PGPX

Date: May 2023 - April 2024
Program Fee: US $31,000
Location: India, UCLA campus (Los Angeles, California, US)

Overview

UCLA Anderson been offering executive education programs since 1954 and our PGPX Program allows us to bring the teaching and research of our world-renowned faculty to the wider global community in a format that is both convenient and immediately applicable to the opportunities and challenges that business leaders face wherever they are in the world.

One of the first of its kind in India and South Asia, PGPX is a one-year program that delivers a comprehensive overview of business best-practices and advanced concepts in leadership to senior executives as well as business owners and entrepreneurs in a part-time, modular format covering all the functional areas of general management.

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

John Wooden
Legendary UCLA Basketball Coach

Program Highlights

Outstanding Faculty

Senior UCLA Anderson faculty members and renowned industry experts conduct the program in all locations in India and on the UCLA campus.

World Class Curriculum

A comprehensive and rigorous program covering applied advanced management concepts in a 60+ days schedule spread over one year.

Select Peer Group

PGPX attracts highly accomplished and talented senior executives from every function and sector and business owners across all industries. Peer learning is a significant part of the experience and the resulting network of passionate lifelong learners is very powerful for personal and professional growth.

Flexible & Convenient

The program design ensures that professionals with demanding schedules and high levels of responsibility can continue to work while fulfilling the program requirements. A week of classroom learning is delivered almost every month in different formats, including classroom and live online sessions and online learning.

International Exposure

Participants travel to UCLA Anderson’s Los Angeles campus to complete the required modules in leadership, communications, negotiations and the on-campus case-competition. All participants graduate from PGPX in a ceremony held at UCLA on the last day of the program.

Program Benefits

Apart from becoming part of your own cohort community and building an enviable network, participants graduate from the UCLA PGPX as a member of the outstanding UCLA Anderson alumni network. This entitles the participants to the following:

Who Should Attend

PGPX is designed for high potential business leaders and rising managers who already direct functional areas and are ready to ascend to more senior executive ranks within their organizations. Global enterprises rely on the program to prepare candidates for general management positions. Established entrepreneurs and other professionals use the program to expand their ability to take their businesses to the next level of success.

Class Profile

17

Industries represented

18

Years average work experience

11%

C-level management

40%

In international roles

Distinguished Faculty

The mainstay of UCLA Anderson’s executive education programs is its esteemed, international faculty. Each year, UCLA Anderson faculty members publish papers in leading scholarly journals, receive recognition for research excellence, provide leadership in and beyond UCLA, and serve as inspirational teachers and mentors.

Program Experience

PGPX is experiential in learning and applied in focus. Offered over the course of 12 months, this is a blended learning experience synergizing the unique strengths of both in-class and online learning to deliver a highly time- and cost-effective leadership development program.

Curriculum & Schedule

The curriculum and schedule are carefully coordinated to ensure that participants build an extensive functional knowledge of management essentials from both a local and global perspective. Participants will also hone analytical problem-solving skills directly relevant to the most critical global business and organizational issues.

Intense work, led by world-class faculty and fueled by peer synergy, challenges your potential and shows you how to attain it. The focus of the Program is your development as a leader with strong inter-personal skills, capable of envisioning, communicating and implementing positive change in your business.

Various Experiential learning techniques that drive home the applicability of the program sessions and develop vital skills as a team builder, leader, and member, include:

Hands-on simulations, taken from the current business world, force you to adapt to multiple team roles, excel at problem-solving, and swiftly master complexity, as you generate and stress-test ideas.
A case competition closes out the program, drawing upon the application of all your acquired knowledge and enhanced leadership abilities. Your team skills will be put to the test as your group takes on a real business, marshals fact-based decision-making and devises a unique, practical solution to its challenges for review by an elite panel of judges.

Access to executive coaching in both India and Los Angeles will help you clarify your goals and develop an action plan to sharpen the effectiveness of your leadership behaviors. Your UCLA Anderson professors remain engaged in your success and open to contact long after the program ends.

Aug-Nov

Dec-Mar

Apr-Jul

Core Courses

Strategy
Financial Accounting
Branding and Marketing
Data Decisions

Corporate Finance
Operations
Innovation
Investments

Entrepreneurship
Venture Initiation
Mergers and Acquisitions

Leadership

Management Communication
Case Analysis
Personal Leadership

Leading Cross Cultural
Teams
People Leadership
Effective Communication

Persuasion and Influence
Negotiations
Mentoring and Coaching

Workshops

Human Capital Management
CV and LinkedIn Profile
Development
Hypothesis Based Problem Solving
Finance Boot Camp

Design Thinking
Digital Business Transformation
Legal Aspects of Business
Business Plan Development

Simulations, Business Case Exercises

Business Case Exercise 1
Business Case Exercise 2

UCLA Case Competition
Business Case Exercise 3

Business Plan Demo Day
Finance and Business
Simulation

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Program Fee

Program fee: US $30,000

The Program fee is inclusive of all taxes. It covers teaching fees, all academic materials, lunches and select dinners. The Fees does not include transport expenses, accommodation expenses and any associated visa fees etc. It also does not cover any other expenses that are not expressly mentioned above.

Application Process

Apply Now

Applications are processed on a rolling admissions basis (first come, first served) and are evaluated as soon as they are received.

To view more details on the program, application requirements and dates, please visit our partner program page on the Northwest Executive Education website by clicking HERE.

Program Partner

Northwest Executive Education is the program partner for the UCLA Anderson PGPX Program. Prospective participants with questions on the program are encouraged to contact them for further information, by email at ucla@northwest.sg or phone: +91 8587878713 / 14 / 15

The dates, session topics, instructors and fees listed on this page are subject to change without prior notice.