In today’s tenuous business environment where corporations and financial institutions are facing a downturn of unfathomable proportions, Directors’ Consortium offers a lifeline. The result of an unparalleled academic partnership featuring faculty and research from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Stanford Law School, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, this program combines powerful ideas and strategic insights to deliver an incomparable executive learning experience for board directors and board members.

The Directors' Consortium leverages the world-renowned research of three universities to address the fundamental "big issues" surrounding corporate governance.

• Understand essential questions that board members should be asking management and outside experts, regarding financing, disclosure, governance, succession planning, compensation, and litigation.

• Learn what Audit Committee members should know about revenue recognition, off-balance sheet financing, and accounting methods and disclosures.

• Develop frameworks for prudent legal strategies that help boards navigate in litigious environments.

• Understand and benchmark against best practices in corporate governance.

• Develop strategies for managing CEO succession and evaluating executive compensation.

• Evaluate the role of the board in strategy development, evaluation, and evolution.

The Directors' Consortium is a dynamic, cross-disciplinary, research-based executive program focusing on the role of directors in driving and sustaining corporate success even in uncertain times.

The program is specifically designed for those who already are, or are about to become, members of a board of directors of a public company. Board members of companies that aspire to become public in the near future will also benefit, as will those who serve on boards of foreign corporations that are listed or aspire to be listed on U.S. exchanges.

The disciplines covered will have applicability to private or family company boards and non-profit organizations, but not all of the specific regulations and processes of public companies will apply. Participants will gain leading-edge strategies, frameworks, and best practices for making crucial board decisions in a changing environment.