Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management

in Business (CLIMB) Syllabus

The Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB) is an online program that enables new and experienced
leaders to ignite their careers with a combination of essential and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-
based learning experience with a diverse global network of peers.

New Leaders Curriculum

In the Orientation, you’ll get acquainted with the content and platform, meet your peer learning teams, and prepare for the upcoming
Orientation CLIMB coursework.

Term 1
Course Modules Leaders Interviewed Takeaways

• Psychological Safety • Per Hugander, Strategic Advisor, SEB • Understand psychological safety and why it
Group matters
• Inclusion
• Kate Bingham, Chair, UK Covid-19 • Examine elements of leading effective
• Tools for Teaming
Vaccine Task Force teams, including decision-making, navigating
• Failing Well change, agile management, and teamwork in
• Rachel Jarrett, Co-Chief Executive Officer,
high stakes and uncertain environments
Zola
• Learn about a leadership style that promotes
• Gemma Chapple, Leading PepsiCo UK
psychological safety through framing,
Sustainability Strategy
Dynamic engaging, and responding productively
• Megan Joyce, startup CEO and former
Teaming • Enhance your leadership skills by examining
EVP of Oscar Health and Regional General
practices for leading agile and receptive
Manager of Uber
teams
• Vernā Myers, Vice President of Inclusion,
• Develop skills to engage in productive
Netflix
conversations in your workplace and improve
your decision-making
• Embrace and learn from productive failure
by exploring solutions to your organization’s
challenges

• 360 Emotional and • Gonzalo Muñoz Sanz, Leadership • Understand your motivational drivers,
Social Competency Development Program, Amadeus North emotional intelligence, and communication
Inventory America methods to establish a personal leadership
style
• Taking Charge • Yvonne Chen, VP of Marketing, Udemy for
Business • Apply or adapt your leadership style to meet
• Leading Your Team
specific challenges
• Mike Anello, Managing Director/Co-
• Unleashing Potential in
Leadership Founder, M33 Growth • Manage the conditions that drive team
Yourself and Others
Principles • Mia Mends, CEO, Inspirus and Sodexo
performance
• Your Network
Benefits and Rewards Services, USA • Coach colleagues and share feedback in
ways that enable them to develop and deliver
• Iz-Lynn Chan, CEO, BHG Retail REIT
• Take charge of your professional
• Mark Ellis, CEO/ CoFounder, Liftoff
development as you navigate the challenges
of transitioning from an individual contributor
to a leader

CLIMB Activities and Capstone Project

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Term 2
Course Modules Leaders Interviewed Takeaways

CLIMB features two electives: one finance elective (Financial Accounting or Leading with Finance) and one open elective (any
Elective certificate course from the HBS Online portfolio). You’ll complete one of those electives in Term 2 and the other in Term 3.

CLIMB Activities and Capstone Project

Term 3
Course Modules Leaders Interviewed Takeaways

CLIMB features two electives: one finance elective (Financial Accounting or Leading with Finance) and one open elective (any
Elective certificate course from the HBS Online portfolio). You’ll complete one of those electives in Term 2 and the other in Term 3.

• Leading • Avatarin • Identify and understand metrics for measuring

Innovation – Akira Fukabori, Co-Founder and Chief personal and organizational progress along the digital
Executive Officer transformation journey
• Leading in the
Digital Era – Kevin Kajitani, Co-Founder and Chief • Explore digital tools and how they enable organizations to
Operations Officer execute, innovate, and work smarter
Leading in the
• ANA Holdings • Examine how organizational structure impacts
Digital World
– Shinya Katanozaka, Chairman of the breakthrough learnings
Board of Directors
• Understand how culture and mindset can influence the
• Mastercard adoption of digital tools and strategies
– Ken Moore, Chief Innovation Officer

CLIMB Activities and Capstone Project

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Term 4
Course Modules Leaders Interviewed Takeaways

• Creating Value • Hubert Joly, President and CEO, Best Buy • Assess business opportunities through the
for Customers lens of value creation
• Hermann Simon, Founder and Chair, Simon-Kucher
• Adding Value • Apply the value stick, a research-based
• Millicent Ruffin, Director of Community Affairs, Office of
Through framework for strategy formulation, to key
Racial Equality and Social Unity, Corning Incorporated
Complements strategic decisions that companies face today
• Jay Light, Dean Emeritus, Harvard Business School
• Competing with • Develop a strategic innovation toolkit and
Network Effects • Bharat Anand, Professor, Harvard Business School learn when and how to apply design thinking
and innovative problem-solving tools and
• Creating Value • Young Jee Han, Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan
exercises
for Talent University
• Master the language and tools of business
• Mastering • Mike Bowers, President and CEO, Harkins Theatres
strategy to contribute meaningfully to strategic
Productivity
• Brad Garlinghouse, Board Member and CEO, Ripple conversations and your team’s success
• Implementing
• Joel Waldfogel, Professor, Carlson School of • Create value for customers, employees, and
Strategy
Management, University of Minnesota suppliers, often in surprising ways, that rival
companies will find hard to match
• James Bessen, Executive Director, Technology & Policy
Research Initiative, Boston University • Build sustainable success with the help of
complements and network effects
• Hiba Siddiqui, Commercial Director, Farfetch
Business
• Tony Xu, Co-founder and CEO, DoorDash
Strategy
• Feng Zhu, Professor, Harvard Business School
• Luigi Zingales, Professor, Booth School of Business,
University of Chicago
• Susan Lambert, Professor, University of Chicago
• MaryAnn Camacho, Executive Director, National
Customer Service, Quest Diagnostics
• Zeynep Ton, Associate Professor, MIT and President,
Good Jobs Institute
• Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO, Asset & Wealth
Management, JPMorgan Chase
• Yasukane Matsumoto, Founder and CEO, Raksul
• Raffaella Sadun, Professor, Harvard Business School
• Tom Bolger, Chief Strategy Officer, West Monroe Partners
• Michal Liday, CEO, Tatra banka
• Larry Culp, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

• Personal • Rachel Greenwald, professional matchmaker, dating • Explore the sources and benefits of a personal
Branding coach, and founder & CEO of Elevated Connections brand, and how to use personal branding to
strengthen your leadership
• Leveraging Your • Richard Edelman, CEO, Edelman
Personal Brand • Complete visioning exercises to develop an
• Cayman Rojas, Creator Manager, LinkedIn
Personal understanding of your purpose and values and
• Mona Molayem, Travel Blogger and Influencer, how they are unique and useful
Branding MonaCorona.com
• Write your own brand story and learn how to
communicate it to others
• Learn the psychological power of interpersonal
influence and how to leverage it

The CLIMB Activities and Capstone Project takes place throughout the CLIMB Program. You’ll work on tasks that allow
Conclusion you to collaborate with your peers and apply what you are learning in your courses as you progress through the CLIMB
& Capstone curriculum. At the end of the program, your work on this project will culminate with the completion of an action plan to
address a goal that is applicable to your own career or organization.

For more information, visit online.hbs.edu or email us at hbsonline@hbs.edu

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