Tag: Government

  • Campus & Community

    Scholars to gather for workshop on Southeastern Europe

    The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, Kennedy School of Government, will hold its ninth annual graduate student workshop on Southeastern Europe on Friday (Feb. 2) from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

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  • Campus & Community

    Richard Musgrave, renowned pioneer of public finance, dies at 96

    Richard A. Musgrave, widely regarded as the founder of modern public finance and an adviser on fiscal policy and taxation to governments from Washington to Bogotá to Tokyo, died Monday (Jan. 15) in Santa Cruz, Calif.

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  • Nation & World

    ‘Ma Ellen,’ African symbol of hope, returns to Harvard

    In the Liberian capital of Monrovia, children stared in amazement. They had never seen such bright lights illuminating the streets, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf told an audience of Harvard students and professors on Monday (Sept. 18, 2006) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

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  • Campus & Community

    M-RCBG’s incoming fellows, visiting scholars

    A Chinese vice minister, a senior vice president from Fidelity Investments, and professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston College are among the incoming fellows and visiting scholars at the Kennedy School of Government’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) this fall.

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  • Campus & Community

    Jill Carroll among fall fellows at Shorenstein

    The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, recently announced its fellows for the fall. These Shorenstein Fellows will work on research projects while at the center.

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  • Campus & Community

    Government reps visit campus, learn from researchers

    As a part of the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs program to introduce individuals involved in federal funding activities to Harvard researchers, a delegation from the National Science Foundation and the House Appropriations Committee spent this past Monday (Aug. 21) on campus.

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