Free Courses

HKS Executive Education and Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences present a webinar featuring Harvard faculty Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.

Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.

An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

Learn salary negotiation techniques with this free, 15-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson taught by Mike Wheeler of Negotiation Mastery.

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

Examine how great modern writers capture the intricacies of our globalized world and how their works circulate within that world to find their own audiences.

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

Develop the skills to lead with courage and conviction through challenging times with this free, 35-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson.

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

Explore the impact of the conquest dynasties and the world of the Ming.

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning.

In Remote Work Revolution for Everyone, you will learn to excel in the virtual-work landscape. You will learn how to build trust, increase productivity, use digital tools intelligently, and remain fully aligned with your remote team.

Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

Learn simple graphical rules that allow you to use intuitive pictures to improve study design and data analysis for causal inference.

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

Explore Chinese history and culture from the perspective of the individual through philosophical texts, literary works, and art.

Learn probability, an essential language and set of tools for understanding data, randomness, and uncertainty.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

Explore the Maoist period of China, from the Communist Party to the death of Mao and the reopening of China.

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.

This intensive course, developed by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), offers a comprehensive exploration of key topics in stem cell medicine.

Keep your projects organized and produce reproducible reports using GitHub, git, Unix/Linux, and RStudio.

Learn how to use decision trees, the foundational algorithm for your understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

Learn inference and modeling: two of the most widely used statistical tools in data analysis.

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.