MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID Harvard Kennedy School
Curriculum
Curriculum
A typical candidate will follow the sample schedule outlined below.
MBA/MPP Curriculum
Year 1
Harvard Kennedy School
Fall Term
- Resources, Incentives and Choices I: Markets and Market Failures
- Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods
- Policy Design and Delivery
- Race and Racism in the Making of the United States as a Global Power
- Fundamentals of Negotiation Analysis
- Enhancing Your Personal Leadership Effectiveness
- One HKS Elective Course
- Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HBS faculty
Spring Term
- Economic Analysis of Public Policy
- Empirical Methods II
- Spring Exercise
- Politics and Ethics in Unstable Times
- One HKS Elective Course
- Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HBS faculty
Summer
- Policy-related or international development-related summer internship (recommended)
Year 2
Harvard Business School
Fall Term
- Financial Reporting and Control
- Finance I
- Marketing
- Technology and Operations Management
- Leadership & Organizational Behavior
- Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HKS faculty
Spring Term
- Business, Government, and the International Economy
- Finance II
- Strategy
- Leadership and Corporate Accountability
- The Entrepreneurial Manager
- FIELD Global Immersion
- Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HKS faculty
Summer
- Business-related summer internship (recommended)
Year 3
Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School
Fall Term
3 Elective Courses
- Business-Government Integrative Course
- Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) Seminar
Spring Term
4 Elective Courses
- Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) Execution
MBA/MPA-ID Curriculum
Year 1
Harvard Kennedy School
Fall Term
- Advanced Microeconomic Analysis I
- Advanced Macroeconomics for the Open Economy I
- Advanced Quantitative Methods I: Statistics
- Economic Development: Theory and Evidence
- Applications and Cases in International Development
- Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HBS faculty
Spring Term
- Advanced Microeconomic Analysis II
- Advanced Macroeconomics for the Open Economy II
- Advanced Quantitative Methods II: Econometrics
- The Politics of Development
- Economic Development: Using Analytic Frameworks for Smart Policy Design
- Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HBS faculty
Summer
- International development-related summer internship (required)
Year 2
Harvard Business School
Fall Term
- Financial Reporting and Control
- Finance I
- Marketing
- Technology and Operations Management
- Leadership & Organizational Behavior
- Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HKS faculty
Spring Term
- Business, Government, and the International Economy
- Finance II
- Strategy
- Leadership and Corporate Accountability
- The Entrepreneurial Manager
- FIELD Immersion
- Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HKS faculty
Summer
- Business-related summer internship (recommended)
Year 3
Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School
Fall Term
- 2 HKS Elective Courses
- Getting Things Done: Management in a Development Context
- Normative Principles of Governance in Development
- Business-Government Integrative Course
- Democratic Governance Elective (if not taken previously)
- Second-Year Policy Analysis (SYPA) Seminar
Spring Term
- 4 Elective Courses at HBS
- Second-Year Policy Analysis (SYPA) Execution