Mar 10, 2022

Harvard Business School Secretary’s Leadership Graduation

Harvard Business School USA Leadership Graduation

Harvard Business School Leadership Graduation Ceremony


The United States Government's Assistant Secretary of State responsible for Management and Resources Brian P. McKeon will travel to Boston Harvard Business School, Mass, on March 10 to speak at the graduation ceremony for the second cohort of the seminar on Secretary's Leadership graduation ceremony, which is a Harvard Business School executive education program developed for the United States Department of State. Graduation will take place on March 11, 2022. The six-month seminar is designed to develop a diverse group of emerging leaders who will advance the Department's mission by taking innovative approaches to addressing enterprise-wide challenges in an inclusive and collaborative atmosphere. Twenty-five mid-level civil servants and twenty-five mid-level Foreign Ministry employees will complete the program in March. In 2019, philanthropist and Harvard alumnus Howard Cox approached the Department to propose a relationship with Harvard Business School (HBS) aimed at improving workforce leadership education. The seminar is the result of his commitment and the continued collaboration between HBS and the Department. Assistant Secretary of State for Management and Resources Brian McKeon will travel March 10-11 to Boston, Massachusetts, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. During Boston visit, he will go to the Boston Passport Agency and the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), Boston Field Office. Under Secretary McKeon will also meet with Afghans who are employed by local resettlement agencies, some of whom themselves recently arrived as part of Operation Allies Welcome. He will also hear from local resettlement agencies and state government officials about initiatives to develop community sponsors and address housing issues in the Boston area. In Portsmouth, New Hampshire, accompanied by Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter, Assistant Secretary McKeon will tour the National Visa Center and the National Passport Center, which provide essential consular services to United States citizens and their family members in plus other immigrant visa applicants from around the world.