Social Sciences Courses

The Leadership in Corporate Counsel program offers in-house leaders insights into the challenges they face and the frameworks, concepts, and tools they need to succeed in their increasingly complicated roles. 

Enhance your ability to be an effective and influential leader who can drive results.

Designed for current and aspiring nonprofit leaders, this course helps learners build the confidence needed to make stronger financial decisions in mission-driven organizations.

Explore the ethical controversies of financial markets.

Developed by Harvard Kennedy School faculty, this professional credential program equips you with the skills necessary to advance the public good.

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.

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 executive leadership program is designed to inspire, energize, and prepare Black leaders, and those working for their success, by providing tools to help them thrive professionally and personally, as well as improve their organizations’ culture, prod

Developed by Harvard Kennedy School faculty, this professional credential program equips you with the skills necessary to advance the public good.

Led by Juliette Kayyem, this four-day, on-campus program helps participants navigate the challenges and opportunities of hosting or sponsoring a major event.

Infrastructure Financing, Regulation, and Management is an executive program that gives participants the tools needed to develop, finance, regulate, and manage infrastructure using public, private, and PPP/P3-based procurement mechanisms.

Strategies for Inclusive Growth is a one-week, on-campus program from Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education.

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

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

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

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.

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

Navigate rising complexity and uncertainty by developing the mental clarity, emotional resilience, and composure needed to lead teams effectively.

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.

Understand how global markets, geopolitics, and economic forces influence business decisions and growth, in this course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online.

This highly interactive and experiential executive program is designed to train executive leadership development professionals from around the world, including consultants, teachers and trainers.

Leading AI Transformation in Legal Practice is a four-day, in-person executive program at Harvard Law School focusing on the strategic, organizational, and management questions that determine the value of AI investments.

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

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

Explore how psychology, behavioral science, and game theory influence economic decisions and shape human behavior.

Created by Senior Lecturer Michael Walton, examine real-world policy challenges and learn how to analyze, design, and recommend effective policy solutions.

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

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.

This on-campus program will help you prepare for and respond to crises, develop protocols that minimize the potential for future occurrences, and inspire confidence in the long-term success and resilience of your institution.

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.