Women on Boards: Succeeding as a Corporate Director 2026

It takes place at HBS Campus in Boston, Massachusetts.

The stated audience includes senior businesswomen and senior women executives with nonprofit or private board experience who aim to serve on public corporate boards.

It is most worthwhile for senior women at large established companies who already serve on nonprofit or private boards and are aiming at a public company seat, since the program is built around how board selection works and how to get noticed beyond informal networks. Women who already hold public company directorships, or who are well below senior executive level, would get less from it, because the audience is senior executives seeking a first public board.

Senior executives at programs held on a business school campus usually wear business professional or sharp business casual, such as suits, tailored dresses or blazers.