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WHU’s Doing Business With India Program mentioned in a blog article by "The Economist Executive Education Navigator"

"It’s all designed to give participants a deeper understanding of Indian work culture, consumer demand and investment risks and possibilities" states a recently published blog article about WHU´s Doing Business With India Program by "The Economist Executive Education Navigator".

Read the complete article online:

execed.economist.com/blog/industry-trends/doing-business-india-risk-reward​

WHU General Management Plus Program successfully begins for the third time

During the past week, the WHU General Management Plus Program began for the third time. In the program, a total of 14 participants from 8 countries, including China, India, Israel, Spain, and Germany, face the common challenge of WHU Executive Education and its cooperation partner, BOOKBRIDGE – learning general management content and directly applying what they have learned as responsible social entrepreneurs.

As top talents in their respective companies, the participants have been sent to this continuing-education program with a particular focus on entrepreneurial thinking and acting. Here, they receive instruction from the renowned instructors at WHU in the topics of strategy, leadership, and entrepreneurship. At the same time, as fully responsible entrepreneurs, they establish a learning center that follows the principles of a social enterprise. The special feature in this third round of the program is that the participants are planning and executing market entry into a new country: Sri Lanka. “The expansion of activities into a new country is a very special challenge,” Dr. Carsten Rübsaamen, CEO and founder of the social enterprise BOOKBRIDGE, commented. And he added: “Planning and implementing a market-entry strategy in hitherto-unknown regions is a valuable experience the participants can bring to their everyday work.”

WHU Executive Education and BOOKBRIDGE have already been working together on this program, the only one of its kind in the world, for more than three years. “It's great to watch how much dedication the participants devote to the entrepreneurial task at hand,” Dr. Rebecca Winkelmann, Managing Director of WHU Executive Education, was pleased to report. “I am very pleased that in BOOKBRIDGE we have a partner with which we can actually provide visual evidence of the impact of what has been learned,” she added. Even after completing the program, participants are given the opportunity to stay informed about the status of “their” learning center on a regular basis.

The WHU General Management Plus Program at a glance:

• 5 modules with a total of 18 days of attendance (10 days WHU campus Düsseldorf, 8 days of sojourn abroad)
• Leadership, strategy, entrepreneurship & business impact project
• Group size: 15 participants
• Program language: English
• Participants who successfully complete the program receive 10 ECTS
• Next program begins: January 2017

You will find more information and the application form here.​

WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management will offer a new executive education program in April. Organized jointly with Kühne Logistics University (KLU), the executive education program targets supply chain managers. Strategy, entrepreneurial logic and actions, and leadership are the Supply Chain Leadership program’s core themes.

Digitalization, internationalization, and increasingly shorter production cycles are presenting new challenges to companies and their flexibility. Supply chain management offers great potential for supporting or controlling corporate strategy, making a major contribution to strengthening competitive advantages. However, supply chain managers are often faced with the challenge of positioning the benefits of their own activities relative to the company’s strategic goals. This is why the Supply Chain Leadership program aims to expand the participants’ perspective on overall corporate policies and goals. In turn, this will enable managers to design processes more effectively and efficiently and to achieve corporate goals with the help of supply chain management.

“Our program’s participants will benefit from the expertise of the general management specialists at WHU and the experience of KLU’s supply chain and logistics experts,” said Prof. Dr. Carl Marcus Wallenburg, Chair for Logistics and Service Management at WHU and one of the program’s teachers. According to Wallenburg, the new program also features close coordination between its academic content and the daily working environments of the participants. It will focus on strategy and its implementation, leadership, change management, and entrepreneurial logic and actions.

“In today’s economy, efficient supply chain management is a key competitive ability booster. Managers who are not in tune with the times will find it difficult to achieve their corporate goals,” said Fabian Berger, Managing Director of KLU and KLU Executive Education. “This is why managers in this field must have the best possible continuing education opportunities.”

WHU Offers New Program on April 28 and 29, 2016, on the Düsseldorf Campus

WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management will offer a new Executive Education program at its campus in Düsseldorf. Over the course of two days, executives will receive intense exposure and training in private equity and venture capital.

Both PE and VC play a central role in the global economy: they revolutionize entire industries, contribute to the development of technologies, alter the modalities of competition and offer a second chance for companies threatened with insolvency.

"The time for an Executive Education program like this has never been better," says Professor Dr. Serden Ozcan, who holds a chair in Innovation and Organization at WHU. "Never before have successful strategies for investment decisions been as essential as they are today. For managers who want to endure in the market, then, continuing education in the field of venture capital and private equity is indispensable."

"The program is aimed at entrepreneurs, M&A experts, executives in the field of business development, and senior managers in family businesses," adds Professor Dr. Garen Markarian, who will also teach in the program. The benefits of this program derive from close coordination between academic standards and high practical relevance: "We will work with real case studies and simulations, discuss theoretical viewpoints, and have industry experts interact with participants." Among other things, participants will investigate the ways in which venture capital firms identify, evaluate and nurture growth opportunities, and PE creates value in an advanced lifecycle of an industrial firm.