Executive Education Programs By Date
Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy School offers programs for leaders from around the
world. We bring together experienced professionals, a world-class faculty, and a dynamic curriculum in a setting
where the common denominator is a shared commitment to public value. The result is a lasting transformational
leadership experience. We have developed the most comprehensive range of executive education programs in public
leadership available anywhere in the world.
Below is a listing of program offerings by date for the upcoming year– please click on the program name
for a more detailed overview of each program.
Provides leaders with a unique opportunity to integrate science and technology into a national development policy. Focuses on meeting human needs, participating in the global economy, and making the sustainability transition.
Designed to help senior leaders of nonprofit organizations think about new strategies for creating and sustaining high organizational performance. Offered jointly by Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School.
With the guidance of Art and Practice of Leadership Plus faculty, facilitators deeply immersed in the APL material, and your APL colleagues, you will begin by designing your own experiment for applying adaptive leadership practices into your work.
Designed to provide critical skills, knowledge, and strategy to leaders operating in an era of global uncertainty and complexity.
Designed for senior leaders in public affairs from developing, newly industrialized, and transitional economies who face complex economic, political, and social challenges.
provides a balance of traditional and hands-on learning experiences to help seasoned public officials meet the changing needs of their constituents and communities.
Examines the design and implementation of tax systems around the world. Provides practical tools to help formulate appropriate tax policies and tax administration.
Addresses the challenge that managers face in identifying useful strategies for evaluating and improving program effectiveness.
Designed to help officials from public and private sectors develop public-private partnerships in infrastructure that are technically defensible, economically feasible, and politically acceptable.
provides a balance of traditional and hands-on learning experiences to help seasoned public officials meet the changing needs of their constituents and communities.
Designed for senior government officials and their counterparts in international government, the military, and the private sector. Focuses on policy development and performance management.
Designed to aid in the sustainable provision of financial services for micro, small, and medium enterprises. Focuses on the management skills and operational tools needed in a market economy.
American healthcare is changing. Understanding, managing, and leveraging change in the healthcare sector are at the center of this one-week program.
Provides a setting for senior executives to deepen their understanding of current security issues in an intellectually stimulating, non-attribution, academic environment.
Designed to enable trade practitioners at all levels to analyze, formulate, negotiate, and implement effective policies and practices in the field of trade.
Designed to challenge fundamental assumptions about how to courageously and effectively exercise leadership and authority for the purposes you care about most.
In a world of highly constrained resources, the ability of a nongovernmental organization (NGO) to optimize its impact on society requires both clarity of purpose and flexibility.
Designed to examine the distinctive strategic and managerial challenges that surround government agencies’ regulatory and enforcement functions.
Designed to help promising senior officials prepare for promotion to Senior Executive Service. Focuses on OPM’s Executive Core Qualifications.
An online program designed to help nonprofit and non-governmental organization managers improve their financial literacy.
Designed to help senior officials think about new ways of working together across traditional political and organizational boundaries in order to solve complex public problems.
Leadership Decision Making: Optimizing Organizational Performance offers important new insights into leadership based on breakthrough scientific discoveries about decision making.
Designed to help participants understand the common biases and irrational investment behaviors that significantly influence the behavior of financial markets and produce suboptimal outcomes for investors.
Provides a setting for senior executives to deepen their understanding of current security issues in an intellectually stimulating, non-attribution, academic environment.
Emerging Leaders, a new Executive Education Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government program that brings together leaders from around the world and renowned Harvard faculty to develop and expand the capacity of the next generation...
An online program designed to help executives of nonprofit and non-governmental organizations engage their boards in more consequential and meaningful work that produces greater value for their organizations.
Designed to challenge fundamental assumptions about how to courageously and effectively exercise leadership and authority for the purposes you care about most.
Enables participants to diagnose their current municipal, regional, or national economies and develop new investment promotion strategies for optimal growth.
Crisis Leadership in Higher Education is designed to help college and university presidents, their senior leadership teams, and other campus administrators in key leadership roles manage, survive, and recover from unexpected events successfully.
Provides a number of explicit strategies that public executives can use in a variety of complex circumstances to establish and implement performance improvements in their organizations and agencies.
Addresses the challenges of negotiating across cultures, organizations, and sectors in a world of various economic, political, and social problems, where sustainable solutions require consensus among multiple stakeholders.
Designed to help senior leaders of nonprofit organizations think about new strategies for creating and sustaining high organizational performance. Offered jointly by Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School.
Leadership Decision Making: Optimizing Organizational Performance offers important new insights into leadership based on breakthrough scientific discoveries about decision making.