Top 10 Executive Courses in Agribusiness

Harvard Business School’s Agribusiness Seminar has been running for more than 50 years in Boston. The annual program sees executives gather to discuss key agribusiness trends, challenges and emerging opportunities. The four-day course covers climate change, environmental pressures, geopolitical tensions, and other supply chain risks. Participants leave better able to build a competitive advantage and drive business growth.

USC Marshall School of Business offers the Food Industry Executive Program that’s designed to prepare the foods industry’s future leaders, in partnership with the Western Association of Food Chains. It’s an immersive four-day course that covers the latest industry trends and features networking with food industry executives. The curriculum includes courses on strategic marketing, executive presence and communication.

New York’s Columbia Business School offers a course called Executive Training on Sustainable Investments in Agriculture. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to addressing the challenges and opportunities of agriculture investment, and is aimed at public sector officials and civil society representatives from low and middle-income countries.

New York’s Cornell SC Johnson College of Business has offered the Food Executive Program for more than 55 years. The five-day course covers emerging food industry trends, personal leadership style, food retailing strategies and the economic environment. It’s delivered on Cornell’s campus in Ithaca where attendees interact with faculty and peers in an intimate learning environment.

The UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in Dublin, Ireland, offers a number of professional diplomas in food, including the Manager Development Programme, an executive education course created for food producers. It has been designed to help participants address the global challenges facing the agribusiness such as economic and environmental sustainability, food safety and healthy diets.

The Executive Program for Agricultural Producers (TEPAP) is offered by Mays Business School at Texas A&M. It teaches advanced agribusiness skills such as international development, market evaluation, financial forecasting, as well as talent management and negotiation. Students spend an intense week in the business school classroom taking lectures and taking part in roundtable discussions with classmates who are leading food producers from across the world.