Executive Program for Growing Companies

Discover business growth strategies and build a stronger company designed to sustain progress, scale management, and facilitate market expansion.

Apply By June 19, 2026

Start Date August 2, 2026

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: $29,500$29,500

Format
In-Person
Duration
Two Weeks
Starts on
August 2, 2026
Price
$29,500$29,500

Managing growth using proven strategies.

This comprehensive two-week general management program is solely focused on the needs, challenges, and opportunities of growing companies. Learn how to create and execute strategies in order to move faster, operate more efficiently, and expand into new markets. Focus on the management systems that sustain organizational growth. You’ll gain exposure to leading research happening at Stanford’s world-renowned Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and identify engines that can drive or inhibit growth.

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Key Benefits

  • Identify factors that drive or inhibit growth, and focus on leadership skills and management systems needed to operate businesses more efficiently.
  • Build tools to foster and sustain an entrepreneurial organizational culture.
  • Learn how to put senior-level managers in place to handle operations, so you can focus on higher-level vision and strategy.
  • Understand a leader’s role and responsibilities in facilitating a company’s growth.
  • Align your company’s growth strategy with your organization’s culture and environment.
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Who Should Attend?

  • CEOs and top executives at small to medium-sized companies
  • Division or business unit leaders within larger organizations
  • Executives with at least 10 years of management experience — from any industry and any country
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Learning in Action

It was hands down the single-best academic experience I’ve ever had in my life.

Catherine Jones

CEO

Creative HQ

Meet the Faculty Leadership

This program is developed by George Foster and taught by a team of tenured, strategically focused, cross-disciplinary faculty who are experts in their fields. Together, they bring cutting-edge research, thought leadership, and experiential learning to your program experience.

George Foster

The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Management

Director, Executive Program for Growing Companies

Earn Your Certificate

Upon successful completion of Executive Program for Growing Companies, you will be awarded a Certificate of Completion in recognition of your achievement and the investment you have made in your education and professional development.

Applications due June 19, 2026

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