University of Zurich (UZH) - Finance Executive Education

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Department of Banking and Finance
University of Zurich
Plattenstrasse 14
8032 Zürich
Switzerland

www.finance-weiterbildung.uzh.ch

Executive Education at University of Zurich (UZH)

Jump to: Short Courses | Modular Courses | Blended

Short program (5 days or less)

900 CHF

Agile FinTech Strategies

This seminar covers advanced innovation management theory and practice, referring to organizational agility and resilience.

Nov 18, 2024

Finance English

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1,700 CHF

Current Trends in Sustainable Investing

This course deepens and expands topics in sustainable investing. After the course participants can strengthen their knowledge by applying the learned topics in an extensive group case study. It should be taken as a follow-up module on the two-day course Sustainable Investing.

Nov 28, 2024 - Nov 29, 2024

Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility English

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1,800 CHF

Reporting, Investor Relations and Strategic Com-munications

This module focusses on reporting and disclosure. What are important elements of disclosure, how can we embed our messages strategically, using different channels of communication, from social media to the annual report, and what is there to gain from a particular focus on value-reporting?

Jan 16, 2025 - Jan 17, 2025

Investment/ Strategy English

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1,700 CHF

Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility

On the basis of corporate governance theory and respective corporate law, this course will examine key findings of the empirical literature and contrast these with actual examples from the market.

Jan 29, 2025 - Jan 30, 2025

General Management English

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2,400 CHF

Portfolio Management Simulation

The Advanced Portfolio Management Game is a computer-based simulation game in which different teams compete against each other. As heads of a bank's portfolio management department, the teams are responsible for the strategic and tactical investment strategy as well as for the business management of the department.

Feb 24, 2025 - Feb 26, 2025

General Management German

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1,700 CHF

Biodiversity and Finance

This course aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to this topic including the scientific foundation, economic mechanism and current practice of biodiversity and finance.

Mar 13, 2025 - Mar 14, 2025

Finance English

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1,800 CHF

Digital Transformation

This seminar explores emerging trends and changes that cause uncertainty and lead to shifts in financial services. Based on a strategic foresight framework, using real-world examples and case studies, this course gives an understanding of the economical, technological, and global factors involved in the fintech revolution.

Apr 07, 2025 - Apr 08, 2025

Information Technology (IT) English

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1,800 CHF

Disruptive Technologies

This seminar connects technology to business and explains how technology enables innovation set to disrupt industries and change society. From various perspectives, we elaborate on use cases and applications relevant to financial services and beyond.

May 05, 2025 - May 06, 2025

Information Technology (IT) English

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1,700 CHF

Sustainable Development & Impact

This course will focus on the relevance of global sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for corporations and investments, drawing from key concepts of development economics and political science, and exploring recent examples of SDG-related and impact investment.

May 12, 2025 - May 13, 2025

Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility English

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2,900 CHF

Grundlagen der Immobilien-bewertung

Schedule:
16. May 2025 | 09.00 - 17.00.
17. May 2025 | 09.00 - 17.00.
22. May 2025 | 09.00 - 17.00.
23. May 2025 | 09.00 - 15.00.

May 16, 2025 - May 23, 2025

Real Estate German

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1,700 CHF

Insurance for Development

Providing affordable and simple insurance services to the population of developing and emerging countries is an important ingredient to achieving sustainable development.

May 21, 2025 - May 22, 2025

General Management English

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1,800 CHF

Future Business Models

This seminar explores game-changing business models based on multiple trends, focusing on digital innovations. Experience-oriented customers with always-on targeting solutions will replace linear customer journeys.

Sep 08, 2025 - Sep 09, 2025

Finance English

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1,800 CHF

Financial Services Ecosystems

This seminar focuses on how to create customer value with open innovation. We suggest the notion of open ecosystems that give rise to new forms of competition and collaboration.

Oct 27, 2025 - Oct 28, 2025

Finance English

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900 CHF

Agile FinTech Strategies

This seminar covers advanced innovation management theory and practice, referring to organizational agility and resilience.

Nov 17, 2025

Finance English

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Modular program (in blocks)

3,200 CHF

Risk Management Practices

This course encompasses the most important practical aspects of risk management in banking and finance. Key financial risks (e.g. credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk) and non-financial risks (e.g. operational risk, regulatory risk) are introduced and discussed in a concrete context.

Jan 24, 2025 - Mar 22, 2025

Risk Management English

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4,500 CHF

Banking

Schedule:
10. Mar 2025 | 09:00 - 17.00.
11. Mar 2025 | 09.00 - 17.00.
3. Apr. 2025 | 09.00 - 17.00.
4. Apr. 2025 | 09.00 - 17.00.
9. May 2025 | 09.00 - 17.00.

Mar 10, 2025 - May 09, 2025

Finance German

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3,900 CHF

Finance for Risk Management

This course encompasses the most important concepts of finance for risk management. In banking and finance, risk management is focused on the identification, the measurement, and the mitigation of different risk types. Several mathematical techniques and concepts from finance are applied to quantify different types of risk.

Sep 26, 2025 - Nov 22, 2025

Finance/ Risk Management English

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Blended

2,900 CHF

eCorporate Finance Advanced

eLearning: flexible in terms of time and location, events held weekly during the semester (mid-February to the end of May).
Effort | approx. 12 hours/week.

Feb 13, 2025

Finance German

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2,300 CHF

eCorporate Valuation and M&A

Duration: 1 semester.

Feb 13, 2025

Finance German

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2,900 CHF

eDerivatives

Duration: 1 semester.

Feb 13, 2025

General Management German

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Executive Education at University of Zurich (UZH)

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Short program (5 days or less)

1,700 CHF

Sustainable Investing

This course focuses on the fast-growing market for “Sustainable Investing”. Participants will learn about the concepts and strategies of sustainable investing and get an overview of ESG ratings in an online self-learning part.

Nov 13, 2024 - Nov 14, 2024

Investment/ Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility English

Completed

1,800 CHF

Corporate Governance as Strategic Factor

Institutional shareholders, financial journalists and NGOs are only some of the most important stakeholder groups that increasingly have an interest in learning more about companies’ corporate governance structures.

Nov 07, 2024 - Nov 08, 2024

Corporate Governance English

Completed

1,800 CHF

Financial Services Ecosystems

This seminar focuses on how to create customer value with open innovation. We suggest the notion of open ecosystems that give rise to new forms of competition and collaboration.

Oct 28, 2024 - Oct 29, 2024

Finance English

Completed

1,700 CHF

Fintech & Sustainability

In this course participants learn about the key concepts and definition of “FinTech”, “Blockchain”, “Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning” and “Sustainability”. Participants gain an understanding of how different technical tools can be applied to solve sustainability questions.

Oct 23, 2024 - Oct 24, 2024

Finance/ Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility English

Completed

2,400 CHF

Corporate Taxes

Schedule: 21. Oct. 2024 | 09.00 - 17.30.

Oct 21, 2024

Finance German

Completed

1,800 CHF

ESG Engagements

Understanding stakeholder expectations and requirements is key for companies in pursuing strategic goals.

Oct 03, 2024 - Oct 04, 2024

General Management English

Completed

2,350 CHF

Climate Change Finance

This course gives participants an overview of the mechanisms of climate change models and metrics and discusses how climate risks can translate into financial risks and how the financial sector can react to these challenges.

Sep 23, 2024 - Sep 24, 2024

Energy & Natural Resources/ Finance English

Completed

1,700 CHF

Sustainability in Banking and Insurance

This seminar provides the student with a systematic overview of challenges, strategies, and choices for banks and insurance companies regarding the integration of sustainability into their business models and operations. It conveys methods for comparing the sustainability of different types of institutions and recommendations of how to further integrate sustainability into them.

Sep 19, 2024 - Sep 20, 2024

Finance/ Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility English

Completed

1,800 CHF

Future Business Models

Sep 16, 2024 - Sep 17, 2024

Finance English

Completed

850 CHF

Sustainability & Finance - Introduction

This seminar introduces the student to the basic concepts of sustainability and responsibility in financial decision-making. It provides an overview of the state of discussion regarding how these concepts are integrated into standard concepts of financial market analysis and into current practices.

Sep 11, 2024

Finance/ Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility English

Completed

2,400 CHF

Portfolio Management Simulation

Language: German.

Feb 26, 2024 - Feb 28, 2024

General Management German

Completed

1,800 CHF

Unternehmenssimulation

Language: German.

Aug 24, 2023 - Aug 26, 2023

General Management German

Completed

2,900 CHF

Indirekte Immobilienanlagen und Separate Accounts

Class dates:
June 16, 17, 22 and 23.

Jun 16, 2023 - Jun 23, 2023

Investment/ Real Estate German

Completed

800 CHF

Current Trends in Sustainable Investing

Nov 11, 2022

Investment/ Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility English

Completed

3,700 CHF

Finance for Risk Management

Sep 30, 2022 - Nov 26, 2022

Finance/ Risk Management English

Completed

1,800 CHF

Case Studies in M&A

Class meetings are on August 31 and September 21, 2022.

Aug 31, 2022 - Sep 21, 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions English | German

Completed

1,800 CHF

Unternehmenssimulation

Aug 25, 2022 - Aug 27, 2022

Finance/ Investment/ Problem Solving / Decisionmaking German

Completed

1,700 CHF

Microfinance - State of the Art

Jun 14, 2022 - Jun 15, 2022

Finance English

Completed

2,900 CHF

Grundlagen der Immobilienbewertung

May 05, 2022 - May 14, 2022

Real Estate German

Completed

1,800 CHF

Emerging Market Finance

Apr 11, 2022 - Apr 12, 2022

Finance English

Completed

1,700 CHF

Sustainable Development & Impact

Apr 06, 2022 - Apr 07, 2022

Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility English

Completed

2,700 CHF

Investment Controlling

Mar 15, 2022 - Mar 17, 2022

Controlling/ Investment German

Completed

2,400 CHF

Portfolio Management Simulation

Feb 28, 2022 - Mar 02, 2022

Investment/ Strategy German

Completed

Modular program (in blocks)

3,900 CHF

Finance for Risk Management

Sep 27, 2024 - Nov 23, 2024

Finance/ Risk Management English

Already Started

Online

3,200 CHF

Angewandte Makroökonomie

Schedule:
22. Oct. 2024 | 08.30 - 15.00.
7. Nov. 2024 | 08.30 - 17.00.
8. Nov. 2024 | 08.30 - 17.00.
9. Nov. 2024 | 08.30 - 17.00.

Oct 22, 2024 - Nov 09, 2024

General Management German

Completed

1,700 CHF

Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility

Language: English.

Jan 29, 2024 - Jan 30, 2024

Corporate Governance German

Completed

900 CHF

Agile FinTech Strategies

Duration: 10h & 1 day.
Language: English.

Nov 20, 2023

Strategy German

Completed

1,800 CHF

Investment Controlling

Language: German.

Nov 13, 2023 - Nov 14, 2023

Controlling German

Completed

2,700 CHF

Angewandte Makroökonomie

Language: German.

Oct 27, 2023 - Nov 04, 2023

Finance German

Completed

1,800 CHF

Financial Services Ecosystems

Duration: 10h & 2 days.
Language: English.

Oct 23, 2023 - Oct 24, 2023

Finance German

Completed

3,700 CHF

Finance for Risk Management

Language: English.
Dates:
Sep 29, 2023 | 09.00 - 17.00.
Sep 30, 2023 | 09.00 - 17.00.
Oct 27, 2023 | 09.00 - 17.00.
Oct 28, 2023 | 09.00 - 17.00.
Nov 24, 2023 | 09.00 - 17.00.
Nov 25, 2023 | 09.00 - 17.00.

Sep 29, 2023 - Nov 25, 2023

Finance/ Risk Management German

Completed

2,300 CHF

Climate Change Finance

Language: English.

Sep 25, 2023 - Sep 26, 2023

Finance German

Completed

1,700 CHF

Sustainability in Banking and Insurance

Language: English.

Sep 21, 2023 - Sep 22, 2023

Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility German

Completed

1,800 CHF

Future Business Models

Duration: 10h & 2 days.
Language: English.

Sep 18, 2023 - Sep 19, 2023

General Management German

Completed

2,700 CHF

Behavioral Finance

Language: German.

Sep 14, 2023

Finance German

Completed

800 CHF

Sustainability & Finance - Introduction

Duration: eLearning & 1 day.
Language: English.

Sep 13, 2023

Finance/ Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility German

Completed

1,800 CHF

Case Studies in M&A

Language: English and German.

Aug 31, 2023 - Sep 01, 2023

General Management German

Completed

1,700 CHF

Insurance for Development

Language: English.

Jun 12, 2023 - Jun 13, 2023

General Management German

Completed

900 CHF

Structured Products Basic

Duration eLearning & 1/2 day.
Language: German.

Jun 09, 2023

General Management German

Completed

1,700 CHF

Biodiversity and Finance

Language: English.

May 15, 2023 - May 16, 2023

Finance German

Completed

1,700 CHF

Sustainable Investing

Duration: eLearning & 2 days.
Language: English.

May 10, 2023 - May 11, 2023

Investment German

Completed

1,800 CHF

Disruptive Technologies

Duration: 10h & 2 days.
Language: English.

May 08, 2023 - May 09, 2023

Information Technology (IT) German

Completed

Blended

2,900 CHF

eCorporate Finance Basic

eLearning: flexible in terms of time and location, events held weekly during the semester (mid-September to mid-December).
Effort | approx. 12 hours/week.

Sep 10, 2024

Finance German

Completed

2,100 CHF

eFixed Income Markets

Duration: 1 semester.

Sep 10, 2024

Sales German

Completed

2,900 CHF

eInvestments

Duration: 1 semester.

Sep 10, 2024

Investment German

Completed

2,700 CHF

eCorporate Finance Basic

Language: German.

Sep 13, 2023

Finance German

Completed

2,700 CHF

eInvestments

Language: German.

Sep 13, 2023

Investment German

Completed

900 CHF

Agile FinTech Strategies

Course involves one day of lectures and other online material.

Nov 21, 2022

Finance/ Information Technology (IT)/ Strategy English

Completed

1,700 CHF

Sustainable Investing

Course includes two days of on-campus meetings and other online material.

Nov 09, 2022 - Nov 10, 2022

Investment/ Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility English

Completed

2,400 CHF

Corporate Taxes

Course includes one class meeting and supplementary online material.

Nov 02, 2022

Corporate Governance/ Law Dutch

Completed

2,700 CHF

Angewandte Makroökonomie

Course involves in-class lectures and other online material.

Oct 28, 2022 - Nov 05, 2022

General Management German

Completed

1,700 CHF

FinTech and Sustainability

Oct 26, 2022 - Oct 27, 2022

Finance/ Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility English

Completed

1,800 CHF

Financial Services Ecosystems

Oct 24, 2022 - Oct 25, 2022

Finance English

Completed

2,300 CHF

Climate Change Finance

Sep 26, 2022 - Sep 27, 2022

Finance English

Completed

2,700 CHF

eCorporate Finance Basic

Sep 15, 2022 - Jan 24, 2023

Finance German

Completed

2,700 CHF

eCorporate Banking & Regulation

Sep 14, 2022

Corporate Governance/ Finance German

Completed

2,100 CHF

eFixed Income Markets

Sep 14, 2022

Business Analytics & Big Data German

Completed

2,700 CHF

eInvestments

Sep 14, 2022

Investment German

Completed

1,800 CHF

Future Business Models

Sep 14, 2022 - Sep 15, 2022

Finance/ Information Technology (IT) English

Completed

800 CHF

Sustainability & Finance - Introduction

Course includes one day of on-campus meetings and other online material.

Sep 14, 2022

Finance/ Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility English

Completed

2,700 CHF

Behavioral Finance

Course involves one day of lectures and other online class meetings.

Sep 08, 2022

Finance/ Investment German

Completed

800 CHF

Microfinance - Introduction

Jun 13, 2022

Finance English

Completed

1,800 CHF

Structured Products Advanced

Jun 10, 2022 - Aug 24, 2022

Product Development German

Completed

900 CHF

Structured Products Basics

Course includes one day on campus and other online sessions.

Jun 10, 2022

Product Development German

Completed

1,800 CHF

Disruptive Technologies

Course includes two class meetings and supplementary online material.

May 09, 2022 - May 10, 2022

Finance/ Information Technology (IT) English

Completed

1,800 CHF

Digital Transformation

Course includes two class meetings and supplementary online material.

Apr 04, 2022 - Apr 05, 2022

Finance/ Strategy English

Completed

800 CHF

Sustainability & Finance - Introduction

Course includes one day of on-campus meetings and other online material.

Mar 07, 2022

Finance/ Sustainability / Corporate Responsibility English

Completed

2,700 CHF

eCorporate Finance Advanced

Feb 17, 2022 - Jul 01, 2022

Finance German

Completed

2,300 CHF

eCorporate Valuation and M&A

Feb 17, 2022 - Jul 01, 2022

Mergers & Acquisitions German

Completed

2,700 CHF

eDerivatives

Feb 17, 2022 - Jul 01, 2022

Investment German

Completed

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