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Session Date-Application DeadlineProgram Fee$10,200Program Director
We are still accepting applications for this session. Please contact the program director for additional information.
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 laura_bussa@hks.harvard.edu
Session Date-Application DeadlineProgram Fee$10,600Program DirectorThe 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 laura_bussa@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 any concentration 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 tensions, trade relations, and key drivers of project success such as how to lower capital costs and fund a green growth agenda.
Learning Objectives
Faculty chairs Ricardo Hausmann and Daniel Schrag designed Leading Green Growth specifically to help you:
- Master and apply a tested framework for maximizing your economic opportunities in a greening economy
- Understand the critical technologies behind green energy—and how they are relevant to you
- Envision how decarbonization will transform your competitive landscape
- Determine opportunities and risks in green growth
- Diagnose key factors for project success that have informed recent green investment trends
- Identify your own local green growth opportunities
- Learn breakthrough insights into the nature of economic growth in a low-carbon world
- Implement a green growth strategy
What Participants are Saying
"This course was the most meaningful and challenging piece of professional development I have ever undertaken. It fundamentally changed the way I view economic development and has had a profound impact on my approach to policy-making.”
Jessica Shaw, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier and Minister for State and Industry Development, Jobs and Trade; Government of Western Australia; Member of Legislative Assembly for Swan Hills
Application Information
Leading Green Growth is designed for leaders in both public and private sectors who want to leverage the opportunities decarbonization provides. Those who will benefit from this program include:
- Policymakers
- Industry experts
- Senior-level leaders in government, especially in finance, economic development, industrial policy, and energy
- Multilateral development bank representatives
- Clean technology and energy investors
- Economic development advisors
Immerse yourself with a cohort of fellow green growth leaders on Harvard’s historic campus. View the draft program schedule. Note that module titles, speakers, and sequence may change.
Alumni Perspective
"One of a kind learning experience, very timely, rich and global. I’ll recommend the course to my friends & colleagues."
Sabbir Hossain, Deputy Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, BRAC Bank, Bangladesh
Faculty & Research
Ricardo Hausmann
Ricardo Hausmann
Appointment
Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy
Mailing Address 1
Harvard Kennedy School
Mailing Address 2
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox
34
City
Cambridge
State
MA
Zip
02138
Daniel Schrag
Daniel Schrag
Appointment
Professor of Public Policy, vlog; Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, FAS
Mailing Address 1
Harvard Kennedy School
Mailing Address 2
79 John F. Kennedy Street
City
Cambridge
State
MA
Zip
02138
Joseph Aldy
Joseph Aldy
Appointment
Teresa and John Heinz Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy
Mailing Address 1
Harvard Kennedy School
Mailing Address 2
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox
114
City
Cambridge
State
MA
Zip
02138
Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik
Appointment
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
Mailing Address 1
Harvard Kennedy School
Mailing Address 2
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox
71
City
Cambridge
State
MA
Zip
02138
Catherine Wolfram
Catherine Wolfram
Appointment
William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management
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