Value Creation Through Effective Boards

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Master global governance challenges, build productive relationships with management, and implement efficient processes that drive corporate value creation. 

  • Dates

    May 19 – 22, 2025

  • Status

    Accepting Applications

  • Format

    In-Person

  • Location

    Spain, Barcelona

  • Fee

    € 7,700; IESE Member Rate: € 6,930

The program fee covers tuition, program materials, and lunches.

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Corporate boards can have a significant impact on value creation, but directors must first optimize how they're structured and governed.  

 Value Creation through Effective Boards (developed and taught in collaboration with the IESE Business School, University of Navarra) examines the strategic and organizational issues facing corporate boards of directors. With greater insight into corporate governance oversight and best practices, you’ll be prepared to enhance your contribution as a board member and create more value for your company.

Key Program Features

Key Topics

  • Deepen your understanding of board member responsibilities and optimize your board's design  

  • Support risk and crisis management while enabling transparency and accountability  

  • Confidently appoint CEOs and put effective succession planning into place 

  • Explore the characteristics of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial boards  

  • Learn how corporate governance varies in different regions  

  • Foster diverse, effective boards and develop tools for monitoring, measuring, and improving board performance  

Program Format

  • 4
    days of in-person learning in region
  • 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

  • Board members—including corporate and public supervisory as well as managing and executive boards—in public or private companies from any industry 

  • Top talent pools of listed and large corporations  

  • Board members in large public firms or established companies that plan to go public  

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. 

The teaching team for this collaborative program is drawn from the faculties of HBS and the IESE Business School, University of Navarra. 

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Faculty

The Experience

This in-person program takes place on the campus of the IESE Business School, University of Navarra in Barcelona, Spain. Information on travel and hotel accommodations can be found on the IESE website.

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.