Executive Education

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg addresses the 40 mayors from the U.S. and abroad who gathered in New York City for the inaugural session of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative.

The mayors, who have to make government work

Bloomberg Harvard program opens with three-day session, offering yearlong support on solving problems

World|

DateJuly 24, 2017March 4, 2019

An $8.4 million alliance between Harvard and a group of Tata companies will support cutting-edge research across the University, while also providing professional development programs to visiting technology business leaders.

Harvard establishes research alliance with Tata companies

Six-year agreement to focus first on robotics, wearable technologies, and ‘Internet of things’

Campus|

DateAugust 29, 2016August 29, 2016

Leaders in the global fight to eradicate malaria are at Harvard this week for a leadership training course that explores many facets of the scientific underpinnings of the effort to eradicate malaria from the planet.

Coordinating against malaria

Global leaders converge at Harvard, pointing toward long-term eradication as well as short-term reduction

Health|

DateJune 16, 2015June 19, 2019

Terry Virts, commander of the International Space Station and a 2011 alumnus of Harvard Business School's General Management Program, chatted live from orbit about his experiences. “To be honest, that was the best commander training I had," he said of the HBS program.

Higher than the sky

Space station commander talks with Business School audience about his life in orbit

Science|

DateApril 23, 2015

During the Global School on Socioeconomic Rights’ course on health rights litigation, Manuel José Cepeda, a former judge of Colombia’s Constitutional Court, spoke about a controversial 2006 case that allowed therapeutic abortions for women (photo 1). Program organizer Alicia Ely Yamin (photo 2) said the course "met a need for instruction, training, and deeper reflection about the litigation of health rights, with a surge of cases around the world in recent years."

Legal remedies

Experts meet to discuss laws to expand and enforce health rights

Health|

DateSeptember 23, 2013April 18, 2019

Announcing a $40 million gift from the James Si-Cheng Chao and Family Foundation were Angela Chao (back row, from left), Christine Chao, May Chao, and Grace Chao, Elaine Chao (front row, left), and James S.C. Chao. They are seated next to a portrait of the late family matriarch, Ruth Mulan Chu Chao.

Chao family gives $40 million to HBS

Donation will fund executive education center, endow fellowships in matriarch’s honor

Campus|

DateOctober 12, 2012

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Jennifer Lerner (left) and Gary Sherman, a postdoctoral fellow in the Decision Science Lab, have released findings that indicate that leaders actually have lower stress levels than lower-ranking individuals. “Our results indicate that the top dog has less stress as measured by baseline cortisol. That is quite surprising to some people,”
said Lerner.

Managing just fine

HKS stress study finds feelings of control put leaders at ease

Science|

DateSeptember 24, 2012

“We want to change perceptions of urban young adults from deficits to assets. They are a critical component of the U.S. economic engine,” said Gerald Chertavian, founder and CEO of Year Up, a national program that trains urban young adults and places them in internships that prepare them for careers or college. Harvard has hosted 41 interns since 2009.

Getting a leg up, through Year Up

Harvard’s embrace of urban internship program helps to train future leaders

Campus|

DateJuly 11, 2012

Some of the top leaders in American homeland security and the military gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School to discuss “Oil Spills, Earthquakes, Tsunamis & Meltdowns." “Are we ready today for a really large-scale event, bigger than any of those we have contemplated?” asked moderator Herman “Dutch” Leonard (from left). Joining Leonard were former Congressman Bart Stupak, Juliette Kayyem, Gen. Craig R. McKinley, Adm. Robert Papp, and Adm. James Winnefeld.

Planning for disasters

Top officials gauge nation’s readiness for the unknown

World|

DateApril 29, 2011June 14, 2019

The Harvard Gazette

Arts

Befriending ‘Clarissa’ during lockdown

Arts

A divine cosmos

Health

Let there be light

Health

Battle against malaria taken to next level

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The mayors, who have to make government work

Bloomberg Harvard program opens with three-day session, offering yearlong support on solving problems

Harvard establishes research alliance with Tata companies

Six-year agreement to focus first on robotics, wearable technologies, and ‘Internet of things’

Coordinating against malaria

Global leaders converge at Harvard, pointing toward long-term eradication as well as short-term reduction

Higher than the sky

Space station commander talks with Business School audience about his life in orbit

Legal remedies

Experts meet to discuss laws to expand and enforce health rights

Chao family gives $40 million to HBS

Donation will fund executive education center, endow fellowships in matriarch’s honor

Managing just fine

HKS stress study finds feelings of control put leaders at ease

Getting a leg up, through Year Up

Harvard’s embrace of urban internship program helps to train future leaders

Planning for disasters

Top officials gauge nation’s readiness for the unknown