Agribusiness Seminar
Deepen your understanding of the food and agriculture industries' challenges, innovations, and opportunities. Cultivate new ideas to drive growth.
- Dates
Jan 12 – 15, 2025
- Status
Accepting Applications
- Format
In-Person
- Location
HBS Campus
- Fee
$11,750
- Application Due
Jan 2, 2025
The program fee covers tuition, program materials, accommodations, and most meals.
With food systems facing new levels of uncertainty, embracing innovation and developing new strategies will be key to driving your company's success.
The Agribusiness Seminar helps you stay current with critical trends, pressures, and opportunities in the landscape. To learn how to build more resilient food systems, you'll explore innovative business models, contemplate strategic questions, and gain a nuanced perspective of industry-wide issues.
Key Program Features
Key Topics
Understand how your business fits into the interconnected global food system
Explore ways to build a competitive edge and overcome setbacks
Create more resilient and sustainable supply chains
Drive profitability through product and marketing innovation
Leverage data and technology to improve decision-making and operating efficiency
Navigate mounting regulatory pressure, change, and uncertainty
Build and support the farms and farm workforce of the future
Anticipate, mitigate, and adapt to climate and geopolitical risk
Program Format
- 4
- 12–15
Case materials and a detailed schedule will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.
Who Should Attend
Senior executives (chairpersons, chief executive officers, presidents, managing directors, owners) and other leaders in large multinational companies or family businesses who drive strategy for their organizations
Agribusiness entrepreneurs
Producers of crops and livestock
Manufacturers, traders, and marketers of agricultural products
Marketers of consumer-branded fresh and packaged food
Grocery retailers, restaurateurs, and foodservice distributors
Institutions focused on food, nutrition, farming, food security, and agricultural trade policy
Technology players who shape the food, agriculture, and energy sectors
Agribusiness-specialized investment and banking firms
This seminar is generally not appropriate for individuals from academic institutions or consultancies and other professional services firms
Global Perspective
Experience
Years Worked
- 7%
Less than 10 years
- 12%
10-14 years
- 21%
15-19 years
- 18%
20-24 years
- 17%
25-29 years
- 14%
30-34 years
- 7%
35-39 years
- 4%
40 or more
Companies That Have Participated
- AB Inbev
- Bayer
- Cargill
- CJ CheilJedang
- Land O'Lakes
- Marks & Spencer
- McDonald's Corporation
- Mitsui
- Nestle
- PepsiCo
- Rabobank
- Taylor Farms
Teaching Team
All our executive education programs are developed and taught by a team of widely recognized HBS faculty. Many are skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.
Faculty Chair
Forest L. Reinhardt
John D. Black Professor
The HBS Experience
This in-person program takes place on our storied campus where you'll live and learn at the heart of Boston's vibrant business, academic, and technology hubs.
At HBS, every detail is carefully calibrated to drive your success. Living arrangements and classrooms that spark connection. Unrivaled academic resources. And rejuvenating fitness, dining, and cultural amenities.
Admissions
We admit applicants on a rolling, space-available basis, so you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible.
The selective admissions process is based on professional achievement, organizational responsibility, and the admissions criteria for each program as described in Who Should Attend. There are no formal educational requirements for HBS Executive Education programs.
Program content, dates, schedule, fees, technology platforms, and faculty are subject to change. In accordance with Harvard University policy, Harvard Business School does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities.