Wharton Executive Education's Chief Technology Officer Program
Emeritus Institute of Management
Key Information
Campus location
Languages
English
Study format
Blended
Duration
9 months
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
USD 20,000
Application deadline
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Ideal Students
Who is it for?
The CTO Program is ideal for:
- CTOs, aspiring CTOs, and senior executives with experience in technology management who aim to lead the technology strategy of a company
- VPs of engineering, software architects, or those responsible for evaluating and implementing new systems
- Senior technology executives tasked with developing strategy or identifying and implementing new technologies
Program eligibility criteria include:
- A minimum of 10 years of work experience
- International exposure (preferred)
- Fluency in written and spoken English
Program Outcome
What you will learn
The multimodular program will enable you to:
- Explore strategy, adaptation, and renewal in organizations
- Investigate ideation and entry strategies for organizations and ecosystems
- Examine implications of technology trends: blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and talent clusters and migration
- Survey organizational privacy policies and environmental, social, and governance practices
- Relate risk and uncertainty in innovation
- Consider effective frameworks and metrics of an organization’s readiness to scale
- Investigate new product domains, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships
Program highlights
- Customize your learning journey with a choice of electives in topics aligned with your career goals.
- Learn at your own pace with a weekly commitment of three to five hours of sessions and activities.
- Glean insights from renowned faculty and industry experts who are at the cutting edge of innovation.
- Network with accomplished peers from around the globe and gain new approaches to leadership.
- Engage with your success coach to craft your learning journey through regular check-in sessions.
- Benefit from experiential sessions combining theory with real-world case studies and apply learnings.
- Meet multiple cohort peers, industry experts, and faculty during two days of on-campus networking.
- Following successful completion of the program and subsequent open-enrollment programs, subject to further qualification criteria and additional tuition, you have a pathway to apply for Wharton alumni status.
Curriculum
The CTO Program will enable forward-thinking executives like you to learn from a cutting-edge curriculum that reflects current industry trends. The program is organized into two components — 18 weeks of core modules followed by three online electives of six weeks each.
Core modules
- CTO Strategic Mindset: Responding to Change and Creating Change
- Frameworks and Building Blocks
- Generating and Evaluating Commercial Ideas
- Entry Strategies
- Strategic Adaptation and Renewal
- Ecosystems
- Machine Learning
- The AI Stack and Competitive Implications
- Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
- Technology Policy
- Global Technology Trends
- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Essentials for a New Business Era
- Scaling
- Metrics
- Leading Innovation
- Process View of Innovation and Innovation Tournaments
- The CTO Perspective: Balancing External and Internal Modes of Innovation
- Accessing New Technologies and Platforms through Acquisition
Note: Session topics are subject to change.
Online electives (online | six weeks each | choose any three)
- Scaling a Business: How to Build a USD 1 Billion+ Unicorn
- Technology Acceleration
- Business Analytics
- Corporate Governance
- Executive Presence and Influence
- Managing and Implementing Complex Projects
- Product Management and Strategy
- Leading the Technology Driven Firm
Note: Final list of electives is subject to change.
Networking and graduation event (two days | on campus)
Meet your cohort peers and faculty in person on the Wharton campus in Philadelphia during a two-day networking and graduation event. This event takes place once every four cohorts, providing an opportunity to network with your peers and professionals from other cohorts to create a lifelong community of global executives.