As faculty, we have a core of several weeks in the middle to really engage participants on issues of business transformation. During this period, we're actively engaging participants in thinking about how they can transform their organizations by changing the business model. There are seven thematic units. Each contains sub themes that either help to develop managers as effective leaders or address their particular management challenges. The AMP attempts to personalize for each manager not only what they need to do as managers to become more effective in running their businesses, but also what the marketplace is expecting of them in terms of future performance.
Diversity is important.
When you arrive at HBS for the AMP, you become part of a living group consisting of 8 or 9 people who live together throughout the entire program. We try to ensure that each living group includes 2 or 3 from each one of those major geographic regions. The participant composition in our two classrooms change three times during the course of the program in order to bring every person in the program in contact with everyone else. The objective is for each participant to build network connections with people in their own and other industries across all continents of the world so that by the end of the program there are few major cities in the world where you would not have a friend and colleague from your AMP group. That sounds like a valuable take-away.