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Tag: Harvard Kennedy School
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Nation & World
Incarceration in the U.S. is big business
On Harvard Kennedy School’s PolicyCast podcast, alumnus Bryan Stevenson addresses issues of racial and financial inequality in the U.S. justice system.
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Nation & World
Helping Albania break with the past
The Kennedy School is working with the government of Albania to help the nation put an end to a long period of economic dysfunction.
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Nation & World
McCawley combats homelessness
Andrew McCawley, president and CEO of the New England Center for Homeless Veterans, describes the steps the organization is taking to combat homelessness among U.S. veterans and how likely it is that the nation will see the complete eradication of veteran homelessness by 2016.
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Campus & Community
Eric Greitens wins Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award
The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School has named humanitarian Eric Greitens, founder and former CEO of The Mission Continues, as this year’s recipient of the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award, which he will receive on Nov. 12. The biennial award includes a $125,000 prize.
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Nation & World
The Islamic State of play
Harvard Law School’s Noah Feldman and Kristen Stilt joined NPR correspondent Deborah Amos to discuss the fast-moving ideological evolution and spread of the ISIS in the Middle East.
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Nation & World
From bad to worse?
A Russian analyst talks about the deteriorating relationship between Washington and the Kremlin.
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Nation & World
Disrupting city hall
Harvard Kennedy School and Law School experts say city life will be transformed by city governments that are plugged into technology.
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Nation & World
Tumbling dice
Frank Fahrenkopf, the former head of the American Gaming Association and now an Institute of Politics fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the state of the industry as Massachusetts voters prepare to decide the fate of casino gambling.
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Campus & Community
Q&A with departing Dean Ellwood
In a question-and-answer session, Harvard Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood, whose 11 years in that position will conclude next spring, discusses how the School changed during his tenure, how it is evolving, and what comes next for him.
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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
All politics is personal
Vice President Joseph Biden outlined U.S. foreign policy goals and challenges during a visit Thursday to the Kennedy School.
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Nation & World
The rising in Hong Kong
Harvard Kennedy School’s Anthony Saich explains the uprising sparked by a pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
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Campus & Community
Where creativity rules
Harvard’s i-lab is a safe place for students to take risks and explore potentially commercial ideas, like cricket chips, aerial drone service and repair, or a public service-oriented website to connect voters and officials.
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Campus & Community
A run to remember
The 11th annual Brian J. Honan 5K Run/Walk in Allston-Brighton on Sept. 20 brought together people from both sides of the Charles, including 600 Harvard runners.
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Nation & World
After Ferguson’s fury
A panel convened by HLS professor Charles Ogletree reflected on the broad social, legal, and political issues raised by the protests in Ferguson, Mo., last month.
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Nation & World
Cruel summer
Faculty from HLS and HKS examined recent upheaval in the Middle East as part of a new Harvard Hillel series on politics and public policy.
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Campus & Community
$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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Health
Ebola’s ripple effects
The fight to end the Ebola epidemic is not just about saving lives, it’s also about heading off a potentially broader humanitarian crisis, according to a Harvard Kennedy School panel.
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Nation & World
The fumbles in Ferguson
Crisis management expert Herman “Dutch” Leonard talks about how the confrontation in Ferguson, Mo., was mishandled.
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Nation & World
Radio revolution
In a new paper, Shorenstein Fellow Steve Oney details the radical vision of NPR????s earliest days.
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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
Making hay while sun shines
Students at HGSE are hard at work building new companies they hope will someday transform learning and young lives.
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Nation & World
Chinese economists zero in on crises
Economist Lawrence Summers and foreign policy expert Graham Allison talk about lessons learned from a Chinese research team’s comparison of the conditions around the Great Depression and the recession of 2008.
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Nation & World
The price is right
Urban demographic patterns in the United States often defy logic, but a new research paper co-authored by Harvard Kennedy School Professor Edward Glaeser is shedding light on why many Americans continue to move to cities that are on the downturn.
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Nation & World
The latest violence in the Middle East
Following the July 9 airstrikes, Stephen M. Walt, the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the factors behind this latest outbreak of violence between Israel and Palestine and what the international community can do about it.
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Campus & Community
Good times, still on tap
Harvard Square dive bar Charlie’s Kitchen has one waitress as legendary as itself.
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Science & Tech
The mess left by stress
A new report says many Americans are feeling high levels of stress, and a forum addressed how they might deal with it.
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Nation & World
Renewing urban renewal
Edward Glaeser, an economics, government, and public policy expert at Harvard Kennedy School, and Jerold Kayden, an urban planning and design professor at the Graduate School of Design, discuss findings from a new Brookings Institution study on the rise of innovation districts across the nation.
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Nation & World
World Cup worries
Harvard Kennedy School associate professor, a native of Brazil, reflected on the World Cup and its likely repercussions.
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Nation & World
A rising tide
Early results from new reforms instituted at the Lawrence Public School system show promise.
