Harvard Business School Online today announced its premiere Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB), a rigorous yearlong seven-course asynchronous program designed to help new and experienced leaders accelerate their careers. CLIMB teaches a combination of essential and forward-looking business skills and features an immersive, group-based learning experience. The program offers flexibility for you to tailor it to your interests and complete the work on your own time while meeting weekly deadlines.
To earn the credential, you must complete seven courses: four long courses (each five to nine weeks long) and three short courses. Of the four long courses, two in leadership and strategy are required and vary based on years of leadership experience. To tailor the program to best suit your professional interests, you’ll also take two electives—one in finance and one open elective from HBS Online's course portfolio. The three exclusive short courses are about vital topics for leaders today: Dynamic Teaming, Leading in the Digital World, and Personal Branding. The program concludes with a capstone project where you’ll demonstrate your expertise by applying the skills and frameworks to your role or organization.
"Learners can customize their curriculum by selecting an elective from the HBS Online portfolio and a finance course that best suits their professional interests and experience," says Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at HBS and CLIMB faculty chair. "Whether you’re a new manager or have several years of experience, CLIMB delivers the in-demand business skills you need for your career today."
Upon successful completion of the program, you'll receive a Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business in addition to four HBS Online Certificates of Completion for each long course in the curriculum. In total, CLIMB will take approximately a year, and you should allow five to nine hours per week to complete the coursework. The program doesn’t require a GRE or GMAT score to enroll, and enrollment is reviewed on a rolling basis. There are two program starts per year.
CLIMB delivers on HBS Online’s real-world learning via examples and challenges faced by real business leaders. In this program, you’ll:
Develop a robust set of critical and forward-looking business skills to advance as a leader in your organization
Engage with a global cohort of like-minded peers and build a network that lasts far beyond the program
Practice effective teamwork and learn how to implement strategies of high-performing teams in your workplace
Explore digital tools and data-informed leadership to execute, innovate, and work smarter
Identify what makes a successful personal brand and how to establish your own
Gain frameworks and in-demand skills from a business curriculum with breadth and depth
Build expertise in an elective topic of your choosing
CLIMB is divided into two sections to tailor the curriculum to where you are in your career. The New Leaders path is for people with zero to three years of managerial experience and two-plus years of total professional experience. The Experienced Leaders path is for those with four or more years of managerial experience and seven-plus years of total professional experience.
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Enrollment for the first CLIMB session for New Leaders will be accepted through December 1, 2023, and the first session will begin on January 17, 2024. The second session will begin in the fall of 2024 and include tracks for both New Leaders and Experienced Leaders. The program costs $15,000 and will be billed in four installments of $3,750 quarterly from enrollment through completion.
For more information or to enroll, visit the CLIMB program page.