Public Policy Courses

Think critically about social questions such as education policy, upward income mobility, and racial disparities, and understand how big data can answer these questions as well as impact policies that lead to improved outcomes around the world.

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Think critically about social questions such as education policy, upward income mobility, and racial disparities, and understand how big data can answer these questions as well as impact policies that lead to improved outcomes around the world.

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

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

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

The Executive Leaders and Government program at Harvard Kennedy School provides a unique opportunity for senior executives to strengthen their leadership skills and expand their competencies.

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. 

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

Senior Executive Fellows is the unparalleled professional development program for public sector executives who want to sharpen their leadership and managerial skills.

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

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.

Women and Power is an intensive one-week on campus program designed to accelerate women's leadership advancement.

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.

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 4-week Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education online program is designed to help managers in nonprofit organizations understand the tools, techniques and concepts of good financial management.

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

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

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

This free webinar from HKS Professor Matthew Bunn tours the horizon of nuclear dangers.

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.

The Leading in Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Technology and Policy on-campus executive program lies at the critical intersection of policy and technology.