Agribusiness Seminar

Harvard Business School executive education participants discussion

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.

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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
    days on the HBS campus
  • 12–15
    hours of pre-program work

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

Two female and two male executives sit and smile around a table filled with notes.
5%
Africa
9%
Asia Pacific
22%
Europe
13%
Latin America
5%
Middle East
46%
North America

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 Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure

Faculty

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.

View of Executive Education area of HBS campus

The dedicated Executive Education area of campus features multiple classroom buildings and three residence halls around a quad

Residence hall bedroom and bathroom, with woman looking out a window

Our well-appointed residence halls feature private bedrooms, living group lounges, and courtyards to fuel vibrant discussions

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.

Learn more about the admissions process and requirements.

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.