For managers and leaders who receive data-driven recommendations, work alongside data scientists, and must decide what to act on.
Complete the three modules and Harvard Online issues your Certificate of Specialization in Harvard on Digital.
Curriculum developed and delivered by faculty from Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard Business School, Harvard SEAS and Harvard Kennedy School.
SkillsPro360 posts the hard copy to you, alongside a Certified Electronic Credential for LinkedIn.
A professional credential from Harvard Online, listed on your resume and LinkedIn profile.
Harvard teaches you to interrogate an analysis. The harder part comes next — getting a room of decision-makers to act on it. Between modules your cohort meets live to practice exactly that.
Structuring a data-backed recommendation so it lands with executives and boards — what to lead with, what to leave out, and how to show uncertainty without losing the room.
Holding your position when the numbers are challenged, and handling the colleague who prefers instinct to evidence.
Each session works on a real decision you are facing at work, with peer consultation and expert critique rather than hypothetical cases.
Harvard names the pitfall — communicating insights — and this is where you practice avoiding it, live and with feedback.
Sessions are scheduled between Harvard modules, never on top of them. A certificate for the live executive component is awarded on completion.
Harvard cohorts run a few times a year, so there are natural gaps between modules. Two things keep you moving through them — so the momentum never drops.
Each module is taught through real organizational cases, with assignments that apply the thinking to your own workplace.
A nearly code- and mathematics-free introduction to prediction, causality, visualization, data wrangling, privacy and ethics — with examples relevant to your own work environment.
Beyond the spreadsheet: a hands-on approach that starts with the questions you need to ask when using data for decisions, so you know when to trust your data and how to interpret the results.
Privacy as an ethical, business, technological and societal concern — helping you become a better-informed decision-maker about data-sharing practices in your organization.
Syllabus topics are set by Harvard Online and may be revised between cohorts.
If data-driven recommendations reach your desk and you are accountable for acting on them — but you are not the person writing the code — this program is designed for you.
No mathematics, programming or technical background required. Taught in English; participants should be 18 or over.
Your coursework is designed and delivered by Harvard faculty, with industry practitioners bringing real cases into each module.
A data scientist at Harvard and Deputy Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Professor Tingley helps direct Harvard's education-focused data science and technology team and has helped organizations across sectors apply data science in practice.
Professor Grushka-Cockayne's research and teaching focus on data science, forecasting, project management and behavioral decision-making. In 2014 she was named one of twenty-one thought-leader professors in data science.
Professor Waldo teaches distributed systems and privacy, serves as Chief Technology Officer for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and is a Professor of Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Structured enough to keep you moving, flexible enough to fit around a full-time role in any time zone.
You study alongside a global cohort, with discussion boards where peers from other industries and markets debate the same cases.
Modules open on set dates with weekly deadlines, so the program carries momentum — but you choose which hours you study.
Each module is assessed through assignments applying the frameworks to real cases and to your own organization.
Live instructor-led sessions with expert coaches turn the concepts into how you brief, decide and persuade at work.
One fee covering the three Harvard Online modules, 36 hours of live executive sessions, twelve months of app access, three months of Voca and a dedicated advisor throughout.
Four steps, usually completed within a week.
A twenty-minute conversation with a program advisor to check the program fits your role and goals. No obligation.
We confirm the upcoming cohort dates that suit your schedule and map your route through the modules.
Confirm your place, then complete payment by international card or bank transfer. An invoice is issued for employer-funded participants.
We enroll you directly with Harvard Online. Your access details arrive by email before your start date.
Organizations across banking, technology, manufacturing and government fund data and AI leadership programs as adoption accelerates. If your employer funds professional development, this program is straightforward to propose — we provide a scope document and invoice directly, and multi-seat rates apply from ten participants.
No. The foundation module is deliberately nearly code- and mathematics-free, and no module requires programming. Harvard describes these courses as particularly suited to people who are not data scientists but who work alongside them as managers and decision-makers.
Modules run four to five weeks each, at roughly four to five hours a week. Most participants complete the program in about ten months, since Harvard cohorts run a few times a year.
The program fee is USD 4,690 per participant, covering all three Harvard Online modules, the live sessions, twelve months of app access and three months of Voca. You may pay in full or in three interest-free installments. We accept international cards and bank transfers, and organizations are invoiced directly. Discounts apply only when you pay in full; installment payments are not eligible for discounts.
Voca is SkillsPro360's AI-powered practice tool. You can rehearse a presentation, run a mock interview, or have your CV reviewed — privately, on demand, as many times as you like. Three months of access are included, timed to the point in the program where it is most useful.
Harvard Online. On completing the program you receive your certificate directly from Harvard Online. SkillsPro360 is a delivery partner — we are not Harvard University.
Cohorts run to fixed deadlines, but the program is built around the natural gaps between Harvard cohorts. If work demands it, you can take a break between modules and join a later cohort — your advisor will map a revised route with you.
You are assigned a program advisor throughout, and your enrollment includes live instructor-led sessions with expert coaches plus Voca, our AI-powered practice tool for interviews, presentations and CV review.
Harvard Online issues your certificate, and SkillsPro360 posts the hard copy to your home address, usually six to eight weeks after you are notified of your eligibility. You also receive a Certified Electronic Credential to share on LinkedIn.
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