Jun 27 2006
This summer, among the more than 40 executive education programs offered by Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), a group of nine will focus on practice management and development strategies for principals, designers, business managers, and project managers in architecture, landscape architecture, planning, engineering, and construction firms.
Financial, marketing, project management, negotiation, and strategic planning issues will all be addressed in this new group of programs that will enable participants to develop new skills to build and sustain more successful organizations.
The programs offered include:
- Effective Strategic Planning: Inventing Your Future, Fully Implementing Your Plan, July 10-11, Instructor: William C. Ronco, Ph.D., Gathering Pace Consulting, Bedford, MA
- Increasing Merger and Acquisition Success: From Doing the Deal to High-Performing One-Firm Firm, July 12-13, Instructor: William C. Ronco, Ph.D., Gathering Pace Consulting, Bedford, MA
- Financial Management for Design Firms, July 13-14, Instructor: Lowell V. Getz, CPA, Houston, TX
- Negotiation Skills, July 13-14, Instructor: John Richardson, Triad Consulting, Cambridge, MA
- Small Design Business Marketing and Management Workshop, July 19, Instructor: Michael McCloskey, Michael McCloskey Design Group, Marblehead, MA, and St. Jane's Development Corp., San Juan,
- Project Budgeting, Concept Estimating, and Life-Cycle Costing for Economic Sustainability, July 20-21, Instructor: Stephen J. Kirk, Ph.D., Kirk Associates, Grosse Pointe Park, MI.
- Financial Savvy for Project Managers, July 31-August 1, Instructor: J Gregory Carmichael, Desero Corporation, Windham, NH.
- Beyond Project Management: Creating a Positive Business Climate, August 2-3, Instructor: David J. Cirillo, Ph.D., Cirillo Consulting, Boston, MA
- Contract Fundamentals for Project Managers, August 7, Instructor: John Philip Bachner, Bachner Communications, Inc., Washington, DC
All of Harvard GSD’s executive education programs are registered with the AIA (American Institute of Architects) Continuing Education System and earn AIA/CES units.