How well do you understand the legal implications of your business decisions? Identifying and managing legal risks is a key responsibility for senior managers. Our new Leadership Accountability and the Law program will help you understand:
  • How to protect yourself and your company from criminal and civil liability
  • The balance between an employee’s right to seek a new job and a company’s right to protect its confidential information
  • How to manage important contractual relationships

Taught by John Akula, a former partner at a major law firm who now has primary responsibility for the law curriculum at MIT Sloan, this program is designed to enhance the judgment and leadership you bring to key law-sensitive issues faced by your companies and by you personally as a manager, entrepreneur, or consultant.

MIT SLOAN EXECUTIVE EDUCATION programs combine innovation and entrepreneurship with strategic thinking and global leadership. We provide senior executives and high-potential managers with the critical skills required to create and lead successful organizations, even in the most turbulent times.

MIT SLOAN EXECUTIVE CERTIFICATES are awarded to participants who have completed four or more open enrollment programs within a four-year period. Certificates are offered in three areas of concentration and provide executives with the opportunity to tailor their education plans to meet their own career development needs.

To qualify for each certificate, participants must complete three programs from their chosen track, along with one other program from any of the three tracks.

Strategy and Innovation
Technology, Operations, and Value Chain Management
Management and Leadership

This track introduces breakthrough concepts that can help to identify, capture, and deliver on great ideas and to successfully drive innovation throughout the organization. Participants learn new strategic approaches and tools for managing products, technology, and innovation, as well as for discovering new sources of profitability.
Nontechnical executives and tech savvy managers alike have an opportunity to learn how to recognize, manage, and profit from the significant ways in which rapidly evolving technology and global networks transform today's businesses. Namely, they learn how to model and solve problems facing large-scale projects, as well as new strategies for making smart project choices which justify outcomes and create value.
This is an ideal option for technical executives seeking to enhance their general management and leadership skills in order to become effective leaders in a dynamic business world. The curriculum focuses on core business competencies in marketing, finance, organizational processes, change management, and systems thinking.

John Akula discusses the importance of
understanding legal accountability for managers.
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