Professional Development Courses

Taught by Harvard Professor Julie Battilana with insights from actor, singer, and producer Keke Palmer

Health care organizations need leaders who can deliver high-quality, compassionate care to patients while driving innovation and systemic change. Gain tools to transform your organization and lead boldly in a complex and rapidly evolving landscape.

This course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online will equip you with a strategic understanding of how AI is transforming organizations.

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

Learn the unbreakable laws of communication that will make your next presentation engaging, attractive, and actionable.

Overcome the key challenges and critical tensions you face as a member of the rising generation in a family enterprise. Crystallize priorities and develop an action plan to guide the next phase of your life, career, and business.

Develop the psychological insights and practical skills needed to negotiate more effectively and make better decisions.

To succeed as an entrepreneur, you need more than just a great idea—you need the right skillset and mindset to execute it. This program prepares you to turn disruptive innovation into a competitive advantage and a profitable business.

Develop the psychological insights and practical skills needed to negotiate more effectively and make better decisions.

Power and Influence for Positive Impact, a Harvard Business School (HBS) Online course, helps individuals develop their own power to gain influence and make an impact.

Make your Entrepreneurial dreams a reality by mastering a proven framework that entrepreneurs use to build and finance new ventures, validate concepts, and refine their strategy in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Deepen your understanding of the board's responsibilities and uncover new ways to mitigate risk and drive long-term corporate success.

Meet evolving regulatory requirements while ensuring that financial reporting, compliance, and risk management efforts align with strategy.

Taught by Harvard Professor Michael Sandel with insights from actor Michael B. Jordan

Acquire insights you can apply to your business as you explore recent changes in the industry, emerging strategies, and best practices.

Explore branding as a collective meaning-making process—a collaboration between firms, consumers, and other cultural creators. Supercharge your ability to craft, communicate, and manage brands that create value for consumers and your business.

Taught by Harvard Faculty Jody Freeman with insights from comedian and actor Amy Poehler

Examine critical market and regulatory issues to develop executive compensation strategies that drive performance, profitability, and employee satisfaction.

Build an intuitive understanding of financial principles to better understand the market in which your organization operates, create and access value, and communicate with key stakeholders in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Leverage new technologies to strengthen your core business, power future growth, and protect your bottom line.

Design the right offering to maximize customer engagement. Learn how to flawlessly execute a sustainable service model that will give you a competitive edge in your industry.

Take your leadership skills to the next level alongside an exceptional group of senior businesswomen from around the world.

Build a nimble organization that balances innovation with performance, and evolution with financial stability.

Turn the uncertainty of today's global economy into an opportunity to manage risk, and create and capture value for your organization, in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Data Science and AI Principles is a Harvard Online course that gives you an overview of data science and AI systems with a nearly code- and math-free introduction to prediction, causality, visualization, data wrangling, privacy, ethics.

Discover and develop the qualities that define the highest level of authentic leadership: ironclad principles, a clear and unifying vision, and the ability to inspire trust and dedication in others.

Learn the skills and tools of improvement science to make positive changes in health, healthcare, and your daily life.

Expand your business acumen while also engaging in a profoundly personal exploration that builds leadership insights and strength. Become a better, more authentic, more purposeful leader who can step up to increasingly challenging leadership roles. 

Prepare yourself and your organization for the business risks and opportunities created by climate change in this online course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

Design Thinking and Innovation from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online will teach you how to leverage fundamental design thinking principles and innovative problem-solving tools to address business challenges.