Leadership in Crises: Preparation and Performance

11/11/2009

www.hks.harvard.edu/execed/cm
April 11, 2010 – April 16, 2010

This program is designed to help senior managers from public, private, and nonprofit sectors collaborate with peers across agencies, jurisdictions, and sectors and position themselves, their organizations, and their communities to successfully manage, survive, and recover from unexpected events.

An important part of the experiential learning Leadership in Crises provides is drawing on the strength of its wide range of participants. Professionals who have years of expertise comprise the class, fostering a spirit of lively and informed conversation. Titles of previous participants include: Deputy Director, Mayor, Supervisory Special Agent, Director, Public Health Nursing, Emergency Preparedness Project Manager, Director, Emergency Communication System, International Cooperation Director, Managing Director. Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor. Assistant for Biodefense Policy , Director, Department of Homeland Security, Vice President, Human Resources and Associate Services, Senior Adviser, Fire Chief, Vice President for Operations, etc.

Mastering Negotiation: Building Sustainable Agreements
www.hks.harvard.edu/execed/mn
April 25, 2010 – April 30, 2010

This program is for senior-level executives in the business, government, and nonprofit sectors. It is intended for people who have some practice in negotiation in a professional context, or who have taken a negotiations course in the past. Mastering Negotiation attracts a broad range of distinguished participants; the diversity of the group adds to the learning experience.

Innovation for Economic Development
www.hks.harvard.edu/execed/sti
April 4, 2010 – April 9, 2010

The program is designed for high-level decision-makers: ministers, deputy ministers, senior civil servants, diplomats, development leaders, university presidents, and chief executive officers and staff of international development agencies. Senior advisors to heads of state and government, as well as corporations with specific interest in development will also be considered. Training in the natural sciences is not a requirement. Participants typically come from a broad cross-section of fields, including, finance, economic and development planning, infrastructure development, industry, trade, science and technology, information and communications, education, health, agriculture, energy, environment and natural resources, regional development, development cooperation, and national defense. Leaders who deal with these issues from academia, non-governmental organizations, and the business community are also encouraged to apply.

Leadership for the 21st Century: Chaos,
Conflict and Courage
www.hks.harvard.edu/execed/l21
May 2, 2010 – May 7, 2010

The program is intended for senior executives in government, business, and non-profit organizations who wish to understand better the personal aspects of leadership and to improve their capacity to lead. Because the participants’ own experiences are critical to the learning process, we will choose a class that is professionally and geographically diverse. You should come prepared to exercise leadership in the classroom, help shape class conversation, and identify and question your own firmly held ideas about leadership. Since leadership is alive and well in any classroom setting, class dynamics will play an integral role in the program’s curriculum.

Creating Collaborative Solutions: Innovations in Governance
www.hks.harvard.edu/execed/ig
October 2010

This program is designed for leaders in the public, non-profit and private sectors who see their roles as reaching across these traditionally separate spheres to build new structures that can produce significant, valuable change. The most critical qualification for the course is a record of entrepreneurial activity and accomplishment in creating public value. The course will include participants from both the United States and abroad.Participants will include: Government officials who want to work across jurisdictions or sectors to build new governance capacity; Entrepreneurs who have set out to find solutions to public problems using private sector approaches; Leaders in the not-for-profit sector who are building new service delivery models and political organizations; Private sector leaders who see their corporate mission in a broader social context.

Strategic Frameworks for Nonprofit Organizations
(distance learning program)
www.hks.harvard.edu/execed/sfno
March 1, 2010 – May 7, 2010

This is an online program designed for senior leaders in nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations in the developing world. The design and delivery of this online program is a part of efforts to make the resources of the Kennedy School’s nonprofit education programs available to leaders in that sector who may be unserved by residential Executive Education programs because of their organization’s size, budget, and distance from the Kennedy School’s Cambridge campus.

Participants in this 10 week online program will be held to the same standard of performance as their colleagues attending Kennedy School residential Executive Education programs, where participation is based on thorough preparation and active engagement throughout the program. Each two week module can be expected to take at least 10 hours of work.

Expanding Non-Governmental Organization Impacts
(distance learning program)
http://ksgexecprogram.harvard.edu/Programs/eni/overview.aspx
Date: TBA

The program is designed for CEOs, general managers, and program staff of nonprofit organizations and NGOs.

Participants in this ten-week online program will be held to the same standard of performance as their colleagues attending Harvard Kennedy School residential Executive Education programs, where participation is based on thorough preparation and active engagement throughout the program. Each two-week module can be expected to take at least 10 hours of work.

Those who are invited to apply should follow these procedures:
Download a Manoukian Fellowship application form from

www.eurasiacentre.am or contact [email protected] or call 56 31 32 in Yerevan. Applicants must already hold a university degree (or equivalent) and have extensive work experience.

Choose the Executive Education program you wish to attend at Harvard Kennedy School.
Creating Collaborative Solutions: Innovations in Governance www.hks.harvard.edu/execed/ig

Leadership for the 21st Century: Chaos, Conflict and Courage
www.hks.harvard.edu/execed/l21

Leadership in Crises: Preparation and Performance
www.hks.harvard.edu/execed/cm

Mastering Negotiation: Building Sustainable Agreements
www.hks.harvard.edu/execed/mn

Innovation for Economic Development
www.hks.harvard.edu/execed/sti

Strategic Frameworks for Nonprofit Organizations (Distance learning program) www.hks.harvard.edu/execed/sfno

Expanding Non-Governmental Organization Impacts (Distance learning program)
http://ksgexecprogram.harvard.edu/Programs/eni/overview.aspx

Complete and submit your online application directly to Harvard Kennedy School. See the webpage for your program of choice for a link to the online application. Complete and submit the Manoukian Fellowship application form and all supporting documents by email to [email protected]. Indicate that you have formally applied to the Kennedy School and the title of the course.

Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education will evaluate your application and communicate the decision directly to you. In addition to admittance to the program, the funding of your course must be approved by the Manoukian Foundation.

Notify Foundation’s office in Yerevan about the outcome of your Kennedy School application and provide all relevant details to: [email protected]. Tel. 56 31 32.
If you are short-listed for a Fellowship, you will be invited for a face-to-face or telephone interview.
You will be notified about the awarding of the Fellowship shortly after the above process is completed.