Tuck School brings executives together to form global strategies

Posted 10/17/00

On Oct. 22 a new group of executives will convene at the Tuck School of Business to learn together-and teach each other-how to change their thinking and behavior from "international" to "global."

These business leaders will spend one week in a new program designed to develop an understanding of key issues facing executives today. The Global Leaders one-week program is based on the popular three-week Global 2020 program, developed at Tuck in 1998, which spans nine months and works with about 60 participants from 7 international companies. The course content in the one-week program is much the same as the longer program and the faculty consists of the same core team.

"The objective of the Global Leaders program is to develop tomorrow's business leaders with a global mindset," says Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan, the program's director and Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business. "More than ever, corporate survival and corporate prosperity depend on developing a cadre of leaders who can operate effectively in a global marketplace. With our consortium of companies and alliance of schools, we're building a global knowledge factory, where everyone learns from everyone else."

Program objectives include teaching executives how to:

• Develop a framework to change the rules of the global game
  
• Turn global presence into global competitive advantage
  
• -nderstand the impact the digital revolution has on new business models in global markets
  
• Realign a global supply chain using Internet technologies
  
• Enhance knowledge of global financial markets and global risk management
  
• Develop transcultural competencies and effective cross-cultural relations
  
• Examine the qualities and competencies of global leaders

Govindarajan is one of Business Week's Top Ten Professors in Corporate Executive Education. His major research interests are in global strategy and organization, global industry transformation, and managing global knowledge networks.