Enhance your leadership abilities with tools and frameworks for ethical decision-making to meet social and environmental standards without compromising profitability.

According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, none of the four societal institutions that the study measures — government, business, NGOs and media — is trusted by the American workforce, despite a healthy global economy and at-capacity employment at the time of polling. By responding to the demand for higher accountability in the workplace, companies can be conscious of the kind of impact they are having on all aspects of society, including economic, social, and environmental, and promote trust in their markets.

The Values-Based Leadership online program from Yale School of Management (SOM) Executive Education examines how global institutions and leaders can embrace a new way of building trust: by balancing competence with ethical behavior. With a focus on how corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives help leaders and organizations make better decisions and navigate the complexity of today’s modern business environment, this six-week program explores the ethical foundation of a corporate social responsibility framework and appropriate methods for overcoming conflicts of interest. You’ll explore the business and ethical challenges a company might face when implementing CSR programs, discover how to avoid and overcome conflicts of interest, evade hiring biases, and recognize corruption and how to act upon your values at work. The program culminates in an understanding of the cost of ethical behavior, and the resources to define and align your values in a business context.

Is this program for you?

This program is relevant to all managers, business leaders, and decision-makers who need to be aware of issues around values-based business practices to decide whether or not, and how to promote a positive impact in their sphere of influence. For anyone managing corporate social responsibility initiatives in teams, the program offers an enhanced understanding of CSR frameworks. For non-business leaders or anyone intent on embracing the foundations and opportunities of CSR initiatives, the program explores the ethical challenges a company might face, and how to ensure processes are met and effective measures enforced. Additionally, those in the government and legal professions tasked with upholding and implementing effective ethical standards and processes will benefit from the insights gained on this program.

Change your mindset and develop an effective intellectual tool kit to better prepare for, respond to, and learn from major global crises.

These are turbulent times. From political shocks to growing concerns over the economy and climate, to the earth-shattering impact of COVID-19, the past half-decade has played host to uncertainty on an unparalleled scale. Despite this, research suggests that more than two-thirds of executives feel that their organization is not well-prepared to deal with a crisis event.

Change the way you think about crises on the Leading Through Crisis online program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education. Over seven weeks, you’ll gain an intellectual tool kit for understanding, preparing for, and responding to major events. Analyzing a diverse range of crisis responses with relevance between sectors, you’ll gain a better understanding of what successful leadership and communication entail in the face of catastrophe. Develop your capacity to prepare for unforeseen events with world-class guidance from Program Convener Jeffrey E Garten and leading international industry experts, and walk away with an enhanced perspective as part of a network of global professionals.

Is this program for you?

This program is designed for any professional interested in handling a crisis effectively, whether it be a minor ruction within their team, a large organizational issue, or a major catastrophe on an international scale. Those who already work within crisis response, such as consultants and risk analysts, emergency and security management specialists, and directors of risk management will find useful frameworks for enhancing their current role performance and enabling future growth. Business leaders such as HR, PR, and health and safety managers, senior managers, and C-suite executives will also benefit from world-class insights to better prepare their organizations for future crises. All program participants will unlock key learnings that are applicable across industries, including the private and public or non-profit spheres.

Master the art of collaborative negotiation and learn to maximize the value for all parties in any negotiation scenario.

In the face of an increasingly tech-driven workplace, there has been a rise in the need for human capabilities that cannot be replicated by machines. These include creativity, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal skills such as negotiation, which can drive the competitive edge in business.

Collaborative negotiation places the human element at the center of all dealmaking and mediation, ensuring that all parties involved feel that they have a sense of control and that the outcome is a win-win situation. It also fosters transparency and trust, separates the people from the problem, and sets the tone for future conflict resolutions.

In the Negotiation Strategies online program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education, you’ll gain the practical skills and theoretical knowledge to effectively negotiate in any situation. Over the course of six weeks, you'll explore the principles of negotiation and learn how to turn an opponent into a negotiation partner. Whether you’re negotiating contracts and agreements, influencing major organizational decisions, or looking to better maintain relationships with clients and colleagues, you’ll benefit from developing a robust, but considerate, style of negotiation.

Is this course for you?

This program is designed for business professionals aiming to improve their negotiation, strategic communication, conflict resolution, and management skills, as well as enhance their ability to make deals and better understand how to resolve issues like disclosure. Professionals such as business owners, executives, directors, and managers who need to negotiate contracts and agreements such as job offers, promotions, asset purchases, or resource allocations will benefit from the tools and techniques covered during the course of this program. Those in roles such as product management, sales and marketing, business development, contract management, and procurement will find particular value in this program. Aspiring leaders, team and project managers, and specialists such as lawyers and accountants, can also use the techniques to effectively manage stakeholders and client relationships.

Develop the knowledge and skills for effective leadership in a changing social, political, and environmental context.

Organizations operate within the context of their competitors, suppliers, and customers, but also within a broader nonmarket environment that includes social, political, environmental, and regulatory forces.

The Leadership for Global Business and Politics online program, from the Yale School of Management Executive Education, offers business leaders an evolved perspective of nonmarket factors that affect business. It provides strategies, language, frameworks, and tools to analyze and respond to these factors to gain a competitive advantage.

Guided by industry expert David Bach, you’ll develop the skills and knowledge to drive strategies that anticipate and plan for change and disruption. Explore the move toward stakeholder capitalism, how it relates to your organization, and how it can be leveraged for a sustainable, strategic edge. You’ll also gain the opportunity to engage with a diverse and international group of participants, and grow your global network online.

Is this program for you?

This online program will equip you with transnational leadership practices and the skills to assess the global and political economy. Led by experts on international affairs, you’ll learn how multinational organizations can balance the effects of globalization and maintain sound international relations. This program is designed for those working in strategy, communications, government affairs, corporate responsibility, business development, and leading industries, who need to be cognizant of topical social, political, and environmental issues. Executives who need to consider the impact of political and social issues on their business will be equipped with the terminology and a best practice approach to leadership in a rapidly changing corporate and societal landscape. Functional managers who are interested in pursuing a greater involvement in business strategy will benefit from access to frameworks and tools that will allow them to engage effectively with the impact of nonmarket forces on their organization while managing stakeholder engagement in a global context.

Gain a competitive advantage when you merge environmental, social, and governance factors into your financial and investment decisions.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues continue to gain momentum. But achieving targets like a net zero economy and equality will need the support of financial services. What’s more, companies have realized that integrating ESG criteria into business decisions goes beyond simply being more sustainable — it’s profitable too.

The Sustainable Finance and Investment online program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education examines the ESG ecosystem: the terminology, activity, drivers, and participants. With this industry roadmap, you’ll become equipped to understand the core of sustainable finance systems with the skills to accelerate this shift in business. You’ll examine the challenges and opportunities of ESG data within the context of investment decision-making; explore its integration in asset-pricing models, portfolio management, and investment products; and learn how it can be used to determine investment strategies. The program features real-time data, gamified investment role-playing, and interviews with a multitude of industry experts, giving you the practical skills, insights, and metrics to drive sustainable financial performance and investment strategies in your organization or career.

Is this program for you?

This program has been designed for business leaders and professionals in strategic roles who are aiming to make more informed, sustainable investment decisions. It will be beneficial to individuals from a wide range of industries, including investment, asset management, and banking. They’ll gain the skills to accelerate the transformation towards sustainable finance in their organizations, and learn to better report on sustainable investment returns. Consultants working in sustainability and project execution, as well as public policy professionals, will similarly gain insight into the ESG data and metrics that help shape sustainable investments.

How does this program differ from the Corporate Sustainability Management: Risk, Profit, and Purpose online program?

The Sustainable Finance and Investment online program focuses primarily on equipping you to make more informed analyses and decisions when investing in sustainable assets and products. The Corporate Sustainability Management: Risk, Profit, and Purpose online program, on the other hand, is designed to help you embed sustainability and sustainable practices into the core of your business strategies.

Drive sustainability in your business with a practical implementation plan for the future.

As sustainability becomes an increasingly critical part of global consciousness, businesses are faced with one of their biggest opportunities for innovation to date. Today, companies have the chance to transform their practices to drive not only progress, but profits as well.

The Corporate Sustainability Management: Risk, Profit, and Purpose online program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education provides a practical guide for incorporating sustainability into your business strategy. The program features a wide variety of on-the-job resources, insights from industry leaders, case studies, discussions, and real-world applications. At the end of six weeks, you’ll walk away with an understanding of the potential financial impact of sustainability issues, and be equipped with the best practices and tools for leveraging opportunities in sustainability to gain a competitive edge.

Is this program for you?

This program benefits business leaders and executives looking to develop a competitive advantage by offering them the tools needed to give strategic direction on sustainability. It also provides valuable resources for professionals and specialists who want to drive positive change in their role, as well as those working in the risk management and business continuity space. In addition, the program equips consultants with the insight needed to better advise clients, and provides public sector policymakers and regulators with an in-depth understanding of the impact of sustainability measures on business.

How does this program differ from the Sustainable Finance and Investment online program?

The Corporate Sustainability Management: Risk, Profit, and Purpose online program is designed to help you embed sustainability and sustainable practices into the core of your business strategies. The Sustainable Finance and Investment online program, on the other hand, focuses primarily on equipping you to make more informed analyses and decisions when investing in sustainable assets and products.

Discover strategies, tools, and best practices to deliver organizational value through integrated digital marketing.

Digital strategies, emerging technologies, and innovation have increasingly become the focus in modern marketing. It’s essential that businesses address any skills gaps and develop a fundamental understanding of how to generate value through customer-centric digital marketing.

During this eight-week program, you’ll explore how key digital marketing tools – including social media and mobile technology – can be leveraged to improve the consumer journey. Delve into the role experimentation and analytics play in enabling data-driven insights to empower decisions regarding the broader strategies of your organization.

Is this program for you?

This program is aimed at business leaders, professionals, executives and entrepreneurs, who want to gain a better understanding of their customers, and learn how to use key digital marketing tools and an integrated digital marketing strategy to enhance business performance. In an ever-changing consumer and digital landscape, this is essential for anyone who wishes to explore the role of digital marketing within an organization and how it can be utilized to inform decision-making strategies.

Make more effective choices in both business and your personal life with an understanding of the drivers behind decision-making.

In an increasingly complex world, the decisions we make have a profound impact on our successes, both personally and professionally, and can influence the direction of our lives, careers, organizations, and even societies.

The Decision Making online program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education gives you the knowledge and skills needed to make effective decisions across any context. Guided by expert faculty, you’ll develop an understanding of the psychological and behavioral drivers, biases, rules, and heuristics that form the foundation of how decisions are made. You’ll also explore the core pillars of decision-making — context, uncertainty, and time — in order to better analyze your decisions and make more informed choices, no matter your situation.

Is this program for you?

This program is useful for anyone who wants to master the art of effective decision-making. Senior leaders and decision-makers who often have to solve problems in the face of uncertainty would benefit from the content, as would professionals across a variety of functions. This includes people in fast-paced industries such as marketing, finance, IT, and business development. Those looking for guidance on how to make better decisions in their everyday life will also find great value in this program.

Shape people's strategies to create an effective, sustainable, and resilient organization.

Today’s highly competitive business landscape is experiencing a labor transformation on a scale never seen before. Jobs are being automated at an intense pace, making the ability to reskill, adapt, and assume new roles the top-ranked employee characteristics for navigating the future of work. This widespread transformation signals the need for a shift in the way organizations approach talent optimization from the traditional siloed approach to a big-picture perspective. Organizations must shrewdly manage and empower human capital through high-level business and operational strategies if they wish to stay ahead of the pack.

Learn to make human capital strategy an integral part of your business operations in the Human Capital Strategy: Creating a Sustainable Competitive Advantage online program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education. Following a sequential format, you’ll find out how to answer the crucial questions facing workforce management today: from talent acquisition and role alignment to learning and development. By the end of the six-week program, you’ll create your own practical action plan to prepare for the future of work.

Is this program for you?

This program focuses on high-level strategy and is therefore ideally suited to management, leadership, and decision-making professionals who are interested in aligning their human capital planning and business operations to promote their organization’s competitive edge. The skills and insights available to participants will appeal to entrepreneurs and small-to-medium business owners. In addition, this program will benefit human resources, and learning and design professionals who want to act as competent business talent advisers while remaining agile and up-to-date on industry trends. They may also use this program to achieve personal growth by expanding their knowledge and developing strategic leadership skills.

Move your business toward net-zero emissions. Develop the skills to conduct a climate change risk assessment for your business.

Global warming has caused an alarming rise in temperatures across the planet. To halt this exacerbation, the United Nations has called for all emissions to reach net-zero by 2050 — a feat that businesses can only achieve with credible actions.

With a strong focus on the science behind climate change, the Corporate Climate Change Risk Management online program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education equips you with the skills and knowledge to move your business toward a net-zero future. Throughout this six-week program, you’ll take a look at some of the factors affecting the need for climate change risk management strategies in business, international and national climate policies, the political landscape, and legislation. Designed to provide you with practical takeaways, this program will help you implement carbon management plans to reduce your business’s carbon footprint.

Upon successful completion of this program, you’ll walk away with the ability to design and implement a climate change risk management strategy in your business.

Is this program for you?

This program is designed for leaders who are interested in developing a climate-conscious strategy for their company’s business practices. Professionals in any field will benefit from gaining an in-depth understanding of the theory and science behind climate change and its impact on business. It will also be beneficial for technical professionals who would like to link their practice to the world of business and prove the value of sustainability in the marketplace. Additionally, investment professionals tasked with delivering socially responsible investments will find value in this program. This program acts as a complement to the Yale SOM Executive Education Corporate Sustainability Management: Risk, Profit, and Purpose online program with more practical and advanced climate and environmentally focused risk management tools for business.