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