The Leadership for a Networked World (LNW) Program helps those exercising leadership to understand and respond to the challenges and opportunities created by information and communication technologies and network-enabled business models. Founded in 1987 by Dr. Jerry Mechling, the LNW Program taps diverse knowledge within the Harvard community for uniquely powerful executive education, research and teaching content.

Current efforts of the LNW are focused on the “cross-boundary” challenges of innovation and change moving across traditional organizational boundaries:  departments, jurisdictions, branches of government and sectors of society. These cross-boundary reforms represent the next wave of the many opportunities and challenges opened up by information and communication technologies (ICT) and network-enabled organizational models.  

Leading successfully in this networked world requires elected officials, general managers and technology managers to collectively make difficult decisions and choices about the level and pace of reform and change. By bringing together leading practitioners, academics and executives to share ideas and learn about governance, the LNW Program and the HPG strive to deliver creative solutions to real-world problems and lasting public value for pressing challenges.