This comprehensive and engaging two-week general management program is solely focused on the needs, challenges, and opportunities of growing companies. Learn how to create and execute strategies to move faster, improve operational efficiency, and position your organization to capitalize on emerging opportunities. You’ll examine how AI can support these efforts while gaining insight into its ethical, quality, and security considerations, as well as management systems required to sustain long-term success. Gain exposure to leading research happening at Stanford’s world-renowned Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and identify engines that can drive or inhibit growth.
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.
Develop the strategic perspective to identify where AI can create value, manage its risks, and drive sustainable growth.
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.
Enhance your leadership capabilities so you can lead teams more effectively, communicate more clearly, and consistently make better decisions.
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.
