Corporate Governance (Online): Driving Business Value Creation and GrowthNEW
Corporate Governance (Online): Driving Business Value Creation and Growth
The Corporate Governance (Online) program from Columbia Business School Executive Education is designed to equip corporate leaders with the skills to overcome emerging challenges of the new era, from navigating regulatory disruption to leveraging technological transformations. The program aims to help current and future board members and senior executives deepen their understanding of their roles and responsibilities while aligning to strategic organizational goals. Participants can harness the insights, frameworks, and tools they learn to enhance the value they bring to the boardroom and ensure high-performance governance practices.
This immersive seven-week online program combines valuable academic research with practical business and finance strategies that aid in creating long-term value for the organization. From assessing the board structure using a skills matrix to formulating succession plans for senior executives, the concepts learned through this program will be further reinforced by peer interactions, knowledge checks, and case study analyses.
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Impact
This program will enable you to:
- Excel at understanding and working with boards
- Assess whether capital received from shareholders is being deployed efficiently by the board and senior management
- Ensure that internal controls adequately prevent ethical breaches, operational inefficiencies, and financial mismanagement
- Create attractive compensation plans for senior executives that are also aligned with organizational goals and performance
- Monitor, analyze, and evaluate current risks and devise contingency plans to safeguard the business from potential backlash
Program Structure
This program provides a structured understanding of corporate governance and its principles and processes, encompassing key aspects such as risk management, compensation planning, and strategic direction.
Participant Profile
This program is designed for senior executives with board or management experience, those preparing to take on such responsibilities, and C-suite executives.
Senior executives who are current or upcoming board members and wish to equip themselves with a structured understanding of proactive corporate governance, risk management, and compensation planning:
- Board member
- Board adviser
- Board director
- President
- Vice president
C-suite executives who seek to understand the duties and nuances of board service and wish to enhance their organization's financial returns, risk management efforts, governance diversity, and strategic direction:
- Chief executive officer
- Chief technology officer
- Chief strategy officer
- Founder or co-founder
- Managing director
- Executive director
Faculty
Shiva Rajgopal
Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing
Shiva Rajgopal
Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing
Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor at Columbia Business School. A highly regarded academic, Shiva is one of the world’s leading experts on measuring how well managers serve as responsible stewards of the corporation’s resources. He is perhaps best known for his finding that around 40 percent of Chief Financial Officers would sacrifice a positive net present value project to meet quarterly analyst consensus earnings estimate. Apart from conducting pioneering research on short-termism, Shiva's extensive body of academic and practitioner focused work covers a wide range of contemporary issues in financial reporting and governance such as accounting restatements, frauds, SEC enforcement actions, efficacy of board and executive compensation schemes in delivering shareholder value, whistle blowing, and the paramount importance of corporate culture as an under-appreciated economic asset of the firm. He has wide-ranging experience in solving applied business problems with global private equity funds, leading insurance companies, financial services firms, hedge funds, and cyber security ratings agencies. His work has been featured extensively in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Barrons, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes and The Economist.
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