a connected customer experience and connected delivery model for any organization
  • Envision and develop a connected strategy that can be directly applied to your business

Want it all? Take the complete program for $537.30.

Key certificate program takeaways, participants will learn how to:.

  • Identify business’ competitive advantages
  • Amplify competitive advantages and drive profits
  • Leverage connected strategies to create continuous customer relationships
  • Transcend traditional forms of customer interaction and adopt new business models
  • Achieve sustainable competitive advantage

Professional Certificate in Strategic Management Faculty

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Christian Terwiesch

Andrew M. Heller Professor at the Wharton School Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions Professor of Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine Co-Director, Mack Institute of Innovation Management

Faculty Research Interests

He is a Professor in Wharton’s Operations, Information and Decisions department, co-director of Penn’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and also holds a faculty appointment In Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. His research on Operations Management and on Innovation Management appears in many of the leading academic journals ranging from Management Science to The New England Journal of Medicine. He is an award-winning teacher with extensive experience in MBA teaching and executive education.

Professor Terwiesch is the co-author of Matching Supply with Demand, a widely used text-book in Operations Management that is now in its third edition. Based on this book, Professor Terwiesch has launched the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in business on Coursera. By now, well over 250,000 students enrolled in the course.

His latest book, Innovation Tournaments, was published by Harvard Business School Press. The novel, process-based approach to innovation outlined in the book was featured by BusinessWeek, the Financial Times, and the Sloan Management Review and has lead to innovation tournaments in organizations around the world.

Professor Terwiesch has researched with and consulted for various organizations. From small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, he has helped companies become more innovative, often by implementing innovation tournament events and by helping to restructure their innovation portfolio.

Most of his current work relates to healthcare and innovation management. In the healthcare space, some of Professor Terwiesch recent projects include the design of patient centered care processes in the VA hospital system, the impact of emergency room crowding on hospital revenues and the patient experience at Penn Medicine, and the usage of patient portals and remote patient monitoring.

In addition to his teaching and his research, Professor Terwiesch is experimenting with a new career as a host of a national radio show on Sirius XM 132. Also, after 20 years of Ironman racing, he is trying to become a competitive rower, a transition that unfortunately turns out to be harder than expected.

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Nicolaj Siggelkow

David M. Knott Professor Professor of Management Co-Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management

He studied Economics at Stanford University and earned an M.A. in Economics from Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and the Harvard Business School. Professor Siggelkow has been the recipient of multiple MBA and Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Awards, including the Class of 1984 Award presented to the faculty member with the highest teaching rating in the MBA classroom, the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Teaching Award, the Wharton Award, and the Wharton Graduate Association Student Choice Award. His research has been published in the leading management journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Industrial Economics, Management Science, Organization Science, and Strategic Organization. In 2008, he received the Administrative Science Quarterly Scholarly Contribution Award for the most significant paper published in ASQ five years earlier. Nicolaj is a member of the Editorial Review Boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, and Academy of Management Perspectives.

His current research focuses on the strategic and organizational implications of interactions among a firm’s choices of activities and resources. In particular, his research has focused on three broad questions: How do firms develop, grow and adjust their set of activities over time? How does organizational design affect a firm’s ability to find high-performing sets of activities? What role do interactions among a firm’s activities play in creating and sustaining competitive advantage? To address these questions, he has employed a range of methodological approaches, including in-depth field studies of individual firms, econometric methods for large-scale data sets, formal modeling, and simulation models.

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Certificate in Strategic Management

Gain the practical skills, ethical tools, and global perspective needed for strategic planning and execution through an intensive five-day experience.

Curriculum & Schedule

How to register, tuition & funding.

The Certificate in Strategic Management provides you with the practical tools needed to plan and manage strategically in industry, government, and non-profit organizational activities. Participants will be presented with leading-practice models and approaches for strategic planning and execution. These models include environmental scanning, establishing strategic goals and priorities, developing implementation strategies and change initiatives, performance measurement and evaluation, and communicating strategy and performance to diverse categories of stakeholders. The practice of strategic management will be framed within the context of competitive, global, and ethical challenges.

Ideal for Leaders who formulate and execute business strategies

Duration 1 week

Tuition $3,995

Format Online & On-Campus

Schedule Monday—Friday

Semester of Entry Fall, spring, summer

Upon successful completion of the certificate, you’ll be able to:

  • Understand the processes of strategic planning in the public, private, and non-profit sectors
  • Use a template to lead the development of a strategic plan, including vision, mission, core values, goals, objectives, and strategies
  • Measure and evaluate the performance of a strategic plan
  • Communicate performance to organizational stakeholders
  • Practice strategic management from a global and ethical perspective

Testimonials from current students and alumni.

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I found the Certificate in Strategic Management to be enriching. I gained a better understanding of my work and have been able to apply the teachings at staff retreats and in our programmatic efforts. The instructors were knowledgeable and I left with a well-rounded understanding of how to approach strategic management in various fields. 

Our classes are taught online in real-time by Georgetown instructors using Zoom video conferencing. They are designed to provide our professional learners with a high-quality, engaging educational experience. For more information, please contact Program Support at [email protected] .

You must successfully complete 3.5 CEUs—equivalent to 35 contact hours—over 5 consecutive days.

  • Day 1: Strategic Management Foundations
  • Day 2: Managing Strategy Formulation and Evaluation
  • Day 3: Managing Strategy Implementation and Change
  • Day 4 and 5: Capstone Experience in Strategic Management

What Is Live Online Learning? Live online instruction is enhanced by incorporating various instructional practices and technology tools. Features such as Zoom video conferencing, breakout rooms, and chat allow for real-time interaction and collaboration among learners. Tools like Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Canvas Groups facilitate teamwork and information sharing within the learning community. Polling, surveys, and threaded discussion boards promote active engagement and the expression of opinions. It is important to foster social respect, privacy, and incorporate Jesuit values to create a supportive and inclusive online environment. By utilizing these practices and tools effectively, live online instruction can be engaging, interactive, and conducive to meaningful learning experiences.

What Is On-Campus Learning? On-Campus programs combine traditional classroom learning with interactive experiential methodology. Classes typically meet for two or three consecutive days once a month at our downtown Washington, D.C. campus.

Course Schedule

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Please review the refund policies in our Student Handbook before completing your registration.

Degree Requirement

You must hold a bachelor's degree or the equivalent in order to enroll in our certificate programs.

Registration

This certificate is an open-enrollment program. No application is required. Click the "Register Now" button, select your courses, and then click "Add to Cart". Course registration is complete when your payment is processed. You will receive a confirmation email when your payment is received. Please retain the payment confirmation message for your records.

You can combine on-campus and online courses (if available) to complete your certificate. Depending on the certificate program, we may suggest taking courses in a specific order, but this is not a requirement.

Most students register for all courses at the same time and complete their certificate within a few months. However, you may choose to register for courses one by one over time. Once you begin a certificate, you have up to two years from the time you start your first course to complete all required courses.

International Students

International students who enter the U.S. on a valid visa are eligible to enroll in certificate courses. However, Georgetown University cannot sponsor student visas for noncredit professional certificate programs.

A TOEFL examination is not required for non-native English speakers but students are expected to read, write, and comprehend English at the graduate level to fully participate in and gain from the program.

Students from most countries may register for our online certificate programs; however, due to international laws, residents of certain countries are prohibited from registering.

Total tuition for the certificate program is $3,995 . All materials are included.

Noncredit professional certificates do not qualify for federal financial aid, scholarships, grants, or needs-based aid. However, several finance and funding options do exist, as listed below.

Some employers offer funding for employee education or professional development. If an employer guarantees payment for employee education and training, Georgetown will accept an Intent to Pay form . If you are using employer sponsorship or training authorizations, you must submit an Intent to Pay form with your registration.

If your employer will pay for your tuition, select “Third-Party Billing” as your method of payment when you register for courses online. Please submit an Intent to Pay form indicating that your employer or another third party should be billed for tuition. Invoices will not be generated without this form on file.

  • Pay training and education expenses from appropriated funds or other available funds for training needed to support program functions
  • Reimburse employees for all or part of the costs of training or education
  • Share training and education costs with employees
  • Pay travel expenses for employees assigned to training
  • Adjust an employee's normal work schedule for educational purposes not related to official duties

Georgetown accepts Standard Form-182 (SF-182) for training authorizations from the federal government.

*Federal employees should ask the appropriate budget officer about training budgets available.

Eligible Georgetown employees may use their Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) benefits to fund 90% of the certificate program tuition—employees will be invoiced for the remaining 10% of tuition and must pay any other charges associated with their certificate program. Employees using TAP benefits may work directly with the HR Benefits Office to ensure payment prior to the start of any course. This payment option is only valid if registration occurs at least 10–14 business days prior to the start date of the first course. Any fees incurred due to course withdrawal are the student’s responsibility and are not funded by Georgetown University TAP. For questions regarding TAP benefits, please contact the HR/Benefits Office at [email protected] or (202) 687-2500.

SCS is registered with GoArmyEd.com to accept SF-182 training authorization forms. GoArmyEd.com is the virtual gateway for all eligible active duty, National Guard, and Army Reserve soldiers to request Tuition Assistance (TA) online. GoArmyEd.com is also the virtual gateway for Army Civilians to apply for their Civilian education, training, and leadership development events.

The professional certificate programs offer an interest-free payment plan for certificate programs that are more than one month in duration and for which the total tuition is greater than or equal to $4,000. The payment plan is structured in the following manner:

  • Payment #1: A down payment of 25% of the total tuition balance must be paid online (within 72 hours after you register and select Payment Plan) via the Noncredit Student Portal . Please submit your down payment as soon as possible.
  • Payments #2, #3, and #4: Your remaining balance will be due in three (3) equal monthly installments beginning 30 calendar days after your down payment is processed. Your monthly payments must be paid via credit card in the Noncredit Student Portal . You will be able to access each invoice and payment due date in your student account.

PLEASE NOTE: Automatic Payment Service is not available. You must make each subsequent payment via the Noncredit Student Portal .

A number of tuition benefits are available through the Department of Veterans Affairs and under various parts of the GI Bill ® . Please visit the Resources for Military Students page for additional information and instructions.

Some students choose to finance certificate programs with private education loans. Students are responsible for contacting lenders directly to find out if a noncredit professional certificate program is eligible for a loan. While Georgetown University will not recommend specific lenders, it will certify loans for eligible programs from approved lenders.

For eligible noncredit professional certificate programs, Georgetown University will certify loan amounts up to the full cost of tuition for the program. Tuition does not cover books, travel, or living expenses. Please see individual program pages for tuition rates.

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Ideal for established executives, senior managers and business owners, this introductory course is also perfect for newcomers with no business experience or acumen.  Our free strategic planning course concludes with an online assessment, after which you will be able to claim a certificate of completion as proof of your new skills.

Sign up online for this free course with Oxford Home Study Centre today, or contact a member of our admissions team anytime for more information.

By the end of this course the learner will be able to:

  • Identify the values that support the company
  • Define the vision for the company
  • Write a mission statement that explains what the company’s purpose is
  • Complete meaningful SWOT analyses
  • Apply tools and techniques to create a strategic plan that directs the organization from the executive to the front line
  • Implement, evaluate, and review a strategic plan
  • Identify how related tools, such as the strategy map and balanced scorecard, can help you develop a strategic plan

All free online certificate courses at Oxford Home Study Centre are 100% free of charge from start to finish.  There is no enrolment fee, all study aids are provided via our online learning platform and all of our courses are self-paced for total flexibility.

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  • An official Course Completion Certificate from Oxford Home Study Centre
  • A CPD Accredited Certificate to boost your CPD profile
  • An Endorsed Certificate issued by the Quality Licence Scheme

Each of these certificates could prove helpful in supporting future job applications, or helping you climb the career ladder with your current employer. All certificates are 100% optional upon successful completion of your course - available to purchase with your preferred postage option.

For more information on certificate costs, head over to our pricing page or contact a member of the team at Oxford Home Study Centre anytime.

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Topics of interest covered in this exclusive free Strategic Planning course include the following:

  • The Strategic Planning Pyramid
  • The Vision Process
  • Defining Your Mission Statement
  • Performing a SWOT Analysis
  • Setting Goals with SPIRIT
  • Assigning Roles, Responsibilities, and Accountabilities
  • Establishing Priorities
  • Change Management
  • Planning for Problems
  • The Balanced Scorecard

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Create clearly defined mission and vision statements, organizational values, environmental analysis framework, and end outcome goals with strategies to meet organizational objectives, identify the strategic elements and key lessons learned for building results-oriented programs, align your program mission and performance measures for greater results and the ability to prioritize and resource effectively, conduct an organizational readiness assessment to target barriers to change, course agenda, module 1 .

Connect Strategic Planning and Organizational Results

  • Discover why traditional strategic planning processes often fall short of delivering results
  • Identify the characteristics and requirements of successful strategic plans, planning processes, and implementation
  • Receive updates on the latest government performance mandates

Identify the Strategic Elements of Results-Oriented Agencies

  • Establish clear linkages to provide a visible chain of evidence to current agency value
  • Measure the importance and relative impact of agency strategies
  • Clearly communicate agency priorities and goals to all stakeholders

Design and Evaluate Strategic Framework for enhanced Goal Achievement

  • Use a variety of environmental analysis techniques to analyze internal and external factors
  • Solicit stakeholder input for your strategic planning process
  • Identify all parties impacted by adopting new strategies and define a way to engage stakeholders
  • Identify long-term goals
  • Align goals to mission and customer values
  • Measure the importance and relative impact of agency outcomes

Design Outcome-Focused Strategies

  • Develop results-oriented strategies and objectives to achieve outcomes
  • Identify effective, efficient strategies aligned to achieve outcomes
  • Create intermediate outcomes for tracking near-term progress

Align Program Activities and Resources

  • Evaluate program activities based on strategic objectives
  • Allocate resources based on outcome goals
  • Eliminate barriers that must be overcome to achieve outcome goals

Strategies for Improving Employee Learning​

  • Learn how to enhance employee satisfaction by providing learning opportunities aligned with motivation and purpose.
  • Determine adaptive ways to practice continuous learning at all levels of the organization.
  • Understand how to increase employee contribution aligned with performance expectations.

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Overall it was a great experience.   I definitely learned and look forward to implementing planning for my department.Overall it was a great experience.   I definitely learned and look forward to implementing planning for my department.

It was a lot of information in such a short time but the exercise at the end brought it all together. The instructor went over our Mission and Vision individually and then it all made sense, because we got the benefit of viewing others information as well as getting feedback on our own.

Loved the class...very good information that can be used going forward.   Excellent course work. Loved the interchange among teacher and attendees.

Keep it the same. The presenter was engaging and kept us on our toes through assignments and calling on everyone to participate. Loved the training!

The instruction is very enthusiastic and believes in what he is teaching.   Therefore, that attitude did affect the attention of the attendees.   This also convinced me that this is a valid course to partake in.

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In this strategic planning course, you will learn the strategic thinking concepts, skills and knowledge required to define the vision and mission for an organisation. You will learn how to make the critical decisions required to establish the strategic objectives and set the strategic direction for your organisation.

This course looks at the analytical skills required and the various tools available to design the most appropriate strategy. We will show you how to structure strategy so that managers can turn the strategy into operational and project plans that can be implemented within the budgetary and resource limitations of the organisation. Additionally, you will gain an insight into how an innovation strategy may be required to bring about the required future direction.

We will use a systematic approach to understand where the organisation is now, where the organisation wants to be and why, and how to successfully get from the present to the future.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

  • create an effective vision and mission statement
  • design appropriate values to support the mission and vision
  • follow a structured process to create an effective strategy
  • analyse the environment your organisation operates in
  • exercise critical decision making
  • develop sound strategic goals
  • develop a clear, implementable strategy
  • develop a strategy that challenges assumptions.

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  • PESTEL analysis
  • Porters five competitive forces
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  • Internationalisation

Developing the strategy

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  • Balancing capability and resources
  • Establishing strategic goals
  • Developing supporting strategies
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  • Evaluating strategies

Innovation and strategy

  • Redefining the organisation
  • Challenging assumptions
  • Innovation regarding the customer, product and business model
  • Creating an innovative culture to create strategy

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Designed to suit those who are moving into, or relatively new to the ‘strategic planning’ arena. It will also benefit anyone who is involved with strategic planning, and are after some clarification and direction to improve their strategic thinking and planning skills.

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The Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) states that one of the most valuable resources in adult education is the learner themselves. This course has been designed to actively involve the learner throughout the day. It includes:

  • interactive presentations
  • group work and discussion
  • structured strategy development activities
  • strategy based case studies.

Recommended reading

Bryson, JM and Farnum, KA 2011, Creating Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations , Third Edition, Wiley.

Porter, ME 2008, Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analysing Industries and Competitors , Free Press.

Rumelt, R 2011, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy , Profile Books.

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Overview: This short course delves into the art and science of strategic planning, providing participants with the skills and knowledge needed to formulate, implement, and evaluate effective strategies. Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur, a manager, or someone with a keen interest in organizational success, this course is your roadmap to strategic prowess.

Key Modules 1. Introduction to Strategic Planning • Understanding the importance of strategic planning. • Overview of the strategic planning process. 2. Environmental Analysis • Conducting a SWOT analysis. • Assessing internal and external factors influencing strategy. 3. Setting Objectives and Goals • Defining clear and achievable objectives. • Aligning goals with organizational vision and mission. 4. Strategy Formulation • Developing strategic options and alternatives. • Evaluating strategic choices and selecting the best fit. 5. Implementation and Execution • Creating an action plan for strategy execution. • Overcoming challenges in the implementation phase. 6. Monitoring and Evaluation • Establishing key performance indicators (KPIs). • Continuous monitoring and adapting strategies based on performance.

Assessment Assessment methods include case studies, a strategic planning project, and a final presentation where participants demonstrate their ability to apply strategic planning concepts to a real-world scenario.

Benefits By the end of the course, participants will possess the foundational skills needed to contribute effectively to the strategic planning process. Whether it’s in a business setting or a non-profit organization, learners will be equipped to navigate the complexities of strategic decision-making and drive success.

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