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New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
Topics: Economics-Developing Countries and EconomiesOne key to becoming more integrated into the global marketplace will be southern Africa's ability to respond to the radical economic and social changes taking place in its own backyard. "This not only poses complex challenges for managers, business leaders, and the entire population but also demands a high level of leadership expertise," says W. Earl Sasser, Jr., HBS senior associate dean for Executive Education. "The need for strong management has never been more crucial if this region is to fulfill its economic potential."
Fostering such leadership is an important component of the new Senior Executive Programme, an initiative developed through the collective efforts of HBS, Wits Business School in Johannesburg, and several other private, public, and international organizations. Designed for the region's experienced and emerging managers who hold or will be moving into senior general management positions in the public and private sectors, the program exposes participants to the best management practices from around the globe through case studies, lectures, study groups, and team workshops.
The four-week program takes place at Wits in two separate sessions; the intervening months allow participants to test on the job what they have learned. The program's first cohort of 63 participants met in August and early this month; a second cohort will begin in January. HBS faculty members teaching in the program include Sasser, Dennis Hightower, Linda Hill, Tarun Khanna, Warren McFarlan, Thomas Piper, Richard Vietor, and Michael Watkins. They are joined by several members of the Wits faculty.
"I was deeply impressed and moved by the participants' commitment both to understand each other's perspectives and to map a new course for southern Africa," commented Tom Piper in September shortly after returning from teaching in the program's first session at Wits. "There was an enormous power that emerged from the enhanced communication and respect among participants from different backgrounds and professional sectors - a power they will now be able to harness in helping their countries better provide for all of their people."
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