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Tag: Center for Public Leadership
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Answers from Walters
Barbara Walters reflected on her 50-year career in journalism with David Gergen at Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday evening.
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$3.5M gift to develop environmental leaders
A five-year, $3.5 million gift to launch the Louis Bacon Environmental Leadership Program was announced Wednesday by the Harvard Kennedy School. Louis Bacon is a prominent entrepreneur and conservationist.
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Seeing what leaders miss
Max Bazerman, a leadership and applied behavioral psychology expert at HKS and HBS, writes that successful leaders must seek out what they don’t know to overcome the human tendency to turn a blind eye to unethical behavior.
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The doings at Davos
Harvard experts convened to discuss the big issues and parties at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
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A welcome mat for veterans
In what has become a Harvard tradition, President Drew Faust and guest Gen. Stanley McChrystal led a list of those welcoming new Harvard students who have military backgrounds.
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Reading the president’s mind
Jon Favreau, who recently stepped down after several years as President Obama’s head speechwriter, took a Harvard Kennedy School audience on a behind-the-scenes tour of the president’s best-known addresses.
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A welcome to the military
In an annual fall tradition, Harvard rolls out the welcome mat for its new students and fellows who are veterans or who are still in the service.
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Empowering a growing minority
Now in its third year, the Latino Leadership Initiative brought 41 students from eight universities to Harvard for a week of leadership training, reflection, and strategizing on projects they will implement when they return to their largely Latino communities.
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A Nobel cause in the Arab world
The West must do more to support the ongoing, peaceful democratic revolutions in long-suppressed Arab nations, Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman said during an address at the Harvard Kennedy School
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Women as peacemakers
Activists from across Africa and the Middle East drew from on-the-ground experience in a discussion of women’s role in peace efforts at John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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Lessons from a Kenyan slum
A sprawling urban pocket of poverty offers a timeless lesson: talent is universal, but opportunity is not.
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Mourning 10, and 3,000
On the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Harvard students, faculty, and staff joined in remembering that tragic day. At the start of the day was an early-morning memorial run; at the end of the day were candlelight vigils that lit up the dark. In between came music, dance, and centering discussion.
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Lessons of the hunt
Harvard foreign policy experts say the death of Osama bin Laden is a blow to al-Qaeda, and a sign of the vitality and persistence of U.S. anti-terror expertise. But it will also renew the debate over U.S.-Pakistan ties and may even set the stage for a season of reprisals against American interests.
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Summers takes the long view
Former Harvard President Lawrence Summers touches on the economy, his time in the White House, and the future of the American job market during a talk at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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What it takes to lead
Do leaders need competence, character, or both? And can such traits be taught? On Feb. 7, Harvard experts gathered to discuss the University’s role in fostering leaders in business, education, and the public sector in honor of Harvard Corporation member Nan Keohane’s new book, “Thinking About Leadership.”
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Peering into the crystal ball
Students at Harvard Kennedy School try their hands at political forecasting for the upcoming midterm elections.
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Telling it like it was
Three former spokespersons discussed their time on the press firing line when they worked in the White House.
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What they’re reading
A survey of top Harvard faculty shows what books they’re reading and enjoying on summer’s edge.
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Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School
Two documentaries from this year’s Sundance Film Festival had an exclusive screening at the inaugural Gleitsman Social Change Film Forum at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
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Film as social change
Two-day panel at the Center for Public Leadership examines the shifting role of film as a vehicle for social change, with new technologies creating fresh insights.
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Pelosi touts health care bill
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spoke at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on the passage of the health care bill by her side of Congress.
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CPL names Karen Tse winner of international activist award
The HKS Center for Public Leadership (CPL) has named legal pioneer Karen Tse as this year’s recipient of the Gleitsman International Activist Award.