Corporate Governance Portfolio
Certain high-profile events and wide-sweeping reforms have made the environment for corporate governance an enormously challenging one. Pressured by increasing demands for greater knowledge, independence, and accountability, corporate boards are finding themselves under more intense scrutiny than ever. Strengthening the performance of both the board and the company management is now a formidable task that requires extraordinary leadership from the boardroom.
Harvard Business School (HBS) Executive Education offers the portfolio of corporate governance programs to provide ongoing education for members of corporate boards. The portfolio features three complementary learning opportunities: two programs specific to board committees and the School's popular general board program.
Each program draws on the faculty's in-depth research, collective expertise, and personal experience with boards to address a particular set of issues. Participants gain a sound understanding of their obligations as stewards of public corporations, through engaging in the School's hallmark case study method and other effective learning methodologies.
To learn more about a specific program, please visit the links below.
Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance
The current regulatory environment, along with the enhanced scrutiny that boards and their companies now face from the investors and the media, have produced significant new challenges for audit committees. These committees now are responsible for ensuring compliance with existing accounting and financial regulatory rules and standards, as well as for providing accurate and transparent information to investors and other interested parties.
PROGRAM FACULTY: Paul M. Healy, Jay W. Lorsch (faculty chair), Krishna G. Palepu
Compensation Committees
Recently, there has been escalating criticism of top management compensation programs from the public, media, government, and shareholders. Now, more than ever, the members of compensation committees are feeling an increased need to perform their duties more effectively, create compensation programs that are related to company performance, and motivate top managers-all while meeting shareholder expectations about what is appropriate.
PROGRAM FACULTY: Jay W. Lorsch (faculty chair), V.G. Narayanan, Krishna G. Palepu
Making Corporate Boards More Effective
Corporate boards face greater challenges today than ever before. Corporate boards must accomplish a formidable list of responsibilities in a limited amount of time. These challenges include enabling a group of independent directors to understand their company's business so that they can approve the company's strategy, monitor its performance, evaluate and compensate their CEO, enhance the development of the next generation of top management, and ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and ethical standards.
The School's flagship board program, Making Corporate Boards More Effective, provides directors, including board leaders of public companies with an enlightened perspective on their expanding roles. This includes how to improve the functioning of their boards so as to achieve the boards' goals in this challenging new era.
PROGRAM FACULTY: Dwight B. Crane, Paul M. Healy, Jay W. Lorsch (faculty chair), Krishna G. Palepu, Walter J. Salmon, Guhan Subramanian
Also offered in La Jolla, California.
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Programs, dates, fees, and faculty are subject to change.
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