Dates and Fees
June 3–6, 2013 (HBS Campus)
- $3,500
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Offered exclusively to HBS alumni, Breakthrough Insights focuses on timely business challenges that are on the minds of business leaders across the globe. By exploring topics related to the global financial system, this upcoming session will help you navigate the current business environment and achieve strategic advantage for your firm.

PROGRAM FACULTY: Lynda M. Applegate (faculty chair), William W. George (faculty chair), Youngme E. Moon, Stefan H. Thomke
Dates and Fees
July 24–27, 2013 (HBS Campus)
- $8,500
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
November 6–9, 2013 (HBS Campus)
- $8,500
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Our flagship board program gives directors a new perspective on their role—along with frameworks to help them position companies for long-term success. Recognizing the demand for increased board leadership, this program prompts you to examine growing challenges, prioritize board responsibilities, and learn from the practices of successful boards. You will gain insight into how to execute strategy, develop top talent, and enhance enterprise value.

PROGRAM FACULTY: Rakesh Khurana, Jay W. Lorsch (faculty chair), Krishna G. Palepu, Walter J. Salmon, Guhan Subramanian
Dates and Fees
July 28–30, 2013 (HBS Campus)
- $5,600
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Recognizing today's economic volatility and growing regulation, this program is designed to help audit committees and CFOs lead more effectively. Proven frameworks will help you increase your capacity to improve transparency, ensure compliance, strengthen working relationships, and create a better-performing committee.

PROGRAM FACULTY: Paul M. Healy (faculty chair), Jay W. Lorsch, Krishna G. Palepu
Dates and Fees
July 31–August 2, 2013 (HBS Campus)
- $5,600
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Taking an in-depth look at executive compensation, this program improves compensation committee effectiveness through development of sound policies. You will gain a new perspective on challenges ranging from external calls for reform to the imperative to align compensation with corporate performance. Through study of well-functioning committees, you will find new compensation approaches that motivate top executives—and enhance shareholder value.

PROGRAM FACULTY: Jay W. Lorsch, V.G. Narayanan (faculty chair), Krishna G. Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan
Dates and Fees
August 25–30, 2013 (HBS Campus)
- $13,000
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
December 2–7, 2013 (HBS Campus)
- $13,000
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
To become a great leader, you must find your inner compass. Learn how to develop a leadership approach driven by your values and principles. This program prompts you to explore your motivations, ethics, and leadership style. Encouraged by a frank, confidential exchange with peers, you will learn how to become a more confident, trusted, and capable leader who can also develop authentic leadership in others.

PROGRAM FACULTY: William W. George (faculty chair), Robert Steven Kaplan, Joshua D. Margolis, Leslie A. Perlow, Scott A. Snook
Dates and Fees
October 27–30, 2013 (HBS Campus)
- $4,000
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Exploring the nonprofit board's critical role, this program offers best practices that enhance the contribution of outside board members and chairs. As you master proven governance frameworks, you improve your capacity to define, oversee, and adjust the organization's mission; create strategic plans; and assess and measure performance. As a result, your board will be better able to build financial sustainability and improve overall performance.

PROGRAM FACULTY: Alnoor Ebrahim (faculty chair), Allen S. Grossman, Robert Steven Kaplan, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, F. Warren McFarlan, Kathleen L. McGinn, William Ryan, Howard H. Stevenson
Dates and Fees
October 27–31, 2013 (HBS Campus)
- $11,000
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Build a successful investment strategy and improve your effectiveness at all stages of a deal, even in today's turbulent market. In this program, you examine critical aspects of investing, such as negotiation strategy and portfolio management, while exploring industry models—from venture capital to growth equity to buyouts. You emerge with practical approaches to industry infrastructure, portfolio strategies, and decision making.

PROGRAM FACULTY: Paul A. Gompers, G. Felda Hardymon (faculty chair), Josh Lerner, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Dates and Fees
November 3–6, 2013 (HBS Campus)
- $8,500
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Develop a keen understanding of the political and economic risk involved in capturing maximum value in the global energy marketplace. Created for energy industry executives, this offering examines the innovations and dynamic forces that affect how energy is produced and distributed worldwide. You gain strategies and frameworks that enable superior decision making and expand your capacity to capitalize on growth opportunities domestically and abroad.

PROGRAM FACULTY: Rawi Abdelal (faculty chair), Rebecca M. Henderson, Shon R. Hiatt, Joseph B. Lassiter III, Noel Maurer (faculty chair), Forest L. Reinhardt (faculty chair), Richard H.K. Vietor
Dates and Fees
December 8–13, 2013 (HBS Campus)
- $11,250
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
By exploring the three levels of risk hierarchy, you will learn how to help your company turn risk into opportunity. You will develop a scorecard that incorporates risk into strategy execution, and build processes that anticipate, prioritize, and mitigate unknown threats across the enterprise.

PROGRAM FACULTY: Paul M. Healy, Robert S. Kaplan, Anette Mikes, Robert Simons (faculty chair)
Dates and Fees
- TBD
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Investigate the critical leadership issues that confront high-level executives of financial institutions in today's challenging economy. This program, designed for managing directors and high-level leaders, explores risk management, ethical obligations, regulatory controls, and other demands placed on today's companies. You will learn to lead franchises, teams, and entire organizations more effectively.

PROGRAM FACULTY: Boris Groysberg (faculty chair), Paul M. Healy (faculty chair)