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Session Date

May 16, 2027 - May 21, 2027

Application Deadline

March 17, 2027

Program Fee

$10600

Faculty Chair

Ricardo Hausmann

Daniel Schrag

Program Director

Cindy Wong

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Group Enrollment: Tuition discounts are available for groups of five or more. Learn more here.

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

Societies’ transition to new ways of making and using energy are 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. Many regions are facing unprecedented and growing electricity demand from data centers, AI, electric vehicles and next generation manufacturing, and clean energy sources often now represent the cheapest, fastest sources of energy on the grid. Other regions have opportunities to supply or innovate in the critical energy technologies that power the energy transition. Policy and technology are central in shaping this new energy landscape.

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 how to shape economic growth strategy in the energy transition. You will also acquire the essential tools and knowledge to anticipate new trends, remain competitive, and achieve prosperity in a new energy future.

Program Curriculum

In Leading Green Growth, you will gather with peers from around the world to analyze how to improve your economic prospects through the global energy transition. This one-week on-campus program will discuss the emerging 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 from electrification and load growth. 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 the energy transition
Understand critical new energy technologies—and how they are relevant to you
Chart a path to economic growth from rising energy demand and electrification
Determine opportunities and risks in green growth, and navigate associated policy
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 the energy transition
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
Infrastructure investors in electricity and heavy industry
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.

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