HKS Elective Courses in Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences

Leadership

Negotiation & Decision Sciences

MLD-201-A         Exercising Leadership: The Politics of Change (Chipungu)
MLD-201-B         Exercising Leadership: The Politics of Change (O’Brien)
MLD-201-C         Exercising Leadership: The Politics of Change (O’Doherty)
MLD-202          Leadership from the Inside Out: The Personal Capacity to Lead and Stay Alive-Self, Identity, and Freedom (Heifetz)
MLD-215        Negotiation and Leadership: Essential Theory and Practice for Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness (Wilkinson)
MLD-250        Bridging the Divide: Issues, Culture and Leadership (Foxx; Not offered AY27)
MLD-326       Principles and Politics When Running for Office (Foxx)
MLD-355      Public Narrative (ElRaheb)
MLD-360M     Being Human (Ganz and Robichaud)
MLD-617M         Effective Implementation: Learning from Effective Implementers (Hartmann & Butler)
DPI-202        Moral Leadership: Ethics in Public Life (Risse)
DPI-208       Moral Practice for Public Leadership (Robichaud)

Leadership Studies

DPI-115           The American Presidency (Porter)
IGA-125           Reasoning from the Past: Applied History and Decision Making (Logevall; Not offered AY27)

MLD-304         Science of Behavior Change (Rogers; Not offered AY27)
MLD-308        Leadership Decision Making – From Individuals to Institutions (Lerner)
API-222         Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics (Saghafian; Not offered AY27 and beyond)
API-302         Analytic Frameworks for Policy (Zeckhauser)
API-303         Game Theory and Strategic Decisions (Dogan)
API-305         Behavioral Economics, Law and Public Policy (Sunstein)
API-318         Thinking Analytically in an Uncertain World (Levy)

Negotiation and Conflict Management

MLD-215        Negotiation and Leadership: Essential Theory and Practice for Enhancing Your Personal Effectiveness (Wilkinson)
MLD-223         Negotiating Across Differences (Hong)
MLD-234M    Conducting Negotiations on the Frontlines: Advanced Techniques for Crisis Situations (Bruderlein)
MLD-257M     Why won’t you listen to me? Understanding People, Conflict, and People in Conflict (Minson)
MLD-280        Advanced Workshop in Multiparty Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (Mandell)
MLD-290M    Frontiers of AI in Negotiation and Conflict Management (Bowles)
IGA-109         Negotiation and Diplomacy (Burns and Sebenius)
IGA-353M      Frontline Negotiation Lab: Strategic Planning for Complex Engagements (Bruderlein)
IGA-455        Climate Leadership: Persuasion, Advocacy and Negotiation (Wentworth)

Organizing for Social Change

Strategic Management

MLD-638M      Remaking the Civil Service: Governance, Politics, and Performance (Gordon)
DEV-320M      Scaling Up and Systems Change for Development Impact (Guerrero Pulgar & Walton)
DPI-660       Digital Governance and Leadership in the Public Sector (Arora)
DPI-662M        Digital Government (Roy; Not offered AY27)

Organizing Civic, Political, and Social Action

MLD-340M        Power and Influence for Positive Impact (Battilana)
MLD-371        AI and Civil Society: Human Agency in the Age of Artificial Agents (McKenna)
MLD-375        Creating Justice in Real Time: Vision, Strategies and Campaigns (C. W. Brooks)
MLD-377        Organizing: People, Power, and Change (Ganz)
DPI -351M     Lobbying: Theory, Practice, and Simulations (Fagan)
DPI-535        Making Change When Change is Hard: the Law, Politics, and Policy of Social Change (Power and Sunstein)
DPI-376   Queer Nation: LGBTQ Protest, Politics, and Policy in the United States (McCarthy)
IGA-453      Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives on Climate Change (Henderson)

Social Enterprise

MLD-802       Strategic Management and Leadership for Nonprofits and NGOs (Ponce)
MLD-820M       Strategies for Social Impact (Lee; Module-length only in AY27)
MLD-830          Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Private and Social Sectors (Cavanagh)
MLD-831         Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Private and Social Sectors – Business Plan Workshop (Cavanagh) 
MLD-836M        Social Entrepreneurship/Social Enterprise Deep Dive: How to Operationalize & Scale for Social Impact (Bildner)
BGP-235M        Private Capital for Public Purpose: Impact Investing and Its Siblings (Wood)

Strategic Management

MLD-102         Getting Things Done: Management in a Development Context (Andrews;  Note: MLD-102 is eligible only when taken by non-MPA-ID students, i.e., as an elective.]
MLD-103M      PDIA in Action: Development Through Facilitated Emergence (Andrews)
MLD-125          What Works in Public Sector Management (Linos)
MLD-321M       How to Empower Black Leaders
MLD-381          Mitigating and Managing a Crisis (Kayyem)
MLD-630M        Government Turnarounds (Liebman)
MLD-634M       Managing the Private Delivery of Public Value (Donahue)
MLD-802       Strategic Management and Leadership for Nonprofits and NGOs (Ponce)
MLD-820M       Strategies for Social Impact (Lee; Module-length only in AY27)

 
Financial Management

MLD-401M        Financial Analysis of Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Shim)
MLD-411M       Introduction to Budgeting and Financial Management (Bilmes 
MLD-412        Greater Boston Applied Field Lab: Advanced Budgeting, Financial Management and Operations (Bilmes)
MLD-427        Strategic Finance for Nonprofit Leaders (Honan)
API-141          Finance (Deep)
API-148          Advanced Risk Management and Infrastructure Finance (Deep)
DEV-209         Management, Finance, and Regulation of Public Infrastructure in Developing Countries (Lee)
DEV-210         Public Finance in Theory and Practice (Rosengard)

Managing People and Your Career

MLD-502       Developing People (O’Brien)
MLD-515M    Serving the Public Good: Planning for Career and Life (Freeland)

Operations and Performance Management

MLD-601        Operations Management (Fagan)
MLD-605        Systems Thinking and Supply Chain Management: Climate, Poverty and Human Rights (Fagan)
DPI-678M       Product Management and Society: Building Technology in the Public Interest (Pham)