Michael Minnis
Deputy Dean for Faculty and Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Accounting
Michael Minnis
Senior Executive Development Program—For Private Companies
Tailored for executives in family-owned businesses, private corporations, and partnerships.
Next Session
October 5-October 9, 2026
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Location/Format
In-Person
Gleacher Center, Chicago
Investment Fee (in USD)
$12,500 USD
Questions? Connect with our enrollment advisors.
Next Session
October 5-October 9, 2026
View All Dates
Location/Format
In-Person
Gleacher Center, Chicago
Investment Fee (in USD)
$12,500 USD
Questions? Connect with our enrollment advisors.
Address your private company’s unique challenges, opportunities, and performance while retaining what matters to your organization.
This program serves as an elective to:
- Examine disruptive global macro trends shaping businesses and strategic risk management frameworks to prepare and build resiliency.
- Gain the competitive frameworks to analyze what your competition is doing, as well as innovative approaches to stay ahead of new threats.
- Examine various private company ownership structures and their unique challenges and opportunities.
- Examine successful business models and entrepreneurial techniques that drive profitable innovation.
- Discover the unique role financial statements play in unlocking value for private companies and management’s role in producing transparent financial information.
- Gain real-world examples of tax benefits in the sale of an entire private business.
- Assess your private company’s culture readiness for new opportunities, succession planning, and talent acquisition in highly competitive environments—ultimately supporting a culture of good governance.
Who Should Attend
This program will benefit senior-level executives from private companies such as family-owned enterprises, private corporations, and partnerships.
Download the program brochure for in-depth insights into who should attend, participant profiles, and the ideal candidate.
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Faculty Teaching This Program
At Booth, our distinguished faculty exemplify dedication and expertise, bringing deep passion to their teaching. Their steadfast commitment extends beyond traditional instruction, focusing on empowering every Executive Education participant, across all programs and global campuses, to achieve their professional and leadership goals.
Randall S. Kroszner
Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics
Randall S. Kroszner
Scott F. Meadow
Kaplan McCormack Family Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship
Scott F. Meadow
Merle Erickson
Professor of Accounting
Merle Erickson
Stephen Morrissette
Visiting Professor of Business Administration
Stephen Morrissette
Program Outline
- Executives must navigate new and uncharted business landscapes—inflation, supply chain disruptions, technological innovation, labor shortages, changing regulations, and other factors will continue to upend traditional frameworks and place new demands on leaders. Examine these disruptive global macro trends and develop a strategic risk management framework to build a resilient organization prepared for future risks.
- Too often, executives over-rely on experience and patterns of thinking that have been successful for them in the past. In a completely static environment, this might allow them to continue to make good decisions, but the business environment is changing rapidly and becoming increasingly complex. Scan your competitive environment, seek alternative perspectives, and consider innovative approaches.
- Explore company objectives, priorities, and options for what comes next.
- Explore various ownership models and the intersection of business strategies with ownership strategies. You’ll examine succession planning and executive compensation and explore critical levers for increasing company value.
- Examine best practices to adopt from the private equity world, as well as pitfalls and landmines to avoid.
- Learn frameworks for commercializing and financing profitable innovation.
- Explore investors' viewpoints and best practices in cash-constrained environments.
- Gain an overview of a private equity (leveraged buyout) deal: purpose and benefits.
- Learn about capital allocation processes and valuation techniques.
- Leverage financial reporting for evaluation, access, deployment, and management of financial assets.
- Acquire techniques for improving capital management.
- Unlock potential value for your firm through financial statement analysis.
- Gain an introduction to tax structures used for acquiring privately held businesses.
- Explore entity types for which acquisition structures can and often do generate significant tax benefits for the seller and discover situations with substantial tax benefits from the sale of a component or subsidiary of a private business.
- Explore various tax-related valuation issues and how they should be factored into the valuation of a privately held business.
- Often, business cultures in their early stages are driven by founding the owners’ visions and close personal networks. As companies move to the next level, previously successful levers may no longer maximize performance. Learn how to lead a winning culture for this phase of your company's development while staying true to your mission.
- Explore senior leader succession planning, strategies to attract and retain talent, and the board’s role in setting the tone from the top.
Past Participant Insights
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“This program effectively addresses a wide range of challenges and opportunities relevant to executives of private companies. The faculty and staff are truly world-class.”
—Dave Doherty, President, DigiKey -
“I liked the quality of the faculty and the array of topics that were assembled. They provided a valuable toolkit for someone running a company. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who runs a private business or wants a general management education.”
—Daniel Karrer, Strategy Director, StoneCO
Upcoming Sessions
Program dates are subject to change.
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