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Social Sciences
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Online Live

Strategic Leadership: Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness

This program is designed to help experienced leaders gain the tools needed to effectively resolve the difficult challenges you face, often on a daily basis. The program will introduce you to a new approach to leadership called “The 4P Framework”.
Price
$5,900
Duration
1 week long
Registration Deadline
Register by Oct 3
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Social Sciences
Online
Online Live

Negotiation Strategies: Building Agreement Across Boundaries

Negotiation Strategies: Building Agreement Across Boundaries is an executive program that goes beyond other negotiation workshops to address the challenges of negotiating across cultures, organizations, and sectors.
Price
$5,100
Duration
1 week long
Registration Deadline
Register by Feb 20
Tangible Things
Humanities
Online

Tangible Things

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.
Price
Free*
Duration
10 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Business
Online

Strategic Finance for Nonprofit Leaders

Designed for current and aspiring nonprofit leaders, this course helps learners build the confidence needed to make stronger financial decisions in mission-driven organizations.
Price
Free*
Duration
6 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
Online

Child Protection: Children's Rights in Theory and Practice

Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.
Price
Free*
Duration
16 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Health & Medicine
Online

Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.
Price
Free*
Duration
4 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Humanities
Online

Justice Today: Money, Markets, and Morals (edX)

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.
Price
Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
Online
Online Live

Leadership Decision Making

Leadership Decision Making features hands-on learning experiences that help leaders like you improve decision analysis and leadership effectiveness.
Price
$6,600
Duration
2 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Register by Dec 11
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Humanities
Online

The Return of China

Led by Harvard Instructors and historians, you will discover China’s return to power through political, social, and economic growth in relation to other countries.
Price
$149
Duration
6 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
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Leadership, Organizing and Action: Leading Change

This program is designed to help leaders of civic associations, advocacy groups, and social movements learn how to organize communities that can mobilize power to make change.
Price
$3,000
Duration
15 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Register by Jan 2
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Humanities
Online

The Path to Happiness: What Chinese Philosophy Teaches Us about the Good Life

Why should we care about Confucius? Explore ancient Chinese philosophy, ethics, and political theory to challenge your assumptions of what it means to be happy, live a meaningful life, and change the world.
Price
Free*
Duration
13 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
Online

Leading People, Building Teams

Leading People, Building Teams helps you lead with confidence, support colleagues making the transition to management, and strengthen your organization's capacity to coach and retain talent.
Price
$1,995
Registration Deadline
Register by Jan 11
Constellations
Humanities
Online

PredictionX: Omens, Oracles & Prophecies

An overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.
Price
Free*
Duration
1 week long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
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HKS Executive Education Faculty Webinar: Machine Learning for Leaders

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.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
Online

Financial Analysis and Valuation for Lawyers

Taught by Harvard Law School faculty, Financial Analysis and Valuation for Lawyers is a Harvard Online course designed to help you navigate your organization or client’s financial goals while increasing profitability and minimizing risks.
Price
$1,600
Registration Deadline
Opens Oct 28
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Health & Medicine
Online

Prescription Drug Regulation, Cost, and Access: Current Controversies in Context

Understand how the FDA regulates pharmaceuticals and explore debates on prescription drug costs, marketing, and testing.
Price
Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
Online
Online Live

Collaborating for Public Value

Collaborating for Public Value equips you for the full lifecycle of collaboration—from deciding when to work together, to structuring partnerships, to navigating the opportunities and challenges of cross-sector relationships.
Price
$2,495
Duration
5 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Register by Sep 15
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Social Sciences
Online

Nonprofit Financial Stewardship Webinar: Introduction to Accounting and Financial Statements

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Humanities
Online

Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics

An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
Online

American Government: Constitutional Foundations

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
Online

Citizen Politics in America: Public Opinion, Elections, Interest Groups, and the Media

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Art & Design
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Pyramids of Giza: Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology

Explore the archaeology, history, art, and hieroglyphs surrounding the famous Egyptian Pyramids at Giza. Learn about Old Kingdom pharaohs and elites, tombs, temples, the Sphinx, and how new technology is unlocking their secrets.
Price
Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
Online

Leading People, Building Teams

Leading People, Building Teams helps you lead with confidence, support colleagues making the transition to management, and strengthen your organization's capacity to coach and retain talent.
Price
$1,995
Duration
3 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Register by Sep 21
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Social Sciences
Online
Online Live

Leading Economic Growth

Leading Economic Growth is an online executive program that brings together leading experts in economic development with practitioners from around the globe to focus on practical approaches to shared growth and development. 
Price
$6,600
Registration Deadline
Register by Aug 29
Social Sciences
Online

We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy

Gain a foundational knowledge of American constitutional democracy while crafting your own civic voice and identity.
Price
$0
Duration
7 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Health & Medicine
Online

Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health

Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.
Price
Free*
Duration
6 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
Online

Leading People, Building Teams

Leading People, Building Teams helps you lead with confidence, support colleagues making the transition to management, and strengthen your organization's capacity to coach and retain talent.
Price
$1,995
Registration Deadline
Register by Apr 12
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Social Sciences
Online
Online Live

Cybersecurity: The Intersection of Policy and Technology

An online executive program to explore how policy and technology, together, can address critical threats of the cyber world.
Price
$5,100
Duration
1 week long
Registration Deadline
Register by Dec 12
CS50L
Computer Science
Online

CS50 for Lawyers

This course is a variant of Harvard University's introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for lawyers (and law students).
Price
Free*
Duration
10 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Social Sciences
Online

CitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life

Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.
Price
Free*
Duration
11 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now

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