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Leadership: Creating Public Value

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Course Length

7 weeks

2-3 hours a week

Featuring faculty from:

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Certificate Price:

$ 209

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Enroll as Individual

Certificate Price:

$ 209

Enroll on edX

Understand how to create long-term public value by designing a value proposition that is actionable and creative

The world in which each of us–and all of us–now live is full of pressing problems and future risks. But it is also full of hope, aspiration, and opportunity. In Leadership: Creating Public Value, you will learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.

Within the course, you will use an integrated analytic framework to help you understand concrete problems or opportunities for collective action. This framework focuses on the three key elements of producing a publicly valued result: understanding the specific conditions you hope to improve; designing and developing the necessary operational capacities; and securing the public support and financial resources required to launch and sustain your effort at the desired scope and scale.

Through case studies, you will see real public leaders seeking to challenge the status quo. You will be asked to reflect on their thought and action using the analytical frameworks and concepts developed and applied throughout the course. By the end of the course, you will understand how to create long-term public value by envisioning and enacting a better, more just, future for us all. The course will be delivered via edX and connect learners around the world.

Self-Guided

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Learning Outcome

Create an actionable public value proposition that can be launched by you.

Learning Outcome

Identify the important values at stake in your proposed initiative along with performance indicators to guide you in developing new ideas and creating a value-first mindset.

Learning Outcome

Examine the moral and ethical challenges and questions that arise when seeking to improve public value outcomes.

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Faculty

Your Instructor

Mark Moore

Professor of Strategic Public Management, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Mark Moore has been a Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government for more than 40 years. Over his career, he has also held professorial appointments at the Harvard Business School, and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

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Ways to take this course

Audit or Pursue a Verified Certificate

A Verified Certificate costs $209 and provides unlimited access to full course materials, activities, tests, and forums. At the end of the course, learners who earn a passing grade can receive a certificate.

⁠Alternatively, learners can Audit the course for free and have access to select course material, activities, tests, and forums. Please note that this track does not offer a certificate for learners who earn a passing grade.

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