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- Business Strategy
- Communication
- Executive Leadership
- Leadership and Management
- Negotiation
Our short, intensive programs — offered online or in person — provide you with the strategies you need to return to the office ready to solve today’s challenges.
Learn from industry leaders in the Harvard and Boston communities who have deep subject matter expertise grounded in the context of today's business world.
Develop new strategies and skills you can implement today, for immediate impact on your workplace and your career.
Advance your leadership skills as you build industry-specific expertise to transform how you work and think to keep your career moving in the right direction.
The framework the instructor provided for thinking through how to build organizational facets was both really digestible and highly practical.
Vice President Sales & Marketing, Conquest Planning
Certificates of Leadership Excellence
Certificate of leadership excellence in management development.
Participants refine their management and leadership skills while challenging their current thinking.
Certificate of Leadership Excellence in Strategy and Innovation for Senior Leaders
Designed to equip senior leaders with tools to lead, manage change, innovate and compete in our disruptive global landscape.
Certificate of Leadership Excellence in Leading Teams
Participants will learn effective strategies to motivate, engage, and empower teams. Learn evolving best practices for leadership.
Certificate of Leadership Excellence in Executive Development
Build upon and improve your ability to bring out the best in others, develop an authentic leadership style and vision, and gain the vital skill of organizational strategy implementation.
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The Division of Continuing Education (DCE) at Harvard University is dedicated to bringing rigorous academics and innovative teaching capabilities to those seeking to improve their lives through education. We make Harvard education accessible to lifelong learners from high school to retirement.
Online Learning
at Harvard Extension School
Deep learning springs from human connection. That’s why we work so hard to bring people together. Our approach to online learning fosters interaction without sacrificing flexibility.
In our online courses, you engage with your instructor, participate in peer discussions, and receive one-on-one support from teaching staff—all from your home or office.
Our online courses are collaborative and experiential
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The Online Course Experience
Members of our Teaching and Learning team, along with instructor Sergio Imparato, discuss the HES philosophy of “human-centered learning done online” — and how we foster interaction without sacrificing flexibility.
HELIX: Harvard Extension Live Interactive eXperience
To support active learning, we created a platform called the Helix classrooms and web conferences . The technology brings together students from around the globe to join an instructor in a live classroom.
Helix classrooms and web conferences are “hyflex” — a combination of hybrid and flexible formats.
- Students may join professors live in the classroom
- Live online students join the class through Zoom displayed on large monitors and seamlessly interact with students in the classroom
- On-demand students watch professional recordings of the class on their own schedule and interact through online discussion tools
- Students participate in thoughtful discussion with their peers and engage with their instructor in real time
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To find online courses that work for you, use the Format filter in Advanced Search in our Course Search and Registration platform.
Benefits of Online Learning
Online education is fundamentally changing the paradigm of higher education. At Harvard Extension School, we think about online learning a little differently:
- People are at the core of every interaction—we’re connecting people for a shared learning experience
- Our courses respect the full lives and varied preferences of adult, part-time learners
- You receive personal, individualized feedback on your work
- You will be part of a strong community of learners
- Iterative course design keeps courses fresh and relevant for students and instructors
- Everyone has the opportunity to earn credit in rigorous, Harvard-quality courses
Education is about being vulnerable. It’s about being unsettled, unnerved, unhoused – being open to that which you are not used to. To have to de-familiarize yourself to ways of being in the world – Harvard Extension is magnificent in that regard. Cornel West
Distance Education Trailblazers for Over 110 Years
Harvard Extension School believes learners should be at the helm of their own education, while instructors act as mediators who introduce ideas, ask questions, and encourage students to explore new ways of thinking on their own. Online courses present a rich opportunity for this kind of teaching and learning.
As an early adopter and national leader in distance education, we are perfectly positioned to offer an outstanding, world-class academic experience online, with no compromise on quality.
Harvard Division of Continuing Education
The Division of Continuing Education (DCE) at Harvard University is dedicated to bringing rigorous academics and innovative teaching capabilities to those seeking to improve their lives through education. We make Harvard education accessible to lifelong learners from high school to retirement.
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