The Tuck Executive Program (TEP) immerses senior executives in a broad, strategic general management experience with an emphasis on personal leadership transformation. TEP provides an opportunity to learn with a select group of peers from some of the most successful global organizations. Participants come from a broad range of functional backgrounds and represent a richly diverse mix of global organizations, industries, and countries.
TEP is the shortest of the elite programs, as noted in a "Wall Street Journal" survey of advanced management programs at select business schools. Lasting just three weeks, TEP’s immersive design helps address the pressures of being away from office and home.
Tuck at Dartmouth is widely recognized for developing exceptional strategic leaders and TEP is no exception. The same faculty that have made Tuck’s MBA program top ranked are the same accessible and engaged experts who teach in TEP.
TEP program goals include:
- Broadening one’s managerial mindset from a tactical, operations perspective to a more strategic perspective;
- Enhancing one’s understanding of what it takes to manage innovation and growth;
- Exploring and expanding one’s individual self-awareness as a leader to hone a personal, yet versatile leadership style;
- Understanding ways to improve the strategic functioning of the organization’s teams for overall organizational success;
- Enhancing one’s abilities to respond to critical management challenges facing the organization;
- Developing new approaches to leading and managing change and delivering results-oriented performance.
TEP is an immersive learning experience, consisting of three tightly-integrated one-week modules:
Module One—Looking Forward: Management in Action
You'll begin by sharpening your general management perspective and learning to integrate cross-functional expertise into strategic management processes. Topics include:
- Developing a Strategic Mindset
- Creating Value through Strategy
- Tools of Financial Analysis—Developing a Financial Strategy
- Developing and Implementing a Market-Focused Strategy
- Successful Supply Chain Strategies
- What Really Works—Strategy, Execution, Culture, Organization
- The Global Business Environment
- Identifying and Managing International Risk
- Communicating Strategically-Connecting Strategy to Constituents
- Strategic Negotiation
Module Two—Looking Outward: Managing Change and Growth
This module provides new approaches for leading and managing change using organizational structures and systems. Topics include:
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Implementing New Ventures
- Business Valuation - Pulling it all Together
- Managing Innovation and Strategic Change
- Measuring Strategic Performance
- Leading in a Crisis
- Why Smart Executives Fail
- Strategic Leadership and Personal Responsibility
Module Three—Looking Inward: Leadership and Personal Change
Week three provides an opportunity to inventory personal leadership strengths and weaknesses and develop skills to drive breakout performance. Topics include:
- How Successful Leaders Get Even Better—A Workshop with Marshall Goldsmith
- Strategic Decision Making
- Situational Leadership—Understanding Your Leadership Style
- Strategic Negotiation
- Strategies of Global Leaders
- Leadership and Creativity
- Team Leadership—Getting Results with Others
- Coaching
TEP offers optional sessions in accounting and financial analysis before the formal start of the program. Senior managers not experienced in corporate finance may want to take advantage of accounting and financial analysis sessions that provide a foundation for topics throughout the program.
TEP is designed for executives with 10-15 years of management experience, whose careers have been marked by achievement and who have just reached, or are about to reach, significant general management leadership responsibilities. Participants come from a broad range of functional backgrounds and represent foreign and domestic corporations, nonprofit organizations and government institutions. TEP attracts participants from a wide range of countries averaging 40% of each class from countries outside North America. For more detailed information on the participant mix, please contact Valerie Davio at 603-646-2839 or valerie.davio@tuck.dartmouth.edu.
Admission to the program is determined by the scope of an applicant's managerial experience, current level of responsibility, and expected career trajectory. Candidates are expected to be able to contribute their expertise and experience to group interactions and foster communication and exchange of knowledge among their peers in the group.
Selected candidates must have:
- demonstrated ability to manage direct reports, assets, and budgets
- careers marked by significant achievement in business initiatives
- sponsorship from their employing organization
- ability to manage assignments and presentations in English
- relief from organizational responsibility for the duration of the program
The admissions process includes completion of a program application and a sponsor letter from a senior executive in your employing organization.
Faculty Director
Sydney Finkelstein, Steven Roth Professor of Management at Tuck, is recognized for his extensive research on strategic leadership and the management of mergers and acquisitions. He has published 11 books and over 60 articles, including the #1 bestseller in the U.S. and Japan, Why Smart Executives Fail and most recent book, Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happening to You. Professor Finkelstein has consulted with numerous international Fortune 500 companies in the areas of strategic leadership, general management, corporate crisis and mistakes, and managing mergers and acquisitions.
TEP faculty include: Ron Adner, Kusum Ailawadi, Paul Argenti, Pino Audia, Andrew Bernard, Peter Golder, Marshall Goldsmith, Bob Howell, Eric Johnson, William Joyce, Kevin Lane Keller, Matthew Slaughter, Phillip Stocken, Chris Trimble, and Action Learning Associates.
As part of a broad, strategic general management experience, TEP emphasizes your personal leadership transformation. Before, during and after your TEP experience, you will explore and expand your self-awareness as a leader. At the end of TEP, you will go away with a plan to hone your leadership skills.
Before coming to Tuck, you will undergo a 360-degree leadership assessment with input from people with whom you work closely, including superiors, peers, and direct reports. The purpose of this assessment tool is to maximize the value of your TEP experience by expanding your leadership self-awareness and boost your capabilities as a leader.
The assessment, Hay Group’s Inventory of Leadership Styles (ILS) is a powerful part of the overall TEP transformational learning experience. This is a diagnostic feedback tool which enables you to see how you lead in terms of six different styles of leadership. The results are two-fold; you get to see a self-profile – how you perceive yourself as a leader – and a rater’s feedback profile – how those you influence perceive you as a leader. Research has shown that the higher individuals move up in an organization, the more likely they are to develop blind spots that hinder their effectiveness as leaders. The ILS helps to uncover these blind spots so you can see how others perceive your leadership.
During TEP, you will receive your confidential report; learn more about leadership styles and situational leadership during Professor Pino Audia’s sessions; experience a classroom session with Marshall Goldsmith, preeminent executive coach and a world authority in helping leaders achieve positive, measurable changes in behavior for themselves, their people, and their teams; discuss your results in peer coaching sessions and create a personal action plan.
You will leave the program with a much clearer picture of what it takes to lead effectively, how to directly impact the working atmosphere of your company, team or division, and how to respond to continually changing business environments, using leadership styles at the right time in the right measure to achieve results.
+ Contact Valerie Davio at 603-646-2839 or valerie.davio@tuck.dartmouth.edu for detailed program overview.
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“TEP is a world-class, thorough learning experience that challenges senior managers to become more effective leaders.”