KFAS holds workshop on decision-making strategies – Event held in collaboration with Harvard Kennedy School

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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 13: The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) held a follow on workshop in collaboration with Harvard University attended by twenty private sector executives who had participated in the main workshop that was held last May in Boston.

The workshop on decision-making strategies held at the Regency Hotel, was followed by a dinner to honor the seventy 2015 Distinguished Executives who participated in KFAS collaborative programs with Harvard Executive programs during the past year.

KFAS Director-General, Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin, said during the dinner that the Kuwait Program in Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education holds several annual activities that serve private sector executives and researches at academic institutions in Kuwait.

The workshop entitled “Decision-Making Strategies Under Risk and Uncertainty” was chosen to enhance the skills of the private sector in managing risks through a framework that is applicable in all their fields of work, he said.

The workshop examined a number of subjects most important of which are multi-party negotiations, innovative leadership and methods of acquiring the right information to make effective executive decisions, he added.

The workshop, held for the first time in Kuwait in collaboration with the Kennedy School, is the follow-on session to the 14th workshop held by KFAS.  It is part of a series of executive training workshops in partnership with Harvard, a collaboration that has started 15 years ago. The overall number of participants since the launch of this international program is 515 participants from both the private and public sectors.

Dr Shihab-Eldin explained that the distinctive partnership between the Foundation and Harvard comprises several activities most important of which is the executive workshop program tailored for senior business executives in Kuwait. Through this program, senior executives are blindly selected on the basis of competitive merit to allow them the chance to diversify their abilities and enhance their potentials and to establish a sustainable foundation for knowledge transfer amongst this network of executives.

The Director-General concluded that the Foundation was keen on establishing the “Office of International Programs”, which handles cooperation with internationally renowned institutions and universities. The office aims to facilitate knowledge and technology transfer and introduce best practice in science, public policy, and business management from the developed world to Kuwait and the Gulf region. The office also acts as a venue to solidify cultural and scientific cooperation between Kuwaiti scientists and graduate students and their counterparts in these prestigious institutions in order to enhance development in Kuwait, its region and the world.

The workshop comprises various lectures delivered by Prof. Kessely Hong, lecturer on Public Policy at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the faculty chair of KFAS customized program at Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education.

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