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Value Creation Through Effective Boards

Value Creation Through Effective Boards
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    Status: Accepting Applications
  • Dates: 15–18 MAY 2023
  • Format: In-Person Learning takes place on the HBS campus or a designated location.
  • Location: Spain
  • Fee: €7,100; IESE Member Rate: €6,390
  • The fee includes academic materials and lunches. The program entails preparatory coursework, which is made available three weeks before the start date. Payment is required to access the material.
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Summary

The impact of a corporate board can be significant—but the challenges faced by board members are increasingly complex. Designed to enhance your contribution as a corporate board member, this program provides the frameworks for optimizing board structure, engagement, and performance. With greater insight into corporate governance oversight and best practices, you will emerge a stronger leader and decision-maker, ready to create more value for your company.

This program is developed and taught in collaboration with the IESE Business School, University of Navarra.

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Summary

The impact of a corporate board can be significant—but the challenges faced by board members are increasingly complex. Designed to enhance your contribution as a corporate board member, this program provides the frameworks for optimizing board structure, engagement, and performance. With greater insight into corporate governance oversight and best practices, you will emerge a stronger leader and decision-maker, ready to create more value for your company.

This program is developed and taught in collaboration with the IESE Business School, University of Navarra.

Key Benefits
Focused on improving corporate board effectiveness, the program helps you master global governance challenges, build productive relationships with the CEO and management team, and implement efficient processes that drive corporate strategy and business value.

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Create the best board for your companyCreate the best board for your company
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  • Design an optimal board structure and select the right directors
  • Improve board dynamics and the board's interaction with management
  • Lead constructive, consensus-building board meetings with time-efficient agendas
Strengthen corporate governanceStrengthen corporate governance
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  • Optimize your board governance approach
  • Recognize how global governance challenges affect the business
  • Improve governance processes relating to strategy, risk management, integrity, and oversight
  • Prepare your board to react to crises and deal with exposure to risks
Expand your personal and professional networkExpand your personal and professional network
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  • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
  • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

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Focused on improving corporate board effectiveness, the program helps you master global governance challenges, build productive relationships with the CEO and management team, and implement efficient processes that drive corporate strategy and business value.
Details

Create the best board for your company

  • Design an optimal board structure and select the right directors
  • Improve board dynamics and the board's interaction with management
  • Lead constructive, consensus-building board meetings with time-efficient agendas

Strengthen corporate governance

  • Optimize your board governance approach
  • Recognize how global governance challenges affect the business
  • Improve governance processes relating to strategy, risk management, integrity, and oversight
  • Prepare your board to react to crises and deal with exposure to risks

Expand your personal and professional network

  • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
  • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

Who Should Attend

  • Board members in public or private companies from any industry, including:
    • Members of corporate and public supervisory boards
    • Members of managing and executive boards
  • Top talent pools of listed and large corporations
  • Particularly appropriate for: Board members in large public firms or established companies that plan to go public

Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols

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Who Should Attend

  • Board members in public or private companies from any industry, including:
    • Members of corporate and public supervisory boards
    • Members of managing and executive boards
  • Top talent pools of listed and large corporations
  • Particularly appropriate for: Board members in large public firms or established companies that plan to go public

Review Our Campus Health & Safety Protocols

Admissions Criteria and Process

You can submit an application through the IESE Business School website. Because availability is limited, we encourage you to apply as early as possible. Admission is a selective process based on your professional achievements and organizational responsibilities.
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Application Submission

  1. You must complete and submit the online application.
  2. The IESE Business School Executive Education department will contact you by email to acknowledge receipt of your application, and will provide information about the program dates, sending of materials, and bank details needed to pay tuition.
  3. Once payment is confirmed, you will receive an email confirming your place in the program. You will also receive access to the preparatory coursework materials you will need to complete before the program begins.

Answering Your Questions

An IESE Client Services manager can help you at any stage of the admissions process. Contact a program advisor via email or call +34.93.253.4200

Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

The program fee covers tuition, course materials, and lunches during the program. Please note that your place is not confirmed until you have paid your fee. Cancellations received within 20 days before the program launch are subject to a fee equivalent to 25% of tuition.

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Admissions Criteria and Process Dropdown down

You can submit an application through the IESE Business School website. Because availability is limited, we encourage you to apply as early as possible. Admission is a selective process based on your professional achievements and organizational responsibilities.

Application Submission

  1. You must complete and submit the online application.
  2. The IESE Business School Executive Education department will contact you by email to acknowledge receipt of your application, and will provide information about the program dates, sending of materials, and bank details needed to pay tuition.
  3. Once payment is confirmed, you will receive an email confirming your place in the program. You will also receive access to the preparatory coursework materials you will need to complete before the program begins.

Answering Your Questions

An IESE Client Services manager can help you at any stage of the admissions process. Contact a program advisor via email or call +34.93.253.4200

Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

The program fee covers tuition, course materials, and lunches during the program. Please note that your place is not confirmed until you have paid your fee. Cancellations received within 20 days before the program launch are subject to a fee equivalent to 25% of tuition.

What You Will Learn

Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, in-depth case studies, and group discussions, you will examine the strategic and organizational issues facing corporate boards of directors, including the impact of the regulatory environment, CEO succession and compensation, accountability and transparency, and the need for trust and close cooperation between board members and the management team.

Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.

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What You Will Learn

Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, in-depth case studies, and group discussions, you will examine the strategic and organizational issues facing corporate boards of directors, including the impact of the regulatory environment, CEO succession and compensation, accountability and transparency, and the need for trust and close cooperation between board members and the management team.

Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.

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Corporate boards todayCorporate boards today
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  • Designing boards for a complex world
  • Understanding the responsibilities of board members
The board's roleThe board's role
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  • Driving company strategy
  • Supporting risk management and crisis management
  • Enabling transparency and accountability
  • Making a CEO appointment and supporting succession planning
Differences in board approachesDifferences in board approaches
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  • Understanding how corporate governance varies in different regions
  • Exploring the characteristics of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial boards
Board dynamicsBoard dynamics
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  • Running effective board meetings and making informed decisions
  • Increasing gender diversity by appointing more women to the board
  • Monitoring, measuring, and improving board performance

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Corporate boards today

  • Designing boards for a complex world
  • Understanding the responsibilities of board members

The board's role

  • Driving company strategy
  • Supporting risk management and crisis management
  • Enabling transparency and accountability
  • Making a CEO appointment and supporting succession planning

Differences in board approaches

  • Understanding how corporate governance varies in different regions
  • Exploring the characteristics of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial boards

Board dynamics

  • Running effective board meetings and making informed decisions
  • Increasing gender diversity by appointing more women to the board
  • Monitoring, measuring, and improving board performance

The HBS Advantage

HBS faculty members are widely recognized as 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 Harvard Business School (HBS) and the IESE Business School, University of Navarra.

Faculty Chair
Krishna G. Palepu
Krishna G. Palepu
Krishna G. Palepu

Krishna G. Palepu

Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration

HBS Units:
Accounting and Management
General Management

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Faculty
Jordi Canals
Jordi Canals
Jordi Canals

Jordi Canals

IESE Business School University of Navarra:

Professor of Strategic Management and Economics

Read Full Bio

Pedro Nueno
Pedro Nueno
Pedro Nueno

Pedro Nueno

IESE Business School University of Navarra:

Emeritus Professor in the Entrepreneurship Department

China Europe International Business School:

Honorary President

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Suraj Srinivasan
Suraj Srinivasan
Suraj Srinivasan

Suraj Srinivasan

Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:
Accounting and Management

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The HBS Advantage

HBS faculty members are widely recognized as 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 Harvard Business School (HBS) and the IESE Business School, University of Navarra.

Faculty Chair
Krishna G. Palepu
Krishna G. Palepu
Krishna G. Palepu

Krishna G. Palepu

Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration

HBS Units:
Accounting and Management
General Management

Read Full Bio

Faculty
Jordi Canals
Jordi Canals
Jordi Canals

Jordi Canals

IESE Business School University of Navarra:

Professor of Strategic Management and Economics

Read Full Bio

Pedro Nueno
Pedro Nueno
Pedro Nueno

Pedro Nueno

IESE Business School University of Navarra:

Emeritus Professor in the Entrepreneurship Department

China Europe International Business School:

Honorary President

Read Full Bio

Suraj Srinivasan
Suraj Srinivasan
Suraj Srinivasan

Suraj Srinivasan

Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:
Accounting and Management

Read Full Bio

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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.
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