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Session Date

May 18, 2025 - May 23, 2025

Application Deadline

March 24, 2025

Program Fee

$10,200

Faculty Chair

Ricardo Hausmann

Daniel Schrag

Program Director

Laura Bussa

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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

The world is rapidly transitioning to a lower carbon economy, creating vast opportunities in “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.

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 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 you. This one-week on-campus program will discuss the emerging green technologies that are reshaping the economic landscape. The program examines the key drivers of project success in green growth including 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:

Get the latest insights into the future of the green 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 growth strategy

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.

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

Faculty co-chairs Ricardo Hausmann and Daniel Schrag discuss the Leading Green Growth executive program in this brief video.