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Harvard Business School Elm 4.0 Aligned

Mergers and Acquisitions: Strategy, Execution, and Post-Merger Management

DirectorGeneral ManagerVice PresidentC-Suite

Institution

Harvard Business School

Location

Boston, USA

Start Date

Jan 17 – 22, 2027

Duration

6 days

Competencies developed

Strategic Thinking

Anticipating challenges and future opportunities, planning proactively, and investing resources to sustain a durable competitive advantage.

Business & Financial Acumen

Interpreting economic and financial data, contributing to business decisions, and building effective strategies that ensure continued outperformance.

Drive Change

Leading transformation with conviction, championing innovation, and navigating disruption to reshape how the organization operates.

Decision Making

Exercising sound judgement under uncertainty, weighing trade-offs, and making timely, high-quality choices that move the organization forward.

Focus areas

M&A LifecycleCross-Border DealsHostile TakeoversSpin-offsRestructuringsHedge-Fund Activism

Elm 4.0 strategic rationale

ENABLER: M&A + Initiative #8 + Senior Pipeline — HBS's premier M&A program for C-suite. Designed for senior execs, directors, board leaders, and heads of strategy/corp dev. Curriculum covers hedge-fund activism, hostile takeovers, cross-border deals, spin-offs and restructurings — full toolkit for Elm executive committee members involved in M&A decision-making.

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