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  • On Campus
    Session Date
    -
    Application Deadline
    Program Fee
    $10,600
    Faculty Chair
    Ricardo Hausmann
    Daniel Schrag
    Program Director
    Tatyana Schlehuber
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    The Leading Green Growth program can be even more impactful when you and your leadership team attend together. To support teams of 2 to 5 participants from the same organization, we are offering a 10% team discount for each person. In order to receive the discount, each participant must submit an individual application to be reviewed for admission. If you have any questions or would like more information about how to apply as a team, please contact tatyana_schlehuber@hks.harvard.edu

    Executive Certificate: This program is a core program in the Public Leadership and Economic Development concentrations. This program can also be used as a third program for several concentrations in the Executive Certificate series.
    Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs): This program aligns with one or more Executive Core Qualifications.
    Program Fee: The program fee includes tuition, housing, curricular materials, and most meals.

Program Overview

Attuned to ongoing climate change, societies around the world are rapidly transitioning to a lower carbon economy, creating vast opportunities for “green growth.” New industries, markets, and technologies are emerging, charting new paths to prosperity for those who act.

Energy is a vital component of any business. Changes in energy costs and sources will reshape economic opportunity, opening new doors for some while posing threats to others. To seize the opportunity, government officials, economic policymakers, investors, and industry experts must act now to create winning strategies for green growth—generating economic growth by helping the world to decarbonize.

Leading Green Growth: Economic Strategies for a Low-Carbon World is a one-week, on-campus executive education program developed by Harvard Kennedy School faculty. Under the direction of faculty chairs Ricardo Hausmann and Daniel Schrag, you will gain a foundational understanding of decarbonization and its economic impact. You will also acquire the essential tools and knowledge to anticipate new trends, remain competitive, and achieve prosperity in a low-carbon and climate-conscious future.

Program Curriculum

In Leading Green Growth, you will gather with peers from around the world to analyze what the global energy transition to a low-carbon future means for your economic prospects. This one-week on-campus program will discuss the emerging green technologies that are reshaping the economic landscape. It will offer frameworks on how to think about economic opportunities that arise from these new energy technologies, and within their value chains. It will also explore key policy and commercial features of the green growth landscape, including industrial strategy, geopolitical te