Shape markets with strategic leadership
MBA Highlights on Strategic Leadership
The programme challenges you to think bigger, lead smarter, and drive meaningful change in an ever-evolving business world. Gain the tools to turn strategy into impact, navigate uncertainty with confidence, and shape the markets of tomorrow.
Build the skills to navigate uncertainty and shape markets
The MBA Highlights on Strategic Leadership programme supports you to sharpen your strategic thinking, leadership skills, and ability to shape markets in a rapidly changing business world. You'll gain a deep understanding of what it means to lead strategically, learn how to adapt your leadership style to different situations and strengthen your own capabilities. It also focuses on the practical side of leadership—helping you connect strategy with execution by recognising industry shifts and leveraging innovative business models.
Designed for experienced leaders ready to apply the latest tools
The programme is for executives, managers and experts - who want to make sure they work with the latest in management and leadership tools. Ideally, participants have a minimum of three years of work experience and at least one year of experience in a leadership, managerial, or expert role. High proficiency in English and at least a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is also required.
Programme schedule
Programme content
After this module, you are able to:
Build a deep understanding of strategic leadership and how to translate insight into action.
Form a well-substantiated view of what strategic leadership truly entails.
Evaluate why different leadership approaches succeed in different contexts.
Reflect on and actively develop your own strategic leadership capabilities.
After this module, you are able to:
Identify future-critical capabilities and the business models they enable.
Apply capability thinking to both new business models and day-to-day management.
Recognise how capabilities drive adaptation and shape industries.
Understand the role of strategic capabilities in closing the strategy-to-execution gap.
Lead and embed capabilities to bring strategy to life.
After this module, you are able to:
Understand how geoeconomics is reshaping the global business environment.
Identify key geoeconomic trends impacting international business.
Assess drivers of geoeconomic risk and opportunity for your organisation.
Navigate geoeconomic shifts and build organisational resilience.
Identify and evaluate geopolitical and geoeconomic risks within your industry.
After this module, you are able to:
Gain insight into systems thinking as a tool for shaping markets.
Assess the benefits and limitations of systems thinking across business contexts.
Apply critical and creative thinking to innovate business models.
Understand how firms actively make and shape markets.
Build familiarity with contemporary concepts and tools for market-shaping strategies.
After this module, you are able to:
Understand how to plan, stage, and drive change effectively.
Build and deliver compelling narratives that clarify, inspire, and ignite action.
Plan and communicate change initiatives with real impact.
Grasp the essence of powerful storytelling in a leadership context.
Your edge: strategic clarity, adaptive leadership, market insight
Benefits for professionals
- Strengthen your strategic leadership and broaden your perspective – lead with clarity and deliver results in complex environments
- Gain fresh perspectives from a cross-sector cohort – explore new ways of thinking alongside professionals from varied industries, roles, and business models
- Flexible, low-threshold way to boost your business acumen – perfect when time is limited but impact matters.
- A smart stepping stone towards an Executive MBA – gain credits now and transfer your study days seamlessly into the full Hanken EMBA when the timing suits you (within four years)
Stronger decisions, faster execution, better results
Benefits for your organisation
- Strengthened strategic decision-making and leadership skills
- New ways of thinking, as well as tools and techniques for business growth
- Leaders who can both shape the future and mobilise people to deliver it
- A network of participants from diverse industries from publicly listed companies to start-ups
Faculty
What participants are saying
Each module of the programme brings new knowledge and insights. Also, the opportunity to discuss the learnings with the other participants and how they would apply the insights into their contexts was really valuable for me. The exchange of experiences showed me how the problems I face on a daily basis are similar to the problems in totally different businesses. I would recommend the programme for both executives and young professionals. The opportunity to network and get perspectives from the other participants and learn from each other is a great joy.
The programme offered real-time perspectives and tools on how to navigate during and post these unprecedented times of Covid-19. A wider contextual reflection and group work with other students offered valuable external perspectives during every module. Having digital and marketing lenses on my day-to-day work, I really liked the comprehensive and holistic approach of the programme, covering the core functions and perspective of a modern business. During every module, I was able to draw concrete ideas and tools to apply to my daily work – on both operational and strategic level. I highly recommend MBA Highlights to everyone who wishes to challenge her/his thinking, get inspired by excellent teachers and expand ones toolbox with modern solutions.
I got new tools to develop our companys creative process as well as tools to understand customers and employees needs in a better way. Also, self-management and the methods of positive psychology gave me many practical improvement tools. I can definitely recommend the programme for every business leader who wants to improve her/his skills in modern business management and leadership.
FAQ about MBA Highlights
We will meet in the Hanken EMBA room, at Arkadiankatu 22, Helsinki.
MBA Highlights on Strategic Leadership provides an ideal basis towards studying in the Hanken EMBA programme, as the study days are transferable into the full 2-year Hanken EMBA programme, if this is done within four years. Completion of 5 modules equals 7 ECTS credits.
To be eligible for ECTS credits, you must complete the pre- and post-module assignments.
If you're only interested in specific modules, you're welcome to register for only those.
The price for individual modules is 1500 €
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