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OSB’s Function-Specific Offerings have been created for managerial specialists seeking to enhance their functional expertise by staying tuned to the management best-practices at the forefront of their fields. Participants represent diverse business functions throughout the Middle East and possess approximately 10 years of work experience in their fields.

OSB’s Function-specific offerings aim at honing key management competencies across varied functional areas of expertise.

Strategy and Change Cluster

  • Designing and Implementing Strategic Plans

  • Cooperative Competition: “Coope-tition”

  • Creating Learning Organizations

  • Championing Change and Facilitating Innovation

  • Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship in Established Companies

Human Capital Cluster

  • The War for Talent

  • Talent Management, Development and Retention

  • Compensation Management and Design

  • Maximizing the Return on Human Capital

  • Effective Team Building

Analytics Cluster

  • Marshalling Analytics for Senior Decision-making

  • Embedding Quality through Measurement

  • Interpreting Results: “So What” of Analysis

Marketing Cluster

  • Capturing New Market Opportunities

  • Targeting and Retaining the High Value Customer

  • Designing a Winning Value Proposition

  • Market Research and Marketing Analytics

  • Advertising and Promotion

Non-Profit Cluster

  • Strategic Management for Non-Profit Organizations

  • Non-Profit Boards the Work

  • Managing to the Double Bottom Line

  • Developing Funding Proposals

Financial Management Cluster

  • Management of Working Capital Techniques

  • Understanding the Investments Environment

  • Finance and Financial Management for the non-finance Executive

  • Valuation Techniques

  • Investments

  • The Insightful CFO

Please note that the above offerings are subject to change as per executive needs and demands.

For more information on OSB’s latest Function-specific offerings, scheduling and fees, please contact our Executive Education Office at:

Executive Education Office
Suliman S. Olayan School of Business
American University of Beirut
Bliss Street
P.O. Box 11-0236
Riad El-Solh 1107 2020
Beirut, Lebanon

(96 1) 1 352 700, Office
(96 1) 1 750 214, Fax