The Tuck Executive Program (TEP) focuses senior executives on the critical skills and best practices for leading enterprises to greater organizational efficiency—and success.
At TEP, you'll examine the components of successful business management and develop a personal approach to leadership in today's competitive business environment. With the facilitation of our acclaimed faculty, you'll also learn how to formulate and execute strategy, develop and use a leadership model, and effect and manage change. You'll consider organization-wide and business-unit strategy integration, effective resource allocation, and linking strategy to customers, competitors, and markets.
Structured learning sessions, small group activities, case discussions, simulations, and presentations help you apply the latest in business thinking and practical business insights to a wide variety of business challenges.
Main topic areas include financial analysis, marketing, operations, organizational behavior, and developing new approaches to leading and managing change and delivering results-oriented performance. The curriculum is integrated across three consecutive weekly modules.
Module One—Looking Forward: General 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
- The Tools of Financial Analysis: Corporate Valuation, Economic Performance, and Developing a Global Financial Strategy
- Successful Supply Chain Strategies
- Developing and Implementing a Market Focused Strategy
- Strategic Challenges in Top Management Teams
- Corporate Communication Strategy, Social Responsibility, and Reputation Management
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:
- Strategy Dynamics, Executing Strategy, and Creating Value Through Strategy
- Strategic Alliances, e-Procurement, and Supply Chain Relationships
- Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
- Implementing New Ventures
- Acquiring and Retaining Profitable Customers
- Implementing Strategic Change
- Measuring Strategic Performance
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:
- Why Smart Executives Fail
- Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
- Helping Successful Leaders Get Even Better: A Workshop with Marshall Goldsmith
- Negotiation
- Strategies of Global Leaders
TEP is designed for executives with 10 to 15 years of management experience whose careers have been marked by achievement and who are expected to assume even greater responsibility. Participants come from a broad range of functional backgrounds and represent foreign and domestic corporations, nonprofit organizations, and government institutions. Participants also come from a wide range of countries. In a typical TEP group 40 percent of participants are from countries outside of North America.
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, submission of a resume or CV outlining educational and professional experience and current job responsibilities, and a sponsor letter from a senior executive in your employing organization.
Statement of Sponsor (PDF)
Faculty Director
Sydney Finkelstein is TEP faculty director and Steven Roth Professor of Management at Tuck. Recognized for his extensive research on strategic leadership and the management of mergers and acquisitions, his books Strategic Leadership: Top Executives and Their Effects on Organizations and Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes are widely acclaimed. 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: Paul Argenti, Kusum Ailawadi, Andrew Bernard, Marshall Goldsmith, Guy Hocker, Bob Howell, Rocky Kimball, Andrew King, David Pyke, Anant Sundaram, Alva Taylor, and Chris Trimble.
TEP is a significant investment for both you and your employer/sponsor. Examine the return on your TEP investment through an optional assessment, which covers critical aspects of successful global leadership: developing a global mindset, sharing leadership, appreciating cultural diversity, developing people, achieving personal mastery, leading change, and maintaining competitive advantage. Before the program begins, your personal leadership competencies will be assessed. You'll be rated by colleagues, subordinates, and supervisors and provided with their feedback at the start of the program. During the program, you'll work with a facilitator to review the assessment results and prepare a personal action plan. A follow-up assessment is scheduled for six months after the program's end to review progress on action plans. Longer-term coaching with a facilitator can be arranged for an additional fee.
TEP offers optional sessions in accounting, financial analysis, and English-language skills development 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. International executives may elect to participate in a 10-day English comprehension and presentation skills workshop through The Rassias Foundation at Dartmouth College. With the Rassias method of teaching, participants can expect to notice significant improvement in grammar, comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, and accent in addition to acquiring extensive knowledge in business and social culture. This workshop is available for an additional fee.
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"I left this program as a better, more knowledgeable and more capable leader than when I arrived."
