Government Courses

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.

Persuasive Communication is designed to help you build a critical set of skills in writing, speaking, and presentation by providing a dynamic forum to learn, practice, and receive feedback on these essential skills.

Gain a foundational knowledge of American constitutional democracy while crafting your own civic voice and identity.

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.

This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.

This program address the significant challenge of climate change and its impacts on the environment, as well as society and the global economy.

This on-campus executive program, Comparative Tax Policy and Administration, can provide you with insights and tools to adapt tax theory to everyday challenges.

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.

Leading Successful Programs will challenge you to rethink your programs' goals and reassess how you gather, evaluate, and use data to determine their effectiveness.

This three week on campus executive provides a balance of traditional and hands-on learning experiences to help seasoned public officials better address the concerns of their constituents and communities.

Leadership Decision Making features hands-on learning experiences that help leaders like you improve decision analysis and leadership effectiveness.

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.

Understand how the FDA regulates pharmaceuticals and explore debates on prescription drug costs, marketing, and testing.

Learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.

In today’s world, it is crucial that leaders act with integrity and authenticity. Leadership and Character in Uncertain Times is a five-week online program that offers an opportunity to learn how to lead in times of conflict and disagreement.

This three week on campus executive provides a balance of traditional and hands-on learning experiences to help seasoned public officials better address the concerns of their constituents and communities.

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. 

An online executive program to explore how policy and technology, together, can address critical threats of the cyber world.

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.

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.

Join Harvard Kennedy School faculty and former Pentagon Chief of Staff Eric Rosenbach to learn how to develop strategies for public leadership success.

Public Narrative: Leadership, Storytelling, and Action is a transformative 14-week online program through which you can strengthen your capacity to lead. 

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

Leading Successful Programs will challenge you to rethink your programs' goals and reassess how you gather, evaluate, and use data to determine their effectiveness.

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.

This online executive program offers the latest research and best practices in nonprofit management to help leaders run organizations more effectively.

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

Leadership Decision Making features hands-on learning experiences that help leaders like you improve decision analysis and leadership effectiveness.

This 5-day Harvard Kennedy School executive program will develop and expand your capacity to be one of tomorrow’s leaders.