Harness your leadership potential with the strategic, financial and management skills to make more effective business decisions, motivate your team members and create a healthy, inclusive work environment
8 weeks, excluding
orientation
7–10 hours per week,
self-paced learning online
Weekly modules,
flexible learning
This program is presented in English
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A comprehensive toolkit to identify, understand and solve organizational issues with a holistic view of today’s complex business landscape.
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The skills to evolve as a leader with insights from faculty, industry experts and peers through optional live sessions.
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The ability to conduct a comprehensive strategic analysis to help your organization gain a competitive advantage.
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Foundational knowledge of financial and management accounting to guide you in making profitable business decisions.
Participants who successfully earn a certificate of completion for the SDA Bocconi General Management Program may apply to enroll for the Global Executive Master in Business Administration. The General Management Program certificate will count towards a segment of the Executive Master. Upon successful admission to the Executive Master, participants will be entitled to receive a discount of €5,000.
Note: Application to the Global Executive Master in Business Administration is required and the Executive Master assessments remain mandatory.
SDA Bocconi is one of the few elite business schools to have garnered the ‘triple crown’ of the world’s most prestigious international accreditations (AMBA, AACSB, and EQUIS). It is also the only Italian institution to feature in all the major global business school rankings, including those of the Financial Times, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek and The Economist.
*SDA Bocconi (2021)
Over the duration of this online program, you’ll work through the following modules:
Module 1
Self-leadership
Explore the importance of self-management to become an effective leader.
Module 2
Financial accounting
Understand the fundamentals of financial accounting.
Module 3
Financial statement analysis
Learn about the fundamentals of financial statement analysis to explore the performance of an organization.
Module 4
External strategic analysis
Learn how to analyze an organization's external environment and identify opportunities for making strategic choices.
Module 5
Internal strategic analysis
Learn how to analyze an organization's capabilities to build a competitive advantage.
Module 6
Competitive strategy
Discover how to build a competitive strategy by exploring an organization's various sources of competitive advantage.
Module 7
Management accounting
Discover how to make financially driven decisions based on cost analysis and pricing.
Module 8
Leading people
Explore the value of creating a psychologically safe and inclusive work environment.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during program development.
Paolo Morosetti
Program Director; Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, SDA Bocconi School of Management
In addition to lecturing at SDA Bocconi, Paolo teaches corporate strategy and strategic management of family businesses at Università Bocconi. Currently, his research activities focus on corporate strategy, family business, succession planning – with a specific emphasis on the engagement of millennials – and leadership development in multinational companies.
Angela Pettinicchio
Program Faculty Member; Associate Professor of Practice in the Knowledge Group of Accounting and Control, SDA Bocconi School of Management
Angela’s research focuses on the following areas: understanding and measuring financial information, quality and earnings management, analyzing the effectiveness of regulatory mechanisms applied at the international level and identifying the best mechanisms that can be applied at the team level to improve audit quality and effectiveness.
Laura Baruffaldi
Program Faculty Member; Lecturer in Leadership, Organization and Human Resources, SDA Bocconi School of Management
Laura teaches leadership, stress management, communication, assertiveness and age diversity within organizational boundaries. Her research focuses on four main areas: understanding and developing self-leadership, understanding and leveraging age diversity to create intergenerational value, identifying and developing key competencies for work-life integration and developing creative leaders who can address the challenges of innovation and change.
“The content was useful and essential. Good online learning experience. Excellent online sessions and video content [promoting] a clear understanding of the topics, with links to continued learning. [There were] good networking opportunities with peers. The online support was easy and accessible.”
– Simone Giusti, CEO, OSP Shanghai Trading Co., Ltd
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