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Overview
What you will study
- In all organizations, managers like you are under increasing pressure to prove their programs—and, by extension, their leadership—are effective.
- But what constitutes reliable and valid evidence of effectiveness and how can it be generated to assess a program’s effectiveness? What data should be collected? How should managers use it?
Learning Outcomes
In its goal to help you understand how to measure and evaluate program effectiveness, this one-week Leading Successful Programs - Using Evidence to Assess Effectiveness program from Harvard University will equip you with:
- A framework for thinking about various types of evidence—from benchmarking and performance measurement to impact evaluation—and their relationship to one another.
- Methods for analyzing administrative data to identify potential points for intervention to improve long-term goals.
- Tools to measure the effectiveness of your program as well as strategies for generating short- and longer-term assessments of the impact of your programs on participants.
- Tactics for integrating qualitative and quantitative data to assess a program's effectiveness.
- A deeper understanding of how to make decisions about the best way to spend your limited research budget.
Programme Structure
The program will focus on:
- The big questions you need to ask about the effectiveness of programs in your organization.
- How to decide what data should be collected, and when.
- The kinds of evaluations and other forms of assessment you should conduct.
- The key methods to evaluate the impact of programs and when each should be used.
- How you should make decisions about which programs to assess.
- The role of randomized experiments in evaluating the impact of a program.
- How you can make sense of mixed method evaluations and then integrate quantitative and qualitative information to design and implement better programs.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus, Online
Disciplines
Project Management Leadership View 127 other Short Courses in Project Management in United StatesWhat students do after studying Business & Management
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Leading Successful Programs is designed for leaders within organizations that either manage or fund programs designed to improve the well-being of people and communities. Recommended applicants include senior-level managers, program directors, grant makers, chief operating officers or budget directors.
Tuition Fee
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International
10200 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 10200 USD for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
10200 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 10200 USD for the full programme during 5 days.
Online Program Fee: $4,800
Living costs for Cambridge
1814 - 3756 USD /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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