Tag: Advanced Leadership Initiative

  • Nation & World

    Advanced Leadership Initiative creates room for innovation

    Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative brings 44 top business executives to campus so they can do something off course.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The career afterlife

    Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative fellows find new ways to explore life after one career ends and they move into the social sector.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Shifting careers to drive change

    Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative helps professionals transition to new careers aimed at solving societal problems.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A mirror to coercion

    Alberto Mora, a top civilian lawyer for the U.S. Navy in the administration of President George W. Bush and an early critic of the CIA torture program, assesses the findings and conclusions of the newly released Senate Intelligence Committee report.

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The quantum of cruelty

    A former general counsel for the U.S. Navy, among the earliest Pentagon critics of detainee abuse, offers firsthand insights into the findings of the still-secret Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Pondering health, at home and abroad

    The world is in the midst of a global health transition, with the population growing older and primary health threats coming from chronic, not infectious, diseases, according to speakers at an Advanced Leadership Initiative think tank.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    High-tech tools for change

    Education leaders and entrepreneurs from around the world gathered at Harvard for the Advanced Leadership Initiative’s three-day think tank on education and technological innovation.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Turning on the lights

    Like much of Africa, Liberia relies on ineffective, dirty sources of energy. Coming off a fellowship at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, Richard Fahey has one big goal: to transform the country’s electrical grid from the bottom up.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Spouting off

    In their new book, “Running Out of Water: The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource,” Peter Rogers and Susan Leal outline water’s global predicament as the world’s population soars to 8 billion.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Money not cure-all for health care

    Analysts from around the world gathered at Harvard Business School for a think tank on health care reform.

    5 minutes