Program Overview

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Macroeconomics for Executives (Online): Navigating Global Risks and Trends

Overview

No business operates in a vacuum. Exchange rate volatility, fiscal and monetary policy, geopolitical uncertainty, trade conflicts: these represent just a sliver of the broad web of macroeconomic forces that can shape the future of your organization.

The wide-ranging consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have reinforced the interconnectedness of our world. Citing lingering uncertainties about the progression of the pandemic, the United Nations said in a 2020 report that "the possibility of a slow recovery and prolonged economic slump — with rising poverty and inequality — looms large."

Now more than ever, positioning global organizations for sustained success requires the ability to detect and skillfully navigate key macroeconomic influences. The better professionals, executives, and strategists can understand the interdependencies of these macroeconomic forces, the better the decisions they can make for their organizations.

Nurturing this critical skill is the focus of Macroeconomics for Executives (Online): Navigating Global Risks and Trends, a ten-week online program from Columbia Business School Executive Education. Its foundation is the three-step Macro Scenario Playbook, which provides a framework to help make these big-picture concepts applicable to your business situation.

Through the successful completion of this online program, you will learn about macroeconomics for business management and how to improve your strategic decision-making in today's global economy to steer your organization toward a brighter future.

Impact

By joining this online macroeconomics program for professionals and managers, you will learn how to:

• Apply the Macro Scenario Playbook to gauge the impact of changes in the global economy on your business
• Assess the impact of recessions and the ensuing monetary and fiscal responses on your business
• Forecast exchange rates, bond prices, and equity prices in response to macroeconomic shocks
• Identify economic growth opportunities and risks across the world
• Evaluate the impact of trade and financial globalization — and the risk of deglobalization — on your business
• Determine potential short- and long-term pandemic scenarios and their impact on your business

About the Macro Scenario Playbook

The Global Strategy program features the Macro Scenario Playbook, a framework for strategic decision making, which includes three steps:

• Step 1: We examine what a particular scenario means for your business, including your customers, employees, suppliers, investors, and creditors.
• Step 2: We consider what the scenario implies for the overall economy, which comprises the real economy and the financial market.
• Step 3: We discuss how the implications uncovered in step 2 affect your business—and can help inform your business strategy.

The playbook helps you connect the program directly to your business, allowing you to put the learnings into play.

Upon completion of this program, you will earn two credits towards a Certificate in Business Excellence with select alumni and tuition benefits.

Program Structure

Macroeconomics for Executives (Online): Navigating Global Risks and Trends, a ten-week online program for business professionals and managers, includes a mix of live and recorded sessions. In addition, program leaders hold weekly, live, and virtual office hours where you can get answers to your questions in a small-group setting.

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7
• Week 8
• Week 9
• Week 10

Orientation
The first week is orientation week. You will have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the learning platform and prepare for the program ahead.

For complete details of the curriculum, please download the program brochure.

Participant Profile

Global economic trends impact all businesses that operate internationally—and even many businesses that do not. Staying competitive in a rapidly changing economic environment requires organizations to anticipate emerging and future threats and to respond proactively and intelligently.

In Macroeconomics for Executives (Online): Navigating Global Risks and Trends, you will explore how to make better strategic decisions to help your company thrive. The program cohort will include participants representing a breadth of geographies, industries, and professional experiences as well as job functions such as:

• CXOs seeking to deepen their knowledge of global markets and macroeconomics to safeguard their business against crises and sudden market fluctuations and find opportunities of investment and growth across geographies and sectors
• Corporate strategists, functional business heads, and finance professionals seeking to enhance their understanding of macroeconomics for business management and assess their organization's financial risk appetite based on global economic trends, enabling them to predict and prepare for business cycles and their outcomes

Faculty

Pierre Yared

MUTB Professor of International Business
Vice Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)

Faculty Director

Program Details

• Dates: February 16–April 27, 2026
• Cost: $1,950
• CIBE Credits: 2
• Format: Online
• Location: Online

Requirements

This program is suitable for attendees at all executive levels who seek to deepen their knowledge of global markets and macroeconomics.