Contact:

Office of Executive Education
1033 Massachusetts Avenue
Fourth Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
execed@gsd.harvard.edu
Tel: 617-384-7214
Fax: 617-496-0297

Executive Education

Harvard UniversityThe Challenges of Leadership

 

February 2-5, 2010

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

The information below is based on the program offered in 2009, and does not reflect potential changes to faculty and course content for the 2010 course.

Develop the leadership skills that will enable you to have an immediate and powerful impact on your organization.

This intensive four-day program is designed for senior executives in real estate, architecture, planning, and related building industries.

 

Learn How To

  • Tackle issues of leadership in practice and within organizations
  • Build a strategic vision
  • Create a customized leadership development plan
  • Lead a firm in a declining economy
  • Retain star performers
  • Effect leadership succession

Program Format

Led by Harvard faculty and industry leaders, participants will create a customized leadership development plan based on their self-assessment, program content, peer review, and their own priorities for success.

Presenters

  • Julie Benezet, Business Growth Consulting, L.L.C.
  • Tom Curley, The Associated Press
  • Anne Drapeau, Center for Leading Organizations
  • Edward Feiner, FAIA, Perkins+Will
  • Robert M. Galford, Center for Leading Organizations
  • Richard W. Jennings, FAIA, Harvard Graduate School of Design
  • A. Eugene Kohn, FAIA, RIBA, JIA, , Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC
  • Mohsen Mostafavi, dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design
  • Instructor biographies (pdf)

Agenda (subject to change)

  • Agenda (pdf)

Tuition

  • $3,800 per person (Includes all educational materials, continental breakfast and lunch daily.  Not included in the tuition are accommodations, travel, and transportation costs)

AIA credits

  • 30 learning units

Registration

Registration Deadline / Confirmation / Cancellation / Refunds

Tuition is due upon registration.  A nonrefundable processing fee must accompany registration.  This fee is not part of the tuition. Registration deadline is January 19, 2010. Registrations received after the deadline will be processed subject to availability.

Enrollment confirmation and information on the time and place of the first class meeting are sent by email immediately upon registration.

Notice of cancellation must be submitted in writing. Cancellations received 14 to 30 days before the program start date will incur a charge of 10% of the program tuition.  Cancellations received within 14 days of the program start date will incur a charge of 30% of the program tuition.  Cancellation for all programs is subject to a minimum $75 charge.  No refunds will be given on or after the first day of the program.

The Office of Executive Education reserves the right to cancel a program due to insufficient enrollment two weeks before the first session. In the event of a program cancellation, all tuition and fees will be refunded. The Office of Executive Education cannot be responsible for participants' non-refundable travel expenses.

Program Materials

Prerequisite reading materials and assignments will be forwarded approximately one month before the program begins.  The reading material, associated questions, and assignments must be completed before beginning the program.  A program binder with additional readings and questions will be provided at Program Registration the day the program begins.

Location / Lodging

Location and campus maps as well as local hotel options with discount codes are available at the Executive Education web site under General Information.

 

 

Photo: © Peter Vanderwarker

 

Tel 617-384-7214
execed@gsd.harvard.edu

 

updated 05-Oct-2009