Developing a new generation of managers for the new realities of the global business environment.

As global competition intensifies and industry boundaries blur, corporate business strategies are being disrupted -- and the role of the general manager is being redefined. Today, every executive, from every level and functional area, must adopt a general manager's perspective to be an effective leader. The modern general manager must have business acumen -- the insight and confidence to size up a business situation, generate alternative courses of action and implement a successful solution -- and have a point of view that considers the consequences of his or her decisions for the entire organization, its customers and its competitors.

Find your focus, broaden your perspective

General Management and Business Acumen executive education programs are focused on critical organizational and individual issues of management development providing knowledge, tools, resources, and management training to help develop business acumen, informed decision-making and expanded influence to achieve corporate and individual success.

COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMS

Michigan's comprehensive executive education programs in General Management and Business Acumen provide senior executives with intensive immersion in management and leadership topics, as well as collaborative learning opportunities with peers from other industries.

Executive Program

Our flagship program for senior executives offers an intensive, month-long immersion in high-level management topics with an emphasis on strategic decision-making from a multidisciplinary and multicultural perspective. The Executive Program explores a wide range of issues, including corporate strategy, financial analysis and economics, strategic marketing planning and management, human resource management and information and decision technology.

Michigan's General Management and Business Acumen multidisciplinary faculty includes researchers, teachers and consultants from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, world-renowned for its general management curriculum. In addition to teaching, faculty members apply their expertise and current research to guide many of the world's leading companies in developing and implementing new management strategies and techniques.