What Corporate Boards Do
This course spans 5.5 months of intensive lecture and case studies in 27 modules. The culminating exercise is a defense of your assigned company’s SWOT Governance Report before a committee.
The defense committee comprises active and retired corporate board members, CEOs, and senior leaders selected from hedge funds, institutional investors, private equity, wealth management, family offices, proxy advisors, private, and public companies.
The committee members serve as mentors, giving constructive feedback and guidance for any revision efforts.
To graduate from the program, fellows must pass written and oral defense exams.
Module 1: Stakeholder Leadership & Governance Institute Program Introduction
Module 2: Governance – It all starts with incorporation
Module 3: Building a JUST Company
• Case #1
Module 4: Anthropology of Boards
Module 5: How to Conduct a Board Meeting
• Case #2
Module 6: Board Duties, Roles, and Governance Structure
• Case #3
Module 7: Defining Global Board Governance Across Borders (China, Asia-Pacific, India, Europe, South America, South Africa, and the Middle East
• Case #4
Module 8: Shareholder Engagement – The Relationship between Institutional Investors Stakeholder/Agency Ownership, Proxy Advisors and Company Boards (Where the Power Lies), Ownership vs. Control
a. The rise of the independent and disinterested directors
• Case #5
Module 9: Policy and Statutory Regulations in Governance
Module 10: Board Governance in Aligning Supply Chains to Business Strategy
• Case #6
Module 11: Finance and Audit Committee Session
• Case #7
Module 12: Compensation/Talent Committee
• Case #8
Module 13: Governance in a Digital Transformation World Technology Committee
• Case #9
Module 14: Marketing and Strategy Engagement Committee
• Case #10
Module 15: Public Policy and Sustainability Committee
• Case #11
Module 16: ESG/Woke/Red-Blue State, and Global Feud
• Case #12
Module 17: Ethics and Leadership
• Case #13
Module 18: Board Legal Risk Exposure
• Case #14
Module 19: Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Module 20: General Counsel/Corporate Secretary
Module 21: Crisis Management Strategy Landscape
• Case #15
Module 22: Nomination and Governance Committee
• Case #16
Module 23: Culture as a Competitive Advantage
• Case #17
Module 24: How to conduct a shareholder meeting.
• Case #18
Module 25: Rethinking Success (A Journey Inside Yourself )
• Case #19
Module 26: Session in Review
Module 27: GRADUATION FINAL
• Case: Prepare a SWOT governance report for your assigned company.