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Accelerated Management Program

Develop the core management skills and knowledge needed to lead with confidence.

8 weeks, excluding 1 week orientation.

8–10 hours of self-paced learning per week, entirely online.

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About this program

The eight-week online Accelerated Management Program, from the Yale School of Management Executive Education, provides you with insights and tools for understanding the core aspects of managing a business or organization. Over the duration of the program, you'll explore fundamental topics such as decision-making using quantitative models, developing a competitive strategy, and leveraging social networks. You’ll also develop your understanding of the time value of money, financial statements, and how to value a project or company.

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What this program covers

Yale SOM Executive Education’s integrated curriculum is designed to prepare you for the multifunctional challenges of many leadership positions. This approach is reflected in the design of the program, which emphasizes the connection between different facets within an organization.

You will apply your knowledge and develop your skills by engaging with a ‘raw’ case from the Yale School of Management’s exclusive directory of case studies. Through your engagement with this case, you’ll learn how to analyze complex business decisions by incorporating key strategic, financial, and analytical problem-solving abilities to drive forward-thinking solutions.

A powerful collaboration

The Yale School of Management Executive Education is collaborating with online education provider GetSmarter to create a new class of learning experience — one that is higher-touch, and personalized for the working professional.

About the Yale School of Management

The mission of the Yale School of Management is to educate leaders for business and society. The school’s learners and faculty are committed to understanding the complex forces transforming global markets and using that understanding to build organizations — in the for-profit, nonprofit, entrepreneurial, and government sectors — that contribute lasting value to society.

An integrated curriculum, close ties to Yale University, and active connection to the Global Network for Advanced Management ensure that students both acquire crucial technical skills and develop a genuine understanding of an increasingly complex global context.

About GetSmarter

GetSmarter, part of edX, helps working professionals gain verifiable skills from leading global universities and institutions to thrive in an ever-changing work environment.

Technology meets academic rigor in GetSmarter’s people-mediated model, which enables lifelong learners across the globe to obtain industry-relevant skills that are certified by the world’s most reputable academic institutions.

As a participant of this program, you will also gain unlimited access to edX’s Career Engagement Network at no extra cost. This platform will provide you with valuable career resources and events to support your professional journey. You can look forward to benefits including rich content, career templates, webinars, workshops, career fairs, networking events, panel discussions, and exclusive recruitment opportunities to connect you with potential employers.

What you’ll learn

You’ll be welcomed to the program and begin connecting with fellow participants, while exploring the navigation and tools of your Online Campus. Be alerted to key milestones in the learning path, and review how your results will be calculated and distributed.

You’ll be required to complete your participant profile, confirm your email address for the delivery of your digital certificate, and submit a digital copy of your passport/identity document.

Learn about the limitations of human intuition and how this can be overcome.

  • Recognize that, in the presence of randomness, human intuition can be misleading
  • Outline a normative approach to decision-making
  • Use a quantitative model to assist in decision-making
  • Articulate how incorporating risk attitudes into a utility function can lead to better choices
  • Analyze how a decision problem can be structured using a decision tree
  • Decide on a strategy that has the highest expected value and most desirable outcomes

Learn about competitive advantages and the tools used to develop a competitive strategy.

  • Identify the logic and assumptions underlying a business strategy
  • Demonstrate how theories of success can inform strategic business decisions
  • Review the roles of value creation and value capture in successful competitive strategies
  • Show how to evaluate competition
  • Complete an industry analysis that maps the competitive environment of a company
  • Show the influence of organization structure on a company's competitiveness
  • Analyze the factors that influence competition around surplus value
  • Investigate value-based strategies for creating competitive advantage through an offering's competence or positioning

Learn about social structures and how they can benefit an organization.

  • Discuss how the properties of networks can influence the effectiveness of social interactions
  • Identify which network style best describes your social interactions
  • Review the benefits and drawbacks of the interconnected and closed nature of the convener network style
  • Apply the traits of a broker to structure and maintain diverse networks that span multiple domains
  • Show the benefits of large networks associated with the expansionist style
  • Reflect on how different network styles relate to organizational structure
  • Compile an action plan illustrating the beneficial use of social structures and networks

Learn about the time value of money and the underlying components.

  • Identify the various components of the time value of money
  • Calculate the various components of the time value of money
  • Show how to measure and interpret risk
  • Investigate the risk premium as the compensation demanded for bearing one unit of risk
  • Calculate the present value of future cash flows
  • Use the discounted value of cash inflows and outflows to determine the value of an investment
  • Analyze the discounted cash flow value of a company

Explore and address the challenges associated with making decisions under constraints.

  • Discuss why decision-making is challenging in the presence of constraints
  • Choose relevant factors to consider when making a decision
  • Analyze a business problem through a mathematical model
  • Decide on a solution to a business problem that factors in constraints

Learn how to interpret financial statements to differentiate between cash and wealth.

  • Interpret the role of accruals in the financial statements
  • Explain the difference between cash and wealth
  • Discuss the two key financial statements
  • Show how to measure value creation
  • Analyze how competition influences an industry's performance
  • Measure an industry's performance and tie it back to competition

Learn how to conduct a valuation.

  • Review the calculation of the discounted cash flow and the market value of a company
  • Show the use of projections to generate future cash flows
  • Show the correlation between competition and the measures of value creation
  • Illustrate the influence of competition on the value of a company
  • Analyze the sensitivity analysis as part of a valuation
  • Estimate the value of a company

Explore different approaches to a business and understand how this can influence the outcome.

  • Use the three valuation methods to inform a complex decision
  • Distinguish how different organizational functions point to different potential solutions to a business decision
  • Reflect on different perspectives on a business decision
  • Evaluate a business decision and its associated rationale

Who should take this program

This program is designed for professionals interested in moving into a management role, as well as new managers looking to develop their strategic and leadership abilities. It’s also helpful for middle and senior managers who want to sharpen their knowledge in specific areas such as decision-making, strategy, financial statements, and how to value a project or company; and those who want to formalize their experience with a certificate from one of the world’s leading business schools.1

Business owners and entrepreneurs who are eager to improve their business prowess by growing their problem-solving and analytical expertise will also benefit from this program. Finally, this program would be suitable for professionals considering enrolling in a full MBA program, who hope to gain a better understanding of some of the core concepts of business as well as what an MBA may entail.

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This program is for you if you want to:

Become a more effective leader
Become a more effective leader

Gain the ability to analyze complex business decisions and the knowledge to make better-informed business decisions.

Enhance your financial acumen
Enhance your financial acumen

Understand your organization's finances, the time value of money, financial statements, and how to value a project or company.

Develop a broadened perspective
Develop a broadened perspective

Acquire insights from renowned faculty, international experts, and a global network of like-minded business leaders.

Validate your managerial skills
Validate your managerial skills

Earn a certificate of participation from the Yale School of Management Executive Education.

About the certificate

Get recognized for your knowledge when you earn an official certificate of participation from the Yale School of Management Executive Education — and use it to set yourself apart as an effective manager in your field.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your digital certificate, you will need to meet the requirements outlined in the program handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the program.

Your digital certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Who you’ll learn from

These subject matter experts from Yale School of Management guide the program design and appear in a number of program videos, along with a variety of industry professionals.

Your Program Convener

Olav Sorenson

Olav Sorenson

Frederick Frank '54 and Mary C Tanner Professor of Management, Yale School of Management

Professor Olav Sorenson's research interests include economic geography and sociology, entrepreneurship, organizational ecology, the sociology and management of science and technology, and business and corporate strategy. His most extensive line of research examines how social networks affect transactions, thereby shaping the geography and evolution of industries. Although Professor Sorenson has investigated these issues in a wide variety of settings, including banking, biotechnology, and footwear manufacturing, he has most extensively studied the entertainment industries and venture capital.

Prior to joining the Yale School of Management, Professor Sorenson held the Jeffrey S Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. He has also taught at the University of Chicago, UCLA, and London Business School.

Anjani Jain

Program Co-designer

Anjani Jain

Deputy Dean for Academic Programs and Professor in the Practice of Management, Yale School of Management

Dean Anjani Jain's research interests include the analysis and design of manufacturing systems, optimization algorithms, and probabilistic analysis of combinatorial problems. He has published in the professional literature on telecommunications network design and his more recent work has investigated the impact of growing product variety on the manufacture and design of families of products, especially in the automobile industry.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Indore University in India, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a PhD in operations research from the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1986 and served for 26 years before joining Yale SOM.

Jacob Thomas

Program Co-designer

Jacob Thomas

Williams Brothers Professor of Accounting and Finance, Yale School of Management

Professor Jacob Thomas focuses on the relation between accounting information and stock prices. Insights recently developed in this area that suggest fundamental links between accounting numbers and value form the basis of much of his recent teaching and research. He was actively involved in developing the core curriculum and has written cases and other teaching material for the courses he teaches on equity valuation and financial management. Differences between stock prices and fundamental value provide the basis for his examination of various stock trading strategies. Before joining the faculty at the Yale School of Management, he was the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting and Finance at Columbia Business School.

Marissa King

Program Co-designer

Marissa King

Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management

Professor King’s research examines social influence, social networks, and team dynamics. Her most recent line of research analyzes the individual and group level behaviors that are necessary to implement changes in the (re)design of organizations using wearable social sensors. This work highlights the unanticipated consequences that micro-level social networks can have in mediating planned change initiatives. More generally, Professor King’s research investigates the social processes underlying the adoption, diffusion, and utilization of new information. King’s research has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and NPR among other media outlets.

Guest Experts

Roger G Ibbotson

Professor in the Practice Emeritus of Finance, Yale School of Management

Heather E Tookes

Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management

How you’ll learn

Every program is broken down into manageable, weekly modules, designed to accelerate your learning process through diverse learning activities:

  • Work through your downloadable and online instructional material
  • Interact with your peers and learning facilitators through weekly class-wide forums and reviewed small group discussions
  • Enjoy a wide range of interactive content, including video lectures, infographics, live polls, and more
  • Investigate rich, real-world case studies
  • Apply what you learn each week to quizzes and ongoing project submissions, culminating in a detailed valuation of an organization

Your success team

GetSmarter, with whom Yale SOM Executive Education is collaborating to deliver this online program, provides a personalized approach to online education that ensures you’re supported throughout your learning journey.

Head Tutor
Head Tutor

A subject expert who’ll guide you through content-related challenges.

Success Adviser
Success Adviser

Your one-on-one support, available during University hours (9a.m.–5p.m. EST) to resolve technical and administrative challenges.

Global success team
Global success team

Available 24/7 to solve your tech-related and administrative queries and concerns.

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Technical requirements

Basic requirements

In order to complete this program, you’ll need a PDF Reader. You may also need to view Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, as well as read and create documents in Microsoft Word or Excel.

Additional requirements

Some programs may require certain software and resources, which will be communicated to you upon registration and/or at the start of the program. Please note that Google, Vimeo, and YouTube may be used in our program delivery.