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    Session Date
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    Application Deadline
    Program Fee
    $6,100
    Faculty Chair
    Matthew Andrews
    Ricardo Hausmann
    Program Director
    Cindy Wong
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    Executive Certificate: This program is a core program in the Economic Development and Public Policy 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.
    IEDC Recertification: This program is a recognized International Economic Development Council (IEDC) recertification program.

Program Overview

Stimulating growth is the top economic priority for many countries and localities around the world. Yet many are trapped, lacking the productive capability to solve problems and expand to new industries to drive development. New growth strategies need paths, processes and organizations to address this problem. 

Leading Economic Growth (Online) is a 10-week online executive program, led by Professor Ricardo Hausmann and Professor Matt Andrews, that examines new approaches to shared growth and development, expanding a country’s productive capabilities and developing contextually-driven strategies for growth. Learn powerful new tools that allow countries to better chart the road ahead, identify the obstacles to prosperity and define actions that can lead to economic growth. 

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Program Curriculum

Leading Economic Growth brings together leading experts in economic development with practitioners from around the globe to focus on practical approaches to shared growth and development. The curriculum provides a framework for understanding economic growth, as well as sophisticated tools for diagnosis, decision making, and implementation.

Over the course of 10 weeks, you will gain an enhanced understanding of how to develop a set of policies and tools to detect distortions and design solutions to unlock growth.

The concepts and frameworks you learn will allow you to design effective strategies for economic growth and will be applied to your own economic growth challenge that you are addressing in your city, region or country.

 

Learning Objectives

During this program you will gain an in-depth look at specific topics that determine the economic potential of a country, including:

  • Economic diversification and complexity
  • The nature of growth and structural transformation
  • Organizational architecture and design
  • Policy implementation

Application Information

Recommended Applicants

Leading Economic Growth is designed for senior-level individuals and teams in all sectors with active roles in promoting economic activity.

Recommended applicants include:

  • Government officials from ministries, investment promotion agencies, and regional and city development institutions
  • Executives from multinational and national corporations who play a role in strategic decisions
  • Program officers from multilateral institutions that promote and advise on growth strategies

Teams working together on specific growth and development projects will also benefit from the opportunity to develop working case studies about their own country, region or municipality and receive feedback leveraging the combined experience of the faculty and fellow classmates.

Sample Schedule

Access the draft program schedule.

Program Requirements

To successfully complete this program, you will be required to complete all 10 individual assignments and attend all 10 peer learning group sessions. These program elements will help you develop a strategy that you can implement to promote economic growth in your city, region, or country. Participants are expected to commit a minimum of three hours/week to live sessions and approximately five hours/week to self-study time. 

What Participants are Saying

“The Leading Economic Growth (Online) program brought me a very hands-on approach to engage and foster economic development. It is not a program limited to intellectual reflection but instead focused on action.”

PAULO DALLA NORA MACEDO, FIR CAPITAL, HEAD PTP, BRAZIL
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Ricardo Hausmann and Matt Andrews Discuss Leading Economic Growth

Hear the faculty chairs discuss the upcoming Harvard Kennedy School executive program Leading Economic Growth, which will now be offered online.

Faculty & Research

Faculty Chairs
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Matthew Andrews

Edward S. Mason Senior Lecturer in International Development

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Ricardo Hausmann

Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy
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Related Research

Alumni Spotlight: Economic Growth in Australia

“In my role, I need to develop projects that support the economic development of regional Australia while also introducing new skills, new capability, and technology transfer that will further integrate us into global supply chains,” says Fabio. “With these ventures, it is very important for me to be in constant training and updated on the latest trends.”

Fabio Nave, investment director of the Australian Trade and Investment Commission, reflects on how he is using his Leading Economic Growth program experience. Read his story.

Fabio Nave, Leading Economic Growth alumnus
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