Fall Session
September 27 - 29, 2022
Program Fee: $8,500
Email execed@anderson.ucla.edu to explore corporate group pricing options.
Farmers CMO Mike Linton discusses how to prepare for board service
Gain what you need to guide and support your executive leadership team around the crucial issues of strategy, structure and succession. We offer a powerful combination of foundational topics and advanced insight on the timeliest and most pressing issues facing boards today, taught by world-class UCLA Anderson faculty and distinguished speakers who represent some of the nation’s most prestigious organizations. Whether a seasoned director or new to the responsibility, you will emerge from this three-day, in-person, on campus experience with greater powers to provide active, informed and independent guidance to your senior leadership team.
Program Overview
An Immersion in Board Best Practices
Boardroom Essentials
- Hot Topics & Fundamentals of Governance
- Regulatory Changes Impacting the Boardroom
- Strategic Management and the Board
- Corporate Responsibility to Pay Taxes?
- The Board and Accounting Issues
Expanding Your Impact
- Digging Deeper into Your Firm’s Financial Statements
- Managing Mergers, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures and Alliances
- Ensuring Effective Committees: Audit and Compensation
- The Board and Activist Shareholders
- Cyber Risk and Security for Boards
The optional certification exam is offered at the conclusion of the program.
The Experience
An immersion into a unique blend of research-driven, business and board viewpoints, this intensive experience covers the basics, then delves into today’s most complex issues from the boardroom.
Impact
You will emerge with a toolkit of boardroom best practices and comprehensive frameworks for handling emerging issues that stand to shape the future of your organization. Moreover, your personal and professional networks will strengthen and expand through program features such as the Directors Networking Reception and Dinner at which a distinguished keynote speaker will address Governance hot topics.
Directors Networking Dinner with Bonnie Hill
Crisis Management 101 with Public Affairs & Communications Authority Aaron McLear
Mark Hoplamazian on Corporate Governance
UCLA Directors Networking Dinner Spring 2016, Dick Poladian Keynote
The Faculty
Accounting Area Chair
Adjunct Professor of Accounting; Associate Dean, Fully Employed MBA Program
