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We extend a warm welcome to the GSD community and look forward to your participation in our AMDP program! GSD Executive Education brings together a diverse group of individuals for an intensive, year-long term of engagement. The guidelines we set out below are intended to establish community norms and set expectations for participant engagement, both in and out of the classroom.

A Safe and Professional Setting

We ask participants to demonstrate respect for each individual’s dignity and capacity to contribute, and to recognize different levels of comfort relating to gestures such as hugs, pats on the arm or back, etc. Please refrain from gestures as above, as well as comments about an individual’s ethnicity, gender, sexual, or political orientation.

GSD Executive Education reserves the right to remove a participant from a program in response to disruptive or disrespectful behavior towards fellow participants, faculty, or staff members. If you are the recipient of inappropriate or sexual advances, or feel uncomfortable for any reason, please speak to a staff member.

Your Full Attendance and Participation

The three on-campus Terms of the AMDP are highly interactive and we ask our participants to attend all sessions to contribute to discussions and group work to enhance everyone’s learning. Please refrain from email correspondence, text messaging, and other personal activities during class sessions. Should an urgent need arise, please step outside of the classroom to make a call. In addition, we compose informal discussion groups that meet outside of class (early mornings, at lunches, or in the evenings) to review and prepare assignments for class. We expect all participants to attend and engage with their peers in discussion groups.   

The Team Project component of the AMDP requires individuals throughout the duration of the project to attend regular meetings with their assigned participant team, maintain regular correspondence with team members and project Advisors, and contribute substantively and in a timely manner to established project deliverables. All individuals must participate in a final presentation of their assigned team’s project during Term 2.

The Independent Project component of the AMDP requires individuals to prepare their own project according to established parameters and due dates, maintain regular correspondence with project Advisors, and present their project during Term 3.   

Please note that we introduce the parameters, timelines, and expectations for the Team and Independent Projects in Term 1 and Term 2 respectively.

Your Elective requirements for the AMDP are guided by our Code of Conduct for our open enrollment and online programs.

Please contact GSD Executive Education as soon as possible and refer to our deferral policies should a health, family, or work emergency arise that limits your ability to meet the requirements of the program as stated above.

With successful completion of all above requirements we confer a Certificate of Completion and Associate Member status of the Harvard Alumni Association.

Confidentiality & Educational Privacy

Our classrooms are safe spaces in which we encourage professional growth and personal reflection. We ask that you hold all conversations confidential to recognize the sensitivity of others’ comments. 

Photography & Recording

Please refrain from taking photos, recording video or audio files, or posting the same to social media.

Your co-participants have a right to educational privacy and all content displayed in the classroom is the intellectual property of instructors and GSD Executive Education. If we plan to photograph or record within the classroom, we will inform participants and seek permission.

Guests

Since we strive to foster a community of peers, participation in the classroom and activities is limited to enrolled participants only. 

Attire

Please wear modest business-casual attire while attending our programs. (If your program includes a tour, we suggest wearing comfortable walking shoes and being prepared for any potential weather.)

Representing your Harvard Experience

Please describe your experience at Harvard in your curriculum vitae, LinkedIn profile, or within your organization. You are welcome to say that you attended a Harvard Graduate School of Design Executive Education course, and you may proudly display your Certificate of Completion. It is not appropriate to say that you studied at Harvard without qualifying the experience as an Executive Education course.

Thank you for supporting our efforts to create an inclusive and rewarding classroom experience.