Leaders and Partners in Value Creation
Contribute to Business Strategy
Leaders and Partners in Value Creation will help you focus your company around the drivers of value creation. You’ll strengthen your ability to:
- Develop your company and divisions’ optimal capital structure
- Estimate your company and divisions’ cost of capital differentiated by locational and business risks
- Evaluate business performance in terms of value metrics
- Improve your company’s financial performance by use of internationally-sourced funds
- Enhance the firm’s international competitive advantage through appropriate financial decisions
- Increase the firm’s value through the management of steady growth, reduction of costs, and optimal choice of capital structure
- Determine the financial requirements of growth
- Manage political and foreign currency exchange risks
Topics
Thinking Strategically about Today’s Changing Value Propositions
Strategic management entails the ability to anticipate events, envision possibilities, maintain flexibility, and empower others to change. It is a process that is continually in flux. This session will focus on the business conditions that both create and diminish value in the marketplace. Participants will evaluate a set of strategic frameworks to assist them in addressing the changing value propositions in our turbulent economy.
Marketing/Finance Interface
From a marketing perspective, finance plays three critical roles in the value creation process: gatekeeper, performance monitor and supply chain partner. It is an essential responsibility of senior management to thoroughly understand the nature and impact of these different roles on the creation of the organization's unique differential advantage in the marketplace. Participants will explore the marketing/finance interface from the perspective of "finance as a necessary partner in the value creation process."
Value Driver: Operations Strategy and Supply Chain Management for Finance Managers
Critical financial thinking about operations strategy and supply chain management is essential for building a sustainable competitive advantage in a global economy. This session provides strategic insights for finance leaders in these two areas, including issues related to capacity planning, plant locations, outsourcing, off-shoring, and vertical integration.
Value Driver: Optimal Capital Structure and Cost of Funds
In these times of financial stress, companies are both reviewing their financial leverage as well as redefining their company’s value at risk. In this session, participants will define leverage and the appropriate metrics for determining an “optimal” financial structure. Value at risk metrics will also be discussed and evaluated.
Opportunities and Risks in International Business
The effective management of corporate assets and liabilities in an international setting requires a different mindset and evaluation process than in the domestic arena. Participants will develop the capacity to better utilize the tools of risk management with exogenous variables like political risk. Effective asset and liability management is done within an organizational model for project design and implementation outside the domestic arena while using these tools.
Why Choose UST Executive Education for Partners in Value Creation?
- Uniquely designed to improve the economic value of your company by increasing the collaborative and leadership capacity of high-potential financial professionals and their cross-functional
- Taught by an interdisciplinary team of faculty and executives in finance, marketing, operations, strategy and leadership
- Hosted by a private, prestigious university that reinforces ethics and integrity
- Limited to a small cohort, which enhances learning for all participants
