Tag: Douglas Elmendorf

  • Nation

    Lending hand as nation-building renaissance grows in Indian Country

    Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance and Development gets $15 million in gifts to expand research, sharing innovation, best practices.

    6–9 minutes
    Mmicrogrids being installed
  • Nation & World

    New congressional members at Harvard

    Fresh from their 2018 midterm victories, 63 newly elected members of Congress spent two days at Harvard Kennedy School this week engaging with students and getting an intensive primer from faculty and special guests on what to expect when they take their seats in January.

    2–3 minutes
    Larry Bacow speaks with Chrissy Houlahan, Elissa Slotkin, Elaine Luria, Mikie Sherrill, and Kim Schrier.
  • Campus & Community

    The ending as beginning: Commencement ’18

    Harvard’s annual Commencement is both a conclusion and a start for those graduating. But the day also is a gathering of the far-flung Crimson clan under tents and trees in a party atmosphere. Below are snippets from the festive day from start to finish, with the most recent moments at the top, presented as snapshots…

    18–27 minutes
    Harvard graduates wave books.
  • Campus & Community

    A campus deeply transformed

    The Harvard Kennedy School celebrates the culmination of its campus renewal project.

    3–4 minutes
    President Faust spoke of “the better world we enable through the realization of the ideals of public service and the common good within these walls”
  • Campus & Community

    A boost for managing cities

    A $32 million gift from Michael Bloomberg’s charitable foundation will support a new four-year collaboration with Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School to help hundreds of city mayors and their top staff members make government more responsive and effective for its citizens.

    6–9 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Harvard remembers Howard Raiffa

    The respected social scientist and educator enhanced peoples’ understanding and capacity to make the world a better place, says HKS Dean Elmendorf.

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Nicco Mele named director of Shorenstein Center

    Nicco Mele, the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism at the University of Southern California, is the new director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Air Force ROTC returns to Harvard

    Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James and Harvard President Drew Faust signed an agreement Friday to bring the Air Force ROTC program officially to campus.

    4–7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    New dean finds strong foundation at HKS

    Douglas Elmendorf, the new dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, talks about his return to academia and weighs in on where HKS is headed.

    8–13 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    A new dean debuts

    Douglas W. Elmendorf, former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, was introduced on Thursday as the new dean of the Harvard Kennedy School.

    4–6 minutes