EY Darden Executive Programme

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Learn alongside a peer group collectively solving real-life business issues. Small group work is reinforced by individual readings and dynamic classroom sessions in a campus environment. Participants learn new techniques, concepts and theories that will help them manage their current role more effectively, while the total experience prepares the executive for broader responsibilities in the future. Networking and learning alongside some of New Zealand's emerging and current leaders is then sustained by joining an active lifelong alumni group of top executives.

The program comprises four major topics:

Strategy, Leadership, Change

• Strategic thinking
• Building competitive advantage
• Industry analysis
• Forecasting environmental trends
• Strategy identification and evaluation
• Creating and sustaining the high performance organization
• Building strategic capabilities
• Service excellence
• Supplier relationships

Organizations

• Leading strategic change
• Principle-centered leadership
• Strategic implementation

Global Political Economy

• International and New Zealand trends
• Global economy
• National and industry competitive advantage
• International competitiveness
• Global strategy and leadership
• Corporate culture as a source of competitive advantage
• Global competition and strategic intent

Entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurial thinking and mind-set
• What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial?
• Entrepreneurship and firm growth
• Entrepreneurship and regional development
• Leading entrepreneurially
• Entrepreneurship and change

Special Features
Participants will also particularly benefit from:

• Actual business situations set forth in carefully prepared studies
• Specific New Zealand case studies and presentations
• Total faculty commitment, an integral part of the Darden faculty philosophy