The Global CEO Program: A Transformational Journey offers chief executives an opportunity to step back from the rapid pace of daily business to reflect on the most pressing issues facing their companies, while engaging with seasoned executives from distinct backgrounds, industries, and cultures.
This strategic management program is led by three top-ranked business schools — IESE Business School, the Wharton School, and the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) — and participants will attend one-week modules on three continents: Europe, North America, and Asia.
The Global CEO Program challenges your business models, thinking, and practices, says Professor Harbir Singh.
November 8 – 13, 2020Philadelphia, PAandFebruary 28 – March 5, 2021Shanghai, ChinaandJune 7 – 11, 2021Barcelona, Spain$48,000
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In Global CEO Program: A Transformational Journey, you will:
Designed for a truly international learning experience over three non-consecutive weeks, the Global CEO program offers a unique forum for the exchange of ideas among senior executives from diverse backgrounds, industries, and cultures. The program employs a wide array of teaching approaches. For example:
Module I North America — The Wharton School, Philadelphia, U.S. November 10–15, 2019
Module II Asia — China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai, China February 23–28, 2020
Module III Europe — IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain June 8–12, 2020
Participants are of diverse cultural backgrounds, come from a wide range of industries, and represent the private and public sectors. Participant titles include:
The Global CEO Program typically attracts chief decision makers and C-level senior executives with commensurate general management experience in companies with global or regional operations. Participants should be fluent in English for business purposes and willing to share their experiences, viewpoints, and expertise with fellow participants.
This program is ideal for individuals from companies working in areas affected by an uncertain and complex world, such as financial services, telecommunications, health care, and consumer goods, as well as firms impacted by increased pressure from globalized market forces.
Fluency in English, written and spoken, is required for participation in Wharton Executive Education programs unless otherwise indicated.
The Wharton segment of this program is held at the Steinberg Conference Center located on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Learn more about planning your stay at Wharton’s Philadelphia campus.
To further leverage the value and impact of this program, we encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to Wharton. We offer group enrollment benefits to companies sending four or more participants.
The faculty, drawn from each of the three participating business schools, represents a distinguished academic team. Faculty members are recognized globally for their teaching contributions and as business executives, consultants, advisors, directors of corporate boards, and authors of numerous books, case studies, and academic papers.
CEIBS Professors: Rama Velamuri Jianmao Wang Juan Antonio Fernandez Willem Burgers
IESE Professors: Julia Prats Marc Sachon José Luis Nueno Toni Dávila Pankaj Ghemawat Pedro Videla Pedro Nueno
Wharton Professors:
Mauro Guillén, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Academic Director
Dr. Felix Zandman Professor of International Management; Professor of Management; The Wharton School
Research Interests: Globalization, international political economy, multinational management
Sigal Barsade, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Organizational culture, emotional intelligence, unconscious bias, organizational change, teamwork and leadership
Emilie Feldman, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Corporate governance, corporate strategy, diversification, divestitures, firm scope, spinoffs
Joao Gomes, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Howard Butcher III Professor of Finance, Chairperson, Finance Department, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Macroeconomics and financial markets, quantitative corporate finance, corporate investment and financing
Michael Platt, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Director, the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative; James S. Riepe University Professor, Marketing Department, the Wharton School; Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine; Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences; the University of Pennsylvania
Kevin Werbach, JDSee Faculty Bio
Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Business, legal, and social implications of the internet and communications technologies
Lyle Ungar, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Computer and Information Science, the School of Engineering and Applied Science; Professor of Genomics and Computational Biology, Perelman School of Medicine; Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, the Wharton School; Professor of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Statistical natural-language processing, deep learning, mining social media to better understand personality
Bilge Yilmaz, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Wharton Private Equity Professor; Professor of Finance; Director, Joshua J. Harris Alternative Investments Program, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Corporate finance, alternative investments, game theory, political economy
There is a huge value with the cross-program project, which we can’t even quantify. The feedback sessions are powerful in many ways.”
Carmen TanasieCEO, Omnicom Media Group
I chose the GCP program because I was looking for a program that provides a lot of depth into many disciplines in business today, and also a global outlook with a glimpse into the future.”
Mansour HajjarCEO, Allied Enterprises (UAE Chalhoub Group)
Peers are some of the most interesting and experienced people you could have as co-participants. So learning from them is great. It’s a good course for senior executives or those trying to get to CEO positions. The way it’s designed is smart because by locating the program in places like Brazil, the U.S. and China, you get the flavor of these markets – and a sense of adventure, too.”
Sanjay SharmaCEO, Tata Interactive Systems
This is the ideal program for people looking to broaden their business outlook and deepen their understanding of global trends and market behavior. Learning and sharing experiences with a culturally diverse group of peers increased the value of the program exponentially for me.”
Hans van der NoordaCEO, Benelux of ING Bank
The GCP provided an exceptional learning experience. You are transformed by the enriching perspectives of a culturally diverse group of peers and leave the program armed with practical solutions to address your unique business challenges as a global leader.”
Lain JagerCEO, Zespri international (New Zealand)
Download the program schedule, including session details.
Fees includes three non-consecutive sessions. All sessions are required for completion.
The program fee includes tuition, teaching materials, and accommodations. Travel expenses are not included.
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