Program Prepares Women for Global Leadership Roles

To help female executives succeed in a global business environment, the following program topics are covered:

Strategy as Changing the Rules of the Global Game
Examine the global industry transformation taking place, looking at the dynamic framework of rules that govern this trend, then explore a range of global growth strategies.

Building Globally Successful Products: The Importance of a Market-Focused Strategy
Focus on cultural market segmentation, with a discussion on constructing frameworks capable of targeting those segments. Draw on a series of global case studies to illustrate strategies governing product positioning, pricing, and distribution.

Global Finance
Discuss international corporate financial instruments, international capital, and exchange markets and how to use those markets and other tools to properly manage risk.

Managing New Ventures Within Global Corporations
Use a simulation-based approach to learn tools for resource allocation. Additional discussions focus on creating accountability systems for judging performance and expediting the team learning process.

Building the Global Organization
Learn various strategies for managing multinational locations as a cohesive network. Discuss how to simultaneously optimize economies of scale on a global level while enabling each entity to maintain its distinctive attributes in order to effectively serve its local constituency.

Building High-Performance Teams
Identify the key conditions that ensure strong performance, and discuss how to apply those attributes to team building. Illustrate points by reviewing case studies, including one that underscores what can happen to leaderless teams. Conclude by engaging in a real-world exercise focused on team building.

Developing Intercultural Competence
Establish several frameworks for understanding cultural differences. Develop the mindset and communications skills required to assume a leadership role on an intercultural team.

Global Leaders: A Dialogue with Future Leaders
Examine trends among the world’s most accomplished female leaders and examine the plans necessary for succeeding abroad.

In addition to these classroom session topics, evening events featuring faculty and visiting executives focus on the challenges faced by women in corporate leadership roles, particularly as they take on global assignments. The stories from the front at these fireside chats ground cutting-edge concepts and theories with real-world practice. These evenings also provide an opportunity for participants to develop mentor relationships and to share strategies for negotiating the work/life choices faced by high-achieving women.

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The Smith-Tuck Global Leaders Program for Women will be offered from June 22 to 27, 2003. If you would like to learn more about this or any Tuck Executive Education program, please contact our external relations team members at +1-603-646-2839 or tuck.exec.ed@dartmouth.edu or visit our website at www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/exec.