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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
Registration Deadline
Register by Apr 3
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Business
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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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Health & Medicine
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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
Flags
Social Sciences
In-Person

Senior Executives in National and International Security

Senior Executives in National and International Security is an online executive program convening senior security officials from around the world focused on the future of security.
Price
$11,500
Duration
1 week long
Registration Deadline
Register by Oct 1
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Social Sciences
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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
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Social Sciences
In-Person

Emerging Leaders

This 5-day Harvard Kennedy School executive program will develop and expand your capacity to be one of tomorrow’s leaders.
Price
$11,300
Duration
1 week long
Registration Deadline
Register by Oct 7
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Social Sciences
Online

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
Participants networking
Social Sciences
In-Person

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
$10,900
Registration Deadline
Register by Feb 24
Women networking
Social Sciences
Online
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
In-Person

Leadership Decision Making

Leadership Decision Making features hands-on learning experiences that help leaders like you improve decision analysis and leadership effectiveness.
Price
$11,300
Duration
1 week long
Registration Deadline
Register by Apr 26
Green Cityscape
Social Sciences
In-Person

Leading Green Growth: Economic Strategies for a Low-Carbon World

This one-week on-campus executive education program developed by Harvard Kennedy School provides a foundational understanding of decarbonization and its economic impact.
Price
$10,600
Duration
1 week long
Registration Deadline
Register by Mar 17
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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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Social Sciences
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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
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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Social Sciences
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Online Live

Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies

This is an intensive, 5-day executive program that examines the managerial and operational challenges faced by government officials and professionals who have regulatory, enforcement, security, compliance, or other risk-control responsibilities.
Price
$5,100
Registration Deadline
Register by Jan 23
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Social Sciences
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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
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Business
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Strategy Execution for Public Leadership

Join Harvard Kennedy School faculty and former Pentagon Chief of Staff Eric Rosenbach to learn how to develop strategies for public leadership success.
Price
$1,600
Duration
5 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Opens Sep 9
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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
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U.S. Public Policy: Social, Economic, and Foreign Policies

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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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
Harvard Kennedy School campus
Social Sciences
In-Person

Leadership in Crises

Leadership in Crises is an on-campus executive program that will help you learn how to build the expertise needed to ensure a more successful crisis management process.
Price
$10,900
Duration
1 week long
Registration Deadline
Register by Feb 3
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Social Sciences
Online

Public Leadership Credential

Developed by Harvard Kennedy School faculty, this professional credential program equips you with the skills necessary to advance the public good.
Price
$1,149+
Duration
6 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Register by Oct 15
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Social Sciences
In-Person

Emerging Leaders

This 5-day Harvard Kennedy School executive program will develop and expand your capacity to be one of tomorrow’s leaders.
Price
$11,300
Duration
1 week long
Registration Deadline
Register by Mar 10
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Social Sciences
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U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government
Price
Free*
Registration Deadline
Available now
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Business
Online

Strategy Execution for Public Leadership

Join Harvard Kennedy School faculty and former Pentagon Chief of Staff Eric Rosenbach to learn how to develop strategies for public leadership success.
Price
$1,600
Registration Deadline
Opens Nov 18
Artificial Intelligence and Technology
Social Sciences
In-Person

Leading in Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Technology and Policy

The Leading in Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Technology and Policy on-campus executive program lies at the critical intersection of policy and technology.
Price
$11,700
Registration Deadline
Register by May 17
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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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