Social Sciences Courses

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

Gain the knowledge and tools to navigate the changes brought on by AI on the legal profession.

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

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

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.

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.

International Finance: Policy, Regulation, and Transactions provides an overview of fundamentals and emerging policy issues for the global financial system.

Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale.

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

Negotiation Strategies: Building Agreement Across Boundaries is an online executive program that goes beyond other negotiation workshops to address the challenges of negotiating across cultures, organizations, and sectors.

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

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

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.

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.

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.

The Global Health Care Leaders Program (GHLP) is a multi-modular global program that aims to bring together the most important topics defining the future of health care industry for the leaders who will lead the charge.

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

Develop the perspectives and skills necessary to be an effective law firm leader. 

Negotiation Strategies: Building Agreement Across Boundaries is an online executive program that goes beyond other negotiation workshops to address the challenges of negotiating across cultures, organizations, and sectors.

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.

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 course from Harvard Business School (HBS) Online will teach you how to approach pricing strategy, evaluate market demand, and differentiate offerings, so you can drive critical business decisions and successfully compete in the marketplace.

Designed for individuals and teams, this Harvard Online course taught by preeminent Harvard Professor Mahzarin Banaji teaches the science of hidden bias and strategies to counter its impact in the workplace.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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