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Applications for our Leading Economic Growth Executive Program are Open!

We are offering Leading Economic Growth online again from October 3 – December 9th 2022. Application deadline is September 12th, 2022. Stimulating growth is the top economic priority for many countries and localities around the world. Yet many are trapped, lacking the productive capability to solve problems and expand to new industries to drive development. New growth strategies…Continue Reading Applications for our Leading Economic Growth Executive Program are Open!

Traveling the World via the Building State Capability Blog

Guest blog written by Dana Radojević and Lauren Truong Four months ago, we set off on a journey across the world – though not in the way you might expect.  You see… we weren’t traversing the jungles of Peru, eating street food in Thailand, or admiring the ancient ruins of Greece. Nor were we running…Continue Reading Traveling the World via the Building State Capability Blog

Apply for our Leading Economic Growth Executive Program!

We are offering Leading Economic Growth online again from February 28 – May 6th 2022. Application deadline is February 7th, 2022. Stimulating growth is the top economic priority for many countries and localities around the world. Yet many are trapped, lacking the productive capability to solve problems and expand to new industries to drive development. New growth strategies…Continue Reading Apply for our Leading Economic Growth Executive Program!

Apply for our Leading Economic Growth Program Now!

We are offering Leading Economic Growth online again from October 4 – December 10th 2021. Application deadline is September 13th, 2021. Stimulating growth is the top economic priority for many countries and localities around the world. Yet many are trapped, lacking the productive capability to solve problems and expand to new industries to drive development. New…Continue Reading Apply for our Leading Economic Growth Program Now!

Building a Movement of Public Problem Solvers

written by Salimah Samji Solving public problems is a hard and thankless job. One that is undertaken with a shortage of time as well as resources, and often under pressure to deliver results. A common approach used to solve public problems is to develop a plan, sometimes with experts, and then to assume that implementation…Continue Reading Building a Movement of Public Problem Solvers

BSC 2020: The Year in Review

written by Salimah Samji 2020 was a challenging year. The Covid-19 pandemic and other crises highlighted the failures of governance and the large economic disparities that exist around the globe. The need to build public sector capability to meet these increasingly complex challenges has never been greater. Our response to these challenges included convening and training policymakers, as well as practitioners, around critical issues of leading through crises, implementing public policies, inclusive growth, and…Continue Reading BSC 2020: The Year in Review

Leading Economic Growth 2020: Moving Executive Education Online during a Pandemic

written by Salimah Samji In March 2020, Harvard University decided to move all classes to online-only, in an effort to de-densify our campus and to slow the spread of COVID-19. It soon became clear that remote learning was going to be our new normal.  At the time,  Leading Economic Growth, a longstanding 5-day residential executive education…Continue Reading Leading Economic Growth 2020: Moving Executive Education Online during a Pandemic

New Online Program: Budgeting in a Time of Crisis

Governments across the world are facing a major budgeting crisis in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This crisis raises important questions: All of these questions, and more, need to be addressed in the few months governments have left to develop their 2021 budgets. However, many of the processes and approaches to budgeting do not…Continue Reading New Online Program: Budgeting in a Time of Crisis

Introducing our new Practice of PDIA Podcast Series

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written by Salimah Samji One of the core values of the Building State Capability (BSC) program is to make our tools and approach publicly available for use by development practitioners who are in the weeds of implementing public policies and programs. In the same vein, we have: Enabled an open access title of our Building…Continue Reading Introducing our new Practice of PDIA Podcast Series