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ESSENTIALS FOR
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Eric Sabato
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BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
FOR EXECUTIVES
Highlights and In Business Essentials for Executives, you will:
• Identify your personal negotiating style and learn how to adapt it
Key Outcomes • Acquire business acumen to interpret financial statements and use them for
decision-making
• Gain insight into how to assess current and future strategic initiatives
• Benefit from a webinar after the program is over to integrate the learning
Business Essentials for Executives will give you
insight into:
• Leadership and decision making Business Essentials for Executives focuses on the core concepts that drive business
• Talent management in every industry using a mix of interactive lectures, case studies, simulations,
• Negotiation and persuasion
self-assessments, and group discussions. Drawing on the expertise of Wharton’s
world-renowned MBA faculty and its 20+ research centers, such as the Wharton
• Managing across organizational boundaries
Leadership Center, this program will help you influence and interact more
• Personal negotiating styles and how effectively across your organization. You will improve your ability to make cross-
to adapt them functional decisions that benefit you, your team, and your organization.
• Customer decision making and how to
position your product or service With a focus on immediate applicability, daily integration sessions will help you
• The importance of building and sustaining will begin to address key challenges using the tools and methods taught in the
operational excellence program. In addition, you will become part of a powerful learning community
• Assessing current and future comprised of a diverse group of fellow participants; their wide range of industries,
strategic initiatives backgrounds, experiences, and geographies provides a rich source of insights and
networking.
• Interpreting financial statements and using
them for decision making
Post-Program Webinar
• How and when to scale your business
unit or organization Business Essentials for Executives also includes a webinar after the program is over
to help participants integrate learnings. Led by Wharton professor and academic
director Gad Allon, it stresses accountability and focuses on setting and working
toward specific, concrete goals.
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industry
Participant Profile
Participants in Business Essentials for Executives region
may include:
• Executives seeking to develop wider general
management skills outside their traditional
area of expertise
• Managers and technical leaders who have
been promoted to a role with significant
responsibility or are preparing for such a role
• Executives who build and lead
multifunctional teams
• HR professionals who need to build on
their business acumen and develop an
enterprise mindset job function
• Managers of family-run businesses
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BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
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Faculty ADDITIONAL FACULTY
and Professor of Operations, Information teaching courses on scaling operations Michael Roberts, PhD
and Decisions at the Wharton School, and and operations strategy. He has also been William H. Lawrence Professor; Professor
of Finance, The Wharton School
the director of the Jerome Fisher Program in an innovative leader in many educational
Management and Technology at the University technology initiatives. He is the co-founder of Nicolaj Siggelkow, PhD
David M. Knott Professor; Professor
of Pennsylvania. ForClass, a platform that enables professors of Management; Co-Director, Mack
to drive higher student engagement and Institute for Innovation Management,
His research interests include operations The Wharton School
accountability in their classrooms. Professor
management in general, and service operations
Allon regularly consults firms both on service
and operations strategy in particular. Professor
strategy and operations strategy.
Allon has been studying models of information
sharing among firms and customers—both He received his PhD in Management Science
in service and retail settings—as well as from Columbia Business School and holds
competition models in the service industry. bachelor and master degrees from the Israeli
His articles have appeared in leading journals, Institute of Technology.
including Management Science, Manufacturing
and Service Operations Management, and
Operations Research.
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INTEGRATING FINANCE AND STRATEGY CREATING AND SUSTAINING
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plan your
stay with us
Most Wharton Executive Education programs are
offered on the University of Pennsylvania campus in
Philadelphia. Located between New York City and
Washington D.C., Philadelphia is easily accessible from
most major cities around the world.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
Your Philadelphia program fee includes hotel
Wharton staff took a lot of accommodations. Most participants stay at the
the stress out of the logistical Steinberg Conference Center, a 103-room full-service
hotel and classroom facility on Penn’s campus. There
concerns so I could really
are also several other hotels available nearby, including
focus on absorbing the course the Hilton Inn at Penn.
content.”
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Sample Program Schedule* BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
FOR EXECUTIVES
Ratio Analysis
LUNCH
Case Discussion
DINNER
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