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An educational partnership between Wharton and the American Bankers Association, this three-year program will arm you with the necessary leadership skill training to effectively recognize and handle high-level management issues.

  • Hone your acumen in banking and financial management
  • Identify ways to shape, implement, and manage high-level initiatives
  • Participate in a capstone strategic project that addresses an initiative within your organization
Sep. 15 – 19, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,875

Learn how your financial institution or firm can effectively manage risk in today’s uncertain economy. Discover whether it is more efficient to take on debt, offer equity, or do a combination of both when making capital structure decisions.

  • Determine whether it is more efficient to take on debt, offer equity, or do a combination of both
  • Examine how valuation models change when making international financial decisions
  • Gain insight into how regulatory changes will impact your corporate financial decisions
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$79,500

Accelerate your career by mastering multiple in-demand disciplines within the finance industry. This comprehensive, tailored learning journey takes you through six open-enrollment programs — each led by Wharton’s renowned Finance faculty. Upon completion, you will be granted highly sought-after Wharton alumni status.

  • Complete six open-enrollment Finance programs within two years
  • Executive coaching included
  • Achieve Wharton alumni status
Modular: On Campus and Live Online 
Mar. 17 – 26, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
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Jun. 16 – 27, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$72,500
Sep. 28 – Oct. 31, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000

Wharton’s flagship leadership program is a transformational and immersive program for senior executives who are at the peak of their careers. This intellectually rigorous and highly experiential program will define you as a leader and strengthen your strategic prowess. Upon completion, you will be granted highly sought-after Wharton alumni status.

  • Five consecutive weeks
  • Executive coaching included
  • Achieve Wharton alumni status
Mar. 17 – 21, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
Nov. 17 – 21, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,875

Harness the power of analytics to transform and strengthen your business strategies. Led by a powerhouse team of Wharton faculty, this multidisciplinary program guides you through the most current skills and best practices to help you overcome real-world challenges by understanding, cultivating, socializing, and employing data.

  • Learn more about how machine learning and artificial intelligence can enhance managerial decisions
  • Master and select the right tools for predicting future customer behavior
  • Gain new insights into selecting and managing data-science teams
Dec. 10 – 13, 2024
Philadelphia, PA
$10,250

Empower yourself with the insight you need to successfully navigate the fluctuating marketplace while confidently adding both domestic and global commercial real estate to your client’s or institution’s investment portfolio. Gain knowledge that helps you assess and mitigate risks and select the right investment partners.

  • Learn about various sectors of commercial real estate
  • Discover how to balance risk and return in real estate investments
  • Determine how best to fit real estate into an overall investment strategy
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Self-paced
$3,000

The Asset and Portfolio Management Certificate Program is designed to help current and aspiring financial professionals employ the best practices when putting together an investment portfolio. You’ll learn about key terminology, investment products, and asset allocation strategies to maximize return on investments. Discover how to assess opportunities, diversify portfolios, and manage investment risk in this asset and financial portfolio management certificate online program.

In the Asset and Portfolio Management Certificate program, participants will learn how to:

  • Present asset and portfolio management strategies to investors
  • Assess and choose the most effective asset products for investment portfolios
  • Manage investment risks and prepare for interest rate changes
  • Use asset pricing models to inform your investment decisions
  • Diversify investments for maximum ROI
May 4 – 9, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$14,750
Sep. 21 – 26, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000

Ensure your competence as a leader and examine the timeliness of your strategic vision. You will learn from the decision-making processes of great leaders and discuss challenges with a network of global peers.

  • Become a more effective leader of leaders
  • Coach and mentor high-potential managers who report to you
  • Learn to lead out and up, not just down
Feb. 4 – 5, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$6,500

Based on the book Boards That Lead, this executive education program provides the latest thinking from some of the world’s most knowledgeable and dynamic boardroom leaders on how directors can make a leadership difference.

  • Gain an insider’s view of dynamic boardrooms from executives who lead them
  • Acquire a proven road map for leading an effective board
  • Uncover the best methods to recruit and select the most qualified directors
Self-paced
$2,600

This three-month online certificate program provides managers and leaders an understanding of how analytics can help improve their decision-making process. This program will help you look at data and identify insights, improve your ability to make predictions for the long term, and prescribe future actions that help make better business decisions.

  • Understand new and best-practice methods used to collect data
  • Gain new insight on user behavior
  • Master real-world tools for predicting future outcomes
  • Formulate data-driven recommendations to inform strategic business decisions
May 12 – 16, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
Nov. 3 – 7, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,875

Accelerate your career with an in-depth understanding of the core concepts that drive business in every industry. Tap into the minds of Wharton’s world-renowned MBA faculty to become a stronger, more decisive leader.

  • Gain fundamental knowledge in multiple business topics
  • Apply learning to your current challenges through personal assessments and daily integration sessions
  • Includes a post-program “check-in” webinar with Wharton faculty
May 12 – 16, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
Nov. 10 – 14, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,875

Uncover industry-disrupting, revenue-building innovation within your existing business model. Learn to create, implement, and promote growth drivers for immediate application within your organization.

  • Uncover within your organization currently unidentified ways to dramatically improve profitability and productivity
  • Conduct an audit of your current business model and generate ideas for innovations
  • Develop defense mechanisms beyond intellectual property protection
  • Master a framework for driving and managing innovative change in your firm
Nov. 12 – 13, 2024
New York, NY
$20,000
Dec. 10 – 11, 2024
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Developed through a partnership between Wharton Executive Education and the CEO Academy®, this program provides CEOs with an unparalleled opportunity to connect with peers in a dynamic setting and enhance their leadership and strategic decision-making skills.

  • Gain insight into major issues affecting CEO decision making today
  • Connect with peers in a dynamic setting
  • Hear from veteran CEOs leading their organizations
Self-paced
$22,000

This immersive, nine-month experience is designed to prepare HR leaders to reach beyond the traditional scope of human resources — recruitment, compensation, benefits — to tackle broader initiatives that extend across all sectors of the organization. The rigorous curriculum includes interactive online sessions and on-campus electives and offers a path to alumni status for qualified individuals.

  • Glean fresh insights from global industry experts with guest lectures throughout the program
  • Examine real-world business cases and understand how to apply the learnings to your job immediately
  • Interact with and learn from top-ranked faculty who teach in Wharton Executive Education’s senior executive programs
Self-paced
$22,000

The seven-month Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Program from Wharton Executive Education is designed for executives who aim to understand external environments, read early warning signals of disruption, and align their organization's strategy to gain a competitive advantage. You will emerge with the confidence to tackle disruptive forces and evolve into an influential strategic architect who can navigate any challenge.

Self-paced
$23,000

This immersive, nine-month experience teaches Chief Technology Officers and other senior-level IT leaders how to become more strategic partners with other operating units within their organization and determine efficient ways to scale their company’s technology infrastructure. The rigorous curriculum includes interactive online sessions and on-campus electives and offers a path to alumni status for qualified individuals.

  • Glean fresh insights from global industry experts with guest lectures throughout the program
  • Examine real-world business cases and understand how to apply the learnings to your job immediately
  • Interact with and learn from high-achieving peers from around the globe and build your professional network
  • Participate in a Capstone project that addresses a real-world technology issue your organization might be facing
Apr. 22 – 25, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$9,850

Acquire critical management tools and gain new insight into the duties and nuances of board service. Learn how to forge partnerships with company officers to strengthen financial return, conduct better enterprise risk management, and achieve governance diversity during these complex times.

  • Grasp how a director’s role is changing in today’s social, legal, and business environment
  • For aspiring directors, learn how to present yourself as an attractive board candidate
  • Look inside the process for nominating, selecting, and on-boarding directors
Jan. 27 – 31, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
Jun. 23 – 27, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500

Learn how to evaluate the financial implications of strategic business decisions through financial modeling. Become more effective at communicating the consequences of financial decisions to your organization’s key stakeholders.

  • Analyze financial statements to better understand opportunities and risks
  • Evaluate the financial implications of strategic decisions
  • Learn how to communicate a clear financial strategy to colleagues, investors, lenders, and others
Apr. 6 – 11, 2025
Philadelphia, PA

This Wharton Executive Education program is the first step of CEO Institute. This week focuses on developing an intuitive understanding of how change impacts your organization. The program concentrates on scenario planning and strategies to anticipate change and proceed proactively.

  • Develop an intuitive understanding of how to anticipate change
  • Focus on scenario planning and strategies to handle organizational change
  • Apply what you've learned in a project that centers on live challenges you face
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Self-paced
$2,250

The Digital Leadership Certificate Program is a collection of digital business education courses designed to help professionals expand their leadership skills and become more digitally savvy. Leaders in any industry need to know how to pivot and adapt to evolving landscapes. With new technologies disrupting traditional business operations, there is an opportunity for leaders to step up and transform their organizations.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Adapt to changing business environments
  • Develop effective digital strategies to support business goals
  • Incorporate new technologies into business operations
  • Implement strategic initiatives for digital platforms
  • Overcome roadblocks to organizational change
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Self-paced
$2,340

Designed by world-renowned marketing professors at the Wharton School, home of one of the top marketing programs in the country, the online Digital Marketing Certificate program from Wharton helps you develop the digital marketing skills you need to take advantage of the explosive growth in the marketing industry.

In our online digital marketing courses, participants will learn how to:

  • Market goods, services, and ideas more effectively online
  • Leverage new models in business and e-commerce to increase profitability
  • Use the right metrics to gauge and guide ongoing customer-centric efforts
  • Generate word of mouth and influence others more effectively
  • Use new techniques in digital market research, including regression analysis, conjoint analysis, and social media analysis
Feb. 10 – 14, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500

Learn how to assess the long-term value of and investment opportunities in companies that are financially distressed. Become knowledgeable about the integral roles that business managers, professional investors, and banking advisors can play in restructuring corporate debt.

  • Understand how and why a company fails, and the turnaround process
  • Foresee signs of crisis in a firm’s financial statements
  • Identify the long-term value of and investment opportunities in distressed assets
  • Become knowledgeable about the roles of managers, investors, advisors, and consultants in restructuring debt
  • Hone negotiation skills to maximize returns of complex distressed situations
May 19 – 23, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
Nov. 17 – 21, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,875

Break through the hurdles of uncertainty and bias to become a powerfully decisive, more strategic leader. Hone your ability to influence and persuade by applying field-based research, proven approaches, and behavioral economics. Return to your organization with actionable knowledge to overcome obstacles and lead your organization to success.

  • Learn to harness critical thinking, personal judgment, and emotions in decision making
  • Make better decisions under uncertainty
  • Improve individual, group, and organizational decisions
Apr. 14 – 18, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
Oct. 6 – 10, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,875

Advance your ability to expertly orchestrate the critical execution of your company’s strategies. Work alongside your global peers while building structured, actionable plans — specific to your organization’s culture — to achieve buy-in, create powerful incentives, and overcome your most challenging execution obstacles.

  • Consider execution from leadership, organizational culture, talent, and capabilities perspectives
  • Create a plan to address your organization’s critical execution issues
  • Learn how to get buy-in and clarify responsibility and accountability
Self-paced
$1,950

This three-month online certificate program provides entrepreneurs with a proven toolkit that goes beyond the idea. Leveraging Wharton’s strength in data-driven outcomes, learn proven techniques for scaling your business including how to build a team, choose the right legal structure, generate demand, and finance growth.

  • Pick the right business model
  • Build the right team
  • Choose the right financing approach
  • Ramp up sales and scale the business
  • Pitch competition awards of $25K and $10K for seed funding
Feb. 24 – Mar. 7, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
Sep. 15 – 26, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$30,250

Ascend to greater levels of management by honing your business acumen in multiple core competencies and advance your strategic decision-making capabilities to think faster, smarter, and more creatively. Intensive executive coaching from Wharton’s world-renowned faculty prepares you to lead your organization through the massive disruption happening in industries everywhere.

  • Put knowledge to the test in a real-world business simulation
  • Two consecutive weeks
  • Executive coaching included
Feb. 24 – 28, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$13,000
Oct. 13 – 17, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$13,250

Research shows that even the most brilliant executives must also possess the skills to influence people. The last mile in getting anything done is convincing others to go along. Executive Influence: Increasing Your Impact with Persuasion and Power will greatly expand your range of power and influence skills, helping you deploy them with confidence and integrity. Discover a broad toolbox of methods and techniques that will transform your skills for a lifetime.

  • Leverage an extensive toolkit to build persuasion skills, networks, and coalitions
  • Receive multiple personal assessments to discover your areas for improvement
  • Recognize and gain confidence with the influence tools you already possess
  • Enhance your executive presence
Dec. 9 – 13, 2024
Philadelphia, PA
$13,000
May 5 – 9, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$13,000

Identify and understand your own negotiation style and that of others to negotiate more effectively. Learn transformative techniques and acquire practical tools and frameworks that will improve your ability to negotiate both inside and outside your organization.

  • Learn new tools, practice with multiple scenarios, and gain valuable feedback
  • Improve your skills regardless of your level of experience
  • Uses a personality-based approach rather than simplistic “win-win” or “win-lose” models
Mar. 31 – Apr. 4, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500

A historic intergenerational wealth transfer of $84 trillion is underway. This period presents a unique opportunity for wealth advisors to enhance services for family offices and ultra-high-net-worth clients. This program offers advanced strategies to manage financial assets while addressing diverse family needs, empowering advisors to capitalize on a growing market.

  • Grasp the critical differences between conventional investment and family wealth management
  • Explore how to successfully balance the different investment horizons, risk preferences, and liquidity needs of multi-generational families
  • Enhance your financial acumen with high-level discussions of modern portfolio theory, alternative asset classes, and international markets
Apr. 28 – May 2, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
Oct. 6 – 10, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,875

Learn how to use financial data to make more-informed business decisions and to evaluate your firm’s performance. Examine core concepts of finance and accounting in a straightforward, easy-to-grasp manner.

  • Interpret financial statements
  • Gain exposure to diverse financial approaches, including methods of valuation
  • Become adept in financial decision making
Self-paced
$2,600

This six-week online certificate program details the current state of fintech. It leads you from an overview of how technology is revolutionizing the financial sector to the intricacies of international compliance and the complexities of blockchain. It also analyzes what could be coming next in fintech, peer-to-peer lending, real estate, and insurance.

  • Evaluate fintech’s transformative effects on a variety of businesses, including those in finance, real estate, insurance, marketplace lending, and personal banking
  • Explain how blockchain and distributed ledger technologies work and are used in financial businesses
  • Analyze the balance between regulation and innovation – and its tradeoffs
  • Describe a potential plan that encompasses key elements of digital transformation that can be applied to your current business to increase overall competitiveness
Apr. 7 – 11, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,750

Fixed-income investing and risk management have become more important as near-zero interest rates fade into memory. Though the market presents challenges, these new fixed-income products offer an attractive opportunity for investment. Wharton Finance faculty and industry experts combine academic research with proven strategies to empower participants to engage in fixed-income investing and risk management.

  • Understand and gain confidence working with fixed income instruments including bonds, loans, and structured products
  • Wharton Finance Faculty and industry experts combine academic research with proven strategies to engage in fixed income investing and risk management.
  • Learn about different fixed income markets, how capital is raised in each, how they are related, and how they fit into the broader economy
Flexible Learning Journey  
$79,500

Invigorate, strengthen, and refine your leadership skills while elevating your management skills. Gain operational insight as you advance your business acumen with a focused curriculum that covers finance, leadership, marketing, and strategy. Accelerate your career while building an invaluable global network. Upon completion, you will be granted highly sought-after Wharton alumni status.

  • Complete six open-enrollment programs within two years
  • Executive coaching included
  • Achieve Wharton alumni status
May 5 – 8, 2025
San Francisco, CA
$13,000

The emergence of generative AI has the potential to launch companies into game-changing growth. In order to successfully leverage its potential, you need a comprehensive understanding of generative AI technology, platforms, and large language models — as well as insight into acceptance barriers. Generative AI and Business Transformation leverages thought leadership from the world-renowned AI research center at The Wharton School to provide an in-depth analysis of the technology and transformative capabilities of generative AI. You’ll leave empowered with the knowledge and real-world strategies required to implement successful applications throughout your organization.

• Comprehensive understanding of the technology, capabilities, and potential of Generative AI
• Expert insight into the governance frameworks and ethical and user experience challenges
• World-renowned Wharton faculty thought leadership on organizational AI transformation
• Practical integration strategies for implementing a company-wide Generative AI plan

Mar. 31 – Apr. 3, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$10,250

Lead your organization through the shifting global marketplace by building strategies that outmaneuver unpredictable trends and outperform the competition. Gain the insight necessary to predict future scenarios and create the global advantages required to drive success.

  • Increase your capacity to formulate and execute global strategy
  • Generate counterintuitive ideas around changing geopolitical realities
  • Engage in scenario planning to map future situations that could affect your organization
Apr. 28 – May 2, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
Nov. 17 – 21, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500

Successfully lead the ever-changing health care environment by understanding the shift in technologies, trends, economics, and dynamics within the ecosystem. Leverage the world-renowned Wharton MBA and Wharton's Health Care Management program faculty to provide unparalleled perspective on the health care industry while strengthening your key leadership skills and overall business acumen. Return to your organization ready to make an immediate impact across all areas with the enhanced decision-making abilities and in-depth skills you need to cultivate innovation and propel your organization forward.

  • Comprehensive analysis of industry provides in-depth perspective of changing healthcare landscape
  • High-level focus on persuasion and negotiation strengthens your leadership style
  • Expert insight from Wharton’s MBA faculty hones your business acumen
  • Cross section of participants from healthcare ecosystem allows you to build a robust network
Apr. 7 – 11, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$14,250

Develop the strategic perspective required of global leaders, learn to manage uncertainty and execute your vision, and establish a firm personal foundation that can withstand the pressures of leadership.

  • Strengthen emotional intelligence for greater influence and higher levels of professional performance
  • Master a framework for leading change
  • Apply learnings to an actual business challenge of your choice
Self-paced
$2,800

This two-month online certificate program delves into topics that will help you to become a more strategic HR partner by gaining a holistic understanding of how HR management and data analytics intersect.

  • Motivate individual performance and design reward systems
  • Design jobs and organize work for high performance
  • Make good and timely management decisions
  • Design and change an organization's architecture for lasting change

Investment Management Courses, a joint venture between Wharton and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, will help you improve your investment management.

  • Learn the core concepts and tools needed for effective portfolio oversight
  • Enhance your ability to assess your competitors' moves and learn how to maintain competitive advantage
  • Learn the intricacies of alternate investment strategies
May 19 – 23, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$13,500
Oct. 20 – 24, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
$13,750

Develop investment portfolios that generate the highest return for your level of investment risk. This program provides a solid foundation for building optimal portfolios and effective tools for making better investments.

  • Improve your ability to measure investment performance
  • Learn new asset allocation tools
  • Recognize when to choose active managers versus passive investments
  • Understand the opportunities and risks of bonds, hedge funds, private equity, real estate, international markets, and derivatives
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Self-paced
$3,600

This four-course online certificate program will help leaders across the organization reach new levels of success. Both individuals and larger teams can access cutting-edge management concepts from nine world-class Wharton faculty. With flexible start dates, each fully online course runs 4–6 weeks in duration.

  • Enhance and strengthen your skills as a manager and decision-maker within your organization.
  • Learn at your own pace with the convenience of online learning and flexible start dates.
  • Interact with world-class faculty and fellow high-potential learners from around the world.
Self-paced
$18,000

Actively refine your leadership approach by balancing human aspects with technological ones and ensure your teams remain prepared to adapt successfully as AI technologies evolve. Explore applications and implications of emerging technologies — including AI, machine learning, big data, and data visualization — and how to effectively incorporate them into organizational strategy to drive business impact.

Organizations that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) will be able to successfully drive business impact in this digital age. Therefore, business leaders must actively refine their leadership approach by balancing human aspects with technological ones while ensuring that their teams remain prepared to adapt successfully as AI technologies evolve.

Jan. 27 – Feb. 25, 2025
Live Online
$9,900
WAVE Classroom Seat $9,900
Observer Seat $1,500

Online Session One with Reid Hoffman: Monday, January 27, 2025
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. EST
Weekly Live Online Sessions: Beginning Tuesday, January 28, 2025 for five consecutive weeks
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. EST

Join Wharton’s Leading an AI-Powered Future program, a live online executive series in partnership with LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman. This six-session program helps leaders unlock the potential of AI, focusing on empowering workforces, ethical integration, and driving innovation. Learn directly from Hoffman and Wharton’s AI experts to cultivate the skills needed to lead AI transformation and create a future of enhanced decision-making and opportunity.

  • Challenge conventional fears around AI and view your company’s future through a lens of possibility
  • Cultivate leadership skills necessary for guiding teams and organizations through the transformative challenges and opportunities presented by AI integration
  • Engage with the biggest thought leaders of the day on business’ most of-the-moment, pressing topic
  • Engage with Wharton content live online during this six-week program
  • May 5 – 9, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,500
    Nov. 3 – 7, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,875

    Shift your mindset from traditional thinking on product- or service-based value creation and competition to a platform and ecosystem perspective, and understand the new set of strategic choices and tradeoffs they represent.

    • Explore digital disruption from the perspectives of strategy, organization, and leadership for the long term
    • Learn how to spot digital opportunities, develop strategies around them, and pitch them persuasively to key stakeholders
    • Reimagine your business and engage in a hands-on simulation to deepen your understanding of digital platform strategy
    Feb. 10 – 13, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $10,250

    Expertly lead change initiatives within your organization by learning how to apply actionable steps to overcome resistance, establish greater resilience, and drive positive change behavior. Hone your intuition and develop real-world frameworks by participating in an experiential simulation employed by Fortune 500 executives.

    • Understand the requirements for driving a change initiative in your organization
    • Learn how to integrate change initiatives as part of a strategic plan
    • Engage in a business simulation where you apply new knowledge
    Feb. 24 – 28, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,250
    Sep. 8 – 12, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,500

    For today’s leaders, navigating how to build and manage a team has proven more important and challenging than ever before, and attracting, motivating, and retaining talent is no longer a function reserved solely for HR. Staying ahead of the curve now requires both an evolved skillset and deep understanding of best practices, emerging trends, and technologies. This program equips participants with the proven skills required for successful people management — but through the much-needed lens of the ever-shifting future of work.

    • Provides the proven skills required for successful people management — but through the much-needed
    • lens of the ever-shifting future of work

    • Three-pronged approach to develop modern-day leadership
    • leverage Wharton’s groundbreaking analytics to make solid people-based decisions
    Self-paced
    $7,500

    Reach your potential as a manager through this six-month program that blends hard and soft skills into one holistic learning experience, culminating with a live three-day on-campus experience.

    • Develop the hard and soft skills to manage people, products, and processes with agility and confidence
    • Understand the financial, operational, strategic, and human implications of business decisions
    • Develop your stakeholder management skills to build trust and create effective communications
    Jun. 16 – 20, 2025
    Live Online
    $9,850

    Capitalize on maximum growth opportunities by mastering the skill set required to formulate, negotiate, manage, and evaluate strategic alliances. Elevate your organization to a preferred alliance “partner of choice” status while leveraging a multi-partner alliance ecosystem and successfully mitigating the effects of enterprise risks.

    • Build alliances that create value for your organization
    • Learn how to compete and cooperate with partners simultaneously
    • Position your firm as a preferred alliance partner
    Apr. 28 – May 2, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,500

    Create and activate the innovation that drives your organization toward sustained growth. Return to your workplace with the ability to empower and commercialize the tools, technology, and principles necessary to build an architecture that triggers a culture of thriving innovation.

    • Acquire the tools and principles to actively manage the process of innovation
    • Identify future threats and strategic opportunities for growth
    • Learn how to run an innovation tournament within your organization to uncover business ideas to pursue
    • Develop creative problem-solving skills that will make your organization more competitive
    Jan. 19 – 24, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $15,000
    Jun. 8 – 13, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $15,000

    Our interdisciplinary faculty and industry speakers help you select, assess, and evaluate potential opportunities. Examine acquisition strategy, valuation techniques, tax issues, due diligence, and post-acquisition integration.

    • Evaluate the long-term potential of a partnership
    • Understand how to manage the complexities of the merger process
    • Identify acquisition strategies and learn how to close deals and integrate acquisitions successfully
    Apr. 1 – May 20, 2025
    Live Online
    $6,500
    Program Welcome Session
    Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. EST
    AND
    Weekly Live Online Sessions:
    Tuesdays beginning April 8, 2025
    9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EDT
    for seven consecutive weeks
    Additional asynchronous hours weekly

    Drive your company’s net-zero journey with this live online program. Led by Wharton and Penn experts, this hands-on, research-backed course provides the tools, strategies, and frameworks to execute your sustainability goals. Engage in live online sessions, self-paced learning, and case studies to master carbon measurement, regulatory frameworks, and new revenue streams. Empower your business to lead the way to a sustainable future.

    • Discover how to lead a strategic transition to sustainability in your organization
    • Evaluate the risks and opportunities associated with implementing a climate pledge
    • Understand global regulatory frameworks for net-zero goals
    • Learn to leverage tools for carbon measurement
    • Grasp the principles of sustainable practices related to travel, transportation, buildings, construction, supply chains, and more
    Mar. 13 – Apr. 24, 2025
    Live Online
    $5,500
    Program Welcome Session:
    Thursday, March 13, 2025
    1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST
    Weekly Live Online Sessions:
    Thursdays beginning March, 20, 2025
    for six consecutive weeks
    Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST
    Additional asynchronous hours: Weekly

    This program offers a practical approach to the basics and more challenging aspects of assuming a supervisory position. Explore hiring and retention, succeeding through others’ success, managing difficult team contributors, legal and ethical issues, project management, handling interpersonal conflicts, motivating your people day to day, and more. People Management for Emerging Leaders is the ideal introduction or refresher for all those entrusted with leading a team to success.

    • Understand the implications of transitioning from individual contributor to manager
    • Learn management nuts and bolts, from hiring to project management to legal issues
    • Master a toolkit of proven, effective management techniques
    • Become skilled at managing interpersonal conflicts and having difficult conversations
    Dec. 9 – 13, 2024
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,500
    Dec. 8 – 12, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,850

    Learn how to maximize profits by combining the latest strategic pricing tools and techniques with valuable insights into consumer psychology. Work alongside global peers to develop and defend actionable pricing for immediate use.

    • Deepen your understanding of current pricing challenges and complexities
    • Set prices to maximize profit, not margin or market share
    • Secure organizational support for pricing decisions
    Feb. 2 – 7, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $14,350
    Sep. 14 – 19, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $14,500

    Discover how to secure returns that outperform other asset classes by honing your expertise on private equity investments. Delve into the effects of the pandemic; explore current strategies; and leave with the ability to confidently evaluate, structure, and build profitable investments within the private equity space.

    • Review actual deal scenarios with Wharton faculty and industry experts for immediate feedback and input
    • Gain experience in navigating the complex arena of global private equity
    May 4 – 9, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $16,250

    Experience the rigorous Wharton wealth management curriculum in a confidential setting with other affluent families. High net-worth investors from more than 50 countries have attended this five-day program offered in conjunction with the Institute for Private Investors (IPI) since 1999.

    • Learn the latest thinking in asset allocation, family governance, and financial advisor selection
    • Meet with others who are also part of a wealthy family and have the need for family asset management
    Jun. 2 – 6, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,500
    Nov. 16 – 20, 2025
    San Francisco, CA
    $12,875

    Successfully navigate your company toward revenue-producing growth while strengthening strategic, financial, marketing, and leadership initiatives. Leave with an immediately deployable and financially viable plan for scalable expansion.

    • Transition from tactical, short-term thinking to a long-term vision
    • Create a financially viable, scalable strategic plan
    • Understand the capital requirements needed to grow and how to attain them
    Mar. 9 – 14, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA

    The Securities Industry Institute® is recognized worldwide as the premier development program for securities industry professionals. The program focuses on helping participants broaden their perspectives, increase job effectiveness, and strengthen management skills.

    • Examine current thinking in the areas of leadership, ethics, strategy, technology, and finance
    • Familiarize yourself with the challenges facing the securities industry
    • Gain practical information directly applicable to your present and future responsibilities
    Apr. 22 – 25, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $10,250

    Learn how corporate boards and C-suite leadership prepare for activist campaigns directed at their company, and discover effective solutions for managing the process when it occurs. Develop the fundamentals for both value investing and value-based management.

    • Discover the frameworks and tactics used by shareholder activists to identify and move on target companies
    • Recognize where and why shareholder activism may create or destroy value
    • Become more knowledgeable about the roles of the various parties to shareholder activism beyond the activists, including proxy advisory firms, public relations firms lawyers, and investment bankers
    Jun. 2 – 6, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,500
    Oct. 27 – 31, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,875

    Learn how leading marketers segment and target customers, analyze consumer decisions, develop unique brands, utilize distribution channels, and make effective marketing communication decisions.

    • Develop a strong knowledge of the data-driven, fact-based science of marketing
    • Learn to segment, target, and better understand customers
    • Conduct quantitative analyses to make marketing decisions

    Topic: Marketing

    Mar. 26 – May 30, 2025
    Live Online
    $8,000
    Welcome Session: Wednesday, April 2, 2025, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. EST
    Weekly Live Online Sessions:
    Wednesdays beginning April 9, 2025, for eight consecutive weeks
    Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. EDT
    Additional Asynchronous Hours: Weekly

    Learn to navigate the legal, ethical, and business challenges of AI, mitigating risks and maximizing benefits. This comprehensive program offers practical frameworks for managing AI’s complexities, including accuracy, risk, transparency, and privacy. Engage with leading faculty in interactive online sessions and self-paced learning, gaining insights to enhance AI safety, trustworthiness, and compliance. Assess and improve your organization’s AI readiness, benefiting from expert guidance and peer networking.

    • Proactively manage AI risks by understanding legal and business challenges
    • Assess organizational readiness for responsible AI implementation
    • Acquire multidisciplinary knowledge to ensure AI systems are safe, trusted, and compliant with global regulations
    • Benefit from live interactions with experts and peer networking to gain insights on responsible AI adoption in leading organizations
    Apr. 7 – 11, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,500
    Sep. 29 – Oct. 3, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,875

    Create and sustain competitive advantages that propel your company forward during the most challenging times. Learn to make the crucial hard choices and tradeoffs that position your company for success while strengthening your customer relationships.

    • Coordinate strategy across multiple lines of business
    • Develop new strategies that connect more continuously with customers
    • Better assess and compete against your competition
    May 19 – 23, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $14,750
    Oct. 13 – 17, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $15,000

    This program helps you refine your leadership style, communicate your financial knowledge to other leaders, and extend your influence across the organization. You will enhance your ability to impact your organization's strategy and value creation.

    • Expand your leadership skills and increase your capacity as a trusted advisor
    • Manage risk and uncertainty
    • Leverage a suite of tools to identify and drive profitable sources of revenue growth
    Dec. 9 – 13, 2024
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,250
    May 12 – 16, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,250

    Learn how to apply neuroscience principles and technology to shape consumer behavior, improve your decisions, build better teams, strengthen client relationships, and hone marketing and communication strategies.

    • Strengthen client relationships and hone marketing and communication strategies
    • Improve team selection, productivity, and job satisfaction through brain training
    • Gain hands-on experience designing choice sets that shape consumer decisions
    Dec. 8 – 12, 2024
    San Francisco, CA
    $15,000
    Mar. 23 – 28, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $15,000

    This program will provide participants with a rigorous framework both to evaluate investment opportunities and to manage a multi-stage investment process in an innovative firm. Learn how to evaluate venture capital investment opportunities and do due diligence that will uncover pitfalls and mitigate risk.

    • Understand how to raise capital and design partnership agreements that enable effective relationships
    • Develop a systematic way to screen, analyze, and value high-growth investment opportunities in nascent industries
    • Acquire a framework to negotiate, price, and structure the best investor terms
    • Learn how to best navigate the shareholder’s agreement to avoid costly mistakes
    • Identify how and when to exit the investment
    Feb. 4 – Mar. 4, 2025
    Live Online
    $4,500
    Welcome Session: Wednesday, February 4, 2025, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST
    Weekly Live Online Sessions:
    Tuesdays beginning February 11, 2025, for four consecutive weeks
    Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT
    Additional Asynchronous Hours: Weekly

    Go beyond the headlines, tackle real-time challenges, and gain the clarity to not just understand the impacts of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors but to strategically harness them. Gain the tactical competencies needed to successfully link ESG to profit and loss statements, create a solid risk-management plan, and adopt proven best practices rooted in research.

    • Blended four-week online program structure
    • Serves as the introductory content in the Wharton ESG Executive Certificate
    • Acquire a foundation for how ESG factors influence value
    • Taps the latest insights from Wharton’s leading faculty
    Feb. 4 – Apr. 5, 2025
    Live Online
    $7,000
    Welcome Session: Wednesday, February 4, 2025, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST
    Weekly Live Online Sessions:
    Tuesdays beginning February 11, 2025, for eight consecutive weeks
    Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT
    Additional Asynchronous Hours: Weekly

    Navigate mounting ESG complexities for senior business leaders. This certificate program provides a practical mix of insights for c-suite and board members to lead the way in ESG innovation and transformation. This advanced certificate is designed to quickly catapult corporate leaders to the forefront of ongoing ESG decision making, empowering them to act as informed, prepared catalysts for change.

    • Blended eight-week online program structure
    • Encompasses introductory plus specialized track content
    • Advanced certificate
    • Designed to catapult leaders to the forefront of ESG decision making
    • Practical mix of insights for senior executives to not just meet the new norm but lead the way in ESG innovation
    Jan. 13 – 17, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,500

    In a dynamic financial era, ultra-high-net-worth families must create enduring legacies. Establishing or joining a family office helps preserve and grow wealth while maintaining harmony. Wharton Family Office Program empowers families with critical knowledge on forming, operating, and managing family offices.

    • Learn about family wealth management in the context of a family office
    • Learn how to sustain family harmony across generations and branches of the family
    • Discover ways to substantially enhance the governance, management, operations, and performance of your family office
    • Find out how a family office can optimally balance multiple generations’ differing investment horizons, risk thresholds, and liquidity needs
    Mar. 3 – 7, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,750
    Sep. 8 – 12, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $13,000

    Demystify the process of creating shareholder value; gain techniques to evaluate the financial impact and value of strategic decisions; and explore issues such as capital structures, diversification, and risk.

    • Master integral financial analysis and evaluation tools and apply them to your business
    • Determine which operating decisions will drive the greatest value
    • Anticipate how decisions affect financial performance and create value
    Dec. 16 – 20, 2024
    Philadelphia, PA
    $7,200
    Dec. 15 – 19, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $7,200

    The primary focus of this program is to assist nursing leaders in the effective management and implementation of strategic and tactical plans. The program includes identifying the key stakeholders and influencing their behavior, learning to manage resources, and knowing when to terminate a task force or health care project.

    • Develop essential financial skills and learn to better communicate budgetary information to peers and staff
    • Develop critical analytical skills necessary to manage task forces or project teams
    • Enhance your ability to manage resources to optimize clinical and administrative performance
    Apr. 28 – May 2, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,500

    This program covers the core concepts of business to broaden your managerial and strategic perspectives, enhance your business instincts, and sharpen your ability to tackle management challenges. It will help you work more effectively with other leaders in your organization and communicate the bottom-line impact of security decisions.

    • Enhance your business instincts and sharpen your ability to tackle management challenges
    • Communicate a clear business case for investments in organizational information security
    • Learn how to better present your strategy to obtain buy-in from the C-suite
    Jul. 15 – 18, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $9,850

    Explore how to navigate the politics and culture of the boardroom and discover how to make your voice heard in this program that will give you a strong foundation for serving in your first director role.

    • Refine and enhance your professional brand to strengthen your board candidacy
    • Receive practical guidance for building your board CV and professional biography
    • Learn to network effectively with board decision-makers
    • Determine which board opportunities are the best for you, and negotiate for them
    Feb. 27 – Mar. 1, 2025
    JW Marriott Sahar, Mumbai
    INR 475,000
    (plus GST)

    Wharton's Women’s Executive Leadership – India program prepares women executives to ascend to greater levels of success amid one of the world’s fastest growing economies. It empowers women leaders with motivation, career advancement and executive presence. Participants receive practical guidance, understand leadership styles, enhance negotiation skills, and navigate organizational culture.

    • Receive practical suggestions on how to address current business challenges, including leading in complex environments
    • Develop a leadership style based on strengths, identify opportunities for career progression
    • Enhance your negotiation skills
    • Manage organizational culture by recognizing and understanding how to navigate biases and barriers
    Oct. 20 – 24, 2025
    Philadelphia, PA
    $12,250

    Gain invaluable insight into the sophisticated business and leadership concepts that will help you propel your career forward while actively maintaining a work-life balance. Advance and inspire with clarity, confidence, and conviction.

    • Deepen your understanding of marketing, talent management, and financial reporting
    • Strengthen negotiation skills, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities
    • Become a more influential leader

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