Executive Education Programs By Name
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 an alphabetical listing of program offerings – please click on the program name for a more detailed overview
of each program.
Develop the tools needed to formulate growth strategies and development policies.
Designed to engage participants as learners, teachers, and as leaders. Experienced professionals analyze a variety of leadership teaching methods and techniques.
Examines the design and implementation of tax systems around the world. Provides practical tools to help formulate appropriate tax policies and tax administration.
Examines the design and implementation of tax systems around the world. Provides practical tools to help formulate appropriate tax policies and tax administration.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Designed to challenge fundamental assumptions about how we can courageously and effectively exercise leadership and authority for the purposes we care about most.
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 leaders with a unique opportunity to integrate science, technology and innovation into a national development policy. Focuses on meeting human needs, participating in the global economy, and making the sustainability transition.
Provides leaders with a unique opportunity to integrate science, technology and innovation into a national development policy. Focuses on meeting human needs, participating in the global economy, and making the sustainability transition.
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.
Designed for senior leaders in public affairs from developing, newly industrialized, and transitional economies who face complex economic, political, and social challenges.
Leadership Decision Making: Optimizing Organizational Performance offers important new insights into leadership based on breakthrough scientific discoveries about decision making.
Leadership Decision Making: Optimizing Organizational Performance offers important new insights into leadership based on breakthrough scientific discoveries about decision making.
Designed to challenge fundamental assumptions about how to courageously and effectively exercise leadership and authority for the purposes you care about most.
Designed to challenge fundamental assumptions about how to courageously and effectively exercise leadership and authority for the purposes you care about most.
Whether it's a natural disaster, an industrial accident, or a terrorist attack, or other catastrophe, a crisis usually hits with no warning.
An online program designed to help leaders of civic associations, advocacy groups, and social movements learn how to organize communities that can mobilize power to make change.
Enables participants to diagnose their current municipal, regional, or national economies and develop new investment promotion strategies for optimal growth.
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 enable trade practitioners at all levels to analyze, formulate, negotiate, and implement effective policies and practices in the field of trade.
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.
An online program designed to help nonprofit and non-governmental organization managers improve their financial literacy.
Every country around the world has embraced public financial management reforms over the last two decades, but many simply have not met expectations.
Designed to help promising senior officials prepare for promotion to Senior Executive Service. Focuses on OPM’s Executive Core Qualifications.
Designed to help promising senior officials prepare for promotion to Senior Executive Service. Focuses on OPM’s Executive Core Qualifications.
Designed to help promising senior officials prepare for promotion to Senior Executive Service. Focuses on OPM’s Executive Core Qualifications.
Provides a setting for senior executives to deepen their understanding of current security issues in an intellectually stimulating, non-attribution, academic environment.
Provides a setting for senior executives to deepen their understanding of current security issues in an intellectually stimulating, non-attribution, academic environment.
Provides a balance of traditional and hands-on learning experiences to help seasoned public officials meet the changing needs of their constituents and communities.
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.
American healthcare is changing. Understanding, managing, and leveraging change in the healthcare sector are at the center of this one-week program.
An online program designed to help nonprofit and non-governmental organization leaders in the developing world use strategic management frameworks to improve their organizations.
Designed to examine the distinctive strategic and managerial challenges that surround government agencies’ regulatory and enforcement functions.
Designed to examine the distinctive strategic and managerial challenges that surround government agencies’ regulatory and enforcement functions.
Addresses the challenge that managers face in identifying useful strategies for evaluating and improving program effectiveness.
Women and Power is designed for senior executive women from the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. It is an intense, interactive experience designed to help women advance to top positions of influence.