Getting Things Done: Management and Implementation for Development

Harvard HKS

The role of public policy has grown in the world over recent generations, with governments and other policy organizations doing more in societies than ever before. Public policy work tends to address social problems that private people and organizations cannot solve alone. But how effective is it at solving these problems? In other words, does public policy ‘get the job done’? Reflecting on this question, with an eye to helping policy workers get things done more effectively, this course…